grand boom for this town?

Mills & McWilliams have a carload of Nebraska shelled corn for sale at 50¢ a bushel(evidently for seed). They are presently paying these prices: corn-~30¢, wheat--75¢ barley--28¢ and $1.25 for flax.

Ringling Brothers gave Ossian a kind of entertainment a week or so ago.

Father Tierney read this year's Lenten services in both English and German.

R. N. Sawyer has opened farm implement outlets in Decorah, Fort Atkinson, Waucoma, West Union, Maynard, Clermont, Postville and Monona.

J. H. Keller is about to accommodate Ossian's visitors with another hotel. He expects to be ready for customers in about a week.

The town's officers elected in 1884 were: James Malloy, mayor; G. J. Mills, recorder; Ole Thompson, treasurer; John Warner, street commissioner; David Weitgenant, assessor; and Geo. McWilliams and P. H. Mills , councilmen.

The teachers from Military twp. attending institute in 1884 were: Christina Halvorson, Emla Omlie, Dilia McMillan, Elma Nicholson, J. D. Thomas, Abe Nicholson, Mida Oxley, Emma Lefever, Julia Murray, Minnie and Cora Cornell.

The Ossian gun club competed in a match shoot at Decorah. Clay pigeons, live pigeons and glass balls were used as targets. The club issues a challenge to any club within fifty miles for a match shoot. They have already defeated Cresco on -two occasions.

The final survey of the B. GR. & N. RR has been completed through town. The cracks cross the C. M. & St. P. line 50 rods east of town and continue north of this line through Ossian, turning north about 1 1/2- miles west through Mr. Burdick's property.

The Ossian Beacon is no more. It seems strange that this town with all of its business is unable to support, a mewspaper.

THE GREAT RAILROAD WAR

The town of Ossian was the scene of exciting events last Friday. Early in the Morning Roadmaster Tim Ahern appeared on the ground, backed by a gang of laborers, and armed with a supply of railroad iron, ties, picks, shovels, and other tools necessary to track laying. He began laying a second switch on the north side of -.he main track through the village. The villagers looked on with great surprise, at first. For nearly a score of years the trackage of the road has been ample for -.he business of the station. Even when the wheat trade was at its height there was no felt-need for additional side-tracks. The necessity, now that business has :ondensed itself into smaller bulk and larger values, could not be appreciated by these villagers; and they soon jumped to the conclusion that instead of being a measure of necessity, it was one of obstruction, growing out of the probable building of another road into the town. Their anger was soon aroused because theoper-acions trenched upon and threatened to destroy one of their principal thoroughfares. They believed the Milwaukee company employees were intruders upon public rights; and they rallied to the defense of the latter.

That it was not an honest track which was being laid they thought they saw in its very character. No road bed was made; the ties were placed upon the surface, and iron spread thereon regardless of the inequalities of the ground; inequalities so serious that a train of cars could not be safely run over it, after it was laid. It was clear the endeavor was to get possession, and then stand upon the fact that 'possession was nine points of the law.'

The anger of citizens once aroused grew to a white heat very quickly. High words ensued, fists were brandished, but fortunately no blow was struck. What legal measures could be taken to prevent? This was the question. An injunction could not be secured. The judge was distant, and possession would be obtained in = few hours. School Superintendent Murphy had been looking up the question, and ne met the crisis by filing a complaint with the mayor against Roadmaster Ahern, and the whole party for obstructing a public street of the corporation.

Warrants were issued, and a posse of the oldest and most conservative citizens