The Northern Pacific farmer. [volume] (Wadena, Minn.) 1878-1885, 1881-08-18
CURRENT NEWS.
RAILROADS.


The Chicago, st. Paul, Minneapolis Omaha
trains now run into Minneapolis.
The contract for the bridging, piling, truss
va Valley l. Lake Superior railroad and Red
Cedar branch to Red Cedar Falls, has been let
to G. G. Smith Of La Crosse.
correspondent asks sundry questions re-
garding cheap rates from Boston, the answers
to which are a. follows: The cheap-rate tickets
from Boston hold good only for few hours
after the passenger arrives in Chicago. No
road but the Grand Trunk is now selling round
trip tickets. The roads do not touch At Mag
ara. No stop over tickets are ISSUED.
The Burnett. Wis, County Sentinel says:
I'VE understand that there is q surveying party
between Pine City and the st. Croix river run
from St. Cloud to Pine city, This is party
sent out by the st. Paul l. Manitoba road, who
wish to put q road through to the Sault Ste.
Marie. It is also reported that the contracts
have been let for grading part of the distance
between st. Cloud and Pine City.
RECORD OF CRIME.
It is reported that Parker, the Adirondack
guide, who was shot while resisting arrest is
dead.
Charles W. Curry killed Nathan Prettyman
at St Louis because he would not let Curry
have his daughter.
Isom and Perry, the Perryville Ark muir
$4,000 and So, 900 bail respectively.
Mrs. Frank Smith Crocker of Milwaukee.
is under bonds for attempting to blackmail
Mrs Frank Crosby, q niece Of Alexander
Mitchell
The New York grand jury have indicted
Elizabeth Coleman for murder in the first de-
gree, for shooting George Coles, at Harry Min
ers theater
At Martinique, on the 18th Of July, mob Of
the leading physicion, and severely wounded
him, robbed the mayor and committed other
depredations.
The little town of Scituate, r. l., is all tore
up over the destruction of q house and barn
belonging to DR.. William Bowen, a temperance
agitator Of that section, through the agency of
an internal machine.
Mrs frankie Smith Crocker, the slick talker
from milwaukee,. who supported the fraudu-
lent claim of MRS. Harris" to the authorship
of Rutlege in st. Paul. is in the tolls of the red
eyed law in the Cream City on a charge Of
blackmail.
Two gendarmes from Italy, who have arrived
in New York for the purpose Of identifying the
bandit Esposito, went to Ludlow street jail
prisoner from line Of twenty four others in
which he was placed
The latest report of the Apache atrocity is
the most terrible yet, A Los Vegas New Mex
ioo) telegram says that they swooped down on
Mexican village near Rio Purco, and MUIR
dered twenty seven out of the twenty nine in
habitants of the place. The i'll fated town was
a typical frontier settlement of the Mexican
variety, situated on the Atlantic 4 Pacific rail-
road The inhabitants were indolently loll-
ing about, wholly unprepared for an attack.
g. Il. Long and G. A. Howard, president and
treasurer of the Alliance Insurance company at
Boston, were arrested and admitted in S., 900
bail each on the charge Of embezzlement The
Alliance company, after suspending operations
about two years ago, reorganized and proceed
ed to reinsure former risks and bid for new
business. The insurance commissioner ap-
piled for an Injunction to restrain the company
from transacting business on the ground Of in
solvehcy. An investigation of the books by an
expert showed deficiency of $11 200 within
six months. Hence the arrests.