The pioneer express. [volume] (Pembina, Dakota [N.D.]) 1883-1928, 1899-02-17
From Wnshinrton.

About fifteen thousand volunteers
are ordered mustered out.
Gen. Miles insists that the beef was
emhalmed.
The chairman of the house commit
tee on coinage submits a favorable re-
port on the Hill currency bill.
Gen. Egan, it is asserted, will not be
dismissed from the army, but may be
suspended until his retirement In 2OO3
DIR. O'Reilly's suggestion that native
troops be utilized to the greatest ex-
tent possible in Cuba is favored by the
medical officers in Washington.
The house adopts the committee
amendments to the army bill. The bill
Increases the army to 100000 men. and
gives the president power to decrease
it to $4,000.
The German ambassador to the
United States says his country will not
interfere with us in the Philippines.
His utterances are friendly in the high
est degree.
President Mckinley officially recog-
nizes Gen. Gomez. and sends Mr.. Por-
ter to confer With him. The Cuban
general speaks quite temporarily of
the United States.
Secretary Alger and the members of
the seEate-house military committee
and their wives will start on their
tour through the West Indies March G,
and will be absent until April 1.
The senate judiciary committee re-
ported adversely on the nomination of
Hamilton Ewart, recent appointee for
district judge in North Carolina. An
effort will be made to confirm, howev-
er.
The monthly statement Of the pub
lie debt shows that at the close Of
business Jan. 81. 1890. the debt, less
cash in the treasury. amounted to ST.
2.624, 900. an increase for the month
of 500, AS 64.
The monthly statement of the direct
or Of the mint shows the total coinage
at the mints of the United States dur
ing January, 1890, amounted to S19,-
G5,59O, as follows: Gold, S1S,O32. 900:
silver, $1642,OOO; minor coins, S31 $50.
People Talked About.
DR.. Fruin, the Dutch historian, is
dead at Leyden.
Brig. Gen. Goblin Of PENNSYLVANIA
has been honorably discharged.
Baron Optamba, the novelist, died al
Wiesbaden.
Sir Francis Glare Ford, recently
British ambassador to Rome, is dead!
The president has nominated Elias
II. Cheney Of New Hampshire to be
consul at Curacao, w. I.
1t is rumored that George w. Wilson
will be commissioner of internal reye
nue.. He is now deputy commissioner
The Rev. Charles Seymour Robin.
son died at his home in New York. He
had been seriously ill for some weeks
He was Well known as writer Oh
hymns and books.
Frank o. Lowden has been elected
lieutenant colonel of the First regi
ment Illinois national guard. He Is 6
sOn-in-law Of the late George NJ. Pull
man.
Representative Serene Payne of New
York has been appointed a member o.
the Canadian commission to fill tn,
vacancy caused by the death Of Mr.
Dingley.
Col. o. r. Greenleaf, Of the regular
medical department. who during thu
war acted as chief surgeon Of thu
army in the field, has been ordered tt
Cuba at once.
Rev. Charles Albert Berry, D. d.
chairman in 1897 Of the CONGREGATION
al union in England and Wales ant
first president of the National Council
Of the Evangelical Free Churches, fel
dead while conducting the funeral ser
vices Of a non-C omormist minister
DIR. Tothericks, in the Wesleyan chap
d at Bilslon. Staffordshire. England.
The British steamer Ulunda, at 81
Johns. N. F., from Liverpool, report
immense icebergs 200 miles southeas
Of st. Johns, directly in the track o
Atlantic shipping, and forming
dangerous path for passing steamers.
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