The Bottineau pioneer. (Bottineau, N.D.) 1885-1895, 1888-08-30
News in General.

Astrong effort is being made by the bust
ness men OFFICE Lake, Wis, to secure q branch
from the main line of the $500" to that city.
The effort promises to be successful.
The North Dakota Elevator company,
which removed it's general Office from James
neapolis. The principal reason for the
change of base given is the bad passenger
train and mail facilities on the Northern
Pacific road out of Duluth.
George Donovan and Jack Oman, two BAN
tam weights, fought eight bloody and
desperate rounds with skintight gloves in a
barn in West Chester county, New York, for
Donovan out with q r~ight-handed blow
under the ear. About fifty persons were
present.
1t is stated that the promoters of the pro-
posed great lumber combine of Northern
Wisconsin and Minnesota held O private
meeting at the Grand Pacific hotel at Chica-
so. Among those present were F. Weyer-
hauser, of Rock Island; Senator Sabin, F.. N.
Prince and J. c. O'Gorman, of Saltwater;
Searles, of Saltwater. After the conference
broke up the gentlemen were unanimous in
refusing to be interviewed.
Twenty-four wholesale liquor dealers of
st. Louis have formed O corporation to build
q gigantic distillery in that city. The pur-
pose of the organization is to directly OPP
pose the whiskey trust, which has put the
prices of high wines at a figure which the or
ganization claims is altogether too high in
comparison with distilled goods, notably the
Kentucky brands. TIL corporation is CAPT.
talized at $4,000 and it is proposed to
put up a distillery with q capacity of 200
barrels q day. Nearly all the stock has
been taken and there will be violent oppo-
sition to the whiskey trust from now IN.
A rather sensational affair was developed
at Brainerd, Mimi, regarding certain public
accounts and their payment. The city voted
$1,000 to aid in the purchase of fair grounds,
part of which was due TO F. B. Thompson.
The latter was also lately allowed several
hundred dollars by the county commissioners
for-assessing Cass county. Mayor empsted
vetoed the the council donation, and
an INDUCTION was procured against the pay
ment of the assessment advance. Meanwhile
Mr.. Thompson succeeded in getting both &C
counts paid by getting the checks thereof,
which were dated ahead, cashed, and it is
said has gone to the Pacific coast to remain.
The checks were those of ii. j.. Spencer and
Z. M. Westfall, and aggregated $1,000.
Mrs. Christian Keefer and her married
daughter, Lena Withelem, were arrested at
Terre Hante, Ind, by Supt. Stout and Capt.
Murphy. on q charge of defacing and raising
money. The evidence was SO conclusive that
they confessed. They have evidently been at
the business u long time. Their plan was to
get 81 bills, and by cutting the figure off of
the stamp on cigar boxes and FASTING it with
the white of an egg next to the figure 1,
make it appear as q $40 bill. Twenty dollar
bills were raised in this way. Three of these
bogus $40 bills were passed on local mer-
chants, and numerous other attempts were.
Mrs. Keefer admitted that she practiced the
same work at Chicago. They were held to
await the action of the United States com-
missioner. The penalty is $1,000 fine and
fifteen years at hard labor.
Receiver Weller, of the defunct Commercial
National bank, now estimates the assets of
the concern at $25O,O 0 and it's liabilities at
$45O:OO0. When the bank failed the assets
pronounced by Examiner Stone to be NOM
inally $64O, 900 and it's liability to depositors
$517 900. Both sums, he said, would be
largely reduced by rediscounts. A dividend
of 30 per cent was paid q short time since
and an assessment of 100 per cent was made
on the stockholders. TIL latter will contest
this assessment on the ground that q few
months before they paid a similar assessment
by order of the controller. Receiver Weller
announces that he will enter suit against all
stockholders who fail to pay the assessment
by Aug. Is. The directors against whom
civil action is likely to be taken are Gen.
Booth, Frank D. Stout, William Andrew and
John r. Walter. 80