The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1874-12-04

sylyania and Northern Ohio have decided to
close their mills altogether until there is some
improvement in the market The Eastern
manufacturers will still keep some furnaces in
blast, but they also have agreed to reduce pre-
duction very materially. Thousands OF labor
ers in the shops and the mines will be thrown
out Of employment by this action.
The prospect is that the proposed new re-
ciprocity treaty between the United States and
Canada will fail OF ratification. There is bitter
opposition to it on both sides OF the line and
even in Great Britain, where apprehensions
exist that Canada would impose dnerential
duties discriminating against England and in
favor of the United States.
Foreign.
1t is announced from Madrid that the Span
ish government has expressed Willingness
to pay indemnity in the virginius case TO the
United States on the same basis as that with
which Great Britain was satisfied for the out
rage perpetrated on her subjects.
Last weeks Marx Lane Express reports a
general advance in the continental market,
since the previous issue, Of one shilling in
the price OF wheat.
Dispatches from Minister Cushing leave no
doubt of the truth Of the report that the in
demnity demanded by our government from
Spain for outrages committed on American
citizens, is to be referred to the arbitration
provided by the Vrginius protocol.
Buckland and McGahan, correspondents of
the New York Times and Herald, have been
arrested in Spain, and subjected to many in
dignihes.
Won Arnim is no longer kept under police
surveillance by Herr Won Bismarck. The
former still keeps stiff upper lip, however,
refusing to hand over the correspondence
Bismarck 30 much desires to possess.
A bill has been introduced in the italian
Parliament providing for grant Of 100000
annually to Garibaldi.
A frightful mountain disaster is reported at
the great Mount st. Bernard Eleven persons
were buried in snow, and it is supposed all
have persisted.
In response to toast at the annual ban
lister Schenck expressed the belief that En-
gland and America Could, united, withstand
the whole world, il necessary.
The Paris Municipal Council has adopted
the plan proposed by the Project of the Seine
for lottery loan Of "A, 900, 900 francs.
A Havana letter Of Nov. 81 gives discour-
aging account of the financial condition of the
island, which is daily becoming more hope
lessly involved. The government ID owing
everybody and unable to pay even the smallest
debts. The Spanish soldiers are said to be
deserving by the wholesale. At Guasimas, re-
Gently, ninety-seven went over to the insur-
gents in body.
The officers and crew of the Australian cut
ter Lapwing, on late voyage to Nonmea from
New Caledonia, stopped at Santa Cruz Island
for provisions, and the savages massacred all
but one native sailor and destroyed the cut
ter. No names are given.
private letter from st. Pierre Miqualon
gives an account Of terrible tragedy which
night of Nov. Is. The victims were two
families named Morrison, numbering nine
persons, only one Of whom, GIRL escaped
1t seems that of late gangs Of Esquimaux In
dians have been committing robberies at
huts and stores, and that after the capture Of
several of the Indians they were publicly
chastised by whipping. The Indians sought
revenge, and on the night Of 18th visited the
dwelling of the Morrisons, and shot and stabbed
to death eight of the nine persons residing
there. One Indian was also shot
new railroad is projected in the Dominion,
to connect the province of Manitoba wi tn
some point in British Columbia, on the Pacific
coast.