The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1873-10-10

with whom he was playing.
A dispatch from Portland, Oregon, says
work on tho Northern Pacific railroad is not
suspended. 1t is expected that cars will be
running to Tacoma this autumn.
The Union National (Coolbaugh's) Bank, of
Chicago. has gone into voluntary liquidation,
and is paving all its creditors dollar for dol
lar.
The State Constitutional Commission of
Michigan has voted to incorporate in the or
ganc law of the State clause forbidding rail-
road companies to issue free passes to any
persons except employees of their own or other
lines. and making violation of this law IA mis-
demeanor.
The shipment of lumber from the Saginaw
river of Michigan to date are 401, 16S, 600 feet,
against 349, 600, 900 feet for the same time last
year.
The Valley Iron Company, the heaviest mai
manufacturing firm in the Mahoning Valley of
Ohio, has suspended. Other firms, it is feared,
will have to follow.
The Indians of Kansas are again becoming
troublesome
Ex-Secretary of the Interior Jacob d. Cox
Nus Decn elecltu lIesluenJ OF inc lOlcuO, wa
bash aud Western railroad.
The United States Signal Station on the
summit of Pixies Peak has been completed.
An observer will remain there all winter, and
important cientitc disclosures are expected.
James Allen and Charles Edwards, of
Houghton, Mich, recently settled quarrel
by duel, posting themselves in opposite cor
ners of a billiard-room. Three shots were
fired Edwards was unframed but his adj
versary received a bullet in his back and one
in his BRAIN from the effects of which he died.
The receipts of livestock at the Chicago
Stock Yaads for the month of September were
as follows: Receipts-Cattle, 1894; hogs,
299, 512; sheep, 1874. Shipments Cattle,
44,3O1; hogs, 191, 241 sheep, 1875.
California shipped to Great Britain, during
September, Coz, 696 centals Of wheat, amount
ing to II, 2S92S0.
The Supreme Court of Illinois has confirmed
the constitutionality of the new liquor law of
the State.
Forty thousand people visited the Indian
apolis Exposition in one day, recently
The Chicago police made a raid on the low
variety theaters of that city, the other night
closed them up captured all the inmates, 1G5
in number, and marched them to the calaboose
An immense multitude, variously estimated
at from &C, 900 to 20, 900, assembled at Lansing,
Mich, on the I'd inst, to witness the cere-
monies of laying the cornerstone of the new
State-House.
The Cheyenne Indians in Colorado are
Strengthening the cattle of the settlers by the
4 la
These Indians say the white men killed the
buffalo last winter, and let them rot on the
plains, and now they are going to kill all the
cattle of the whites There is great excitement,
and the whites are organizing for defense.
The statement of the Union National (Cool-
baughs) Bank of Chicago Gin lquidation), lisa
most gratifying one to its creditors. Their
total assets are $3,46S, 5O4.94; liabilities,
So 203 $4,000; excess of assets, II, 265. 1882.
Over Sl6, 600, 900 in currency was received at
Chicago by express between the 25th of Sep
TENDER and ID of October.
The new Michigan State House will be one
of the finest public edifces in the country.
An unsophistcated gentleman mailing from
New York city was swindled out Of 900 in
Chicago, last week, by two gamblers
The Chicago Board of Trade gave 81 900 to
the Shreveport sufferers.
The amount of bullion received at San Fran
cisco from the mines during the past quarter
was nearly SO 0O0, 900, and for the last nine
months S24 ZOO, 600.
A little boy by the name Jacob Stripe. whose
parents reside at Van Vert, Ohio. the other
day vomited up garter snake eighteen inches
long and half an inch thick.
The Cincinnati Exposition proved brilliant
success The total number of admissions WAS
sos, 900.
Near Schuyler, Neb., few days ago,
young wretch named Fahey murdered his
father by beating his brains out with the butt
of gum and knocked his sister senseless,
leaving her for dead. The murderer was ar
rested.
The st. Joseph (Mo.) Gazette has been sold
at auction to Joseph A. Corby for $500
The South.
The last rail on the Cairo, Arkansas and
Texas railroad has been laid and through
trains now run from Cairo to Texarkana, on
the eastern border of Texas.
The New Orleans Pcdyltne estimates the
cotton crop at not less than 4, 900 600 bales
The first Ku-Klux trial before the North
Carolina State Courts has just come of at
Raleigh, n. c., and resulted in the conviction
of three persuasive white and one c0ored
of murder in the first degree. They were
sentenced to be hung on the 18th of November.
j. A. Stephens, cashier of the st. Louis
Mutual Life Insurance Company, has de-
camped with &c, 500 OF the institutions funds
The cotton crop of the Rio GIande valley
has been seriously damaged by floods.
The report, started by Mexican paper, that
armed United States soldiers had made all
other raid into Mexico, is untrue.
Yellow fever il raging as badly as ever at
Shreveport, La, and Memphis Tenn. At the
former place the scourge is abated, if at all,
only by the frightful depopulation it has
already caused. The citizens of Memphis
have issued an appeal for aid, addressed to
the whole country, and begging for the coop
Grafton Of the mayors of the various cities to
secure it. Money is most needed to buy food,
bury the dead, and shelter the orphans.
The town of Lampasas, Texas, was recently
inundated by the overflow of a creek which
runs through the village. Twenty houses, in
Guiding the postoffice and several stores, to-