The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1884-06-26
LATER NEWS ITEMS.

June 81 was the hottest day of the
season in New York; the temperature in va
rious parts of the city marked temperature
from 95 to 1903 deg ees In the shade. A large
number of cases OF prostration by heat were
rerorted-two Of them fatal.
A cable dispatch announces the death
OF Alexander, Prince of Orange, her-ap-
parent to the throne of the Netherlands.
The deceased Prince was an Admiral IN the
navy OF the Netherlands, a Major General in
the army, and the last male heii of famous
race
A telegram from MOUNTAINEERING, Ark,
states that Sheriff G. p. Chandler, of Linn
County, Kansas, who, with two deputies, had
been tracking Louis wampler (the fiend who
murdered the Anderson family of six per-
sons near Pleasanton, KAN, some weeks ago.
came upon Wampler in the mountains near
that place. He fired two shots at the Sheriff
and then fed. The pursuers gained upon
him, and when within forty yards Wampler
placed pistol at his own head and fired, and
died within a few minutes The body was
sent to Pleasanton.
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the explosion of the powder mills at Pom
tremol, killing thirty men and wounding
seventeen others. Pontremoli is in the Prov
ince of Massa g Carrara, at the southern de-
clivity of the Appenine range OF mountains
and twenty-three miles northwest Of Carrara.
Emperor Francis Joseph of Austria
and his son have abandoned their proposed
trip to Constantinople through fear of dyna-
mite plots.
A sensational murder rs reported ut
Prague. A civil engineer had his head and
leg cut off, and they were carried from the
bedroom TO the kitchen. His money and
other vauables were not touched.
By the burning of the Wholesale
bakery establishment of A. ID. Hassman in
Williamsburg, N. Y, three fremen named
Henry Tyeck, George w. Haight, and Stephen
Allen lost their lives by falling walls.
Canadian Indians on reserve near
Battleford drove off the Government officers
and helped themselves to supplies. Fifty
mounted police sent TO the scene were met
with defiant acts.
The committee appointed to notify
Mr.. Blaine of his nomination by the Repub-
lican National Convention for President
waited on him In q body at his home in Au
gusta, where Gen. Henderson, Chairman of
the committee, made the address of
notification under an elm tree in the
grounds surrounding Mr.. Blaines residence.
In reply Mr. Blaine expressed the profound
gratitude which he felt for the great honor
bestowed upon him, and promised more for
NAL acceptance at a future time. After the
addresses the committee, with Mr.. Blaine,
were entertained at luncheon ut the house of
Col. Csgood, neighbor OF Mr.. Blaine.
Ok June 81, the Chair laid before the Sem
ate a bill amending the Thurman act Relative to
the Pacific railroads Mr.. Van Wyck desired
that this bill be referred to the Committee on
Public Lands rather than to the Committee
Judiciary. 1t was with some surprise that he
had for the first time learned from the public
press that the Judiciary Committee had resolved
not to act on any bill OF this kind this session.
Mr.. Hoar said the Senator from Nebraska was
wholly mistaken of course unintenti lnally)
"a to the action of the Judiciary Committee.
Mr.. Van Wyck insisted that for twenty years
the railroads had controlled the Government,
as shown, in his opinion, by the operations of
the Land Department, the opinions of the At
torney Generals, and some Of the opinions of
the supreme Court. Mr.. Garland said the spe-
cial matter referred to by the press was differ
ent matter to that covered by the bill from the
House After some further discussion, Mr..
Van Wyck withdrew his motion to refer the
bill TO the Committee on Public Lands, and
IL was referred to the Committee on Jul
dietary. In the House, the electoral count
bill was taken up, and Mr. Hart addressed the
house in favor of the Senate measure Mr.. Par
ker made a constitutional argument against the
Eaton bill. Mr.. Springer favored the Eaton
bill, asserting that 1t safer to leave the deci-
sion OF disputed Pres Dental election to Joint
convention and the House than to a returning
board or committee which might be provided
in any State. Mr.. Peters spoke I'm support Of
the Senate bill The previous question or
dered uron the bill and amendments, but no
further action taken.