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PARAGRAPHIC NEWS.

Illinois Central will reach Sioux Falls Jan. 1

The Spanish cortes was opened in the presence of the infant king.

Chicago & Central Illinois company have mortgaged the road for $8,000,000.

Southwestern extension of the Milwaukee road is ready for Kansas City business.

Efforts are neing made to secure the reopening of the Inter Ocean at Mandan, D. T.

At Fergus Falls fifty applications on 2.500 acres of indemnity lands have been filed.

The Canadian Pacific will build 4,000 freight cars and 200 locomotives for next season.

Oscar S. Gifford, delegate from Dakota, wife and child, are in Washington at the National.

The St. Joe Kid is en route for Minneapolis, where he hopes to make a match with Killen.

Miss Rose Elizabeth Cleveland will spend the Christmas holidays at the White House.

The Duluth Land and Warehouse company, with $500,000, have filed articles of incorporation.

It is rumored that the Pacific railway commission will present a majority and minority report.

Mr. W. H. Keyser, of Toledo, Ohio, has purchased the Benson County bank at Sauk Rapids, Minn.

Arguments for a change of venue in the case of Warden Stordock were heard at Stillwater Thursday.

Transcontinental roads have succeeded in forming an association to go into effect Jan. 1. Headquarters will be in Denver.

A New York Hereald special says that since the elcetion at Atlanta the negroes therer are acting in a very lawless manner.

John H. Clark and Harry Gilmore have signed articles to spar six rounds Dec. 23 for 75 and 25 per cent. of the receipts and stake of $50.

Governer Church has pardoned John Lacey. The petition for pardon was signed by several governors and prominent statesmen

Col. Cody, "Buffalo Bill," will winter at Manchester, England. He says that he is worth $800,000, most of which is in Western real estate.

The treasury department has received a large quantity of paper money which had been burned almost to cinders ina railroad smashup and conflagration.

Twenty five thousand dollards and suitable grounds have been offered to secure the location of the Methodist Episcopal preparatory school in Watertown, D. T.

The Cheyenne & Burlington branch of the Burlington & Missouri road, which leaves the main line at Holdredge, was completed to Cheyenne, Wyo, Thursday

It is said in New York that Senator Fair will turn over the Nevada bank to a syndicate of Scottish capitalists, who will run it as a legitimate banking institution

The commissioner of agriculture wants congressional action on the scheme of reservoirs among the Rocky Mountains for the storage of vast volumes of water now wasted.

The fishing season has closed at Dulnth. The catch has been particularly good, over 2,000,000 pounds having been marketed. The industry has employed over 200 men.

Benjamin F. Butler Post NO142, G. A. R., of Lowell, held the largest meeting in its history Thursday night to take action with regard to the case of Thomas Callan, arrested in London on suspicion of a dynamite conspiracy.

A large amount of wheat still continues to be marketed by Dakota farmers, leading one to believe the supply almost unlimited The demand for cars is far in excess of the supply, with very slight prospects of any change for the better.

Word was brought to Sioux City that a valuable find of coal has been discovered east of Homer, Dakota county, Nebraska near Sioux City. The vein is said to be four feet thick, and the coal equals Fort Dodge coal. Active operations to mine are to commence.

Indian Inspector Banister, of Washington, visited the agency at Sisseton last week and found things in bad shape, particularly the school. He had some words with the superintendent, Gordon, and was ordered from the building. Serious charges were made against Gordon.

The stocks of oil and whalebone in first hands in this country, as compared with a year ago, are as follows. Dec. 1, 1886, sperm oil, 21,105 barrels: whale, 11,500 barrels; whalebone, 33,600 pounds. Dec. 1, 1887, sperm oil, 17,545 barrels; whale. 33,750 barrels; whalebone, 521,300 pounds.