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The pioneer express. [volume] (Pembina, Dakota [N.D.]) 1883-1928, 1901-08-02
Unfortunate Happenings.

Two st. Paul trainmen We're injured
IN a wreck near Rush City.
The Ohio Valley express was run into
by loose engine, and two men were
KILLED and one fatally injured.
A conductor on the Missouri, Kansas
& Texas mistakes his orders, and
collision results with the death Of five
men and serious injury to three others.
Mrs. William Martin and her three
daughters of Marietta, Ohio. are in a
critical condition from eating poisoned
pie. The pastry was made from canned
pumpkin.
An explosion occurred at the Gyttorp
powder works at Nora, Province Of
Orebro, Sweden, wrecking seven build
fngs. Four persons, were killed and
number injured.
A tiny needle which may have been
Embedded in the flesh Of Mrs. Gerald
Harshford of New Decatur, Ala, for
many years, has finally resulted in her
death. Mrs. Harshford was about
twenty-eigl1t years old
A fire at the West India docks in
London destroyed number of huge
sheds and their contents. The amounts
of the damage done is estimated at
from 100000 to s250, 00O Sugar and
timber warehouses were involved in the
conflagration.
The consulting engineer of the inter-
national boundary commission, P. D.
Cunningham, was drowned by the cap
sizing of his boat in narrow, rocky
channel of the Rio Grande about twenty
mil Doe
native of Nashville, Tenn.
Reeves Bros boiler works at ALI
ance, Ohio, were completely destroyed
by fire. The loss is estimated at $780,
900, with $4,000 insurance. Alfred Dit
more, an employe, was caught by fall
ing debris and perhaps fatally injured.
About IT'S men are thrown out of en-
ployment.
A toy balloon enthusiastically waved
by a small boy caused a runaway in
Lincoln Park, Chicago, while the park
was crowded with pleasureseekers.
Mary Walsh, wife of E. P. Walsh, Of
the Union News company, was severely
injured and the lives of scores of wo-
men and children were imperiled.
A terrible explosion shook Toronto,
OAAo. poat Aoad OF nltrOBlycerlne
exploded in midriver about mile dis
tant. The owner Of the boat had just
returned to it after a visit to fishing
camp on Browns island when the ex-
plosion occurred, leaving no trace Of
boat or man. The cargo Of 240 quarts
Of nitroglycerine was en- route to the oil
fields. The report was plainly heard
ten or twelve miles distant.
The pioneer express. [volume] (Pembina, Dakota [N.D.]) 1883-1928, 1901-08-02
Foreign.

Three Americans We're sentenced to
prison for robbery in China.
Extreme heat continues 2, through
Denmark. Several deaths due to heat
were reported.
Inventor Santos Dumont predicts that
a voyage around the world will be
made in his own balloon.
Thirteen Polish students are On trial
at Posen charged with belonging to
secret political societies. $.i5!5.5
Reports from Germany show. that
thousands of men are out Of employ
ment and are barely keeping body and
soul togethe =.
Johannes Coetze, caught with, Marals,
the rebel who was hanged July 10 at
Aiddleburg. was publicly executed TOR
treason In Craddock. !.
Emperor Nicholas. according to q dts
patch from st. Petersburg, has issued
IN order that 3os, 5s5 men shall BE re-
scruited for the Southern army and
navy during the present year
I ~ force ~ so Brstish ana indian
FsroopssiS shout 70 staFt Tor = point ~
ssnty miles inland from AAsi, Arabsa.
- 6sstroy : zt0rt b1tdiltf W ne TnfkS In
~ teyr4tpry of fl,e HAaeAadL who -
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The pioneer express. [volume] (Pembina, Dakota [N.D.]) 1883-1928, 1901-08-02

DR.. N. S. Davis, of Chicago, is called
the father of the American medical
association, for it was in 1916, while
member of the New York state medi-
cal society, that he offered resolution
recommending that national conven-
tion, representing all the medical soci-
cites and colleges in the country, be
held in New York city in May, 1916.
The purpose was to be the adoption :.
q concerted plan Of action for the ele-
walton of the standard Of medical edu-
cation in the United States. The con-
vention resulted in the formation of
the American medical society. Dr.
Davis is IS years old, and has been a
resident of Chicago since 1849.
The pioneer express. [volume] (Pembina, Dakota [N.D.]) 1883-1928, 1901-08-02
TO BREAK UP THE STRIKE.
Steel Company officials Determine
ON Important Moves.


