The Bottineau pioneer. (Bottineau, N.D.) 1885-1895, 1889-01-24
Other News lettings.

Operators on the Chicago & Northwestern
railway are ordered to withdraw from the
te%legraphers' brotherhood or quit the rail
road c%ompany's employ.
The court has granted q 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 Clica-
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 is
demanding a restoration of the old discrimi-
nation which diverted packing at the Missouri
river cities.
A volume entitled "Peeps at Our Cousins"
queens 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
it's early appearance has raised intense ex-
element among the denizens of the West
End.
President Corbin, OF the Reading railroad,
has cabled q 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
~ per CeuJ III eDrudFy, CH6 same as p0lO
on the frsts and seconds, instead of the ga
per cent allotted to them. Mr.. Corbin's
c~ablegram 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
if you have any complaint 1 advise you to
make it,, III. =. ~
The secretary Of war transmitted to the
house a letter from the chief of engineers to.
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 distractions by means
of a boat railway at the Dalles and Celelo
Falls. The board concluded that q single
track portage railway, which is estimated
to coast $431. SOC 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
1887. 700, 900 bushels, grown on II, 672, 764
acres, valued on the farm at $677, 561 $50,
or "a l cents per bushel. against 44.4 for the
product oflss7 being ~ per cent less in vol.
of the commercial belt, or seven corn surplus
states, averages 33.2 bushels per acre. The
wheat aggregate is.414, 1855, 600 bushels,
grown on 81, 1886, 1873 acres, valued al 1884,
24S,0CO. The average yield is therefore Ill
bushels per ncrc; winter wheat 1913 bushels
per acre. The average farm value ia 92.6
cents per bushel, against SS.8 cents for the
previous crop, o difference due moret to foreign
than domestic scarcity. A comparison OF
aggregate values shows that the present
corn crop is worth $31 200, 900 more than
the previous one, wheat $74, OO0, 900 more
and oats 8 5000, 900 less.
The case Of Lillian Russell, the actress who
refused to wear tights for Manager Duff in
1.-THE Queens Mate" and afterward engaged
to appear at 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 be
could find no one capable of taking her place
in 1.-THE Queens Mate;'' that she had engaged
at the Casino, q direct rival OF the STANDARD,
and he asked for an injunction to prevent her
from appearing at the Casino. Miss Russell
said that she was subject to colds, and that
If she appeared in tights it would endanger
her health. Miss Russell produced adoctor's
certificate to show how tights endangered
her health. Finally the matter was com.
4 promised by Miss Russell agreeing t give q
bond TO pay $1,000 to Manager Duff az
damages. This was satisfactory to every
body. aud the temporary injunction was DIS.
solved. 4,