davidaulloa/AmericanStories huggingface dataset:
The pioneer express. [volume] (Pembina, Dakota [N.D.]) 1883-1928, 1909-01-01
BANK ROBBERY MADE KNOWN.
Stockholders Learn Institution Lost
$4,000 Sunday Night.

Los Angeles, Dec. 27-The fact has
just been made public that the First
National Bank of Monrovia, CAL, was
robbed Of sum said to amount to
$4,000 Sunday night. Detectives have
been at work on the case, but it is
stated that no clue to the robbers has
been found and no arrests have been
made. The loss of the money was dis
covered when the bank opened for
business On Monday. President John
Bartle said that in view of the fact
that the bank was insured for $4,000
with a casualty company, the loss to
the stockholders would be less than
$4,000. The bank is capitalized at
100000, with a surplus of 100000, and
has undivided profits of $4,000.
The pioneer express. [volume] (Pembina, Dakota [N.D.]) 1883-1928, 1909-01-01
NEGRO IS WORLDS CHAMPION
Johnson, the Texas Negro, Takes
Heavyweight Title From Tommy
Burns.

Sydney, N. s. w., Dec. 81. - Jack
Johnson, the big negro from Galveston,
Tex, is the worlds champion heavy.
weight pugilist. He won the title to-
day in the big arena at Rushcutter's
bay from Tommy Burns, the French.
Canadian, who had held it since James
j. Jeffries relinquished it and after a
chase of Burns that had led half way
around the world.
The end came in the fourteenth
round, when the police, seeing Burns
tottering and unable to defend himself
from the savage blows of his opponent
mercifully stopped the fight.
Black Man Wins.
Previously it had been arranged
that If the police interfered a decision
should be rendered On points, and Ref.
cree Mcintosh without hesitation de.
clared the big black man the winner.
for all through the fight he had shown
himself Burns master in every style
of fighting. Burns, in an interview
after he had gone to his dressing
room, said:
ulu IuS USSI COulu duU 1OuSuS
hard. Johnson was too big and his
reach was too great
Fought Game Battle.
Johnson appeared fresh after the
fight, while Burns eyes were badly
pulled and his mouth swollen to twice
its normal size. The Canadian fought
a game battle and showed indomitable
pluck, but he was no match for the
big Texas black.
The fight was for purse Of $4,000,
of which Burns received 100000 and
Johnson $4,000 The ring was twen-
ty-four-foot one and was pitched in the
center of big arena built especially
for the purpose at Rushcutte's bay.
The bout was to have been for twen'
ty rounds.
The crowd was estimated at be-
tween $4,000 and 10000 persons, and
it kept perfect order throughout the
fight,
The pioneer express. [volume] (Pembina, Dakota [N.D.]) 1883-1928, 1909-01-01
ForO1on.

A slight earthquake was felt at
coutances, France. No damage ex-
cept the breaking of crockery was
done.
King Edward last week put an end
70 the present session of the British
parliament. Only few members at
tended the brief propagation ceremo-
uies.-
At a meeting held at Cettinje, Mon
senegro, nearly all the influential Mon
tenegrip merchants adopted a resolu-
ton to institute a boycott against Aus.
tro-Hungarian products.
Both houses of the japanese diet
we're formally opened last week. Su-
mitka Basiba, a prominent leader of
the Constitutional party, was elected
speaker of the lower house.
Eleven deaths have occurred and
thirteen men are seriously i'll at Keith
ley camp, Minanao island. Philippines,
rs a result of the men of the Eight
eenth infantry drinking columbia acid,
vegetable compound extracted from
the columbia root.
Certain chiefs Of the native tribes
IN German Samoa are threatening
trouble. They are preparing to hoist
IN independent Samoan nag when the
parliament of the islands reassembles
and contemplate appealing to the
United States and Great Britain to de-
eide whether this action is justified.
King Otto of Bavaria lies in a pad
ded room in the palace, bound in a
strait jacket and raving in the widest
form of violent insanity. The passive
ldiocy, which for SO many years has
made the monarch the most pitiable
figure in modern history, developed
into destructive mania. It is thought
that the death Of the monarch is near
at hand.
The pioneer express. [volume] (Pembina, Dakota [N.D.]) 1883-1928, 1909-01-01
Accidental Happenings.

