The sun. [volume] (Morris, Stevens County, Minn.) 1882-1895, 1889-01-24
Other News lettings,

Operators on the Chicago & Northwestern
railway are ordered to withdraw from the
telegraphers' brotherhood or quit the rail-
road company's employ.
The court has granted a decree in favor
of the plaintiff in the suit for divorce brought
by Mrs. Boucicault (Agnes Robertson)
against Dion Boucicault, the author and ac-
tor.
A delegation of leading business men, live
stock dealers and packers, started to Chica-
go to resist the effort which is being made
there to induce the railroad companies to
raise the rates from Missouri river points on
dried meats. 1t is believed that Chicago is
demanding restoration of the old discrimi-
nation which diverted packing at the Missouri
river cities.
A volume entitled "Peeps at Our Cousins"
the alleged authoress of which is one of the
q4een's maids of honor, will shortly be pub
lished in New York. The book is said to
treat most infinitely of gossip affecting per-
SONS prominent in London society," Ameri-
cans and others, and the announcement of
its early appearance has raised intense ex-
Gitemenb aL2SEs the denizens of the West
End. -
President Cerbin, of the Read;Rg railroad,
has cabled laconic message to Europe to
the dissatisfied holders of third preference
bonds. They had told him that they would
begin legal proceedings unless they were paid
712 per cent in February, the same as paid
OH the firsts and seconds instead of the 21a
per cent allotted to them. Mr.. Corbn's
cablegram reads: "The state courts of Penn
sylvania are open every day in the year.
| Their esta blishment has been for the adjust
| ment of just such wrongs or rights as you
claim to have. You know your redress, and
if you have any complaint [ advise you to
make it,
The secretary of war transmitted to the
H. e - 4~
| gether with q copy of the second preliminary
| report of the board of engineers appointed
! to examine the distractions to navigation
! in the Columbia river at the Dalles and Celelo
| Falls and at Three and Ten Mile Rapids, and
| to report as to the feasibility and advisability
of overcoming such distinctions by means
! of boat railway at the Dalles and Celelo
! Falls. The board concluded that single
| track portage railway, which is estimated
| to coast $431. 500 and could be constructed
| in one year, would undoubtedly be the cheap
est and quickest solution of existing difficult
tics. The chief engineer agrees with the
| board in these views.
| The December report of the department of
| agriculture makes the product of corn
| 1,9S7.790, 900 bushels, grown on rs, ,672, ,764
| acres, valued on the farm at $677, ,561 $50,
or 81 / cents per bushel. against A a for the
crop Of 1887. p decrease of % per cent, the
product of1s87 being 27 per cent less in vol.
|
of the commercial belt. or seven corn surplus
states averages 382 bushels per acre. The
| wheat aggregate is-414, ,86S, 900 bushels,
grown on 81, 1886, 1873 acres, valued at 1884,
24S,0C0. The average yield is therefore IL. /
bushels per acre; winter wheat 1913 bushels
per acre. The average farm value is 92.6
cents per bushel, against SS.6 cents for the
previous crop, difference due more to foreign
than domestic scarcity. A comparison ol
| aggregate values shows that the present
corn crop is worth $31 100000 more than
the previous one, wheat $74, 100000 more
and oats $5, 100000 less.
The case of Lillian Russell, the actress who
/ refused to wear tights for Manager Duff in
"The QReeps Mate" and afterward engaged
! to appear al the Casino, came up in court at
New York. Manager Duff claimed that Miss
Russell capriciously left him in November
that she was @ drawing card and that hE
could find no one capable of taking her plact
in "The Queens Mate;' that she had engaged
at the Casino, O direct rival of the Standard
and is asked for an injunction to prevent heI
from appearing at the Casino. Miss Russell
said that she was subject to colds, and that
if she appeared in tights 1t would sndangeI
her health. Miss Russell produced adoctoP's
certificate to show how tights endangered
her health Finally the matter was com
! promised by Miss Russell agreeing to give q
bond to pay $4,000 to Manager Duff M
damages. This was satisfactory to every
body, and the temporary injunction was dis
solved.