The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1884-12-25

A fire on Water street, New York,
destroyed property belonging to Weston s.
Fiske and Owen Byrne, valued ut $4,000.
A banking house in New York took
81, 6OO,0 600 o per cent bonds of the Rock Island
road, to run fifty years, at figure above 1o3.
Meredith II. Kidd, of the Eleventh
Indiana District, will contest the seat of
Geo. w. Steele in the next Congress- This
IL the only contest so far OF which formal
notice has been given at Washington.
At meeting of Democratic Con-
gressmen from Indiana in Washington 1t
was agreed that Indiana ought to be given
place in MIR. C.eveland's Cabinet, and that
ex-senator Mcdonald was u suitable person
to represent the State.
A fire at Baltimore destroyed the ex-
tensive oyster-packing establishment of II.
J. MoGrath & Co. and damaged that of I. ID.
scholl g. Co., the total loss being $4,000.
A large iron hotel in process OF
erection near the Ex position buildings at New
Orleans fell Lurying three workmen, one of
whom was taken out dead.
Six masked robbers broke into the
uOust Ol NJ VhCciuBs
w. Va, tied and beat Mr.. workenour and
his wife, and got away with $1,000.
Bishop William +. Dickerson, col
ored, of the African N. Il. Church, died ut
Columbia, S. G.
The trouble between Samuel Mullen,
chief of the installation department of the
Worlds Exposition, at New Orleans, and the
exhibitors has been settled TO the satisfac-
ton of the exhibitors. The board of man
agemcnt appointed a committee to investi
cato all complaints against the installation
department, and where there Is a real griev-
ance to report Immediately TO the manage
ment, whicn guarantees prompt remedy.
The Exhibitors Association unanimously ao-
cepted this arrangement,
1t is reported that the President-elect
has selected Senator Garland for Attorney
General and William c. whitney for Score
tary OF the Interior.
Another attempt is reported upon
the life of the Gar. Nihilists loosened the
rails over which his special train was to pass
After Jan. the Russian Government
proposes to monopolize the busne of pawn
broking, somewhat after the system In vogue
in Austria. The maximum rate of interest to
be charged VIII be per cent. per year
Fire broke out in the parcel Office Of
the Windsor Hallway station, and from the
surroundings il il believed TO have Teen the
work of dynamiters. "a in the debris were
found the works Of an internal machine.
The London bridge disaster contin-
uos 10 be the exciting theme In London. IL
is now believed that three men were parties
to the outrage, and that while one of them
escaped to Paris the other two are still in
London plotting further explosions.
The British War Office has ordered
I20, 900 Martini-Heury rifles TO replace the
snider rifles now in use.
Michael Davitt has advanced polit-
zeal scheme looking TO creating an Irish ma
tional assembly to sit in Dublin and have
control of all Irish domestic a6airs II fails
to please the Radicals, and since it oontem-
plates the continued existence Of the United
Kingdom the extremists denounce it as an at
tempt to coquet with Ireland's enemies
THE Senate, at its session on Dec. 20, re-
fused concurrence in the House resolution for
an adjournment 10 Jan 8. The announcement
that the House had passed bill making tenn
porary provision for the navy ] d TO strong
language, but no action was taken the con. A
secret session was held TO consider the res
olution opposing the expedition 10 Mica
ragua. Frank w. Palmer confirmed az
Postmaster at Chicago. The House of Repre-
sentatives passed bill making provisions for
the support Of the navy during the month of
January. After The debate on the Interstate