The pioneer express. [volume] (Pembina, Dakota [N.D.]) 1883-1928, 1899-01-06
NEWS IN BRIEF.
Overflow From the Wires in a Con.
densed Form.

Overflow From the Wires in a Con.
densed Form.
M. Jules Cambon, French ambassa-
dor to the United States, will probably
be transferred to Berlin. -
The directors Of the Denver & Rio
Grande have declared dividend Of
per cent on the preferred stock.
A reduction of 1-16 cent in the price
Of numbers IL, Is and Ia refined sugars
has been made by the American COM
pany.
The commerce committee Of the
house decided to take up the Nicaragua
canal question ON the second Tuesday,
in January.
Col. ]. ]. Hemmenway Roberts,
former colnmander-in-chief of the
Union Veterans union, died suddenly
at his home in Chelsea, Mass.
Andrew Wanless, a we'll known lit
erary character of Detroit and poet
and prose writer Of no mean ability,
died at his residence there from pneu-
monia.
Lord Ivagh edward Cecil Guiness)
has presented the Jenner institute at
London with f25O,OOO in aid of scien-
tifc research in bacteriology and other
forms Of biology.
Peter Glor, Of the firm Of E. and f
Glor Of Buffalo, N. Y, barrelmakers,
has filed petition in bankruptcy
shaving liabilities amounting to over
$4,000, with no assets.
Charles G. Martin, California pio-
neer of 1910, and formerly sealer of
weights and measures at San Francis
co, is dead at his home in Mount Yer
non, N. Y, aged "a years.
The secretary of war has appointed
William p. Watson as auditor of Gus
toms accounts for Cuba, at Havana.
Mr.. Watson was formerly examiner of
national banks at Chicago.
F., Gen. w. A. Olmsteaa, of New York
city, Il convert to the Catholic faith;
was ordained to the priesthood at
Notre Dame at Laport, Ind, and cele-
brated his first mass Christmas morn
ing.
According to a dispatch to the Lon
don Times from Santiago, Chile, the
reorganization of the Chilean cabinet
under Senior Carlos Walker Martinez
entirely eliminates the party which adj
vocateS q paper currency.
The grand jury at Lexington. Ky,
returned indictments against Mayor
Simrall and the police commissioners
and others for failing to enforce the
law regarding the Sunday closing of
saloons. Over 100 saloon keepers
were indicted.
News just been received of a slide
Gu the Chilkoot pass in which six peo-
pie We're killed. Five bodies have becl1
recovered as follows: Mrs. Darling
and two sons, of Lake Linderman;
Bert Johns, Juneau; Harry Shaw. Of
Skagway. The slide occurred Dec. s..
A call has been issued by Bishop
Alexander Walters, president of the
National Afro-American council, for a
convention of colored people under the
auspices of the council at Washington
on Dec. %. All organizations having
for their object the amelioration of the
condition of the Afro-American race
are invited to send delegates.
Miss Belle Hite, attempted suicide
on a crowded street car at St. Louis.
by drinking the contents of q bottle Of
carbolic acid. She will die. Miss Hite
poured the acid into glass and drank
it in the presence of the passengers.
She was removed to q drug store in
great agony. No, reason is known for
the woman's actions.
The state department knows nothing
of the reported oyertures through Mr..
Pierce, the American charge d'affaires
at st. Petersburg, for the placing OF
a considerable sum of money in Rus
sian bonds through the Wins syndi-
cate. 1t is presumed that If any such
tender has been made the charge
d'affaires is simply acting under his
general instructions to lose no op-
portunity to facilitate American finan-
cial and merchantile opportunities IN
that quarter of the world. =.