The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1882-06-02

Senator WINDOWS investigating q

Senator WINDOWS investigating COM
mittee on the Bonded-Spirits bill began its
work by hearing Maj. Thomas, of Louisville.
He stated that the stock Of whisky on hand Is
sufficient for the next four years; that the re-
lief sought by the House bill will save distiilers
from bankruptcy that he has 10, 900 barrels in
bond which he will be happy to sell at cost, and
that more than half the liquor in warehouse
has been hypothecated.
Charles II. Reed went to Boston last
week and applied to Judge Gray, of the SUI
preme Court, for writ of habeas corpus for
Guiteau The Judge answered that he must
wait TO present the case to his associates.
A strike compared to which the labor
demonstrations which have occurred within
the last two months are but ohild's play is
threatened in the iron and steel manufacturing
trades, and there is only too much reason to
believe that the conflict cannot be avoided.
For several weeks there has been an uneasy
feeling in the iron and steel trade, and fears Of
difficulty have been entertained. The Pitts
burgh workmen have been agitating the wages
question, but, after frequent conferences with
their employers, have not yet succeeded in set
Ting it Conferences at Chicago and St Louis be-
tween representatives of the iron trade and Of the
amalgamated workers in iron and steel resulted
in a failure to agree upon the advance Of
wages asked by the workmen, and it looks, at
this writing, as if stupendous strike were in
evitable.
The annual meet of the bicyclists of the
United States took place in Chicago, and passed
of without serious accident. About 400 wheel
men were in attendance
DIR. G.. G. Hoffman, q German jour
nalist of Quincy, ILL.,, was shot three times by
the brothers Hellhake for publishing the at
tempted suicide of their sister.
The Secretary of State has received a
complete vindication of Mr.. John j. Finn, re-
Gently appointed Consul at Chemnitz, Germany.
In the star-route cases, Judge Wylie
overruled the motion to quash the indictments,
and the accused will have to face the music
and stand a trial.
Sixty-one United States Senators have
addressed letter to Senator Ben H. Hill at
the Eureka Springs, Ark, expressive of SYM
pathy and coincidence in his illness and of the
tidings that heis better, and that his physicians
are now hopeful of his entire recovery.
Advices from Sonora represent that
the hostile Apaches pursued by Mexican
troops, are now fleeing In the direction of Arr
Zona-
An immense number of icebergs, some
CT them sixty feet In height, are outside the
harbor Of Halifax. and drifting shoreward.
The steamship Partisan landed at
Montreal 1000 young English farmers who
brought drafts amounting to S750,OOO
As adduced from the exhibit of Clear
ing House exchanges for the past week, the
mercantile condition OF the country is not very
fattering. The depression, which was hereto
fore local in some sections, has made itself felt
in almost all parts of the country, and the out
look is deemed very unfavorable.
One hundred moonlighters surprised
the tenants on the Hewson estate in the
County Kerry, Ireland, and compelled them to
swear that they would not pay rents unless a
reduction of 80 per cent. was made