The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1883-09-20
LATER NEWS ITEMS.

ne Agricultural 5epartnenb Oh
Illinois reports the wheat crop the smallest
recorded for the past twenty-five seasons,
while the price at harvest time has only
been higher twice in ten years. The As
SCISSORS report 7,30i,503 acres planted to
corn and the crop is from ten to twenty days
late in maturing.
A Tombstone despatch reports that
eight Apaches appeared ut Antelope
Springs, Arizona, mounted on barebacked
horses, and killed George Ward Twenty
armed citizens of Tombstone went in pur-
suit of the savages Col. Terrazas, of the
Mexican army, was organizing n force to
pursue the hostiles TO the mountains
Two Mormon elders, engaged iu
preaching near LAUREL, Ind, abducted the
young daughter of man who had enter
tanned them, and baptized her into their
church. She could hardly be persuaded to
return TO her family. over leo citizens took
the elders TO the woods ut midnight and
coated them with tar and feathers, threat
ening them with lynching if they did not
leave at once.
Judge Edgarton has decided, at
Yankton, that the Dakota Capital Commits
sion is not u legal organization.
Washington officials decided not to
send a search-and- aid party this winter to
the Greedy expedition, and the men will be
compelled to subsist as best they can until
the middle of next summer. Many are dis
posed to think, with Simon Cameron, that if
the North pole was discovered we would
not know what to do with it Some Of
Lieut.. Garlington's friends are disposed to
think that his critics have been unnecessari-
ly and unwarrantedly severe on him They
express confidence that 4 full knowledge of
all the facts in his case will vindicate his
course.
The Directors of the Exchange Bank
of Montreal held meeting the other night
and resolved to go into liquidation imme-
diately, to meet the demands of bankers
holding temporary loans The Dominion
Government has a deposit of s75O,OOC
Prof. Swift, Director of Warner OBJ
servatory, at Rochester, is reported to have
discovered a comet in the constellation
Draco.
For a purse of $1,000, to beat the
record of 2:14, jay Eye-Sec, at Narragansett
Park, Providence, trotted the mile in 2:10}(.
He showed no signs of distress at the
finish.
William Rockafellers team, Cleora
and Independence, are reported to have
made Il record on the Charter Oak Park
track at Hartford, CT
tinue in parts of Hungary.
Many lives were lost in consequence
of the floods which prevail in some portions
OF Italy.
The first long electric tramway in
the world has just been opened in Ireland,
TO run from Portrush to the Giants cause
way.
The nice little story about Mary An
derson snubbing the Prince of Wales was
manufactured from whole cloth
Seven Chinese gunboats are anchored
near the English and French men Of war at
Canton Placards have heen posted threat
ening to destroy the property of Europ cans
should the Government pay indemnity for
losses By the recent riot
An active autumn campaign is antici-
pated for England and Ireland. The ex-
IRENE radicals are preparing to contest all
the great boroughs in England at the next
election and the Parnelltes are stumping
Ireland with view of returning enough
Home Rulers to enable Parne to hold the
balance and dictate his own terms.
A cable dispatch denies the reported
illness Of Michael Davitt.
Tilden's next yacht trip will be
southwark. 1t is said that h. intends to 90
as far us Rio Janeiro