The pioneer express. [volume] (Pembina, Dakota [N.D.]) 1883-1928, 1899-05-26
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The Milwaukee and the Chicago l.
Northern railways consolidate.
The second section Of the great cop
per trust is being formed and the third
section is planned.
Stove manufacturers of the country
may form combination.
A discouraging winter wheat crop re-
port has been made by the agricultural
department.
Hope Of reconvening the joint Ameri-
can Canadian commission has been
abandoned.
Edward Everett Hale pronounces the
Presbyterian church the greatest enc
MY to freedom in the world.
The Kern Incandescent Light COM
pany, capital $12,OOOOOO, has been in
corporated at Trenton, n. j.
The conference of the American Ii
hrary association began at Atlanta,
Ga. with $50 delegates present.
The Westinghouse Electric company
at Pittsburg has received an order to
equip trolley line between Philadel-
phia and Atlantic City. A.
Gov. Roosevelt will sign the Ford
franchise bill despite the threats of the
PlattiteS.
1erkes will transfer his street rail-
way holdings this week. The new cor
l.oration will have $2O,0OO,0OO capital.
Canadian Pacific railway earnings
for the week ending May were $685.
600: same period last year, $5O7 600;
increase. $4,000.
The Merchants Distilling company
Will erect plant at Terre Haute and
fight the new whisky combine in the
bourbon market.
The English are worried because
American machinery is supplanting
theirs, because made with more defer
ence to the wants of customers.
The directors of the Pacific Mail
Steamship company have declared the
regular semi-annual dividend of 1-2
per cent. payable June 1.
Manufacturers of hay presses met
at Chicago and decided upon an adj
vance of from 10 to Is per cent in
prices. giving as reason the increased
cost of raw materials.
William r. Kerr, former commission
er of the Chicago health department,
has filed petition in bankruptcy. Liza
bilities We're placed at $4,000 and as
sets at $1,000.
The Brotherhood Of Railway Train
| men convened at New Orleans. The
session was executive, and the princi-
pal business transacted was that of eX-
amining the credentials of delegates.
A telephone message from jefferson
barracks. twelve miles down the river
from st. Louis, says the cruiser Nash
vile, arrived there and proceeded OH
her way to the city, after exchanging
salntes with the military post there.
The louisiana State Industrial fair.
which opened in New Orleans with IN
immense throng on the grounds, was
made the occasion Of peace jubilee,
celebrating the successful closing Of
tie war with Spain.
The London Daily Mail declares that
| a group Of American and English lit
erary agents have formed q syndicate
for the purpose OF controlling the
| future productions of Rudyard Kip.
ling.
A mammoth combine will succeed
the American Window Glass associa.
ton, which goes out Of existence MAY
30. 1t will be capitalized at $50, 600, OOO
and control 90 per cent Of the coun.
try's window glass production.
The New York Sons Of the American
Revolution resent the action of the
Michigan society in inviting Secretary
Of War Alger to dinner in Detroit
and converting the occasion into q
demonstration in his honor.
Another meeting Of the citizens op
posed to the continuation OF the Phil
ippine campaign will be held in CHI!
cago this month. at which will be pres
ent senator's and governors who have
1 gone on record as opposed to the fight,
4 ing in the Pacific islands.
4 afSAN the BostnnaC Chicago railways mr.
ito combine to prevent rate-cutting.
The anti imperialistic league has sen,
ia letter to Edward Atkinson stating
that 1t was not Its purpose to circulate
Its literature among soldiers in the ilel6
ard protesting ngainst Its document.
being refused Trims. i! ission by mail.
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