The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1883-07-27
LATER NEWS ITEMS.

The ravages of the cholera in Egypt
are spreading TO an alarming degree. At
Cairo, between the hours of 8 a IN. and
p m of July %, there were 4Sl deaths from
the disease There were in the same period
thirty three at Mansourah, ninety three at
Shirbin, and over 100 deaths i'm other Egyp-
tian towns All efforts to confine the plague
have so far proved unavailing. All bust
ness and agriculture are suspended. The
Sanitary Commission has decided that all
passengers must undergo a medical examin-
alton before leaving Egypt. The disease is
very sudden in it's effects People frequently
fall dead in the streets The epidemic is
spreading northward as well as southwark
Europeans at Alexandria have made the
unpleasant discovery that the drinking
water canal connects in the cemetery with
the place where corpses are washed
Iwakura, the second officer of the
Japanese empire, is dead He was noted for
his efforts in introducing Western civiliza-
ton into his country, and was greatly in
struEnental in opening intercourse with the
United States and European nations
The international rife match at VIM
bledon, England, resulted in the defeat of
the American team sent over from New
York. The grand total was 1851
for the British team and 1906 for
the Americans. The Lord Mayor of
London entertained the visitors The
shoot was finished in n pouring rain. The
Irioh rifemen were victorious in the shoot
for the Elcho shield, defeating their English
and Scotch competitors
Chief Justice Waite has arrived at
Toledo, Ohio. He is still suffering from the
injuries received in his recent accident
Since March 1, Chicago packers have
slaughtered and sailed / ,030, 600 hogs, being
$4,000 less than during the corresponding
period last year.
Oscar Wilde is wandering about Lon
don dressed in the style Of George w.
The Hon. James Nj. Priest. Associate
Justice Of the Supreme Court of Liberia, is
Chsad He was a native of kentucky, and
went to Liberia in 1885, and had many re-
sponsible and important positions in that
republic.
There is great distress among the
Irish laborers in London Many of them
are refused employment at the wharves
and docks. There is a dead-set made against
men of Irish nationality at the east end of
London, where the IRISH have hitherto been
preferred Now English, Scotch, and for
i eigners are chosen, except where necessity
compels employers to engage the Irish.
This is supposed TO be from the dread of
dynamite, with which the extreme men
have threatened 10 destroy English ship
ping. pta
The Shamrock dub, of Montreal, de-
feated the Torontos in three games of
lacrosse, thus retaining the champion belt
The Surgeon General of the Marine
Hospital Service Mt Washington has inform
alton that cholera exists at Campeache and
Oaxaoa, Mexico.
Paupers are now being promptly re-
turned to the countries whence they have
come Eight were sent back from New
York
At meeting of Cuban patriots in
New York, Gen Bonachea and others urged
that every means be taken to assist in free
ing Cuba from the Spanish yoke.
A. G. Bell is declared by the Patent
Office to have been the original Inventor of
the telephone, as against all others of the
many distinguished electricians whose
names have since become familiar to the
public through the greatest discovery of the
decade,
A fire at Little Falls, n. Y, de-
stroyed the factory of West & Co. and the
-four and feed store of W. II. Waters, caus-
ing loss of $4,000 The planing-mill Of
Barber & Henderson, at Montgomery, Pa,
worth s35, 600, was burned