The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1882-12-01
LATER NEWS ITEMS.

The aggregate clearings reported
from twenty-five Gle ring houses or tae
week ending Nov % reached the stupendous
sum of 81 ,55i, 799,93S This was an in ,rsase
of more than $50, 0O0, 00O over the p ev Qua
week, nd has rarely. ii ever, been equaled
in the history OF the American financial
world
Fourteen lives were lost by the sink
ing of the r ench steamer Cambronne, in
the English Channel
Fourteen persons were killed and
many wounded by the fall of a train
through a bridge ut Fyvie, Scotland
Neubouer & Sons. wholesale cloth
ing-dealers at Milwaukee, have made an az
Segment TO yer abilities of nearly $780,
0O0 They have been some what crippled
since the outbreak of the panic in 1878
Their assets are believed to lie about $780,
000
Frank James was arraigned at Kansas
O,ty on two indie ment'; one for omplic-
ity in the bank-robbery at Independence in
1869 and the o her for the murder OF Detec-
tive Witcher in 1874. He pt eadrd not gui ty'
for trial Jan %, 1888.
An assignment has been made by the
H. A. It's 4 Sons Manufacturing Comp ny,
who's. threshing m ichna work are at Mar
selles, Ill but whose office is in Chicago
The assets of the ncern are nominally
sc, 900, and the Liabilities $3.50, 1851 This
is another instance of financial sire g
iv IJy oHc int ha airia ~ af.
VIII ch cut off collections
In Paris Gambetta shot himself in
the hand while toying with revolver
A mob made an assault on the hospi-
tai at Dub in in which Dolan. who killed
Detective Cox, was under treatment, but
decamped upon the appearance of large
force of pol oe 1t is thought they Intended
to remove Dolan
Dennis Field, one of the jurors who
convicted Hynes of murder, for which he
was hanged at Limerick, was stabbed to
death in Dublin. A baiitf named Mallon was
stabbed in the head, and received a serious
wound
A Paris telegram s. ates that Nj. l. on
Gambetta shot himself in the hand while
handling a revolver carelessly. American
methods seem to be making their way in
France.
A letter from ex-Attorney General
MacVeagh, written in Nov mber of last year
to President Arthur, detailing his connec-
ton with the star-route cases, is made pub
lie He gives statements of conversations
with President Garfield on the subject, ex-
plains the manner in which legal talent was
retained, and, fin ling that Garfield's death
was imminent, avows that his action was
planned so as not to embarrass the govern
ment OF President Arthur, of whose policy
or intentions on the question at issue he had
no knowledge.
Engineer Melville, Of Jeanette fame,
intimates ha he will brig vorce suit
against his wife in the Philadel hia courts
next March.
lie Moyne's crematory at Washing
ton, Pa, was rst put in use s years ago
and has served TO reiuc. fifteen bodies to
ashes The last o'pss pac in The furnace
was that Of L Ehrhart, all az d physician of
Al!eg eny City, VINO lett request TO be Gre
mated
Colgate Hoyt, of New York, has been
appointed by Pr sid INT Arthur Government
Dir ctor of the Union Pacific railroad, vice
Spencer, rem wed
Aven Pearson, of Chicago, was APP
pointed Superintendent of the Congressional!
Record, to succeed He m, removed
Gen. Henry l.. Hazen, Chief of the
Signal Service, pr diets thai the coming
winter will be a mild one. II g prediction is
based upon n thor gh examination of all
indications in possession of the signal office.
Mr.. Hazen, in maxim this prediction, dsre-
CARDS the assertion f meteoroogists that
cool summer if invariably followed by a cold
and stol my winter.