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The pioneer express. [volume] (Pembina, Dakota [N.D.]) 1883-1928, 1899-07-28
Crime. and Criminals.

Mrs. Ella Shattuck, accused Of muir
dering her husband, Clarence e. Shat
tuck, has been released at Cory. Pa,
there being no evidence against her.
Roland B. NIolneaux, held for the
death of Mrs. Kate ]. Adams, has is
sued q card stating that he is being
prosecuted, and asking only for fair
play and suspension of public opinion.
Before the committee of the Nebras-
ka legislature investigating alleged bal
lot frauds. E. L. Simon, state house
janitor. testified that he and the state
oil inspector changed the ballots in
the vault the night before the recount
was held and forged names of judges
of election.
Leroy McElroy. formerly clerk in tho
Richelieu hotel ut San Francisco, was
arrested at Chicago OH a charge Of
stealing $1,000 worth of diamonds
from Mrs. Felt and Mrs. Hale of Bos-
ton, who were guests of the hotel. He
acknowledged his guilt and will be
sent to San Francisco for trial.
Paymaster w. B. Wilcox, of the
navy, has been tried by court-martial
Mt the League Island navy yard and
found guilty Of drunkenness and sen
fenced to be dismissed from the
service. Six Of the seven members of
the court recommended that executive
clemency be shown the accused. Act
ing on this Recommendation the presi-
dent has mitigated the sentence to the
reduction to the foot of the list of pay
masters. and q loss of one-half pay for
ore year.
The pioneer express. [volume] (Pembina, Dakota [N.D.]) 1883-1928, 1899-07-28
From Washington.

The limit of concession has been
reached in the negotiations with the
French authorities for a reciprocity.
Lieut.. Frank G. Bolles, Sixth infant
~, has been assigned as an aide on
Gen. Wheeler's staff, and ordered to
report to the general at San Francisco.
The national house Of representatives
will be asked to appoint a commission
to ascertain what effect the opening of
the sanitary canal at Chicago will have
upon the lake levels.
The cruiser Raleigh, which was with
Admiral Dewey's feet in the battle of
Manila bay, is to undergo extensive al
terations, involving an outlay of $245, :
600. A naval survey board has report
ed general plan Of repairs.
The secretary of state has notified
the French ambassador that the claim
for damages for the capture and deten-
ton of the French steamer Rodriguez,
during the blockade of San Juan, are
rejected.
Orders We're issued at the war de-
partment directing headquarters and
two battalions of the Nineteenth in
fantry to leave Camp Meade in time
to reach San Francisco to sail on the
Tartar on the 22d of July.
The total customs receipts from all
sources in Porto Rico for the week
ending July were $4,000. The total
receipts for fourteen weeks ending July
/ were $429.91s. The average weekly
receipts for the fourteen weeks named
is $3O,7OS.
The pioneer express. [volume] (Pembina, Dakota [N.D.]) 1883-1928, 1899-07-28

"Jubilacion" is the convenient
euphuism for Spanish custom which
has had protracted existence in Cuba,
It signifies the receipt of salary for
services which should be performed,
but are not-the recipient hiring SUBJ
stttute to do the work for which he
himself is paid. A professor of the
Havana University, whose salary was
SIX thousand dollars year, has been
living in Spain for the past seventeen
years, while his duties in Cuba were
performed by another for pitifully
small pay. It is said that nearly all
the professors of Havana University
thus farm out" their chairs. A re-
cent decree of the United States au-
thorities. however. has abolished this
dishonest practice, and henceforth sal
aries will be paid only to those who
earn them.
The pioneer express. [volume] (Pembina, Dakota [N.D.]) 1883-1928, 1899-07-28