ON Important Moves.
Pittsburg, July 26.-zTwo moves are
reported to have been made by the ag-
gressive officials Of the American Sheet
Steel company yesterday toward the
breaking of the strike. One was the
shipping of some Of the non-union men
that had been employed in the Van
dergrift mills of the company to Wells
VILE to assist in the starting of the
plant there. It was stated that the
men were to be shipped to Wellsyille
during the early evening and would
reach there after dark AS a conse-
quence of this report there was sup
pressed excitement pervading Wells
vile, which at any moment might
break out into a serious condition.
Both strikers and officials of the COM
pany are on the alert and ready for
any emergency. The impression is
strong that the general officers of the
United States Steel corporation have
become determined on the subject of
an early breaking of the strike and to
ultimately force the operation of all the
idle plants. The second move that is
understood to have been instituted yes
terday Is the starting of the long idle
Hyde Park plant of the American
Sheet steel company. This plant was
taken into the combine burdened with
Objectionable contracts made by the
fornser owners and has remained idle
since the American Sheet Steel COM
pany took hold of the property. The
long idlenesss Of this mill has caused
most Of the men formerly employed
there to leave Hyde Park for other
places and the company believes there
will be less difficulty in starting this
plant than where the Amalgamated
association has control. 1t was APP
parent in Pittsburg last night that
fresh and decidedly important develop
ments in the strike Of the steelworkers
were about to take place. 5i
The pioneer express. [volume] (Pembina, Dakota [N.D.]) 1883-1928, 1901-08-02
DAVENPORT, IOWA. sUFrFIcRas a
LOSS BY FIRE OF AL1IOsT!A u q
sss MILLION DOLLARS. Il;
HUNDRED FAMILIES ARE HOMELESS
Vast Area Of Saw MIL and Resi-
q dcnce Property Destroyed -
III Flames Give the Firemen an Aw-
full Ftsht-Brisk breeze Blowing
Caused the Fire to Spread
Rapidly No Casualties Are Re-
ported.

Davenport, Iowa, July q. = Fire laid
waste an area of sawmill and residence
property in Davenport yesterday after
noon equal to twenty ordinary city
blocks. Flames started at 2:30 o'clock
In big piles of kindling wood of the
Rock island Fuel company on the levee.
The brisk breeze blowing carried the
flames directly across the immense
lumber yards of Weyerhauser & Denk-
mann, which soon were q seething mass
Of flames. The spread Of the fire was
so rapid that the workmen barely had
time to leave the yard. The flames
pushed their way into the adjoining
residence district, closely settled with
middle-class homes averaging in value
a few thousand dollars each, from
which the occupants only escaped with
their lives and the clothing on their
backs. Over fifty houses were thus
burned, some Of them tenements, re-
.sulting in a hundred families being
their homes in the threatened district.
Vacant houses all over town are filled
with furniture removed from the i'm
perilled district. The fire was fought
persistently by the fire departments Of
Davenport, Rock Island and Moline,
ILL.,, the latter cities responding prompt
ly to the appeal for aid. Efforts to
check the flames were uravailing until
they spread on the north to the spa
cious ground Of st. Katherine's Hall, a
boarding school for young ladies which
was saved after the tower burned off.
Gradually
The Battle waEed
on the edges Of the flaming district told
as less thickly settled portions of the
city were invaded. BY 10 o'clock the
conf1agration was under control. The
mill Of the Weyerhauser-Denkm
company and yards were totally de-
stroyed. Loss, 100000. Residence and
other loss 100000. The U. N. Roberts
sash and door factory, Red Jacket
Pump company, Standard Oil company,
Riverside mill, Davenport wooden mills
had narrow escapes as the flames were
checked just before reaching them. 1t
is believed there were no fatalities, al
though it is impossible to say certainly
at this time. Not a drop of rain has
fallen in three weeks and the lumber
yards furnished food for the flames
that quickly put the confagration be-
yond the control of the fremen. If the
wind had been blowing from the east
the best business portion of the city
would have been swept away. The pa
troll wagons and ambulances were kept
busy hauling away persons who were
Frustrated. In few instances persons
living in the burned district have not
been located by their relatives, but it
is believed they escaped.
The fire is supposed to have started
from a lighted cigarette thrown in the
sawdust.
The pioneer express. [volume] (Pembina, Dakota [N.D.]) 1883-1928, 1901-08-02

