The pioneer express. [volume] (Pembina, Dakota [N.D.]) 1883-1928, 1905-03-03
List Of Casualties,

ItSI OF SdSUdittC0s
Fire at New Orleans quilted the top
floors of the Mucheka building, a sew
en-story Office structure, entailing a
loss of $150,000.
The drug and grocery store Of F.
Harbridge & Co. at Racine, Wis, was
destroyed by fire. Loss to stock and
building, $4,000.
The Symmes block, three-story
structure occupied by stores and Offices
in Denver, was destroyed by fire, en-
failing a loss estimated at 100000.
Four men are dead and fourteen in
jured as the result of the explosion of
a stationary boiler at the mine of the
Provident Coal company at st. Glars.
vile, Ohio.
Black Bros. Of Broken Bow, Neb.,
had 500 cattle frozen to death. This
is typical of reports now coming from
ranges, showing the greatest losses
ever known.
Fire at Detroit, Mich, almost entire
ly destroyed the plant of the Detroit
Steel Casting company, causing loss
of 100000 and throwing 225 men out
Of employment.
The Rock Island flyer, west-bound,
was wrecked one and one-half miles
west of Wiota, Iowa, by the spreading
of rail. Two were killed and large
number injured.
One person was killed, two others
were injured and several narrowly
escaped as the result Of the collapse Of
ruined building at $40 West Four
teenth street, Chicago.
Fifty girls employed in a I.ogans-
port, Ind, steam laundry were thrown
into panic by the breaking of an ele-
vator. Four girls who were in the ele-
vator when it fell were injured.
Miss Pearl Griffis, living near Nash
ua, Iowa, was severely burned by fall
ing on hot stove while in an epilep-
tic fit. Her father was at Nashua at
the time, and coming home found her
unconscious.
Five people were burned to death IN
a dwelling house at Howebrook plan.
tation, about five miles north of Island
Falls, Me. The bodies, burned beyond
recognition, were found in a heap in.
side the front door, through which an
attempt had evidently been made to
leave the house. The door was locked.
Domestic.
A bill for the establishment Of a.
state oil refinery was introduced in the
Colorado legislature. 1t appropriates
$125. 900.
The New York National City bank
shipped 100000 in gold certificates
to Cuba as one of the final installments
of the Speyer loan.
Bryan has entered specific denial
to the charge that he is financially in
terested in the Usage Indian oil land
leases or any other oil lands.
Baltimore is without oysters. The
fleet being tied up in the bay, there
is not enough oysters in the city to
make boarding house stew.
Judge Holt, in the United States dis.
trlct court at New York. signed an or.
der dissolving the petition in bank.
ruptcy against Munroe & Munroe.
Col. John Sobieski, a great-grandson
OF John sobieski, the last king OF
Poland, was guest of honor at con
gratulatory reception held in Willard
hall, Chicago.
Creditors Of Earl H. Prince, the Chi
cago commission merchant who trans
ferred his open trades on board OF
trade, has filed an involuntary peti
ton in bankruptcy to have Prince de-
clared bankrupt.
Neil Burgess, the actor, has filed in
the United States district court al
Trenton, N. j.. petition in bank
ruptcy. His liabilities are placed al
81 900, and his assets are given as
two suits of clothes valued at $25.
DR.. Ashbel F. GrinnelI, formerly dear
of the medical department Of the Uni
versity OF Vermont, in his action il
New York to recover $4,000 damages
from Edward Weston for false ares,
and imprisonment. obtained a .yerdic
5000
a manuscript copy of Poe's poem
%Ulalume," all in the poets hand
writing. sold for $1,000 at the second
days sale Of the Mckee manuscript.
and portraits in New York. A deguer
rotype Of Poe sold for s2l. ,l43
Not even a telegraph message cal
reach smithfeld, Ill, so strict is III,
smallpox quarantine and SO great 4,
the rayage wrought BY the maIady
Many deaths have occurred and III,
state officials have prohibited I'll,
stopping q trains ct the village.
Cicero J. Hamiin, q weaIthy horse
man, died r. Buffalo. n. y. agsd 81.