About forty years ago a rich and
Sl4andsome young woman, moved by a
spirit Of bravado, answered a "per-
8sonal" advertisement in a city newspa-
per, and entered into a correspond
4nce with a clever adventurer. She
was soon duped into marrying him and
imortgaging her property. Securing
the money, the man deserted his wife
and obtained divorce The woman,
and enfeebled in mind,
lived for years on the charity of
friends, and was recently taken to a
Connecticut poorhouse to end her days.
Happily, innocent indiscretion does not
invariably terminate in such tragedy.
"a girl escapes. perhaps, with only a
hush upon her cheek and scar upon
her soul. She has learned by bitter
3experience. however. that no true gen.
1leman seeks a woman's friendship
through an advertisement, and that to
lenter into such an arrangement is to
invite moral disaster.
The pioneer express. [volume] (Pembina, Dakota [N.D.]) 1883-1928, 1899-07-28

Detroit. Mich, July %. = Gov. Pin
gree handed to the Associated Press a
prepared, signed interview, giving
what the governor asserts to be facts
which are absolutely reliable, bearing
upon the relations between Gen. Alger
and president Mckinley with which
the public is not familiar" At the
outset the governor says:
II have no hesitation in saying that
the course pursued by the president in
this matter is little less than coward
~. 1t is, to say the least, very un-
manly
Gov. Pingree said the information
did not come from Gen. Alger. but
from lone whose knowledge of the
facts cannot be disputed" Proceed
ing. he says that repeatedly since the
Eastern newspapers began their at
tack upon Secretary Alger the secre-
tary informed the president that if
these press comments embarrassed
the administration in the slightest de-
gree he would resign at once, but the
president as often protested emphat-
ically that he had the utmost conf
dence in Secretary Alger and his con-
duct Of the war department and that
the country could not afford to lose
his services. The governor says that
the time his alleged alliance" with
Gen. Alger was announced and before
his disavowal of interviews criticising
the president had reached Washington.
Gen. Alger told the president that
upon the presidents slightest intima-
ton he would resign. but the president
refused to entertain the idea for mo-
ment. Commenting upon the whole
matter the governor says that Gen.
Alger's sacrifice" was compelled by
demands of New York politicians,
backed by the INSCRIPTIONS and heart
less. He predicts that it will be
learned that the president himself
has been responsible for whatever mis-
takes have been made in conducting
the war;"
The governor alleges that the more
recent attacks upon Gen. Alger in the
East were caused by his frank declar.
alton of opposition to trusts, and he
adds: "There is a decided odor of
trusts around the present administra-
ton with Mark Hanna as the acknowl-
edged kingmaker.' In conclusion,
the governor calls upon Michigan peo-
pie and newspapers to protest against
the injustice done the states foremost
representative in public life.
The pioneer express. [volume] (Pembina, Dakota [N.D.]) 1883-1928, 1899-07-28
A GREAT SUCCESS.
Was the Big Mnss Meeting of Chi
caRo Platform Democrats.

Was the Big Mnss Meeting Of Chi
caRo Platform Democrats.
Chicago. July %. = -Four thousand
people crowded into the Auditorium
last night despite the sweltering heat
to attend the political meeting given
under the auspices of the Chicago plat
form Democrats. 1t was from first to
last silver meeting, an Altgeld meet
ing an antitrust and anti-eXpansion
meeting. All of the speakers, save
eX-Gov. Stone of Missouri, who was
ill and talked for less than two min
utes, declared in favor of 1G to and
against the war in the Philippines.
The speech of Mr.. Bryan evoked great
enthusiasm among his hearers, espe-
cially when he remarked that the
American government should pursue
in Luzon the same policy as was pur-
sued in Cuba. The Philippines, he
said, came into our hands by accident
Of war, and, being there, they should
be treated on American principles, and
not on those followed by European
governments. The policy Of the gov
eminent, he said, should be to create q
government, republic, in the Philip
pines and say to all the world, "hands
off," The crowd punctured his speech
with applause. The meeting was
largely made up with local adherents
of the Chicago platform and personal
followers of ex-Gov. Altgeld.
The pioneer express. [volume] (Pembina, Dakota [N.D.]) 1883-1928, 1899-07-28
Foreign Notes,