A patriotic New Yorker, a member
of the Sons of the Revolution, is pre-
pairing to give to each of the public
school buildings of New York city, a
copy of colossal size, of the famous
Houdon bust of Washington. The
model, made by Wilson Macdonald,
one of the oldest sculptors in America,
has already been accepted. The pub
lie spirited donor believes that love of
country should be taught in the schools
and that there is no better way of
teaching it than by keeping the men,
DRY of the greatest patriots fresh in
the minds of the pupils. Naturally the
Father of his country comes first.
The pioneer express. [volume] (Pembina, Dakota [N.D.]) 1883-1928, 1901-08-02
Resume 81 TIE News.
Sins ana sinners.
~ @SA!
49,,

Fifteen negroes were KILLED in fight
with negroes in Southern Texas.
Two policemen were shot in riot
among negro excursionists at Amerieus,
Ga.
Safe blowers were foiled in an at
tempt to rob bank at Alexandria,
Ohio.
Pat Grove, the alleged kidnapper, has
been heard from in johannesburg,
South Africa.
An alleged embezzler killed man
whom he claimed had him under a
hypnotic spell
Golden Rule Jones of Toledo re-
fused to answer a police judges ques-
ton and was fined for contempt.
A wealthy young girl of Galveston,
Tex, claims to have been hypnotized by
a doctor and induced to leave her home.
Willis Miller, charged with murder,
attacked his guard in open court in
Upper Sandusky, Ohio, and a panic
follows.
Judge J. H. Sellars, former member Of
the legislature and once candidate for
the Democratic nomination for COVER
nor of Indiana, killed himself, in his
law office at Charlottesville by taking
morphine. He left a letter saying his
life was a failure and that his debts
were large.
The attorneys of. Mrs. Cordelia Bot
kin, who has been granted new trial
by the California supreme court on the
charge Of numbering Mrs. John P. Dun
ming of Delaware are preparing to
carry her case to the United States
supreme court.
Miss Cora Henry, q beautiful four
teen-year-old girl at Sheridan, Ark,
committed stricide by taking strychnine.
Miss Henry was#in love with young
man named Henry Tatom, to whom
she was engaged to be. married, but the
father of the girl ordered him off the
place.
The pioneer express. [volume] (Pembina, Dakota [N.D.]) 1883-1928, 1901-08-02
ACCIDENT TO nRooKLyN BRIDGE.
Delays Trahic ana Causes Much Elk
\ citement.

Delays Trahac and Causes Much Ex--s
II element. i3 HI 4
New York, July 26.-About 6, O'Clock,
last evening number of the vertical
supporting cables of the Brooklyn
bridge pulled ..,lt Of their sockets and
are dangling in the air. The accident
happened at the north side Of the
New York end Of the bridge and this
end sagged from four to six inches.
This completely stopped all street car
traffic over the structure, but after a.
Temporary delay pedestrians and wag-
tons We're allowed & to, proceed. The
vertical cables which pulled out were;
Embedded iii the great cables upon
which the . bridge is hung. What
caused the pulling out Of these cables,
Is not known. The accident caused
great excitement and the police re-
serves were called out. aas.sfs' s saa.sS 95
The pioneer express. [volume] (Pembina, Dakota [N.D.]) 1883-1928, 1901-08-02

