The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1884-02-07
LATER NEWS ITEMS.

Az OAoOhAyH, Az. l., AAoi huioch
skated twenty-five miles in hour 81 min
utes aud II seconds, beating all previous
records.
Frederick l.. Ames is q director IN
ffty-two railway companies, Jay Gould in
twentyfour, and Hugh j. Jewett In twenty
Ex-senator Dorsey, being interviewed
at Washington as to President Arthur's
chances for the Republican nomination at
Chicago, said that nine-tenths of the peo-
pie were against him (Arthur). and that his
chances of nomination were no better than
his (Dorsey's) own.
Farmers in the vicinity of Shabbona,
H., find IA ready market for seed corn at
from So to SO per bushel.
Well-borers near Urbana, H., struck
a gas vein at depth of eighty feet, which
can be heard roaring at n distance of two
miles.
The Secretary of the Illinois Board
of Charities has been collecting Autographs
from theatrical companies, with which TO
amuse the insane patients.
A negro, named Sandy Robinson,
was lynched in Leon county, Tex, for the
murder of Deputy Sheriff Lathrop.
Stages running each way between
Whitesboro and Gainesville, Tex, were
robbed by three men, who secured $500.
At Lancaster, Tex, Robert Halsh,
a maniac, who had been kept confined at his
brothers house for six years, escaped from
his room, secured knife i'm the kitchen, and
after u desperate conflict killed his brother
and made for the woods.
Washington dispatch: "The Randall
men are not pleased that Mr.. Morrison has
so nearly completed his tariff measure, and
that there is probability that the subject will
soon come up for discussion The Morrison
bill will provide for general reduction OF
20 per cent. but the silk and liquor sched-
ules viii not be changed"
Mr.. Denny, American consul Gen
eral at Shanghai is said 10 have received
peremptory orders from Washington to rent
an Office building owned by George II. Sew
ard, at an extravaganza price, and i'm conse-
quence rendered his resignation and came
home. Representative Springer threatens to
introduce Il resolution calling for all the pa
pers In connection with the case
Capt. Austin, an American marks
man. Is giving exhibitions of his skill in Great
Britain. At Leicester he twice shot u potato
from the head of his daughter, but at the
third attempt the ball plowed the scalp and
he was placed in arrest.
The chambers of agriculture in sew
eral counties of England have requested that
the importation of cattle be restricted, In
order to prevent the spread of disease.
Gallmeyer, the singer, who has just
died at Vienna, left a will directing that her
body be dissccted I'm the death chamber and
then consigned to Il pauper's common grave
like that of bcggar. She wished that there
should be no flowers, no service, and no
coffin.
William Meagle, witness in the
Phoenix park trials at Dublin, complains of
constant persecution and assaults ut the
hands of sympathizers with the assassins of
Cavendish and Burke.
A recent dispatch from Tombstone,
Arizona, says: "A messenger has just ar
rived from Oposura, Sonora, and reports
that the Apaches are numbering and ravag.
ing that section. Four men have been killed
since Jan. rs. The savages are thought to
be portion OF Geronimos band, for whom
Capt Rafferty,, with troops, is on the look
out