The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1882-09-08
NEWS OF The WEEK.
AMERICAN ITEMS.
East

il dead
Tug Wilson has returned to England.
Flames swept away 100000 worth OF
property at Haverhill, Mass.
One hundred and eleven Russian ref
ugees were sent back TO Liverpool from
Philadelphia
A mysterious fever is raging among
the operatives of the knitting mills at Little
Falls, n T.
The failure is announced of Il. & III.
Adams. of New York manufacturers of silk
ribbons and MEETINGS
II. Wellenstein sold seat in the New
York Stock Exchange for s32, 900.
The Reading Railroad and Coal Com
panies have executed a Joint mortgage for
sl60 600, 600 TO secure the payment of their
5per cent. consols
The British ship Arbanbahm, of Porto
Rico, with three cases of yellow fever on
board, is at quarantine in Boston harbor
Smallpox has broken out in an cpl
demic form at Paterson, n. j.
Rowell, the pedestrian, landed at New
York from England last week.
The British team of rihemen, headed
by Sir Henry Halford reached New York the
other day and were warmly greeted by the
members Of the American Rifle Association
West.
Richard Weeks, veteran Methodist
of Indianapolis, who for years has been bent
with rheumatism, walked upright into a re-
vival meeting and announced his cure by
faith and amounting of Evangelist Barnes.
A snow-storm ragged for twelve hours
at Leadville, Aug. So-Sl
The Utah Commissioners, in appoint
ing Registers for twenty-four counties, have
selected seven Gentiles, nine apostate Nor
mons and eight Mormons
The Porter Guards, of Memphis, took
the first prize of 81, 900 at the Dubuque mill
tary encampment, and the Branch Guards,
of St Louis, were awarded the second prize,
$500
The Tariff Commission opened bust
ness in Detroit Sept. l. Richard Hawley APP
peared before it to represent that depreci-
alton of 80 per cent. in real estate and in
business in certain portions of the city had
arisen from the termination of the reciproci-
ty treaty Giles b. Stevens argued that the
charcoal furnaces of Michigan would close
if there were any reduction of the duty on
pig-iron
The Hannibal and st. Joe road has
been purchased by the Jay Gould syndicate,
and will hereafter be under the control OF
the Wabash management Tho State of Mis-
souri, is now completely covered by the
Wabash and its branches.
At Mexico, No, George Green, who
had been divorced from his wife, but was
permitted TO see his children occasionally,
had the boy and girl, aged and 2 years, re-
spectively brought to his place OF residence,
where he shot them dead, and, on being
pursued, fired a bullet into his own brain.
Billy Lynn, of Silver Cliff, Col, and
Joe silvers, of Albany, fought prize-tght
in the former city. Silvers was knocked
senseless in the fourth round
Bob Ford, the slayer of Jesse James,
was arrested in Chicago the other day. He
was charged with disorderly conduct, hav-
ing been arrested while creating disturb
ance in concert Two huge pistols
and belt of cartridges were taken from him,
but these things he claimed he had n right
TO wear by virtue of his authority as a United
States detective.
South
The prevalence of yellow fever at
Pensacola has necessitated the transfer of
the garrison of Fort Barancas TO Mobile
The greater part of the business por-
ton of Farmersville, La, was burned The
loss is estimated at $4,000.
Texas dispatches state that the bodies
of nearly two hundred persons drowned dur
ing the recent floods in the vicinity of Fort
Concho have been recovered On one ranch
thirty-one and on another twenty -one per-
sons were drowned. 1t is supposed now that
nearly two hundred persons were drowned.
Yellow fever is spreading to the
ranches above Matamoras, on the Rio
Grande.
Confederate bonds are being pur-
chased by brokers at Richmond, Va, the rate
being $3.50 per 900.
The products of Texas for the year
ending with August have been carefully
computed by q Galveston journal at s97,-
$50, as. Within the same period ,46l miles
OF railroad were built, at an estimated cost
of s45, 520, GOO
Edward Schwerzman, a native of
Switzerland, residing near Paris, Ark, took
his three young children from the supper
table, threw them into a well sixteen feet
deep, and then made the fatal leap himself
His wife lay Ill in bed, but followed In time
TO see the third child thrown in