The pioneer express. [volume] (Pembina, Dakota [N.D.]) 1883-1928, 1899-07-14
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Chicago men are to establish two
banks in Manila,
Great things are expected of the anti
trust convention to be held in Chicago
in September.
The Vanderbilt interests are credited
with design to secure a transconti-
mental system.
Proceedings will be brought against
the United States Flour Mill company,
under the Minnesota antitrust law.
All the tin plate works in the country
will close this week, due to dispute
over wages, and $4,000 people will be
disemployed.
Germans in mass meeting ut Detroit,
in most radical terms, declared hostil-
tiles to an American-English political
alliance Of any sort.
Three hundred whist players are ex-
pected in Chicago from all over the
United States for the ninth annual
co lgress of the American Whist league
to be held during the week beginning
July 10.
The stock yards strike at Chicago,
which at one time threatened the en-
tire packing house district, has practi-
cally been settled by the packers grant
ing the increase of 25 cents a day in
wages demanded by the strikers.
The Church of the Epiphany. one of
the most prominent Episcopal church
es in Chicago, is to have q silver SER
vice made from ornaments. tableware.
toilet articles and heirlooms of ali
sorts, contributions of over hundred
nF TIC f0chinro1,1a
ton.
+ The steamer Cottage City, which ar.
rived at Seattle from Alaska, reports
that the Edward H. Hartman scien.
tific party left Sitka June II, for the
Aleutian peninhula. They will stop at
different points en- route, and may run
through Bering sea as far as st. Mi
cLael.
Joshua Gray, an inventor, died at
Medford, Mass. aged seventy-dve He
invented q system of understanding
boiler tubes, rubber-tipped lead pen
Gil, breech-loading seven-shot repeat
ing rifle, a sewing machine shuttle,
railroad signal and an automobile, ali
of which are in practical use.
Attorney General I. s. Smith of Tex.
as stated recently that he would keen
his eye on the gigantic syndicate that
tie in Texas. Under the provisions OF
the antitrust law in that state. the
live stock industry is exempt, but there
is no such exception in the new anti.
trust law, which goes into effect Jan
81.
The largest production Of manganese
ore reported since 1891 occurred in thu
calendar year of 1898, according to sta
tistics just completed by the United
States geographical survey. The wa,
with Spain caused a diminution Of i'm
portations and the home production
amounted to Is, 957 long tons, valued a,
$129, 1856, an increase Of almost A pel
cent over 1897.
An order was filed in the court d
chancery at Trenton, N. j., dismissins
the bill Of Walter r. Kern and othel
preferred stockholders Of the Fedora
Steel company, to restrain the payment
Of the first quarterly dividend on thu
common stock of the company. The
order was made by vice chancello,
Gray, on the motion Of Henry I. Dudd
counsel for Kern. The motion wa
made before the vice chancellor at IN
chambers in Camden.
Fifteen hundred men. employed Il
the foundry Of the American Car Man
ufacturing company at Jeffersonville
Ind, struck. The trouble was caused
by a recent decision OF the labor com
mission, which decided that laborers
should receive their pay every two
weeks. The company has been paying
the men weekly, bnt decided to take
the limit, under the ruling Of the com
mission, and the men struck, demand
fny q .rvodl1 To no - IN ~ s}E fat. f5s III