The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1883-09-27
LATER NEWS ITEMS.


Prof. Nordenskiold states that DR..
Nathorst. while travelling inland last July,
was told by an Esquimau interpreter that
fifteen Esuuimaux told him that the COM
inander of the American expedition, whose
name they pronounced @Kasleyh," and
another member of the party were dead,
and that the rest Of the explorers had re-
turned southwark on sledges
Rev. DIR. +. +. Hatfield, who was
Moderator of the last Presbyterian Assembly,
died the other day in New York.
While six men were timbering the
Woodward mine shaft at Kingston, Pa,
heavy block of timber fell on the platform
supporting them, and four of the men
tumbled sixty feet TO the bottom and were
drowned. The other two saved their lives
by hanging to beam until rescued
4 correspondent who recently visited
Kelley's Island, reports that the grippe crop
this year will be nearly as bad failure as
that of 1875.
The administrators of seven of the
girls who were rosted alive in the rag ware
house at Cincinnati have filed suits for
$40, 600 each against the owners of the build
ing, alleging that they knew the danger and
neglected to provide exits
Five men were killed by the explos-
ion Of q steamboat boiler at Shreveport,
La
Fire destroyed the Oxmoor iron fur
naces at Birmingham, Ala, causing a loss of
100000
Miss Sallie Johnson, handsome
Baltimore girl, hanged herself on the stair
case by rope, from grief at the insanity of
companion.
Col. r. s. Strader, leading horse
man of Lexington, KY, had an affray with
a colored employee, killing him with a shot
gun
A cable dispatch says that France,
on the China question, is torn up. NJ Fer
~ has the portfolio, but it is generally un-
derstood that the French Cabinet will have
to settle the Tonquin question before the
Chamber meets, or the Chamber will settle
the Cabinet Ferry's proposition is that the
zone belimited to narrow belt between the
Chine frontier and the Red river, but the
Chinese insist that the zone shall include the
whole delta of the river, and also that the
Government shall be admin istered by them.
They are willing to open the river, however,
to general European traffic Lord Granville
favors the Chinese proposals, and, In the
event Of arbitration, it Is thought that Ferry
will try to Join Russia with England in me-
dating with Pekin.
The Irish National League is arrang-
ing for a series of mass meetings in the
United States, to be adore sed by John
Redmond and others.
Vienna dispatches accuse Russia of
massing troops and making m litary prep
arations along the German and Austrian
frontiers H. Is stated that all the Russian
railways have been ordered to have military
cars i'm readiness, and that the Black sea
Captains have been instructed to hold them
selves prepared to transport ammunition
and arms to any port directed. Enormous
provision depots. it is said, are beng estab-
lished along the frontier.
John Bigelow, ex-Minister to France
In war times, was interviewed az Chicago
He believes Blaine, Conkling and Arthur
can settle their differences satisfactorily,
with the result Of the reelection Of Arthur.
Mr. Bigelow states that Tilden told him six
weeks ago that If every man, woman and
child in America thus including Ruther-
ford B. Hayes were to sign petition that
he should run for President he would still
refuse.
The ships Pauline and Shirley, which
smiled from New York on Nov 10 and March
slast, respectively, al c now given up as lost
The new Brooks comet is rapidly ap-
preaching the earth and sun, and will be
visible to the naked eye before Christmas