Tradition asserts that the Queen Of
Sheba gave Solomon an intricately
pierced stone to thread. He solved the
problem by forcing worm, dragging a
thread, to crawl through the winding
passage. The modern version is on
manifled scale. To test the right of
Chicago to call itself seaport, the
steamer Northman, loaded with west
ern grain, timber and machinery, has
made the voyage from Chicago to
Hamburg by way of the Great Lakes
and the Welland canal. The white
thread of her wake can harly fail to
weave new nd important pattern into
the maritime commerce of nations.
The pioneer express. [volume] (Pembina, Dakota [N.D.]) 1883-1928, 1901-08-02
HnAD i sYsn J !


Hero 81 MANTLE HaysyyiM Preside at
the schley yestiKat f0M. ,;5 I'LL
hing ton, July 2s. Admtral Dew
Sy WAN ut IN jua gments on the Samp-
SOM chley controve Secretary
Long has selected the herb Of Manila
bay as president Of the court Of inquiry
that will hear all the evidence in re-
gard to the conflicting claims Of of
ficers9 who rticipated lin the West
Indian campaign. The propriety Of
selecting Admiral Dewey to preside
over such q court Is too apparent to
need explanation. =, va u
Secretary Long had only read Ad-
rn:ral Schley's letter asking for some
official action on the charges that have
been published against him when he
determined on court Of inquiry with
Admiral Dewey at the head. The two
other members Of the court will be
named to-day. They will be officers
ranking Admiral Schley who have, not
personally been mixed up, in the quar-
rel The selection of Admiral Dewey
as president of the court and his ac-
ceptance promises ts
An Impartial investigation.
Dewey has always been personal
friend of Schley, but his methods OF
war were so radically different from
those Of the hero of Santiago that he
will not have much patience with the
clamor of hero worshipers until they
back up their claims with evidence.
Naval. officers believe that personal
friendship will count for little with
Admiral Dewey in an official capacity.
Secretary Long yesterday received
Admiral schley's letter asking for an
investigation. He promptly replied,
saying that the admiraIs request
would be acceded to. In his letter to
the secretary Admiral Schley does not
specify any Of the criticisms to which
he takes exceptions, but asks, in view
of the statements and innuendoes and
abusive language contained in Mac
Lays history, which he says he does
not consider worthy of use in any col.
lege in the country, that a court Of
inquiry of the entire matter he, held.
He also asks that the court shall sit in
Washington, where his papers are
stored.
Later the secretary announced that
owing to the extreme hot weather the
and that the inquiry would be open to
the public. M
After MacLay's Scalp.
Washington, July 26.-An effort has
been made to secure the removal Of
Edgar S. MacLay, the author of the
history of the Spanish war containing
the criticisms on Rear Admiral Schley.
MacLay is a clerk in the Brooklyn
navy yard. Representative Mudd of
Maryland, a member OF the committee
on naval affairs in the last house OF
representatives, called on Secretary
Long yesterday and represented to
him the Improperly of MacLay con-
tinuing an employee of the government
in view of the language which h, Used
in referring to Admiral Smiley. The
secretary promised to give the zlattes.,
his early attention.
The pioneer express. [volume] (Pembina, Dakota [N.D.]) 1883-1928, 1901-08-02