Dom Paul says the crisis is passed,
though the settlement of the Trans
vaal question is distant.
Switzerland is said to be the onl,
civilized country in the world which
grants no patents for inventions.
The French government will prose.
cute the cabinet minister under whose
orders Dreyfus was tortured at Devils
island.
The French bounties on sugar, &C.
cording to the Paris correspondent of
the London Daily Mail, will probably
he abolished In October of next year.
According to the johannesburg cor
respondent Of the London Daily Mail
the Uitlanders regard the Transvaal
governments proposal as absolutely
insufficient"
The parliamentary secretary Of the
foreign office. William st. John Brod-
erick. announced in the house of COM
mons that the Delago bay award would
be made in October.
The protracted drouth in Southern
| Jamaica has almost destroyed the cof-
fee. orange and corn crops, and the
trouble is augmented by malarial fe-
yer, due to using putrid water.
The admiralty court at London has
! awarded 1880 salvage to the British
steamer Ewaldersee for towing the
Montana into Sunderland. The Mon
tana's shaft had broken at sea. Both
vessels were bound for London.
The Rome correspondent of the FL
caro- states that negotiations have been
opened relative to visit of King Hum
bert and Queen Margherita to the Paris
exhibition of 1900, which will be pre-
coded by a visit to Paris of the Prince
and Princess of Naples and the Duke
and Duchess of Aosta.
The pioneer express. [volume] (Pembina, Dakota [N.D.]) 1883-1928, 1899-07-28
Sporting Items.

George Dixon was given the decision
over Tommy White at the end of the
twentieth round before the Olympic
club at Denver, Colo.
Matty Matthews of Brooklyn defeat
ed Otto Seiloff of Chicago in the ninth
round Of vicious fight at the Coney
Island Sporting club.
A ffteen-round boxing match be-
tween Harry Harris and Sig Hart of
Chicago before the Tri-City Athletic
club at Davenport, Iowa, was won by
Harris.
The double scull race at Sydney, G.
B., for the championship of Canada,
was won to-day by Durand aud Axter
of Montreal by three lengths, with the
Lynch brothers of Halifax, second.
Time, 1925.
Casper Leon, the New York bantam
weight, received the decision over
Frank Cabrilliac in the eighteenth
round of what was scheduled to be a
twenty-round bout before the West
End Athletic Club of st. Louis.
The pioneer express. [volume] (Pembina, Dakota [N.D.]) 1883-1928, 1899-07-28
Personal.

Charles Mali, for the past thirty-six
years Belgian consul in New York. is
dead.
Harry Lorraine, veteran actor who
toured America some years ago, is
dead in London.
Herbert Fl. Brooks, manager of the
American Circular Loan company Of
Chicago, died suddenly at his home in
Medford, Mass, aged forty-four years.
1t is understood that Capt. William
p. Duvall, First artillery, has been
selected as lieutenant colonel of the
new Twenty-sixth volunteer infantry.
Maj. Andrew G. G. Quay has been
mustered out as a major of volunteers,
but retains his rank as captain and
quartermaSter. He is a son of Senator
Quay of Pennsylvania.
Col. A. T. Britton. first vice president
Of the American Security and Trust
company, and widely known in finan-
cial circles all over the country, died at
his country house near Washington.
p. d. Boxham, philanthropist and
millionaire, died at his home in Or
ange, N. j., aged seventy years. He
accumulated most of his wealth in
mining in Montana.
Because a fortune teller in St. 10.
seph, Mo-, said his wife was untrueto
him, John Brady went to st. Louis and
shot her. She now lies at the city hos
pital, blind for life, and probably IA
tally wounded.
Dispatches received at Niles, Mich,
from Belvidere, ILL.,, announce the
death there Of William III. Peake Of
that city. Mr.. Peake, the original
Swiss bell ringer and harp player, had
been long before the public.
The board Of regents of the Nebraska
university elected as acting chancellor,
to take the place Of George E. Nc
Lean. resigned, Charles e. Bessey.
The pioneer express. [volume] (Pembina, Dakota [N.D.]) 1883-1928, 1899-07-28

The city of New York tried the ex.
pertinent of vacation schools last sum.
mer with such gratifying results that
much larger provisions have been
made for the present season. Thirty
Of the great school buildings with their
recreation grounds will be open for
eight weeks, from 8 a. m. till 6 p. NJ,
for the accommodation of succession
Of classes, so that the aggregate at
tendance of children may reach a hun
dred thousand. No textbooks will be
used; the exercises will be chiefly in
dustrial or manual; and there will be
plenty Of play. A law permitting va
cation schools has been adopted in Illi-
uois.
The pioneer express. [volume] (Pembina, Dakota [N.D.]) 1883-1928, 1899-07-28
MUSTER OUT AT FRISCO.
Col. Friedrich says the Thirteenth d
Unanimous.

