The Wahpeton times., 1889-01-24
Other News Jottinss.

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 O decree in favor
of the plaintiff in the suit for divorce brought
by Mrs. Boucicault (Agnes Robertson)
against Dion Boucicault, the author and &C.
tor.
A delegation of leading business men, live
stock dealers and packers, started to Chica-
go to resist the effort which ia being made
there to induce the railroad companies to
raise the rates from Missouri river points on
dried meats. 1t is believed that Chicago ia
demanding restoration of the old discrimi.
nation which diverted packing ut the Missouri
river cities.
A volume entitled "Peeps ut Our Cousins I"
the alleged authOress of which, is one of the
queens maids of honor, will shortly be pub.
llshed in New York. The book is said to
treat most infinitely of gossip affecting per-
SONS prominent in London society, Amcri.
cans and Others, and the announcement of
Its early appearance has raised intense ex.
citement among the denizens of the West
End.
President Corbin, of the Reading railroad.
has cabled laconic message to Europe to
bonds. They had told him that they would
begin legal proceedings unless they were paid
7h per cent in February, the same ms paid
on the firsts and seconds. instead of the 2h
per. cent allotted to them. Mr.. Corbin's 8
cablegram reads: "The state courts OF Penn.
sylvania are open every day in the year.
Their establishment has been for the adjust
ment of just such wrongs or rights as YOU
claim to have. You know your redress, and
ii you have any complaint advise you to
make it,
Ine secretary of war transmitted to the
house letter from the chief of engineers to.
getller with copy of the second preliminary
report OF the board of engineers appointed
to examine tho distinctions to navigation
IN the Columbia riverat the Dalles and Celelo
Falls and at Three and Ten Mile Rapids. and
to report as to the feasibility and advisability
o. overcoming such distractions by means
OF boat railway at the Dalles and Celelo
Falls. The board concluded that single
track portage railway, which is estimated
to coast $i3l. 800 and could be constructed
in one year, would undoubtedly be the cheap.
est and quickest solution of existing difficult
ties. The chief engineer agrees with the
board in these views.
The December report of the department of
agriculture makes the product of corn
l,9S7.19O, 600 bushels grown on Is, ,672, ,7G4
acres, valued on the farm at $677, ,561 $50,
or 34 cents per bushel, against A. for the
crop OF 1887; decrease of % per cent, the
VA .SoS OtiuS per CeIlU leES Ill Vol.
ume than that of 1888. The average yield
OF the commercial belt. or seven corn surplus
states, averages 1872 bushels per acre. The
wheat aggregate is.414 ,S6S, 900 bushels,
grown on 81, 1886, 1888 acres, valued al 1884,
24S,OCO. The average yield is therefore IL L
bushels per acre; winter wheat 1O.3 bushels
per acre. The average farm value ia 90 6
cents per bushel, against SS.6 cents for the
previous crop, adherence due more to foreign
than domestic scarcity. A comparison OF
aggregate values shows that the present
corn crop is worth $31 900 900 more than
the previous one, wheat $74, 100000 more
and oats S5,00o,O0O less.
The case Of Lillian Russell, the actress who
refused to wear tights for Manager Duff in
The Queens Mate' and afterward engaged
to appear ut 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 md that he
could lind no one capable of taking her place
in The Queens Mate;' that she had engaged
at the Casino, a direct rival of the Standard,
and ne asked for IN injunction to prevent her
from appearing at the Casino. Miss Russell
SAID that she was subject to colds, and that
It she appeared in tights it would endanger
her health. Miss Russell produced doctors
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 rs
damages. This was satisfactory to every
BODY. and the temporary injunction was dis