The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1874-05-01
NEWS OF THE WEEK.
The East.


district Of Pennsylvania. A body of striking
miners attacked party of swedes who re-
fused 90 join the workingmen's League,
Pistols, knives, clubs and stones were used
with terrible effect. About Is Swedes were
seriously injured, some of them fatally, and
several Of the rioters were fearfully bruised.
Two men were killed outright, two fatally
injured and four seriously hurt, by the fall of
building in Brooklyn, the other day.
The New York Cremation Society had an
other meeting few evenings ago, about fifty
persons, including one woman, being present.
The Committee on Organization reported,
recommending the incorporation of a stock
company as the most feasible means Of OBJ
tanning the desired end.
The Stevens House. new nine-story hotel
in New York, has been suddenly deserted on
account Of the bullying of the walls. Huge
timbers are now braced against the building
to keep it from tumbling down.
A dispatch from Pittsburgh says that "an-
other great industrial strike is going on in the
oil regions, caused by the very low price of
petroleum. Most of the oil producers of the
region have combined for the purpose of sus-
pending operations until scarcity Of the ar
ticle enhances it's price"
The West.
The temperance excitement in Oshkosh,
Wis, rose to fever heat a few nights ago. The
Common Council met to decide the question of
license or no license, and at the same time the
ladies of the Temperance Uuion held meet
ing to pray for the Common Council. While
the ladies were praying, some one cut the gas
main, leaving the room in total darkness. The
Common Council listened to speech by Mrs.
Henry Lines on the part of the ladies, and
long argument of Aid. Doe against licenses.
The question finally passed, by a vote Of II
for licenses and against.
The orders for the abatement of saloons de-
clared nuisances in Des Moines, Ia, have
been placed In the Sheriff s hands. The Sher-
iff is ordered to sbate the nuisance by eIclud-
ing the person from carrying the business
found to be nuisance, and, if necessary, in
order to abate the nuisance, the Sheriff is
further ordered to lock up said building and
keep it locked.
Track-laying on the Des Mones and Mime
sofa narrow-gauge railroad is going for
day The managers expect to have the
road completed to Ames, Iowa, by the
4th of July. Six hundred tons of iron are
now en- route, and arrangements have been
made for the purchase of another passenger
engine, to cost 100000.
The Iowa Seed Commissioners have bought
az st. Paul. 1000 bushels Of potatoes and
6,000 bushels of corn for the Northwestern
settlers. AS the State appropriation is limited
to seed, many settlers will need aid in other
ways to carry them through to harvest.
The following is an abstract Of the summa-
ries and estimates of the National Crop Re
porter Of the 9th of April The area planted
in Irish potatoes last year in the State Of Hi
nois Indiana, Iowa, Kansas, Minnesota, Mis-
sour, Ohio. and Wisconsin was, in round
numbers, 554, 900 acres, the average percent
age of increase upon which is estimated at
nearly per cent, or about 2S, 600 acres. Cor
respondents in Minnesota, Iowa, and Wiscon-
sin estimate the probable increase in the area
of barley to be Clio per cent. as compared
with last year, The average condition of
swine April 1, in tho eight States named
above, shows very low rate as compared
with the condition at the same date last year,
representing the latter at 1000, the average
for the eight stand fraction less than 81.
None of the states report over 80, and Mis-
souri, returns 67. The average prices Of lead
ing articles are as follows: Wheat, s1.l7
corn, 55c oats, ACC; hay, 1927 swine, S4,66
potatoes, SLIP.
A census of St. Louis taken by the School
ages of and 81 in that city to be l3S, l31,
giving population Of about 435,O
The Globe Theater, in Chicago, was re
Gently destroyed by fire.
A very important decision has been rem
dered by Judge Blodgett, of the United States
Circuit Court, at Chicago, involving the right
of wives and daughters Of bankrupts tohola
property against the claims OF creditors. The
assignee of bankrupt had seized all the
assets he could find, among which were sew
eral articles claimed by the bankrupts wife
and daughter as having been earned by them
as agents or clerks of the bankrupt. The
Court decided that the claim of the petition
ers was legal, and ordered the assignee to
restore the property to their possession.
The whisky traffic has been banished from
Dwight, III.
Six students of Ann Arbor (iich.) Uniyer-
sity have been suspended for "ha2ing."
The old man and woman arrested some
time ago in the mountains of Utah on sus-
picion Of being Bender, the Kansas miscreant,
and his partner in sin, have arrived at Topeka,
Kan, and been fully identified as the Cherry
Vale butcher. The son and daughter are
still at large.
Tho South.
The Mayor of New Orleans, in dispatch to
the st. Louis Chamber OF Commerce, states
that the number OF people in Louisiana al
ready partially or totally ruined by the floods
is 25. geo. ana that the continued high water
will increase the number to $4,000.
OF the LOG estimates of the cotton crop Of
1873, opened at the Memphis Cotton Ex-
change. the highest was 4,2s7,613; lowest
1891, 036; average, 4,132, 1872.
Washington.
A Washington telegram announces that at
caucus composed of the leading Republican