The true northerner., 1883-01-05
LATER NEWS ITEMS

The Friend building mt Milwaukee,
the largest mercantile block In that city,
was swept away by fire. The total loss is
$500, 600, most of which was sustained by
Friend Brothers, although the stocks of
Landauer 4 Co. and Straw, Ellsworth a Co
suffered TO degree not exceeding 5 per
cent OF their value.
A race riot at Oconee, Ga., resulted
in the killing of several white men
Blu ord Smith colored man, who
killed Charles Kenser, was taken from Jail
at Tazewell Court House, Va, and riddled
with bullets
Dave Roberts, a negro, charged with
cotton stealing and murderous assault, was
taken from the Abbeville o. c. Jail by mob
and lynched
The total number of immigrants
landed at Castle Garden last year was more
than 473, 600. The total number landed up to
noon Dec, 81 Is 473, 642, an increase of B., 59S
over the figures of last year, when Al ,044
were landed Germany furnishes the largest
number of immigrants. The books of the
department show that, for the first ten
months of the year, the arrivals from that
country were 1766S5; from Ireland, 4S, 734
from Sweden, 39,5sl from England, 80, $50;
from Italy, $3.50; and from Russia, Is, l37.
Last year Germany supplied 195, ,54 immi-
grants; Ireland, q, ri England, 81, 1868; and
Italy, 1903.
In announcing an increase of 1,645
failures this year over the last, Bradstreets
calls attention TO the fact that they largely
occurred since September, while trade was
being readjusted to lower range of prices
T. is announced, from what is believed
to be reliable quarters, that Vanderbilt has
made another grand combination of rail-
roads in opposition to Gould's Wabash sys-
tenn The scheme is said to involve the
consolidation Of the Cleveland, Columbus,
Cincinnati and Indianapolis, the Vandalia,
the Terre Haute, the "Nickel-Plate," and the
Central and Hudson roads in one great sys-
TEN, giving another controlling line from
New York to St Louis
Some one in Bosten audience made
jeering remark while the Ford brothers
were exhibiting themselves, and the Mis-
sourians sprang from the platform with
their revolvers and made for the center of
the hall. The spectators disappeared like q
flash, and the Fords were arrested by a stall
wart policeman.
A vast concourse witnessed the in
auguration of Grover Cleveland as Governor
of New York, after which public reception
was held ut the Capitol
W. II. Bulkeley, Republican candidate
for Governor of Connecticut at the late
election, positively refuses to accept office
through the reversal of Democratic ballots
in New Haven.
Josephine Meeker, the survivor of
the bloody Ute butchery at the White River
Agency, Colo, died in Washington, where
she had an official position
The only sister of Nathaniel Haw-
thorne died at Beverly, Mass, aged so years
Breaker No. 10, of the Pennsylvania
Coal Company near Pittsburgh, burned,
causing loss of $4,000
The term of Mayor Galley, of Salem,
Mass, expired, and he celebrated the event
by committing suicide by hanging
Herr Tisza, the Hungarian Premier,
does not apprehend any disturbance of the
peace of Europe, and says the Austrian en-
pire will seek allies for the preservation of
peace.
A London trade journal states No. 2
American red winter wheat will be the
worlds standard this year, and intimates that
British millers, for the present at least, are
independent of American supplies
Baltimore reported seventy-six deaths
from smallpox in one week
During 1882 Peoria's production of
whisky amounted to l., 600 600 gallons
Mrs. Stillwell, now dying of con-
sumption at Mount Vernon, Ohio, confessed
having poisoned her first husband, Benjamin
Swigert at Marysville, Mo, and a stranger,
and having strangled her daughter at Rulo,
Neb., beside making three attempts to kill
her present husband, Jay v StillwelL
How India Rubber Ii Adulterated.