The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1881-01-28
MISCELLANEOUS GLEANINGS.

The thirteenth annual convention OF
the National Woman Suffrage Association was
held in Washington last week
In small town in Nova Scotia one
family lost eight children by diphtheria within
a week.
The arrangements for the consolida-
ton of the three leading telegraph companies
have been ratified by the Board OF Directors,
but the stockholders will not act on the matter
until next month. The new stock will be dis
trlbuted on the basis of 1873 for Western Union,
$50 for American Union and GO for Atlantic and
Pacific. The capital Of the consolidation is to
be $50, 100000.
Gen. Grant is to be President of the
Nicaraguan Canal Company and Senior Msrtias
Romero, ex-Minister of Mexico to the United
States, il to be Secretary. Efforts will he
made to secure the necessary Congressional ac-
ton on the measure before the close Of the
present session.
Some enterprising capitalists of Mon
treal have conceived a project for making a
railway tunnel under the Falls OF Niagara.
A Bolivian representative is on his
way to the United States to negotiate treaty
| OF commerce and secure loan Of $4,000 600 at
any sacrifice.
John Gallagher, of Syracuse, leader
in the Fenian organization, states that another
raid on Canada is contemplated.
The twenty-four hours ending Sun
day. Jan. 90, was one of unusually widespread
meteorological violence, as shown by the tele-
graphic reports from the various sections of
the country. In New York a heavy gale, ac-
companied by sleet which froze as it fell, set
in and lasted an entire day, doing immense
amount of damage. All the telegraph. tele-
phone, and tire-alarm wires were thrown down
by the accumuations Of ice, and the
city was conn letely cut off from tele-
graphic communication with the world
Messages were received and carried by mes
sengers to Jersey City AID other surrounding
points. Business was almost suspended, espe-
cially in grain and stock, owing to the inability
to get market advices. Mounted fremen pa
trolled the streets TO give alarms Of fire. Five
thousand trees i'll Central Park were ruined,
and much damage done to cornices, CHM
neys, ETC., and number of persons were seri-
ously injured by being hit by falling pieces of
ice. Throughout large portion of New En-
gland there was heavy storm of alternating
rain and SNOW, amounting in the aggregate to
about twenty-five inches in depth, and travel
was largely blocked. Ii was accompanied by
gale of forty miles an hour In the region
of which Chicago forms the center, snow fell
to the depth of about nine inches. Snow slides
at Custer and Bonanza, Idaho, swept off seven
teen persons, oil but four of whom were res
cued. There were from twelve TO twenty
inches of snow at Helena, Montana, and con-
siderable losses of stock are reported. The
storm was quite general throughout Ne
braska. and serious effects upon cat
tie in the grazing regions are feared.
At Watertown, in Northern New York, the snow
was from two to four feet deep. Snow fell
steadily in New Orleans for eight hours, melt
ing rapidly away. There were SNOW drifts
thirty feet high in the vicinity of Kingston,
Ont.
According to the Census Bureau, S.
653 500 worth of A. Al aud 5-per-cent. bonds
are owned in Chicago. New York owns s176,-
724 $50 Philadelphia 1916, 457, 45O, Boston S19, =
95S. 95O San Francisco SIC, 3l2, 450, Washington
S11, OS4, $50, while Allegheny. Pa. with a popu-
latien Of only 70, $751; owns $40, 225.050.
Mount Baker, in British Columbia. is
IN state of active eruption.
The officers of the Western Union
Telegraph Company say that the consolidation
will not be followed by an advance in rates,
except in a few suburban points where the
facilities are not adequate.