The pioneer express. [volume] (Pembina, Dakota [N.D.]) 1883-1928, 1899-09-15
General.

Iowa mld-road PopulistS We're nomi-
mated state ticket.
Retail butchers will reform an anti.
combine company.
The Northwestern road is credited
with an intention to absorb the Omaha.
The Astors are said to be contem-
plating the purchase Of railroad in
Maryland.
Treasury officials expect the receipts
to exceed expenditures at an early
date
The permanent organization of the
Distilling Company of America has
been completed.
Again it is said that the Illinois
Central seeks to gate control of the
Minneapolis & st. Louis railway.
1t is reported at Duluth, Mimi, that
prices of retail hard coal will be adj
vanccd 80 cents a ton within a week.
The builders trial trip Of the bat
tleship Alabama, resulted in the de-
velopment of maximum speed Of
111-4 knots.
Frederick NJ. Sheldon. formerly in
the saddlery business in Elmira, n. Y,
filed petition in bankruptcy at New
York. Liabilities, $1s3.771; no assets.
Thirteen states are represented in
the convention of the Blind Peoples
Higher Education and General I'M
provement association, which is in SIS
sion at Kansas City.
! Work will be begun on Sept. 1 on n
branch of the Duluth, South Shore &
Atlantic railway from Newtonville to
Rockland, Mich, at a cost of over
$1,000. OOO.
An electric storm at Evansville. Ind,
lowered the temperature % degrees in
five minutes and was followed by n
hail storm which did considerable
damage.
Notice has been given that the option
on window glass plants. which eX-
PRED Sept. l will not be renewed and
that the combination which was to
have been made has been abandoned.
Meyer and Bernard Hecht. who
formerly composed the firm of Heclt
Bros. importers of fancy goods. filed
separate petitions in bankruptcy at
New York. The firms liabilities are
$129.G2
The Employers Association of Spo-
kane. representing from 100000 to
$90G9.C0O of local capital. has been Or
ganizcd to resist any demand of or
ganized labor in the city which it's
members may regard as unjust.
Henry Hofheimer, formerly men,
Der Of the firm of Henry Hofheimer,
Son 4 Co., wholesale dealers in boots
and shoes at Norfolk, Va, has filed a
petition of bankruptcy. Liabilities,
S43O, SC4; nominal assets, $21 900.
The last contract is closed for the
machinery of the antitrust tobacco
factory which will be established in
st. Louis. A force of workmen are
already at work on building making
the necessary changes in the structure
The National Union Veterans union
adopted resolutions denouncing Gov
Shaw for appointing J. Rush Lincoln
an eX-Conferderate, as brigadier-gen
eral of Iowa troops when they were
called into service at the opening OF
the Spanish war.
i. The position Of director general OF
the Pan-American exposition at Buff
falo has been formally rendered to viii
liam 1. Buchanan. United States mi
. mister to the Argentine Republic. Mr.
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few days to look over the situation.
Mrs. Eliza r. Smith Of Chicago II
said to be entitled to IS OOO, 900 share
Of an estate in Germany and another
in Baltimore worth $12 100000 to $13,
100000, claimed by the heirs of Mathi
as Silerfirst, German baron who die(
in 1916, and Of his sons, Matthias II
and Abraham.
) It is understood that the United
States consul at Gilbartar will advance
the funds necessary to send to Cub,
the twenty Cubans who were release,
by Spain from the penal colony &
Ceuta and are now in a penniless con
t dition at Gibraltar.
: r. w. Peck, commissioner general t
? the Paris exposition, suggests that tn
output Of Cripple Greek or one Of tn
other gold camps Of the state for on
month be nodded into solid mas
and, bearing the certificate Of the dI
E rector Of the mint, be forwarded a
the representative of the centennia
Estate.