The pioneer express. [volume] (Pembina, Dakota [N.D.]) 1883-1928, 1899-01-27
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The directors of the General Elec-
trio company have declared Il dividend
of SLIGO on the preferred stock.
1t is understood that the Cincinnati
Northern road has made n longtime
lease of the Detroit, Toledo & Milwau-
lSee, and that Supt J. Il. Flanders OF
Toledo will be put in active operation
of both roads.
That the system Of gratuitous gov
ernment relief to the poor in Cuba is
not Immediately to be abandoned is
evidenced by orders issued by the war
department to send the Comal back to
Havana With more supplies as soon as
she can land on reaching New York.
The imports of specie for the week
at New York were $16,3SS in gold and
3'22,1GG in silver: dry goods and mer
chandise. $9.SG9.259. Exports Of gold
and silver from that port to all coun-
tries for the week aggregated $685.
200.
L. l.. Owenthal Sons & Co., whole
! sale clotIiers at Evansville. Ind. have
failed. Assets are about 100000. The
company refused to give its liabilities.
1t employed over 100 hand. The cause
Of the assignment was inability to col
lect outstanding debts.
A combination of chewing gum man
ufacturcrS of the United States was
practically conSummated at New York
when the last contracts necessary to
amalgamation We're executed. The
capital involved in this combination
amounts to S15.00OOOO.
c. p. Perrin has noated bonds for
S30o.C00 in the Watts Steel plant at
Mi0dleborough, Ky, and the plant will
resume at once. This is the largest
basic steel works in the South, ana en-
pioys 100 worklnen. 1t was huilt in
1889 and cost S775o,GU0.
fudge Wheeler. in the United States
circuit court at New York has entered
Il demurrer in the suit brought by G.
l.. Nenner against Louis Fitzgerald
and other members ut the TeorG;nlza
ton committee Of the Union Pacific
railway.
-ilviccs received at tho San Francis
co custom house from officials in the
custom house at Manila, report that
trade in the city has received an i'm
petlls since American occupation. The
during November averaged $4,000
day in gold, and the report stotes that
shipping is on the increase and that
the possibilities OF commerce are IN
limited.
The Wilmington Tin Plate company
has been Incorporated by Joliet pro-
motors and will be operated indcpend-
entity Wilmington is twelve miles
south Of Joliet Ill., The town has do.
mated eighty acres Of land for the new
plant, which is to consist of six mills,
to cost S15O.OOO. to have an annual out
put Of $4,000 boxes and employ four
hundred men. 1t is expected the plant
will be in opera ton by June 1.
Capt. James L. Graybill, a member
Of the Confederate Veteran Camp Of
New York city, accompanied by Gen.
Joe Wheeler, an honorary member Of
the camp, called at the White House
and presented to the president an adj
dress highly commenting the senti
ments expressed by him in his recent
Atlanta speech favoring government
care of the national Confederate Gene.
teries.
Mrs. Amos Rusie filed suit at In
dianapolis, in the superior court.
against the famous ball player for di-
vorce> and $1,000 alimony, alleging ex-
IRENE cruelty and drunkenness. She
says Rusie owns $4,000 worth of real
estate, has $1,4OO in bank and draws
$1,000 year.
A dispatch from Alexandria says
that OiO mon Of tho Irish f,1si1oQra
have been ordered to Khartoum. AS
the Soudan has hitherto been guarded
only by native troops the step is vari-
ousiy interpreted.