The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1883-02-23
WESTERN.

ODtClul CuSIOllS u5tIiJS VI SulChSO
went to st. Louis and forced prominent
business house in that city TO pay 81, 600 for
duties and penalties on goods brought from
Paris. Several private parties also settled
accounts on Struggled iewelry and clothing.
Dispatches from the overfiowed dis
tricts along the Ohio river on the 10th inst.
state that "the flood at Cincinnati reached it's
highest stage at o'clock yesterday morn
ing, when it stood siXty-six feet and four
inches Contributions OF $4,000 were re-
ceived from various cities, and the life
saving crew of Cleveland arrived with its
apparatus The Mayors of Jacksonville and
New Albany sent dispatches to all the
chief cities, asking for aid for the sufferers
Fire-damp or sewer gas caused an explosion
in a house at Cincinnati, SCATTERING the
structure, killing three persons, and wound
ing many others. The rivers are rising at
Pittsburgh and Louisville, and the Wabash,
Muskingum and Licking are adding their
quota TO the inundation. Jacksonville and
New Albany Ind. are entirely surrounded
and Marietta and GAINESVILLE are also flooded"
Isaac Knapp, who was sent to the
olhO lOI llc,
secured a pardon by false representations
as TO his health. He was speedily rearrested
and instituted habeas corpus proceedings
The State Supreme Court decided that it
could not inquire into the validity of the
pardon, and Knapp was discharged
Cincinnati dispatches of Feb. II re-
port a comforting condition of affairs con
he,
waters. New Albany was in sore Distress
and a special committee had appealed for re-
lief. Along the Ohio southward many
small towns were partly submerged The
sudden thaw raised the rivers generally in
the Northwest, and gorges caused the
wrecking of bridges, two being destroyed at
Joliet, and sections of the town inundated
Similar accidents occurred at other Illinois
towns, and railroad tracks washed out
The Hon. Stephen Hampstead, the
last Democratic Governor of Iowa, died at
Dubuque of heart disease
Four residents Mt Massillon, Ohio,
have brought suits against that city for
that the culverts were permitted to fill up
with rubbish
An ice-gorge in the Maumee river, at
Toledo, broke few nights ago, and precip-
itated IA great rush of water down the
stream. Five bridges were swept away, and
the total loss of property by the food is
estimated at sl,O00,000 At Cincinnati
several inches, and business was being re-
sumed. The houseless ones at New Albany
were suffering greatly by the cold snap,
and the condition of the city was deplor-
able At Louisville the falling of the river
occasioned general gladness, and no
disasters had occurred The loss by
the flood at Lawrenceburg, Ind, was esti-
mated at more than $500, 600, and at equally
as high figure at Jeffersonville The dam
age by the waters along the Ohio, between
Cairo and Pittsburgh, will not fall far short
of sl0,OOO,OO0
The report of the Union Pacific rail-
way for 1893! shows gross earnings of
$50, 1863, 925, an increase of $500 93l The ex-
penses decreased s75o,7S making the sur
plus sl4,3Ol ,97z
DIR. II. j. Glenn, the largest wheat.
grower in California, who was once the
Democratic nominee for Governor, was
fatally shot by his bookkeeper II Miller,
who had been discharged
Freight trains on the Baltimore and
Ohio road collded in Nichols tunnel, near
Bellaire, and the blunder of dispatcher sent
third train crashing into the wreck. The
engineer. fireman and brakeman of one train
were instantly killed
Another failure in the iron trade oc-
CURED at Chicago last week The house of
J. " Ayers Sons, dealers in merchant iron.
and as well known throughout the country
as any firm or corporation in that line of bust
ness, and at the same time one of the oldest
in the West, suspended payments.
The Northwestern Dairymen's Asso-
citation, which met in Mankato Mimi. last
week, closed its proceedings Saturday by
the passage of resolution calling upon
Congress TO at once enact effective and
stringent laws and make an ample appro-
priation TO stamp out as soon as possible.
every trace of pleuro- pneumonia, and, by
rigid system of quarantine, render its i'm
portation impossible.