The pioneer express. [volume] (Pembina, Dakota [N.D.]) 1883-1928, 1898-02-18
Sporting Items.

@. @. Smith, the colored boxer Of
Buffalo, N. Y, and Peter Maher have
been matched to box twenty rounds ut
Sanger hall, Philadelphia, Feb. Is.
George Kerwin of Chicago and
Kid McPhartland have been matched
to fight on next Monday night in To-
ronto, Can. The men will fight at
1856 pounds.
]. j. McCafferty has sold his famous
race horse Requital to e. G. Cowden,
who will probably retire him to the
The consolidation of the Trades
mems National bank and the Clinton
bank was announced in New York.
An examination of the duplicate GER
tificates Of discharge shows 10000
veterans who have not asked pensions.
An epidemic Of measles in Kingston,
Mo-, has caused the closing Of the
schools there for two weeks.
The third annual convention of the
National Association of Cooperative
Mutual Insurance Companies was held
at Chicago.
Failures in the recent examination ut
the Kansas university were the cause
of forty-seven students dropping out
Of the school.
On bet Of $500, Charles Wurz, of
South Bend, Ind, has undertaken to
eat one goose a day for thirty days.
He is now on his twenty-fourth goose
A special to the Cincinnati CONNER
cial Tribune from Lexington, Ky,
says the Blue Grass Building ard
Loan association has made an assign
ment to Bishop Clay, its secretary.
Pat DUNES good horse Captive is
thought to be hopelessly broken down.
He has been priced to Charley Boots
and may become stud companion to
Brutus at Elmwood Stock Farm.
Secretary Long has ordered the trial
by court martial of Civil Engineer A.
q. Menocal on charges Of culpable in
efficiency, growing out of the faulty
work on the New York dry dock.
According to the monthly weather re-
port issued by Chancellor Snow, of the
Kansas university, the January just
past was the warmest one since 1882,
and the wettest in thirty-one years.
A woman who wishes to conceal her
identity has donated to the Volunteers
ty acres, situated at Thermalito, Cal,
valued at $4,000.
Miss Ollie Maddox, a teacher in Avil-
10, Jasper county, Missouri, was Sc
yerely whipped by two brothers, aged
twelve and fourteen, while trying to
punish the younger one. She resigned.
Emile ola AMI the Aurore have re-
quested the French ministry of justice
to subpoena Gen. Billot, minister of
war, as a witness for the defense in
the coming prosecution of M. lola.
An Inheritance of 100000 in Vir-
ginia will be turned over to Frank
Floyd and Mrs. Joseph Martin, of
Highland, Kas., next March. according
to notice just received by them.
A damage suit for $4,000 has been
flied at Wheeling, w. Va, by the Alex
ander Lumber company against the
r. G. Dun company. The bill of par
ticulars alleges false and malicious
rating.
Some of the grain dealers on the corn
exchange of Cessna. province of Foril,
Italy, who accepted reduced prices,
We're violently attacked by the men,
bers for attempting to corner the grain.
The troops had to clear the exchange.
Ice men at Atchison. Kas., are hav-
ing difficulty finding cutters enough to
do their work, Swift & Co. and the
Yatse Ice company, who own big ice
houses at Bean and Sugar lakes, hav-
ing put up almost none at all so far.
The pope will celebrate mass at st.
Peters cathedral on Feb. ID, the SIX
tieth anniversary Of his first mass.
The ceremony will be the same as
was observed at the jubilee mass of
his holiness in 1883.
On Dec. "a the Japanese merchant
steamer Nara Maru ran on q hidden
rock of the Pescadoe group, and sank
Immediately. OF her eighty passen-
gers and crew, seven only reached the
shore. The drowned men were all jap
aneSe.
At the annual meeting of the stock
holders of the Diamond Match compa-
ny, at Chicago, the $797, 797 lost to the
stockholders of the company through
the failure of the Moore Bros, in 1896,
and heretofore carried as an asset, was
erase dfrom the books.
The proposed issue of postage stamps
on account Of the Omaha exposition
during the period of the exposition, as
was the case with the Columbian ex-
position stamps at the time Of the Chi
cago worlds fair.
Nearly every dog and many of the
cows and horses in the village of
Uvalde, Tex, were bitten recently by
wolves, which attacked the town in q
pack. Soon after some of the dogs
showed signs of hydrophobia, and all
bitten animals were promptly killed.
According to the London Sporting
Life a match has been arranged be-
tween Australian" Billy Murphy and
Will Curley, who recently defeated
Patsy Haley. The pair will box for
$500 side on Feb. %. So far no club
has offered an incentive.
The Carnegie Oliver Mining COM
pany, operating four of the largest
mines on the Gogebic range and en-
ploying 1900 men, have announced an
increase Of 10 per cent in wages.
From expressions Of other miners It
is probable an increase In wages will
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