|aSeoretaFy OK a ~ n IN S Al u y
ss o. ths CCnrt ~ Inv ssS ssS
vashir ,lal, ~. secr starry Lons
sssa NV ia 3 selected
Inifal Dewey ia JUL Adrni rails Ilin,-s
berly ana Hen arll a. member III the
/ schley court of nquiry The precept
to the court has Il not yet been pub
alished. s'gs eiSs h #
The court will meet at the navy de-
partment In Washing ton Sept. IL. Sec
rotary Long announced these facts.
yesterday. He says that the proceed
ings Of the court viii be open, ana that.
the widest latitude VIII be permitted
in the matter Of witnesses. and that
Rear Admiral 5Schley will be allowed
to be represented by counsel. iiff
The secretary had nothing to say.
about the composition OF the court, ex-
cept that he thought 1t spoke for itself, .
. and to express the hope that the mem
bers chosen would be satisfactory to all.
concerned. He pointed out that none.
OF the officers chosen had, so far as he
knew, expressed an opinion concern
ing What is known as the Sampson
Schley controversy, and 1t was, there I
fore to be presumed that they would /
enter upon their work in an impartial
and unprecedented spirit.
Secretary Long has selected these
three men to sit in judgments in this
controversy regarding the. Santiago
campaign, first because they are men
removed from the factions and jeal-
ousies in the navy just prior to the
war with Spain, and, second, because
a ~
ever been equal to their opportunities
in winning their laurels for the Ameri-
can navy. &ga.
Capt. Lemly, Judge advocate general
of the navy, will act as judge advocate (
for the court. 5ft q.
Sampson Ynwps Again. FL
Admiral Sampson is glad that court
of inquiry has been asked for by
Schley. When asked regarding the.
code signals arranged with the insur-
gents at Cienfuegos Sampson said that
he had given instructions that the order
should be communicated to all the cap
tains, of the fleet and that If Schley did
not receive it it was not SIMPSONS
fault. However, the admiral said he
had every reason to believe the order
was received by all. Rear Admiral
Evans is quoted as saying that had
Schley had the information he could.
have gotten away thirty-six hours.
earlier. To.this Sampson replied:
Eyes, I should say it was about that.
length Of time earlier that Schley
should have gotten away. This whole
matter has been settled, settled time
out of mind.
Settled that Schley neglected orders,
disoteyed and did not get away quick
enough?" the admiral was asked.
Eyes, that has been settled. All was
wrong with him from the time he had
anything to do with it; yes, from the
beginning. There never was real mis-
understanding of orders II
Rear Admiral Evans denies having
made the statements recently attrib-
uted to him that Schley had not re-
ceived the signal code order.
The pioneer express. [volume] (Pembina, Dakota [N.D.]) 1883-1928, 1901-08-02
Washington Notes;

Civil government has been suspended
and a drastic campaign planned in four
Philippine provinces. =
A majority Of the naval board of con-
structton has reported plans for the
largest battleship in the navy.
The first representative Of the Japa-
nese army accredited as military at
tache at Washington has arrived in
that city.
The interior department has author
lied the general land Office to make a
thorough survey of Wing Cave, in
South Dakota.
Officials who have had in charge
preparation of the Philippians tariff es-
innate that it will bring revenue of
S1S,000,000 the first year.
The excess of exports over imports
for the past fiscal year amounts to
$664,9o0,011, and is higher than the best
previous year by $49, 467,3s5.
For one year more Americans will be
eligible to appointment in the postal
service Of the Philippines. After that
none but natives will be appointed, with
the exception Of a few important places.
The controller Of the currency has
authorized the First National Bank of
Elk Point. S. D.. to begin business with
capital of $4,000. The officers named
are George r. Freeman president, and
Fl. B. Beckwith cashier.
The public printer has Just COM
pleted $4,000 bound copies Of the dedi-
cation of the Chickamauga and Chat
tanooga National Military Park, an IL
Illustrated edition orderedtby congress.
1t will be distributed by senators and
representatives.
A Japanese newspaper just received
at the navy department, Washington,
says that DR.. Hatoyma, a member Of
the Japanese diet and a prominent jul
rist, will leave japan in September for
the United States to receive the degree
of LII. D. from Yale.
Indepe ndent Cuba will begin business
with a bonded Indebtedness of only
s122,400. resulting from the clause in
the new constitution pledging the Gu
ban republic to the payment of the
bonds issued by authority of the revo-
lutionary government during the war
with Spain.
The pioneer express. [volume] (Pembina, Dakota [N.D.]) 1883-1928, 1901-08-02