Frank Zieninski was instantly killed
by falling off trestle in Jumping an
ore car at the Colby mine at Besse.
mer, Mich.
Willie Rooster, six years old, son OF
a farmer living near Ridgeway, ILL.,,
met horrible death by falling into q
kettle of boiling lard.
The business section of Warman.
Sask., was destroyed by fire. The
loss is estimated at 100000. The town
was named after Cy Warman.
Destructive fires are becoming fire.
quent in Laurens county, South Car
DINA, especially among the ginneries,
three having been burned within the
last few days. ..
Crushed under the automobile
which she was operating, an electric
runabout, Mrs COPYRIGHT, wife of For
mer State Senator o. B. COPYRIGHT of
Waterloo, Iowa, received fatal inju.
ries.
A mail coach loaded with Christmas
presents was burned, five mail clerks
barely escaping with their lives, while
one was injured in jumping to safety,
when freight train crashed into q
passenger train in the West side of
Chicago. ....
Crowds of Christmas shoppers were
thrown into panic in Chicago by a
fire in siegel, Cooper & Co.'s depart
\ ment store. The fire started in YES
$tibule and although it was quickly ex.
singuished and no one was seriously
injured several women in the crush.
to get out tainted and had to be car
-ied to the streets.
A fire which started in the Gilsey
house, one Of the famous hotels Of
Broadway, New York, threatened at
first to destroy the building. The fire
men were able to confine the flames
to the fifth floor and the fire was
quickly controlled. There were not
many guests in the hotel at the time
and it is believed there was no loss Of
life.
When the steamer Arabic arrived
at Queenstown from New York the Of
hcers reported that one Of the passen
gers, who was registered under the
name Of Father Kelley of Paterson
N. J., was drowned during the voyage
He fell overheard.
Tightly strapped in chair, James
Anderson. . hye months old infant.
was burned to death in his home al
Chicago. The baby's clothing was fired
By his three-year-old brother, while
plaing with matches. The mother
Ind Cone TO : nearby store. leayina
=lhe tvo togsthsf.
The pioneer express. [volume] (Pembina, Dakota [N.D.]) 1883-1928, 1909-01-01
SUGAR KING PASSES AWAY.
Claus SpreckeIs Passes Away at San
Francisco.

CTdIlSISSOs
San Francisco, Dec. 20. - Claus
Spreckels, widely known as the "sug-
ar king" of the Pacific coast, died Sat-
urday at his home in this city in his
eightieth year. The immediate cause
of death was an attack of pneumonia,
which developed with alarming symp-
toms during the last few days.
His condition Friady night warned
his physicians that his end was near
and relatives remained at his bedside
until the hour of his death.
Despite his advanced age, Mr..
Spreckels had devoted a large share
of time to the various enterprises in
which he was interested, and it is not
more than a month since he appeared
before the ways and means commit
tee of the house in Washington as an
authority on the subject of sugar du-
ties. Two years ago he was attacked
by a severe illness; but his vigorous
constitution enabled him to withstand
his sickness and lie wa.', after time,
restored to his usual health.
Apart from the Importance which
attached to Claus Spreckels as the
pioneer sugar retiner Of the Pacific
coast and as investor of millions in
California and the Hawaiian islands,
the Spreckels family has for many
years been one of the most prominent
in the state.
The value Of the estate is variously
estimated at from $40,OOO,O0O to $780,
100000.
The pioneer express. [volume] (Pembina, Dakota [N.D.]) 1883-1928, 1909-01-01
Chinese to Have Embassy,

Picking, Dec. 27.-The foreign board
has received cablegram from Tang
shao-Yi at Washington, saying that the
Washington government has respond
ed favorably to the proposal made by
China to raise the Chinese legation at
Washington to the rank of an embas.
~. Tang-Shao-Yi is the Chinene Off.
cial who is at present in the United
States On diplomatic mission from
his government.
The pioneer express. [volume] (Pembina, Dakota [N.D.]) 1883-1928, 1909-01-01
SANTA FINDS FAMILY DEAD.