( Onon11uO0Bs
st. Paul, July "Unanimous SEN
timent Of regiment muster out San
Francisco" That came by cable to
Gov. Lind from Col. Friedrich yester-
day. And that settles 1.-THE settle
ment that was foreseen. Plans for
bringing the, boys home now wait on
the joint action Of the five mayors.
Col. Friedrich reports 215 men sick,
but not seriously. This is better than
was feared. I'm April there were 175
sick; in the report Of May 1 there
We're 191. Since then doleful tales
have come from the returning coast
contingents of regiments reduced to
skeletons and companies fallen away
to a single squad Of four. With the
rainy season and heat it was feared
the Thirteenth might suffer likewise.
A sick list Of 20 per cent is not so
formidable as fears suggested. The
regiment is again doing outpost duty
and the cablegram says nothing GER
tain about time Of return" Lafans,
who was discharged by orders from
Washington June 8, is on his way
home.
The pioneer express. [volume] (Pembina, Dakota [N.D.]) 1883-1928, 1899-07-28
DEFENDER QUIT.
Owing to an Accident-'The Race
With the Columbia.

NEWPORT. Il. L.. July 23.-Defender
ana Columbia started in IL trial race
from Brenton's Reef lightship. The
course was to have been forty-six
miles. but about forty-tive minutes
after the start an accident happened
topsail and she quit the race. lowering
all sails but her jibs. Columbia seemed
to be about two minutes ahead ut the
time. The course was to have been
from Brenton's Reef lightsliip to the
whistling buoy off Point Judith. then
to a mark boat off West island. and re-
turning to the lishtship. twice over,
distance fOrty-SiX miles.
The pioneer express. [volume] (Pembina, Dakota [N.D.]) 1883-1928, 1899-07-28
ROOT THE MAN.
His Appointment Practically De-
ciled Upon.

hlS appointment Practically DC.
ciled Upon.
Washington. July 23.-The name of
the successor to Gen. Alger as secre-
tary of war may be announced to-day.
TIL eDresident has made his selection
and it is understood that Elihu Root
of New York is the choice. The ques-
ton Of the appointment of a successor
to Mr.. Alger was the subject of ii con-
ference last night ut the White House
between the President and Thomas G.
Platt of New York, who came over on
late train. The conference lasted
about an hour and afterwards Mr..
Platt said that the president had about
decided upon the person to whom he
will tender the position and that an
nouncement of his name will be made
very soon, probably to-day. The SEN
ator was non-communicative as to
whom the appointee probably will be,
saying that he did not feel at liberty to
talk of what passed at the conference.
The pioneer express. [volume] (Pembina, Dakota [N.D.]) 1883-1928, 1899-07-28
SCHOONER FoUNDERED.

And Three of Her Crew Go to the
Bottom.
Port Huron. Mich. July %. - The
schooner John Breden foundered off
Lexington OH Lake Huron in the heavy
north gale. Three of her crew were
drowned. The name of only one-John
Connors. the cooks known. The
Breden left for Green Bay. She was
coal laden from Ohio ports. The
wreck lies in forty feet of water, d.
rectiy i'll the course of vessels going
up and down, and is great menace to
navigation.
The pioneer express. [volume] (Pembina, Dakota [N.D.]) 1883-1928, 1899-07-28
CHANGING THE CHANNEL.
Dynamite Used at q Point on IL
Missouri River.