An indianapolis correspondent calls
attention to the part played by the
telephone in a recent divorce case at
Noblesville, Ind. A Mrs. Nagle brought
suit for divorce. On the day appointed
for the trial her attorney, Mr.. Fippen,
co6ld not attend, and called up the
Noblesville judge and explained the
circumstances, suggesting that the
case be tried by telephone: The Judge
consented the witnesses We're sworn,
and in answer to questions asked them
by Mr.. Fippen, thirty miles away, sub
mitted their testimony to the Judge,
after which Mr.. Fippen delivered his
argument, talking into the judges ear
by telephone. The divorce was grant
ed.
The pioneer express. [volume] (Pembina, Dakota [N.D.]) 1883-1928, 1901-08-02

The Pullman company is arranging
to establish pension system for it's
entire force of employees, numbering
between 10000 and $4,000 persons. Six
ty years will be made the limit of SER
vice. For each year an allowance of
per cent of the average monthly pay
for the last ten months is to be given.
Thus, employees who have been with
the company forty years, receiving
$50 a month, would get 40 per cent of
$50, or $40 month.
The pioneer express. [volume] (Pembina, Dakota [N.D.]) 1883-1928, 1901-08-02

Pau1 Wayland Bartlett, the SCULPTOR
who has established his studio in one
10 the eastern suburbs Of Washington,
has received . letter from the Frnnch
government accepting his statue OF La
3fayetfe which is the lift TO France Of
1000 100 American school children.
MI. bartlett as design vas rho SUCCESS.
~ one before the American Jury, and
ske 49, required by the French sov--
u lI1snt Is erect hin statue IA plaster
| q m, ~ ~ - sin the court
I - i re elehs iisrY
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Otherwise.

The famous old frigate Minnesota has
been ordered sold ts auction.
Showers throughout the Northwest
have improved crop prospects.
Pearl fishing in the Mississippi river
has become quite an industry.
The soft coal trust will endeavor to
sell Pittsburs and Virginia steam Goals
abroad.
Dun & Co.'s trade review says conf
dence in the future is expressed on ev-
cry hand.
Initial steps have been taken at Rich
mond, Va, for the formation OF a to-
bacco trust.
Hundreds Of fish were made drunk on
whisky by the burning Of a distillery in
Pennsylvania.
An East ST. Louis GILL; man asks the
law to rid him Of woman who wants
to.marry him.
4 "A coppers' union is the latest devel-
opment in Chicago police circles, and a
strike is possible.
Pope Leo has written letter COM
nending the Catholic university in
Washington, D. G.
Hot winds and chinch bugs are doing
considerable damage to the growing
crops Of the Northwest.
Senator Clark has sued the estate Of
his chief lieutenant to recover money
used in. his senatorial fight.
s Mrs. Booker T. Washington was de-
feated for the presidency of the Nation
al Association of Colored Women.
!. Charles Willard Blanco, a grocery
clerk Of Wilmington, Del, says he is the
rightful heir to the British throne.
n "A pretty Chicago typewriter has sued
q professor IN the University Of Me-
braska for $4,000 for breach OF promise.
"A young man testified that he roomed
with Bert" Glen year, and did not
discover that his room mate was a girl
III Maj. Strong and Lady Francis Hope,
formerly May Yohe, the actress. were
compelled to leave a San Francisco hos
tel. 81 sy,;s. Hi 81 81
rs A Chicago Judge settled bigamy
case BY ddvorcing the first wife and re-
marrying the accused to the second
wife. n M
4 Millions of frogs descended recently
upon Ithaca; III. ~. Snd the small boys
arsSnaakinx money ~ atchtng them for
frog breeders Sg l l4s
The third Volume m The text book d
he rayal ac9 Aspy gives Admiral
SeAisy anJf6sne WI 4 isood sscura m
fssa nantia III