The pioneer express. [volume] (Pembina, Dakota [N.D.]) 1883-1928, 1902-12-05
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Nearly 5000, 900 gallons Of petrola.;
uln, stored In reservoirs on the out
skirts Of Odessa, have been Destroyed.
by IRE. Il a ss ssS :. A, SSs5
~ The Brussels police have arrested an
Englishman named James Hardie on
suspicion Of his having been connected
with the attempt made by Rubino on
the life Of King Leopold.
An American hrm was awarded "a
$1,000, 900 contract to construct sew
er and telephone conduits in st. Pc
tersburg. A Chicago firm has se-
cured q contract for the switchboard.
Frequent acts Of piracy between
Hongkong and Canton are causing
much uneasiness. A constable Of the
British hte, who was wounded
while travelling on q junk to Hongkong,
has died. a
Rev. Hugh Price Hughes, the cele-
DRAFTED Wesleyan minister, died sud-
denly at London. Mr.. Hughes was one
Of the leading spirits of the racial pur-
ity movement and anti-gambling
league.
The British government is deter
mined that every American resident Of
the United Kingdom shall. contribute
to the extent Of 1 ence on every Ell
of his income tow DIS liquidating the
war debt. .sll 40
It Is rumored that Car Nicholas Is
contemplating divorcing the czarina.
Her chief offense Is her failure to pre-
sent male heir to the throne, but she
Is also unpopular with court officials,
largely on account of her ideas Of pro.
priety.
Generals Botha and Delarey are, ap-
parently, not going to the United
States. The Petit Bleu prints an inter-
view with Gen. DeiArey to the effect
that he and Gen. sBotha have decided
to return to South Africa, where they
will meet Mr.. Chamberlain.
Public opinion supports the govern.
ment of India in its refusal to grant
permission to the Standard Oil compa-
ny to exploit the Burmah oil fields.
Two companies with a large capital,
besides numerous Burmese owners, are
successfully developing the field.
Otherwise.
Mrs. Elizabeth Cady Stanton willed
her brain to Cornell university, but
her daughter is fighting the bequest.
Segregation is to be inaugurated at
the University of Chicago with the be-
ginning Of the new year, just after. the
Christmas vacation.
Anthony Fialia has been selected as
the leader of the next Ziegler polar ex-
petition. Mr.. Fialia is the youngest
man ever selected to lead a polar expe-
dition.
A quarrel over the biggest piece of
pie at the table of Noah and Catherine
Loop at Kokomo, Ind, was followed
by an action for divorce by the bus
band.
Two hundred and fifty crippled chill
dren in New York have applied for
treatl!ent by DR.. Adolph Lorenz, the
Vienna expert, who will visit New
York in December.
Daniel K. Pearsons will make gift
of $4,000 to the Chicago missionary
society, on condition that the members
of the Congregational society raise
100000 before Jan. 4, 1904. ~
Greene, one of the foremost military
leaders of the Revolution, were rein
tered at Savannah, Ca, under the
Greene monument, in Jackson Square.
Jules Cambon, the retiring French
ambassador, was given dinner in New
York by Chauncey Depew and James
M. Hyde. High tributes were paid to
the Frenchman, and to the United
States by him.
A verdict of $1,000 damages has
been awarded by jury in the circuit
court at Newark, N. j., against Thorn
as E. Carr who, on Feb. IL last, shot
Theodore Ferre, railroad brakeman,
installing him for highwayman.
The sister Of well known society
leader of Chicago, it is supposed, is the
author of many anonymous letters
making scandalous charges against
prominent people. The woman is al
legged to be mentally unbalanced.
An effort is being made, which there
is every reason to believe will be sue
cessful, to get all the bicycle manu-
facturers together once more in a CO.
operative association and raise prices
for 1903 all round. 1t began with the
independent makers.
The Pioneer Mining company of Sc
attic has announced that it will con-
struct a railroad from Nome to Coun-b
Gil City, which will be in operation by
the end of next season. The season
following it will probably be extended
to Salmon River and Cada de. Paga.
That no dances labeled Asiatic are
to be exploited in the Midway at the
st. Louis exposition, has greatly
pleased the Orient, according to dis
patch received by Miss Helen Gould
from John Barrett, former minister to
Siam. who is representing the exposi.
ton in the Far East.
Thomas H. Davis died at the Nation.
al Soldiers home at Marion, Ind, and
two women, claiming to be legal wives
Of the deceased, attended the funeral
with their two grown children. Davis
had lived double life for over twenty
five years. The wives wept on each
Others breasts. 51@.
A great earthquake, which win de.
stroy the greater part OF the works Of
man within the STfaYti ton Won ~ 4 sx,ou