Dynamite Used at Point on the
Missouri River.
Sioux City, Iowa, July 22.-Govern-
ment authorities are looking for per-
sons who attempted q few nights ago
to open channel with dynamite
through Reninger's neck. the narrow
est portion Of a big Missouri river
bend twelve miles above here. The
neck is $50 feet wide and the loop
seven miles around. Such a change
would cause immense damage and pos
sible loss of life. 1t is supposed that
neighboring land owners. fearing the
river would make the cutoff itself,
tried to hasten it at q point favorable
to themselves. They are liable to Sc
we're punishment.
The pioneer express. [volume] (Pembina, Dakota [N.D.]) 1883-1928, 1899-07-28
Big snwmtI1 Deal.

Ashland, Wis, July %. - Congress.
man Stewart is at the head of Wau-
sau company of lumbermen which has
just purchased the Lea-Ingram saw
mill plant at Iron River, with lumber,
yards and 9O.0OO.O0O feet of standing
timber. The consideration is said to
be 100000.
The pioneer express. [volume] (Pembina, Dakota [N.D.]) 1883-1928, 1899-07-28
lean Of the Industrial college, Of the

university.
Maj. John Calhoun Courtney, presi-
dent Of the Virginia Society Of Atlanta
and secretary Of the Capital City club
and manager Of the Western Union
Telegraph company, died at his home
In Atlanta, Ga, aged eighty-fve.
Mrs. olomon Thatcher, Jr., who, as
a parliamentarian and speaker, was
the acknowledged leader of the board
of lady managers of the worlds fair,
died at Chicago of heart failure, SUI
perinduced by acute asthma. She was
fifty-five years of age.
The pioneer express. [volume] (Pembina, Dakota [N.D.]) 1883-1928, 1899-07-28
THE ICEMAN KILLED.

Building Collapses and Several Are
Thought to Have Been Killed.
Circleville, Ohio, July 22.-A three
story business block on Main street
collapsed and nothing but the east
wall is left standing. Fred Mink, an
iceman, was caught in the building
and instantly killed. Others are be-
lieved to have been lost. A large force
IL at work clearing the debris.
The pioneer express. [volume] (Pembina, Dakota [N.D.]) 1883-1928, 1899-07-28
General,

The Chinese consul at Havana OBJ
jects to the United States immigra-
ton restrictions being applied to Cuba.
Manufacturers of drill and sceder
implements have decided to make an
advance of Is per cent on the price of
seeders and drills.
Canadian Pacific earnings for the
week ending July were $500. 600; for
same period last year, $4S1, 900, an in
crease of $41 600.
Charles s. Fessenden Of New York
and Joseph E. Nachbor have filed a pc
tition in bankruptcy, with liabilities Of
$G4 GOA and no assets.
A general lockout of cigarmakers &C.
CURED at Tampa, Fla. Four thousand
people are thrown out of employment.
with loss of weekly wages amounting
to fully $4,000.
The number of immigrants arriving
In this country for the fiscal year end
ing June 30, 1899, was 311,9 1878. as
against 229,299 for the previous year,
an increase of $3.50 over 1898.
The Lake Shore & Michigan South
ern Railway company has Just placed
an order with the Brooks locomotive
works for fifteen ten-wheel passenger
engines, to be delivered as soon as pos
sible.
The Globe National bank of Provi-
dence, r. l., wound up it's affairs at q
meeting of the stockholders. A liuuida-
ton dividend Of 12O per cent was paid
on each share. The capital stock to be
liquidated is 100000.
NJ. l.. Crawford, manager of the
Crawford opera house at Topeka. Kan.
filed petition in bankruptcy. His I'M
secured liabilities amount to 1888, 100.
and those on which there is security
amount to $50, 450 more, making a total
Of $44S.1SO.
The National Foundry company Of
Erie, capitalized at 100000, was in
corporated at the state department at
Harrisburg, Pa. A charter was also
issued to the Columbia Chemical COM
pany, Pittsburg, with q capital of ST.
100000.
Scientific men are manifesting much
interest in the preparations now max
ing by the magnetic geodetic survey
which is charged with the magnetic
survey of t he United States for deter
mining the accurate deviation Of the
compass at sea. (.
The pioneer express. [volume] (Pembina, Dakota [N.D.]) 1883-1928, 1899-07-28
BIG BREWERY DEAL.
1t Involves the Iixpediture of Over
$1OO,OOO,OOO.