Children, in Hanging Up Stockings
Turn Stop.cock on Gas Fixtures.
Chicago, Dec. q. - Instead of a
Christmas greeting yesterday, 1sadore
Hanson, when he left the milk supply
at the home of Morris Lukeman, a
wealthy grocer, discovered that the
whole family, consisting of Lukeman,
his wife and two children, had been
asphyxiated.
It is supposed that in hanging stock.
ing on the gas fixtures one of the
girls turned the valve and that the
room filled before any of the family
awakened to discover it.
The pioneer express. [volume] (Pembina, Dakota [N.D.]) 1883-1928, 1909-01-01
Catch Struggled Chinese.

Ell Paso, Tex, Dec. 29.-EmployeA
of the Southwestern railway yester4
day found eleven Chinese in a boz
car at Duran, N. M. The aliens were
taken into custody. The Chinese were
plentifully supplied with water and
provisions and had been seated in d
car billed from Redlands, CAL, I'd
Chicago.
The pioneer express. [volume] (Pembina, Dakota [N.D.]) 1883-1928, 1909-01-01
MISTAKEN FOR BEAR; IS SHOT

Drunken Man in Buffalo Coat Instant
Iy Killed.
Chattanooga, Tenn, Dec. 29.-Mistak.
ing a drunken man clad in long buf.
falo coat for a bear, Thomas Deck
mar, a we'll known farmer, shot and
instantly killed Thomas Andrews near
Lafayette, Tenn.
A coroner's jury rendered verdict
of justifiable homicide.
The pioneer express. [volume] (Pembina, Dakota [N.D.]) 1883-1928, 1909-01-01
May Be Fire Victim.

Sault Ste. Marie, Ont, Dec. 20. 4
The Hussey block here was destroyed
by fire yesterday morning and the
Coronation block adjoining was badly
damaged. Alexander Kemp, who ram
a carpenter shop in the basement, id
missing and is believed to have per-
ished. The loss will exceed $4,000.
The pioneer express. [volume] (Pembina, Dakota [N.D.]) 1883-1928, 1909-01-01
Crimes.

William T. Clark, an old-time pros
pector. has been found murdered near
Butte, Mont. He had just opened a
promising gold vein.
Patrick Greene Of Montreal, a ped
der, was killed near Plaster Rock,
N. B., by highwaymen, who made
their escape with valise said to con-
tain $4,000.
Clifford Smith, said to be former
policeman in Toledo, Ohio, and Cath
crime McCabe, alleged counterfeiters
Of f1fty-cent and one-dollar coins, were
arrested in Chicago.
William w. DELPHI was found guilty
Of murder in the first degree at La
porte, and his punishment was fixed
at life Imprisonment. DELPHI was con.
sicted Of killing his mother-in-law.
Owen Smith. son of Chief Of Police
Smith; Charlie Moore and his broth
er. Virgil Moore. are dead, and Po-
liceman Cain Walters is dying as a
result of four-cornered pistol duel
fought at ocilla. Ca
DR.. Charles E. Smith, mayor of
Washington, N. j., lost the sight of
pne eye and was partially blinded in
the other when one of his women pa
tents visited his Office and threw car
bolic acid over his face and head.
James B. Harmon, eighteen years
old, shot and killed Miss Maud Hart
ley, eighteen years of age, on the
street Of Somefville, Mass. Miss
Marley had recently informed Har.
mon that she did not care for his at
tentions.
Fred Lied, formerly member of
the Columbus (Ohio) board of con-
troll, was sentenced to four years in
the penitentiary by Judge Rogers for
accepting bride from Nelson Can
non, local representative of a paving
company of Cleveland.
Giacinto Ricci was electrocuted at
the New Jersey state prison at Tren-
ton. The much-talked-of test to resus-
citate the electrocuted man was not
attempted. County Physician Scam.
mel, who had threatened to make the
test, was not present and made no
demand for the body.
The pioneer express. [volume] (Pembina, Dakota [N.D.]) 1883-1928, 1909-01-01
Two Firemen Injured.

Los Angeles, Dec. ga fire which
caused a loss of 100000 occurred yes
terday in the Occidental hotel build
ing. An explosion in the basement,
where decorating company stores
paints and oils, caused the fire. Two
firemen were injured. The one hun
dred guests in the hotel escaped with
out injury.
The pioneer express. [volume] (Pembina, Dakota [N.D.]) 1883-1928, 1909-01-01
Has Stormy PASSAGE.

