The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1883-07-13

front Of the platform and receive . round
OF cheers Bishop Coke, Of Buffalo spoke
on national topics and was followed by
Senators Aldrich and Blair A poem written
for the occasion by John @. Whittier was
read by Clarence Bowen Nearly 8, 0OOpersons
assembled at the cemetery on the farm of the
late Gov. Williams of Indiana, to witness the
unwilling of q suitable monument All the
State officers were present, and addresses
were delivered by OK Senator Mcdonald and
Senators Voorhees, and Harrison At Erie,
Pa, Albert Kuhn and several COM
panions, who were somewhat intoxicated,
fired from the windows of Q street-car in
which they were riding. Mary Steiner, who
was on the sidewalk, was shot through the
heart, and Kuhn was arrested for murder
Two hours later Kuhn's brother was found
In a cellar, where he had hanged himself
Prince l. Moody, of Streator, ILL.,,
after assisting TO fire a cannon, early We'd
nesday morning, sat in widow to get
cooled, and fell asleep. His wife called out
to him in warning, and he awoke so sud
denly as to fall into the street and break his
neck While 1000 citizens of Goodland,
lad, stood in the park listening to the
Fourth of July Grafton, liberty pole beside
them was shivered to fragments by light
ming, but no one was injured
Hon David Davis presided over an
old fashioned celebration at Bloomington,
Ill where John H. Oberly was the orator of
the day. Michael Davitt addressed mass
meeting at Innishowen in celebration OF the
anniversary of American independence The
people of Portland, Me-, celebrated the
250th anniversary of its settlement
by dedicating monument and placing me-
mortal tablets at various historic spots
H. H. Ludlum made balloon ascension at
Montrose, Pa At the height of forty feet
the trapeze rope caught on a tree, and the
aeronaut was hurled to the ground fractur-
ing his skull The feature of the celebra-
tfon at Quincy, ILL., was the unwilling of
bronze statue of the late Gov. John Wood,
the first white settler of that city. Ex-
Senator OglesDy delivered the Grafton. In
New York the Continental Guards Of
Charleston helped the veterans of 1912 to
raise the stars and stripes at the Battery.
The cadets of the Military Institute of Vir-
ginia were received by President Arthur at
the Fifth Avenue Hotel, and returned flag
captured from the One Hundred and Sixty
fourth New York regiment
Catholic Archbishop Purcell, aged
So; Episcopal Bishop Pinckney, of the
Diocese of Maryland; and Catholic Bishop
McMullen, of the Davenport Qowa) Diocese,
died on the morning of the 4th of July,
within an hour or two Of each other.
Bradstreet's Agency estimates the
total wheat crop of 1888 at 443, 3GO, 600 BUSH
els, nearly 81 100000 less than the yield Of
1882 as figuredby the Washington authorities.
Volcanic eruptions and earthquakes
are of frequent occurrence in the Central
American republics, in some instances
whole villages being destroyed Fine sand
in heated state being vomited forth at Rio
Sucio, while subterranean noise, as of boil
ing water was heard AT Turby the earth
emitted water, which flooded the streets to
the depth of two feet. An upheaval closed
the mouth of the river Leon, and in some
sections the tremors of the earth are so fire.
quent that the inhabitants are leaving in
numbers
Recent rains in Mexico damaged the
Central railroad to the amount of $500, 600,
and delayed for six weeks the completion Of
the track TO Aqua Calientes