The pioneer express. [volume] (Pembina, Dakota [N.D.]) 1883-1928, 1904-10-14
Domestic.

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Peter Sells, the well-known show.
man, died at his home in Columbus,
Ohio, of apoplexy, aged IS. He was
stricken six weeks ago.
Justice Davis of Rochester, N. Y.
handed down a decision to the effect
that the law providing Sunday closing
of stores is constitutional.
John c. Peters, one of the principals
in a boxing match in West Bergen,
N. j., died in the ring following q
knockout blow in the fourth round.
All records for the amount of taxes
paid to the city of New York in one
day have just been surpassed. The
total receipts were not far from $780,.
100000.
A report from Grant, I. T., says that
four deaths occurred there from a dis
ease which some physicians claim is
yellow fever. An investigation is be-.
ing made.
The will of Gen. George F. Hoal
makes no public requests, but divides
his property between his son and
daughter, lockwood Hoar and Miss
Mary Hoar.
The case of the Modern Woodmen
of America to collect 100000 from
the estate of the late E. H. McCutch.
en-, banker at Holstein, Iowa, has
been dismissed.
The largest shop in the world, with
possibly one exception, is to be built
at Louisville for the Louisville &
Nashville Railroad company. 1t will
cost s2,5oo,OQo.
A suit is being tried in the county
court in Brooklyn in which a saloon
keeper is sued for $4,000 by one of his
patrons, who charges that he got alco.
hol as chaser" for whisky.
Friends of Richard Garfield of New
York have learned that he has receiv-
ed concession from the Cuban gov
eminent. He will establish a casino
patterned after that in Monte Carlo.
For the third consecutive winter ex
IRENE restitution prevails among the
Alaskan Indians and government help
is absolutely necessary to prevent
them from starvation and extermina.
ton.
The old federal transport Burnside.
which was sunk during the operations
about Chattanooga, Tenn, in the early
SOS, was raised by recent high wa.
ter Rivermen are getting the iron
work out.
The st. George Advocate prints a
sermon delivered by President Joseph
F. Smith of the Mormon church in
which he counseled the people of the
church against selling lands to gen.
tiles.
A resolution favoring the appoint,
ment by each government Of COM
missioner of the public health with, a
seat in the cabinet was adopted at the
national congress on tuberculosis in
st. Louis.
The trial Of the suit to break the
will of the late Washington Corning.
ton, who left his entire estate to found
a university in Peoria, H., when i,
should have reached 100000, has
commenced.
A monument has been unveiled in
Befefontaine cemetery, st. Louis, to
the memory of Gen: William Clark,
who was one of the principals in the
Lewis and Clark expedition into the
Northwest territory.
The case of William Randolph
Hearst against the anthracite coal
carrying roads, which was assigned
for hearing in Chicago on Oct. II, has
been transferred to New York, where
it will be heard Oct. "a.
Mrs. Mary Becker Of Chicago is
dead in Cripple Creek. Three years
ago she became paralyzed after a
shock caused by. the sights in the
slaughter house of the Armour Pack
ing company in Chicago. IS
Monarch, a little mining town OF
several hundred Inhabitants near Con
nellsville, Pa, is in the throes of Q
terrible black diphtheria epidemic
There are a score down with the dis
ease and several deaths have occurred
already.
Twenty years ago Frank Hedley
went to work for the Manhattan Ele
waited road II New York as a machin
ist. Mr.. Hedley has just been ap
pointed general manager Of the Inter
borough Rapid Transit company at a
salary Of $4,000 g year. Y;