The pioneer express. [volume] (Pembina, Dakota [N.D.]) 1883-1928, 1904-08-12


ing carbolic acid in the eyes and face
of Cornia Ramsey, attempted suicide
in the Allison, Iowa, Jail.
Jerry Condo, the prison turnkey who
was so brutally beaten by five prison
ers who escaped from the Center
county Jail at Bellefonte, Pa, is dead.
The robbers who held up the Rock
Island train near Tucumari, N. NJ, are
still at large. 1t is believed they have
taken direction northward toward
Colorado.
The postoff1ce at Ida, twenty-five
miles south of Goldfield, New, was
robbed of $40. Postmaster Jerome
Vidovitch was beaten by the robbers
and tied to chair. The thieves es.
capped. A posse is pursuing.
Former Secret Service Agent Peake,
who was convicted at Wilmington,
Del, of conspiracy in connection with
the arrest of Italians for naturaliza.
ton frauds, was sentenced to five
years Imprisonment and fine of
$4,000.
After week of mental anguish dur.
ing which he continually wept and
prayed, Frank Benedette, who muir.
dered his wife during fit of jealousy,
committed suicide in his cell at the
county Jail in Chicago by hanging
himself.
John j. Ryan, the alleged get-rich.
quick plunger, arrived in st. Louis in
the custody of Detective Killian to
answer to four indictments charging
the embezzlement of 100000. Other
indictments charge the embezzlement
of smaller sums.
General.
Western Democratic leaders will ask
ex-President Cleveland to take
the stump for Judge Parker in Illinois
in the coming presidential campaign.
The Northern Pacific railroad has
issued a circular calling attention to
the large number of farm hands that
will be required in it's territory to har
vest the crops.
The international Apple Shippers.
association met in annual session in
the hall of congresses at st. Louis.
Over 500 apple shippers from all parts
of the United States were in attend.
ance.
Members of the notification commit
tee received notice to meet at White
Sulphur Springs. w. Va. Aug. II, to
notify Senator Davis of his nominal
ton as Democratic candidate for vice
president.
Robert Grannell Minor, prominent
in Europe and America as landscape
painter and artist, died at his summer
home at Waterford. Conn.,, after a
brief illness. aged sixty-fve. He was
horn in New York city.
Former Gov. Robert E. Pattison died
at his home in Philadelphia. Although
pneumonia was the immediate cause
of death, Pattison was indirectly the
victim of overwork in connection with
the recent Democratic national con.
vention.
A'iA .. oAoy q IoA1OuS dllu
the mother of the equally famous De.
witt c. Hough, who had made spe-
cialty of putting people in commune
cation with their deceased relatives
since she was four years old, is dead
in New York.
Socialism not only inculcates indi.
vidual and domestic anarchy, but it
professedly aims at the ruin of all
existing governments" declared Rev.
T. J. Campbell. S. j., of New York, at
the public meeting of the convention
of American Catholic Societies in De.
troit.
The engagement has been announc
ed of Miss Ruth Snyder of Philadel
phia to Count Camille de Borchgave
d'Altena of Brussels, Belgium. Miss
Snyder is the daughter of Mrs. Thorn
as Alexander Reilly and niece of
Mrs. Charlemagne Tower, ambassa.
dor to Germany and formerly to Rus.
sia
The Washington state Democratic
convention pledged alliance to Parker
and Davis and declared the paramount
issue in the campaign in the state to
be whether the people are to regulate
the railroads or the railroads to regu-
late the people," Former Senator
George Turner was nominated for gov.
ernor.
Capt. T. G. Baldwin made another
ascension from Idora Park at Oakland,
Cal. He rose to a height of about 500
feet and then sailed northward for a
distance of about ten blocks in a
slight breeze, made turn, came back
and descended in the park without any
mishap. The ascension was entirely
satisfactory.
Neoga, ILL.,, boasts of the smallest
human being in the world. A girl
baby born to w. NJ. Simpson and wife
weighs just one pound. The little one
is perfectly proportioned, takes nour-
ishment regularly and is seemingly in
good health. The attending physician
believes the infant will live. The