$1OO,OOO,OOO.
Milwaukee. Wis, July %. - A big
brewery deal that will involve an ex.
penditure of more than $1OO,OOO,OO0 Is
said to be on, the Western end Of
which is being worked from this city.
The deal will include large number
Of breweries in the East, West and
South. 1t is said the deal will include
al! the larger breweries in Wisconsin
outside of Milwaukee, and that large
breweries have been taken in Cincin-
natl, Buffalo, New York. New Or
leans and some other Eastern and
Southern cities. st. Louis does not
figure in the deal.
The pioneer express. [volume] (Pembina, Dakota [N.D.]) 1883-1928, 1899-07-28
Injured i'm n Runaway.

Appleton, Mimi, July 22.-Theodore
Semrau. prosperous farmer living in
Akron township, a few miles north
west of Appleton, met with severe
accident in runaway, his left arm be-
ing broken and other injuries received.
The pioneer express. [volume] (Pembina, Dakota [N.D.]) 1883-1928, 1899-07-28
Generous ponationa.

La Crosse, Wis, July %. - The La
Crosse county board, in special ses-
sion, voted $500 to the New Richmond
cyclone sufferers. The First Metho-
dist church sent $1G2 to the church i'll
New Richmond.
The pioneer express. [volume] (Pembina, Dakota [N.D.]) 1883-1928, 1899-07-28
Child Perishe. i'm a Marsh.

Annandale, Mimi, July 22.-A Sun.
day school picnic was held at Cedar
lake and a five-year-old son of Otto
Stuhr was missed. A search was in
stituted and he was found dead, hav-
ing wandered into q marsh.
The pioneer express. [volume] (Pembina, Dakota [N.D.]) 1883-1928, 1899-07-28
Mysterious shootinr,

Kokomo, Ind, July %. - George w.
Wintrowd, wealthy farmer near
here, was shot by some unknown per-
son on his way home from market.
The bullet entered the head at the base
of the brain, but he is still alive.
The pioneer express. [volume] (Pembina, Dakota [N.D.]) 1883-1928, 1899-07-28

A physician has supplied a West
Virginia man with a set of calves
brains. This sort Of thing may have
the effect of bolstering up the Popu-
list cause in spots.
The pioneer express. [volume] (Pembina, Dakota [N.D.]) 1883-1928, 1899-07-28
NO CHANCE OF WAR.

Cecil Rhodes Says There Will he M
Conflict With the Transvaal.
Cane Town July 23.-Ir the course
of his reply to an address of welcome
at Claremont, Mr.. Cecil Rhodes. for
merly premier Of Cape Colony. de-
clared that there was not the slightest
chance of war between Great Britain
and the Transvaal Republic breaking
out.
The pioneer express. [volume] (Pembina, Dakota [N.D.]) 1883-1928, 1899-07-28
Break. out I'm a New spot.

Cinnabar, Mont, July %. - The old
Fountain geyser in the Yellowstone
Park has broken out in another por-
ton of the crater. and during the past
twenty-four hours has played twice.
The eruption threw out rocks and
pieces of wood.
The pioneer express. [volume] (Pembina, Dakota [N.D.]) 1883-1928, 1899-07-28
Upbraided b the Csar

Upbraided By the Gear.
st. Petersburg, July. 22.-Lieut. Bise-
mann, the czarewitch's military aide,
committed suicide by shooting himself
with a revolver after being bitterly up-
braided by the czar for allowing the
czarewitch to 90 unattended.
The pioneer express. [volume] (Pembina, Dakota [N.D.]) 1883-1928, 1899-07-28
Bled to Death.

Carthage, s. D., July 22.-Jonas An
derson, a farmer living near here, was
found dead in a pasture near his
house. He had evidently been cut in
the leg by barbed wire and bled to
death,
The pioneer express. [volume] (Pembina, Dakota [N.D.]) 1883-1928, 1899-07-28

They have had fist fight in the
elgian chamber of deputies and sew
~ members were badly hurt. The
eigian deputies should learn a les
m from their brethren in France. Let
Isleam settle their disputes by fighting
nslas and thus avoid the danger Of be-
59 anjured.