The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1883-05-11

The Supreme Court of the United
States has rendered o decision in the case
against the Chicago, Burlington and Quincy
railroad, known as the Ruggles suit, the gist
OF the decision being that the State of Illinois
has right to fix maximum charges for The
conveyance of freight and passengers
The millers won two notable victories
in the Supreme Court, the Deuchfeld and
Downton pa.en suits having been decided
in favor of the defendants The royalty
sought to be recovered under the Deuch-
field patent for cooling and drying meal
amounted to 81, CO.,, 000, while the Downton
patent for manufacturing middling flour
was estimated to be worth 81, 100000
The Supreme Court denied the pc
and Virginia bond cases
Official dispatches received by the
Board of Agriculture give the following as
the total probabilities chat is, acreage and
condition combined) for winter and spring
wheat In the following States: Kansas, 93;
Minnesota, rs; Indiana, 20; Iowa, about so;
California 81; Michigan, Ga; Ohio, So; Illinois,
other data Secretary Chamberlain, of Ohio.
estimates probable total shortage of 1OO.-
0Oo 600 bushels from the last crop of 500
Coz, coo bushels
The Lieutenant Governor of Nova
Scotia has received q letter cautioning him
against two vessels said to have sailed from
Boston to Halifax, manned by Fenians and
carrying large quantity of torpedoes, with
the intention of avenging upon the Nova
Scotians the execution of Brady, the con-
demned Phoenix Park assassin. Precautions
have been taken to guard against the menac-
ing danger
In the trial of Kelley, ut Dublin,
James Carey, the informer, swore that every
one of the Invincibles, with the exception of
Joe Brady, had offered to turn informer
Carey said he was the last man who offered
to testify against the prisoners
Instead of the pensions which it was
proposed to bestow upon Gen. Wolseley and
Admiral Seymour, payable also to their heirs
after the death of the pensioners, it has
been decided by the British Government to
give each large sum of money in one pay
ment, the amount of which has not yet been
determined
The London Times, in referring to
the vote by which the Affirmation bill was
defeated, says: .The authority and power
of the Government have received a shock
This without doubt, the Ministers will rec
ognize themselves The spell of their sue
cess is broken"
An attachment taken by the Govern
ment upon property of Capt Howgate.
the embezzling officer of the signal service,
has been adjudged void because of the neg
ligence of the Government attorneys in fail
ing to have the attachment recorded
The motion for new trial of the
libel suit of DR.. Mclean against the Detroit
Evening Nc,os in which the plaintiff was
awarded $50, 600 damages has been denied
The Chicago City Council put an end
to all hope of the adoption of an under
ground telegraph system in that city by
passing the ordinance allowing the District
Telegraph Company to erect iron poles and
string cables upon them. The ordinance
went through by vote of 90 to II.
The wife of Senator James G.. Fair,
of Nevada, has begun suit for divorce on
the ground of adultery on the part Of the
Senator 1t is the common belief on the
Comstock that Fair will not fight the suit,
but that it has been arranged that decree
shall be granted, the plaintiff to receive
s3,ooo,oo in cash and 81, SEQ, 600 in real es-
tate.
John Callahan filled his 3-year-old
boy full of whisky at Woburn, Mass, and,
when the child refused to drink more, the
father threw it in his face The little fellow
died in commissions