The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1884-07-31
WESTERN.

Creditors are asking the appointment
of q receiver for the st. Louis Ore and Steel
Company, Ethan A. Hitchcock, Oliver +.
Garrison, and Charles L. Chouteau being
named for the position. The company has a
capital stock of s5,OOO,O 900, and was formed
during the boom of 1881 By the consolidation
of four concerns. There IS So GOO, 900 bonded
Indebtedness and $500, 900 of floating paper.
A special train carrying delegations
of veterans 10 the encampment at Mnneapo-
lis ran from Chicago to Milwaukee in two
hours.
Fire at North Muskegon, Mich, de-
stroyed half a dozen business places and Of
fees and 200, 900 Hath. The loss is about
$4,000.
A hail-storm devastated q section
near Huron, d. T., resulting in damage to
crops estimated at $4,000
w. b. Dickson & Co., lumber dealers
at indianapolis, have made an assignment,
owing $4,000.
Judge Blodgett, of Chicago, has de-
cided that foreign corporations doing busi-
A natural gas deposit was struck at
Frankfort, ID. T., at depth of eighty-fve
feet. when lighted, explosions followed
which shook all the buildings in the place.
The dry-good house of Wear, Boog
her & Co., of st. Louis, has made an assign
ment 10 Nathan Cole. The liabilities are
believed to be about $3.50 200, and the as
sets are reported at 100000. The largest
home creditor rs the ST. Louis National Bank
which holds $3.50 in paper. Nest of the
indebtedness is in New York and Boston.
On judgments aggregating $45,-
457.s0, a Deputy Sheriff, in Chicago, seized
the extensive cigar factory of Louis Cohn &
Son, Nos Is to 81 Wabash avenue. The lia-
bilties will probably reach 100000.
A recent examination of the payroll
of the Chicago, Milwaukee and st. Paul Rail-
road shows that that corporation employs
about 2s,O 900 persons
A tree, overturned 10y storm, fell
upon dancing pavilion at Broad Ripple,
Ind, which sheltered number of picnickers.
A dozen persons were injured, some seri-
ously.
Three children of Joseph Ashley, of
Suamico, Wis, went out to pick berries, and
were drowned while bathing in the river.
A party of masked citizens of Sa-
bina, Ohio, drove the inmates of brothel
into the street, and blew up the house with
giant powder. The keeper of another disor-
derly place was taken from bed, given
coat Of tar and feathers and warned 10 leave
town.
An inventory of the estate of the late
Cyrus II. Mccormick shows stocks and bonds
aggrcgating $1,000 OOo, an interest of sl,s7O,-
900 In the Harvester Company, and real es-
tate producing an income of SIPS, 1876, besides
vast amounts of other property.
III. ii. Young, statistical agent for
Minnesota, estimates the wheat yield OF the
State at "a, 100000 bushels.
Lafayette Huff, of Oxford, Ohio, has
received $1,000 from the Pan Handle Road for
injuries inaicted by election from one o. its
trains.
Lucy Hughes. of Muncie, Ind, 10
years of age made nearly successful at
tempt to strangle herself with her garter be-
cause her mother punished her for neglect
ing the baby.
In the Ohio Valley the drought has
resulted in serious losses TO farmers, who are
on the alert to prevent their parched fields
taking fire. Hay is SIS a ton and advancing,
tobacco Is badly injured, and corn is threat
ened.
The Health Department of Chicago
has received warning that a physician of