The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1883-12-06
seret. Mason has entered into q

Sergt. Mason has entered into a
theatrical engagement, and will make the
circuit of the dime museums % the country.
This has been the greatest year
known in the sheep and cattle export trade of
Canada, the sheep shipments alone being 80
per cent. in excess Of any other year.
A midnight fire broke out in a block
of frame buildings at Albany, Wis, and be-
fore the flames were checked the entirs
business portion Of the town was de-
stroyed, entailing loss OF fully 100000.
Edward Dodge was Instantly killed, "a
the result of powder explosion, and SOW
eral were fatally and others seriously
injured. The weather was intensely cold
and the refugees suffered greatly. Other fires
are reported as follows: Evans glass factory,
Pittsburgh, loss S75, 900; Lesh's wheel-rim and
binding factory, Warsaw, Ind, loss $4,000;
four stores at Kerens Tex, loss $4,000; the
Campbell hotel, Nepaull, Ont, loss $50, 900;
IA large portion of the town of Port
Perry, Ont, loss Sl50,000; Woods
hotel, wenona, ILL.,, loss $4,000; State
Normal University, Carbondale, H., 5000, OO0
OHNt Va INC f'u"''s iiuSNhkSs N"ihiss ioSS
SIT, 600; Jacobs store Navasota, Tex, loss
$4,000; eleven stores at Wellington, Kan,
loss 5000; several stores at Troupe, Tex,
loss S20,000; the Lyman-Eliel Drug COM
panys store, Minneapolis, Mimi, loss $780,
600; number of stores at Waverly, Tenn,
loss 100000 several business houses at Rat
Portage Canada, loss $4,000; the Gilman
Terra Gotta Works, Eldora, Iowa, $4,000;
several stores and shops at Leadville, Colo,
loss 1000; four business houses at Am
herst, Mass, loss $4,000; four stores at
Hnlsboro, Tex, loss $4,000; eleven business
houses at Monroe, Wis, loss $4,000.
III. II. Allingham, telegraph oper-
ator at Fort Worth, Tex, and Miss Minnie
Odell, employed in the Western Union office
at ST. John, New Brunswick, have for about
eighteen months been using the wires con-
sideraby in making each others acquaint-
ance. Lately an exchange of pictures took
place, and soon afterward a proposal of mar
riage was sent and accepted over the wires.
They met for the first time in Chicago hotel
one morning last week, and Rev. Mr.. Barrows
made them one.
The Windsor-formerly the Stadt-
theater in the Bowery, New York, was de-
stroyed by fire, together with the block in
which il was situated and buildings in the
rear The fire broke out after the
audience quilted the house so
there were no accidents. The total
loss will approximate 100000. damage
OF $4,000 was incurred by flames in the
Hotel Clifton, at Boston. Stckney's shoe
| factory at Grovcland, Mass, was destroyed
by fire. The greater portion of the town of
! Ocala, Fla, burned, causing loss of
| 100000. Simpsons wooden mills at Salon
vile, Mass. worth $500, 600, were reduced to
ashes Other losses by fire: The Democrat
Office and Davidson's furniture store, La
Sale H., loss 5000 thirty-odd stores at
81. Paris, Ohio, loss sl40,OOO; an elevator
at Leavcnworth, Kan, loss $4,000;
the Times building and four business houses
at San Angela, Tex, loss, $4,000; the Law
renee hotel, at Cape Vincent, ". Y, loss S75-
600; Grays cotton warehouse, Baltimore,
Md, loss, sos, 000; Meyer Brothers drug
store, Kansas City, Mo-, loss, $4,000; ho-
tel and other buildings, at Cortland, N. ",
loss, $4,000.
While attending Thanksgiving SER
vices at the Methodist Episcopal church at
Dixon, H., James l.. Camp died of apoplexy.
| AS the Rev. Warren II. Cudworth was
| leading in payer at a union service of
| Thanks giving in Boston he was seized
with apopleXy and fell dead in the
pulpit. Charles Nickeson, well known
10 horse-breeders throughout the country,
died at Jackson, Mich. Other deaths chron-
! icled are those OF Hon. William L. Greenly, of
Adrian Mich; ex-Gov. William +. Stevenson,
of Virginia; Lieut.. Col. George B. Carse, L. 5.
A., retired: and Prof. Samuel X. Hoshour, A.
NJ, of indianapolis, Ind, who celebrated his
golden wedding in 1876.
Richmond Stuart (colored) was
! hanged for murder at Shreveport, La. He
led in prayer on the scaflold, and proclaimed
West, an 1s-year-old ne FRO, at Isabella Ca.
the rope broke at the fall, causing the cul-
prt TO tumble under the gibbet. After an
hour the youth was again placed on the trap,
and death resulted speedily. Joseph Jewell,
who was executed at San Jose, Cal, muir
dcrel VI. =. Rcnowden To secure s24,O0l.
During November 81, 972, 40 was
coined at the Philadelphia mint.
Last weeks failures numbered 232,
according TO Bradstreets report. The num-
Der is very large, being forty-six in excess of
the record for the same week in 1882, and
seventy-four in excess OF the record for the
CORE spending week in 1881.