The pioneer express. [volume] (Pembina, Dakota [N.D.]) 1883-1928, 1899-10-20
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found at Montpelier, Ohio. He had
been kidnapped by tramps.
Frank Pelton, q negro, was sentenced
at Little Rock, Ark, to 116 year4 i'm.
prisonment for criminal assault upon
elk women.
The safe Of the Bank Of louisiana,
at louisiana, Mo-, was blown open by
burglars. The robbers are reported to
have secured $4,000, but Cashier w.
in gold.
In At Of dependency, occastoned by
his inability to secure regular employ
ment George Wise Of Omaha, took q
dose Of morphine at a hotel at st. 10
seph, and will die. He is about thirty
| five, we'll dressed, and told an acquaint-
ance he had lost q fortune Ia specula-
ton.
NJ. M. Mckinney, aged eixty-five
years, killed Paul Norman, the proprie-
tor OF q general store, at Stranger, Tex
as, and then went to a vacant house
near by and blew out his brains. Soon
after the shooting it was discovered
| that Mrs. Mckinney, wife OF the muir
derer, had been murdered, her dead
body being found at her home. NJ
cause CT explanation of the tragedy is
known.
Word has been received at Boston
that Fred r. Moore, defaulting assist
ant teller Of the National Bank of Com
merce Of Boston, charged with the en-
bezzlement Of 5000, has been arrest
ed at Valparaiso, Chill. The cable an
nouncing the arrest came from the
United States consul at Valparaiso. but
the police say that there is no extradi-
ton treaty with Chilli. and it may be
that Moore cannot be brought back.
Otherwise.
The Dewey home fund, to date, ag-
gregates $49,381.
Peoria has a beer war. A Chicago
concern offers its product at So per bal
rel.
Wabash, Ind, has a curfew ordin-
ance. and boys must be kept off the
streets after dark.
s. B. Remsen, county surveyor.
claims to have witnessed the outbreak
Of volcano some twenty miles from
Creole, Col.
Sixteen missionaries sent by thei Bal,-
fist Missionary union sailed on the Vic
torian from Boston for posts in Asia.
Many farewell receptions were given.
The Indian Ridge Coal and Coke COM
pany OF Bluefeld, w. Va, advanced tha
wages Of their 800 employees 10 per
cent. A similar advance was made on
July I.
1t is estimated that the Indian gov
eminent must spend 5, 500 900 rupees to
relieve famine in the central provinces,
and that the local chiefs must expend
at least one-third of this amount in
addition.
The gold output for the Cripple Creels
district for September amounted to ST.
600. SURPRISING all records. The
production Of gold in this district from
the time of it's discovery, in 1891, to
date, is $62, O57, 202.
Three thousand miners. who have
been out two weeks at Danville, ILL.,,
have returned to work, their demands
having been conceded by the operators.
Their contention was for IN eight hour
day and $1.75 per day. The agreement
stands until April 1.
The consolidation of all the street
railway lines of Columbus has been
completed. The property of the Colum-
bus Street Railway company, the Cross
Town Street Railway company and the
Columbus Central has seen transferred
to the Columbus Railway company.
The United States court of appeals
case on appeal of the United States
Rubber company and others against
the American Oak Leather company
and others, in favor of the American
Oak Leather company.
After two months of idleness, the
American Strawboard company of Tiff
I'm, Ohio, has resumed operations with
a full force Of men. The factory was
closed by the state board of health he
cause the refuse from the mills was
killing the fish in the Sandusky river
causing unhealthy conditions.
Joseph Wiingaard, chief engineer of
the department Of railways, posts and
telegraphs Of the Belgium State Rail-
way company, with headquarters at
Brussels, Belgium, was taken to Mar
shall, Pa, in charge Of the officials Of
the department of charities, an almost
hopeless maniac.
Rear Admiral ]. G.. Walker, Alfred
Noble, Col. Peter G. Haines and w. II.
Burr, members of the committee OF the
Isthmian Canal commission, who went
to Paris to study the work of the Pan
anna Canal company, returned to New
York on the American liner New York.
Col. o. H. Ernest remained in Paris.
The anti-Goebel Democrats filed a ne
tition at Frankfort, Ky, for a place on
the official ballot. 1t styles itself the
Honest Election Democratic party. Its
device contains pictures Of John Young
Brown and B. p. Johnston, the two
heads of the ticket. The petition con-
tains 3,1O0 names, though only 1000
We're required.
A special to the Denver News from
Ell Paso, Texas, says: Fred H. Petiz,
civil engineer, has just returned from
the immense soda beds of Dona Ana
county, Tew Mexico. where he sur
veyed and staked out $1,000 acres of
soda lands for Pittsburg syndicate.
The soda is almost pure, and the beds
are thirty-five miles long. twelve miles
wide and sixty feet deep.
Among the crew of the steam whaler
Mary D. Hume, Just arrived at San
Francisco, are eight disappointed golu
seekers, who went into the arctic re-
gion over the Edmonton trail. Their
names are B. F. Lares, st. Paul: }.
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