The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1877-05-04

Co., hat jobbers, New York, have gone under
liabilities. 100000.
Financial irregularities" S. f. swartz,
chief clerk of the Pension Agent at San Fran
cisco, has defaulted and absconded.--Dr. L. Il.
Baird, Secretary of the Southern Presbyterian
Committee of Publication, is short in his ac-
counts to the amount of $4,000, and has re-
signed.--A. @. jackson. late Receiver Of Taxes
for Camden, N. j., Is derelict to the extent of
s47, 900, which he promises to make good.
Gen. Ord, United States military commander
II Texas, has ordered detachment of troops
to Laredo, Texas on the Rio Grande. The
affair has created considerable excitement on
the frontier, the feeling in Mexico being that
1t is demonstration ON the part Of the United
States military authorities in favor of ex-
President Lerdo as against Diaz.
Both Gems. Sherman and Sheridan express
the opinion that the country has seen the last
serious Indian war.
Gen. Sherman says that American officers de-
sirous of visiting the seat of war in Europe can
only obtain leave of absence on half-pay if at
all, and that they will be debarred from engag-
ing temporarily with either army.
The Board of Indian Commissioners have
just made public thdir eighth annual report.
1t reviews what has been done under the peace
system, and deprecates the want of good faith
of the Government in its treatment of the
Indians. 1t concludes with the following
recommendations Immediate compliance on
the part Of the Government with the terms
of the existing treaties with all Indians ;
appropriations for consolidating the agencies ;
generous appropriation for educational pur-
poses discontinuance of tribal relations; ex-
tension of the law for the protection of life
and property allotments of land establish
ment of industrial and agricultural boarding
schools, the compelling the attendance Of all
between and IS years the issue Of supplies
to be made to heads Of families increased sal
aries to Indian Agents.
The Canadians want Queen Victoria declared
Empress of Canada on the 10th anniversary
of her coronation, June 20. nl
A fearful catastrophe occurred at Montreal,
Canada, afew mornings since. The dismantled
walls of large factory building which had
taken fire a short time before, and upon which
the firemen were working, suddenly tottered
and fell outward with an awful crash, burying
the lower buildings adjoining in the ruins and
overwhelming large number of people in the
appalling shower Of red-hot bricks. Nine men
were killed outright, and ten were wounded in
various degrees of severity.
A Toronto dispatch says the "crop prospects
throughout Canada were never better. The
wheat has wintered well. and the early spring
is enabling the farmers to get their spring
wheat and other crops into the ground much
earlier than usual
We learn from the New York papers that the
famous Stevens battery has been purchased
by the Russian Government. The price paid
is understood to be 100000. The original
cost was thrice that sum.
A ridiculously absurd report is telegraphed
from Washington to the effect that the COM
mand of the Turkish armies has been rendered
to Gen. Grant.
There is a general protest in Alaska against
the proposed withdrawal Of the troops. Grave
approximations are felt that serious difficulties
will arise between the Indians and resident
whites. The former are said TO be very turbu-
lent and rapacious when not restrained by the
presence of soldiers.
The horrors Of the Ashtabua bridge disaster
are again revived by the annual report of the
Lake Shore and Michigan Southern Railroad
Company. This report informs us that there
were 159 persons on the train, of whom SO were
killed outright, died subsequently of their
injuries, and CO were injured in various degrees
Of severity, while out of the entire 159 only s
escaped uninjured. The report disclaims any
responsibility on the part of the company for
the accident.