New York, Dec. 27.-Having taken
twice the usual time to make her run
to this port from Hamburg, which she
left twenty-one days ago, the steamer
Pretoria of the Hamburg-Americap
line arrived yesterday after one of the
stormiest passages in the steamer'i
history.
The pioneer express. [volume] (Pembina, Dakota [N.D.]) 1883-1928, 1909-01-01
TROOPS withdrawn,

stearns, Ky, Dec. 29.-Quiet pre-
vailing last night in stearns, wherj
on Christmas day miners and United
States marshals engaged in a battle
fatal to several Of them, the Somer'
set company Of state militia was Oh
dered back home. There have beer
no developments during The day. !
The pioneer express. [volume] (Pembina, Dakota [N.D.]) 1883-1928, 1909-01-01
Boys Body Found in Gravel Pi,

Boys Body Found in Gravel Pit.
Salt Lake City, Dec. 27.-The body
of Charles Seinsoth, sixteen years Of
age, messenger for the Rocky Noun.
tain Bell Telephone company, was
found yesterday at lonely part of the
gravel pit near the capitol hill grounds.
There were no marks of violence on
the body, but there were indications
that death probably had been caused
by poison.
The pioneer express. [volume] (Pembina, Dakota [N.D.]) 1883-1928, 1909-01-01
news OF WEEK SUMMARIZED
Oigest Of the News Worth Telling Con.
densed for the Busy
Reader.
Washington.

Charles B. Romkey has been ap
pointed postmaster at Stockwood
Clay county, Mimi, vice S. Shermoen
resigned.
Shortly after the holidays the senate
will probably decide where it will
place marble busts of two of its vice
observation-disclosures and Fairbanks.
Rear Admiral Charles S. Sperry
commanding the American battleship
feet, has cabled the navy department
that the fleet made it's departure from
Colombo, Ceylon, for Suez. The mes
cage was in cipher and very brief.
Secretary Root has signed treaty
with Minister Mejai of Salvador, pro-
viding for the arbitration of disputed
questions which may arise with that
country. It follows the line of similar
conventions negotiated with. various
countries.
In an interview Attorney General
Bonaparte, speaking of the suit which
the president has urged against 10
seph Pulitzer of the New York World,
said that it is still under considera'
ton, and no definite line Of action has
vet been agreed upon.
Following the announcement of the
White House that Secretary Root
would retire upon his election as SEN
ator from New York and that Assist
ant Secretary Bacon would succeed
him, comes an intimation that Root
may abandon the state portfolio be-
fore Jan. 2.
The pioneer express. [volume] (Pembina, Dakota [N.D.]) 1883-1928, 1909-01-01
Otherwise.

The remarkably mild winter wealth
er enabled many farmers in Southern
Alberta to do considerable blowing
last week.
President w. H. Newman of the
New York Central lines rendered his
resignation at meeting of the board
of directors.
Thomas Ryan, representing Nebras
ka capitalists, purchased 480 acres of
coal land in the Bear Creek district.
near Red Lodge. Mont, for $4,000.
The Council of Jewish Women has
issued an appeal to newspapers for
the elimination of indecent details in
the published evidence of murder and
divorce trials.
Much cheaper rates for cablegrams
across the Atlantic are near at hand,
according to the assertion of Rodolph
Lemieux, the postmaster general in
the Canadian cabinet.
Korgo Takahira, Japanese ambas.
sador to the United States, in an ad.
III GOD USlOIc lNS LOUIS CluD IN New
York. discredited all rumors of un.
friendly feeling between America
and the Flowery Kingdom. Inciden.
tally he hung few flowers upon the
character of the Japanese diplomatic
policy, declaring that it was not
founded upon craft, but honesty and
straightforwardness.
The entire milling industry of Ne.
braska will oppose the recent order Of
the secretary Of agriculture prohibit.
ing the transportation and sale Of
bleached flour in interstate commerce.
The millers believe 1t will be a death
blow to the industry in that state.
Harry K Thaw lost his second cam.
paign for freedom from the insane
asylum at Matteawan, N. T., when the
circuit court handed down q decision
that tho slayer Of Stanford White
cannot be taken to Pittsburg to tss.
tify In the bankruptcy proceedings
pending there against him.
The pioneer express. [volume] (Pembina, Dakota [N.D.]) 1883-1928, 1909-01-01
100000 FRAUD DISCOVERED.
Forged Bills Receivable "PIanted"
With Banks of CHICAGO,

