The pioneer express. [volume] (Pembina, Dakota [N.D.]) 1883-1928, 1906-01-19
From Other shores.

From Other Shores.
"A DanfOrth, New York state treas
urer from 1889 to 1893. is dead. aged
flfty-five years.
j. Benoist of the firm of Track & Co
has paid $500 for seat on the st.
Louis stock exchange. This is a rec
ord price for a seat on that exchange.
Ellis E. South, general agent at
Terre Haute, Ind, Of the Big Four
railroad, was fatally injured by fall
ing down the cellar stairs at his home.
Robert Henderson, who served with
distinction during the Civil war, a
well-known archeologist and q pioneer
of Kansas, is dead, aged seventy-twc
years.
Gov. Warner of Michigan has re.
ceived the resignation of Warden Vim.
cent of Jackson prison. Business rea
sons are responsible for Mr.. Vincent's
resignation.
Hydrophobia, resulting from the
bite Of pet dog six weeks ago, caus-
ed the death of Miss Julia Curtain,
aged twenty-one, at the home of her
parents in Philadelphia.
Notwithstanding their agreement to
dosso on Jan. Is, Western railroads
have decided not to put in through
rates on grain from Missouri river ter.
ritory to the Eastern seaboard.
The Hotel Andwur and the block IL
which it was located at Elyria, Ohio,
were destroyed by fire. The loss is
estimated at $4,000, the bulk Of
which is sustained by the hotel prop.
erty.
James Conway, farmer five miles
east of McHenry, KY, is dead as the
result of eating dozen large oranges
and two dozen apples. The attempted
gastronomic feat was the result of q
$40 wager.
The owners in Mobile, Ala, of the
Norwegian schooner Laguna, which
sailed from Mississippi Point, Miss,
on Sept. for Colon, Panama, have
given her up for lost. She carried a
crew of nine men.
While making cuts through Kings.
boro Heights, a suburb of Suffolk, Va,
for the Tidewater railroad, a steam
shovel unearthed the remains of a
Union army officer in the Civil war.
The epaulettes are in fair state Of
preservation.
The largest donation to the con-
science fund ever received in Phila.
delphia was handed to City Treasurer
Schoch by a messenger boy. The
package contained 1926, and the un.
known sender in a note stated that It
was an overcharge for city work.
The case of Hong Wing against the
United States, involving the Chinese
exclusion act was decided in favor of
the United States in the United States
circuit court Of appeals in Cincinnati,
the court holding that the act of April
z, 1904, continued the exclusion act In
full force. congress having full power
to do so.
Bethel hens, by their own unaideo
efforts. support four missionaries in
Japan. At a meeting held by the
Bethel Missionary society of Louis
vile, KY, some months ago, it was de-
cided that all the eggs laid by the
hens on Sunday should be sold for the
benefit of foreign missions. The hens
have given the scheme their heartiest
cooperation.
State Senator F. NJ. Molsberry OF
Des Moines introduced in the legisla.
ture an act providing for the appoint
ment of joint committee of the house
and senate to conduct an Investigation
Of the life insurance business, revise
the statutes, frame new bills and re.
port to the next general assembly,
which meets next winter. The reso
luton went over under the rules.
The Rough Riders will send to Miss
+ Alice Roosevelt on the occasion of
her marriage to Congressman Long.
worth next month a handsome pres.
ent. United States Marshal Colbert
of Ardmore, Ind. Ter, secretary of the
Rough Riders association, who is be:
hind the movement, has made re.
quest upon each Rough Rider, includ.
ing President Roosevelt, for q dona,
ton toward the present. ssE
Chicago's ,tallest church, the larg,
est religious edifice in the downtown
district in any city in the world, soon
will rise at Washington and Clark
streets, If plans which have been un,
dertaken are carried to completion
These plans contemplate a $1,000, O0O
skyscraper on the site now occupied
by the First Methodist church. With,
in the great building will be huge
auditorium for the accommodation Of
the worshippers. The rest Of the
building will be devoted to ohices.
A Cossack dressed in a fur cap and
coat and wearing high-heeled boots
such az the soldiers Of the car ! are
/ supposed to wear. appeared q thu
Eighty-ifth street gate Of the Illinois
Steel compa4y's plant H. Chicago
seeking employment, and Wa stoned
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