Jamestown weekly alert. [volume] (Jamestown, Stutsman County, D.T. [N.D.]) 1882-1925, 1883-10-19
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WASHINGTON, Oct. IVA numbei o
the pioneers from the Pacific coast cal:et
to pay their respects to the president to
day, They we're presented by E. J
Curtis, of Idaho.
VANDALIA, ILL.,, Oct. ia passenger
train going east jumped tho track at Ha
gcrs.ewn killing the fireman and wound
ing the engineer. A defective spring wa'
the cause of the accident.
PHILADELPHIA, Oct. 1J-In the House
of Bishops to-day Bishop Clarkson ol
Nebraska ordered the presentation ol
his resignation as bishop of the jurisdlc.
tion Of Dakota. The reason for tins ac-
lion is that Dakota was yesterday divided
into North and South Dakota, the title ol
Bishop Star being now that of South
Dakota.
P1rTsBuRa, Pa, Oct. 16-ltobert Nor.
rison, Esq, intercolonial claim agent, re.
ported by some of our papers as having
left the city rather uncerenoniCusly about
ten days ago, leaving number Of per-
sons mourning the loss Of amounts vary
ing from 81 to IL 200, returned to-day and
will enter suit against the various papers
for libel.
WHEELING. w. Va, Oct. ia viii
lainous attempt was made tonight on
the Pittsburg & st. Louis railroad to
wreck the passenger train at Glen Run,
seven miles above this city. A rail was
tied across the track. There IS stretch
of track at this point level and stright
aud good time Is always made. The train
was running at the rate of sixty miles an
hour, and when the engine struck the
obstruction it jumped into the air but
fortunately kept the rails. The rear cars
broke the rail and the train passed unIn-
jured. If the train had been thrown of
the track it would have plunged into the
Ohio river over an embankment as the
track is very narrow at this point and
great loss of life would have ensued.
LAFAYETTE, lad, Oct. 16-NellIng has
confessed to having murdered Ada At
kins near Oxford, Benton county, twenty
miles west of this city. He SAID that
while working in the orchard and know.
ing Ada was alone in the house he was
seized by an unsuitable impulse or mania
10 murder, that he choked her into insc1-
sibil,ty and in the murder frenzy cut her
with his knife. He says he went down
stairs and out to the milk house and
washed his bloody hands and threw the
water on the grass. He denies that he
outraged her person and sel:mnly asserts
that he had no ,nfederates in the crime.
He makes the confession freely without
reservation and without hope of mercy.
There is great excitement about Fowler
and Oxford and lynching IS threatened.
FARGO, Oct. l6-Word has reached here
that the business men of st. Paul and
Minneapolis recently held . meeting re-
garding the completion Of the Fargo
Southern branch from Fargo TO Oron.
vile, and they decided that this couple
tic n would be inimlcal to their interests
as 1t would afford rail connection from
Fargo to the south and west without go
ing through It. Paul. The proposition
having been made to the Chicago, Mil
waukce g. St. Paul railroad to build this
connection at the meeting referred To
which General Manager 3. 8. Merrill at
tended it is said the st. Panl and Mime
apolis merchants threatened the Milwau-
kee road with withdrawal Of their
patronage If they helped the new enter
prise rs proposed. Merrill's answer is
not yet made public. 1t is also said that
these men are also endsavoring to make
the Manitoba and Northern Pacific roads
recede from their agreement about carry
ing supplies for the new road. The Fargo
Southern declares this remonstrance
comes to late to injurc them aad the road
will be built just The same as though
nothing had been done by the St.
Paulites.
NEW York, Oct. l6- Gsvernment's
easier on realizati0ns. Railways weak in
with the decline in the stock
market. state securities dull. The
bears renewed their assaults in the stock
market to-day. In the early transactions
Northern Pacsic was singled cut and
declined IA aud 81 per cent. to 251 and
5eh respectively, Oregon Trsnscontl-
mental on the ether hand was compare.
lively steady on the publication of Endi-
colts report which shows that Oregon
still holds in its treasury
the amount of stock which the annual
issue of June 80 calls for, namely, l62, 792
shares, Northern Pacific Isl, 300, pre-
ferred and l2s. 535 Oregon River s. Nsvl-
CATION which stock ranged between Az
and 43 nearly all morning.
The general list was fairly we'll sus-
tanned IN the carly hours aud some shares
improved u to per cent. In this ad-
vance Vanderbilts were conspicuous.
The bears however near midday made
vigorous attack on Oregon Transcontl-
mental, forcing the stock to 80. After
this various stocks were singled out for
attack, notably Changers, Lsckawanns,
Erie, Louisville s. Nashville, Central Pa.
cific, Wabash and Texas Pacific. North
western dropped from l2O to ll7sss, ank
preferred from 1885, te l36. st. Paul
from 80 to 9414. Omaha from 341aa to 81
preferred from 9434 to 92h. Erie from
29Ls to 271a. Louisville & Nashville from
All to 4511. Central Pacific from 6455s
to 81. Wabash from 10 to l71S, preferred
from 3l1i to 80, and Texas Pacific from
2l1S to 1934. Oregon Transcontinentsl
also sold down to the lowest of the day
331s. Near the close there was rally Of
u to 2 per cent, latter in Central Pacific
Ia the final transactions another drive
was made on active ste< Ks and the mar
ket closed weak.
1t was rumorcd to-day that change
in the presidency of the Northern Pacific
was imminent, alse thai the second mort
gage loan had not been placed, both the
rumors are pronounced abeurd by the
members of the bond syndicate. The
rumor that Willard was about to resign
the presidency is indignantly denied by
himself and and most intimate friends
who state that Willard has not sold his
Oregon Transcentinenial and Northern
Pacific steck. 1t was reported that =
prominent broker had transferred nearly
~, 600 shares of Northwestern common
into his name during the past few days
and was buying stock to-day and the
same broker was heavy seller of st.
Paul. There was sharp squeeze in
Northern Pacific preferred to day which
lent at 1-l6 and per cent per diem for
use, while at one time there was differ
ence of IA to Il per cent between cash
and regular stocx. Otegon NavlGatiOn