The pioneer express. [volume] (Pembina, Dakota [N.D.]) 1883-1928, 1899-09-01
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Naval Constructor Hobson raises
three of the Spanish ships sunk by
Dewey.
A bronze badger, made Of captured
Spanish cannon, is to adorn the battle
ship Wisconsin.
The Order of Railway Telegraphers
will step into new headquarters at st.
Louis, Sept. 20.
The Colorado shelters are starting
up again and it is believed that the
strikers will return to work.
Lieut.. Commander st John, of the
British navy, Indignantly repudiates
the report that he had criticised Gen.
Otis.
Peter Millett, of Peter Millett & Co.,
warehousemen, has filed a petition in
bankruptcy at New York. Liabilities,
SOL Sol; no assets.
Natural gas in great quantities has
been struck on the farm of hobart Loe.
! near Muscatine, Iowa. The vein is 40
feet below the surface.
Conditions at the soldiers home at
Hampton remain favorable, but the
quarantine against the town Of Phoe-
bus will not yet be removed.
Reports that a combination of the
leading cigar manufacturers in Key
West, Tampa and Havana is being or
ganized, are current in New York.
Gov. Pingr"e has appointed delega-
ton Of sixteen to represent Michigan in
the antitrust convention in Chicago,
Sept. 1916. Gen. Il. A. -Alger heads
! the list
The Anti-imperialistic league has re-
ceived from Andrew Carnegie check
for 81 600 with which to press forward
their opposition to the administrations
policy.
At Jersey City the organization of
/ the es-Bement-P Pond company, just
Incorporated in New Jersey with
capital of $SOOO,0OO, was completed by
the election of officers.
The proposed automobile trip from
Chicago to New York, for the purpose
of transmitting military correspond
ence from Gen. Anderson to Gen. Mer
rift has been postponed for one week
or ten days.
Chambers has broken out among the
government mules and horses at Fort
Leavenworth, Kan, intended for SER
vice in the Philippines, and there is
much CONSERVATION among the army
officials over the disease.
Sig. Marconi, in his experiments with
! met with complete success, the mes.
sages passing through several miles of
cliff upon which Dover castle stands,
twelve miles across the sea.
The first national convention Of the
Young Peoples Christian Temperance
union has been called to meet at Chi
cago Sept. q and %, organization to
be effected on Frances WIZARDS birth
day in honor of her memory.
Col. Charles Page Bryan, United
States minister to Brazil, in an impor-
and Brazilian press, asserts that the
United States wants nothing of South
America but trade and harmony.
L. T. Leach & Son Of Chicago, who
bid $177,759, were lowest bidders for
the heating and ventilating apparatus
and electric works of the hospital
building for the United States immi.
grant station OF Ellis island, N. Y.
AS a result Of the difficulty in obtain.
| AA6 avn 1Au 0tSCA SAoAP ~ 0OuS udvS
asked the Russian government for q
short extension Of time on the cruiser
! Variagano, also for an extension on
the battleship Retise, now building at
their yard.
An automobile gun carriage upon
which O Colts automatic rapid-firino
gun will be mounted, is now being
constructed at Peoria. It is being
made to the order Of Maj. Davidson.
Of the Highland Park Military Acad.
envy.
The stockholders Of the Illinois Tele,
phone and Telegraph company met at
Chicago dnd voted an issue Of $1,000.
COO of 4 IL per cent thirty gold
bonds, and an increase in the capital
stock Of from $4,000 to 0OO0.
Four more directors were elected, max.
ing board Of seven.