Chicago, Dec. q. - That 100000 in
forged bills receivable recently has
been planted" with banks of Chicago
was the warning issued to bankers.
trust companies and note brokers.
The method by which the swindle is
operated is said to include the issu.
ance of duplicate bills receivable.
These are disposed of to note brokers
at the usual discount. The brokers in
turn discount the paper with their re-
spective banks. At the end of sixty
or ninety days the fraud naturally is
discovered.
No arrests have been made.
The pioneer express. [volume] (Pembina, Dakota [N.D.]) 1883-1928, 1909-01-01
Michioan Hunter Is Killed.

Charlotte, Mich, Dec. 29.-Leo Bos.
worth, aged thirty, was killed by tho
explosion of gun in the hands of
hunting companion, who escaped una
hurt Part of the barrel hit Bos,
worth in the neck and sever ed hid
jugular vein. He died in an hour.
The pioneer express. [volume] (Pembina, Dakota [N.D.]) 1883-1928, 1909-01-01
Ambassador Griscom Quite.

Washington, Dec. 29.-The resignaa
ton of Lloyd G. Griscom, ambassador
to Italy, reported in an Associated
Press dispatch from Rome SATURDAY.
night, was authoritatively confirmed
by the state department last night.
Ambassador Griscom's resignation
takes effect March 4.
The pioneer express. [volume] (Pembina, Dakota [N.D.]) 1883-1928, 1909-01-01
Killed In Auto Race

Oakland, CAL, Dec. 27.-As a result
Of a wild automobile race on the Foot
hill boulevard early yesterday one
man was instantly killed and another
man and two young women were Sc.
verely injured. The accident occurred
Q short distance from San Leandro.
The pioneer express. [volume] (Pembina, Dakota [N.D.]) 1883-1928, 1909-01-01
Shoots Three; Commits suicide.

Johnstown, Pa, Dec. 20. - John
Stormer, blacksmith, shot his wife
and her brother and tho latter's wife,
and then blew out his own brains Id
plain view of crowd of Mortified by.
ISLANDERS on the street here yesterday
Stormer had not been living with his
wife for several years. Mrs. StormeR
will recover. The others are danger
ously wounded.
The pioneer express. [volume] (Pembina, Dakota [N.D.]) 1883-1928, 1909-01-01
Mine Fire Breaks Out Arrest

Mine Fire Breaks Out Afresh.
Trinidad, Colo, Dec. 29.-Fire In
the. coal mine of the Victor Fuel com.
pany at Hastings, which has been
burning since last Wednesday and
which was thought to be under con.
troll, broke out afresh early yesteH
day. I
The pioneer express. [volume] (Pembina, Dakota [N.D.]) 1883-1928, 1909-01-01
Spread Of Trachoma Is Feared.

Spread Of Trachoma Is Feared.
Valparaiso, Dec. %. - The steamed
Carabella, from Yokohama, is in quar-
antine at Iquique with trachoma on
board. Three of the Cinnamon on tht
vessel made their escape and are in
hidiag on shore. 1t is feared that the
contagion will spread.
The pioneer express. [volume] (Pembina, Dakota [N.D.]) 1883-1928, 1909-01-01
Heir to Riches Is vasrant.

11GIr 90 TtTV1tS6 TO VdSTdHts
Los Angeles, CAL, Dec. 29.-Heir to
half million dollars, according to his
own statement, and entitled to posi-.
ton in Baltimore society, William Jef
ferson Powell has been sentenced To
serve $50 days in the workhouse IN
this city on vagrancy charge.
The pioneer express. [volume] (Pembina, Dakota [N.D.]) 1883-1928, 1909-01-01

No Money for Toys; Kills Self.
Quiman. Ga, Dec. 27.-Because hs
did not have money enough to provide
the usual Christmas toys for his chill
dren, G. A. Casters. q farmer neay
here. committed suicide.
The pioneer express. [volume] (Pembina, Dakota [N.D.]) 1883-1928, 1909-01-01

$4,000 School at Wakefield.
Wakefield. Mich, Dec. ga high
school to cost $4,000 is to be erected
here. The contract has been awarded
to an Ashland (Wis.) builder.
The pioneer express. [volume] (Pembina, Dakota [N.D.]) 1883-1928, 1909-01-01
Shoppers Killed by Train.

Toledo, Dec. q. = While driving
home from Christmas shopping trip
in Toledo, Mr.. and Mrs. Thomas Null
holeks, living on farm near Holland,
Ohio. twelve miles west Of here, were
instantly killed by Lake Shore .
Michigan Southern passenger train.
The pioneer express. [volume] (Pembina, Dakota [N.D.]) 1883-1928, 1909-01-01
Shoots sweetheart; Kills Self.

S6o6t6 SWeetneart; Mis- SET.
Washington. Dec. 20. - Lawrence
w. Peters yesterday committed sui
eide after shooting and attempting to
kill his sweetheart, Jennie w. Beau.
dette. The woman probably will re-
cover.
The pioneer express. [volume] (Pembina, Dakota [N.D.]) 1883-1928, 1909-01-01
LOOKS INTO CONTEMPT CASE.
President Orders Attorney General to
Review Courts Decision.

Review Courts Decision.
Washington, Dec. 27.-Letters and
kilograms have begun to pour into
the White House asking President
Roosevelt to intercede in the case of
Gompers, Mitchell and Morrison, who
were sentenced to jail for contempt of
court.
President Roosevelt has decided to
60 over the whole case with Attorney
General Bonaparte for the purpose of
seeing whether the rights of the labor
leaders have been infringed upon in
any way.
The pioneer express. [volume] (Pembina, Dakota [N.D.]) 1883-1928, 1909-01-01
Gold Found In We'll.

Petaloma, CAL, Dec. 27-Excitement
prevails here over the discovery Of
free gold In the sand drawn from an
old well on the premises Of Nordan
Scott.
The pioneer express. [volume] (Pembina, Dakota [N.D.]) 1883-1928, 1909-01-01
is ARMY CADETS DISMISSED.
Nine FIunked in Mathematics and thu
Rest Failed in Discipline.

Highland Falls, N. Y, Dec. 29.-SiM
teen cadets were dismissed from the
United States military academy at
West Point and sent home. Two bel
longed to the first class, six to tho
third and eight to the fourth. Nine
including the two first class men,
were deficient In discipline, and the
others failed in mathematics.
The pioneer express. [volume] (Pembina, Dakota [N.D.]) 1883-1928, 1909-01-01
JewsIry Worth $1,000 stolen

Jewelry Worth 5000 Stolen.
Paris, Dec. 20. = Jewelry to the
value of $4,000 was recently stolen
from Mrs. Ely Patterson, who was for
merly Miss Schmitt Of st. Louis. The
police have made no arrest in connec-
ton with the case.
Evening bulletin. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1895-1912, 1909-08-11
5000 INTRODUCES EDITOR.
CONTINUED from pace ~


". iheh "na' aia you mean by say.
ing 'na' IL was 'he organ? a. We'i'
'ne Nippu JiJi mas written Tor the
higher wage Association but we have
no connection.
" What 10 you call itE n. u IN
ho.'
~ w"eh 'he paper spoke ABOUT IL
sc" 'ha' way now 10 you explain II!
~ u IN just us ! answered
Y. DID you by that statement In.
'e"" 'ne 'up"hese reaqer 10 under
STAND 'nat u was 'he organ OF the
higher wage AssociationY Here Light
1901 objected and wanted the state
'he"t produced that sega might see II.
N"he! passeo !. over nh'ii the paper
eou'o DC 'ouhu.
" HOW IN II that you and Tasaka
are gong WIN Mr.. Maxine on these
Trips down IN the country! A. We
went as 'he'hpers OF the higher wage
'Nss'e'a.'o"'
" ion TWO were only members
o'' 'he o'her TWO were o"icers and
ne'' was !" eo'''''''''ee u, twenty HOW
was u that you went! A. IL was not
$3.50. "''"' "'' S'''e VI '"e co'h'
~ u
"''"" """ ioya'
- o,, a..
Wv. "e name VI .he rest Oh
n ",.. can T.
~ 1'e VIVA. YOU Gun remember
~. ~ were ''e o"'' ones remem'
20 - Va. 49,
,,o.,,o, e Nv, nure .ney were
'"eH"oers' a. DeheVe Qey were