The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1884-01-17

The Coroner's Jury at Bellevllle, ILL.,,
returned verdict In which the management
of the burned convent ia blamed for the ter
rible loss Of life, as the precautions required
by the character of the building and the
number OF inmates were wholly neglected
The jury say that dormitories should never
be allowed above the second story in institu-
tons OF learning, and urge the necessity OF
legislative action on the subject.
The annual report of the Attorney
General recommends the abolition OF the sys-
TEN OF paying marshals and deputy marshals
in fees.
More than 100 bills have been in
troduced In the present Congress TO extend
the provisions of the Pension law. Commis-
sioner Dudley says that under the existing
law, If all claims were passed, IL would take
1895, 729, 900 to pay Off the pensioners!
Mr.. Springer, of the judiciary In
vestigating committee, thinks that the attor-
neys employed by the Government in the
star-route trials did not do their full duty,
and intimates that for valuable consideration
some OF the most guilty of the starrouters
were allowed to escape. Mr.. Springer pro-
poses TO probe further into this matter.
The debt of New York city amounts
10 500, SAC, 600, decrease OF $685. 900 during
the past year.
DR.. Tanner, the faster, accused of
practicing Illegally by the physicians of
jamestown, N. Y, has been indicated by
the courts
The cutting of the great diamond re-
Gently found I'm South Africa has been COM
pleted at Boston. The stone now weighs n
carats.
Mike Cleary, of New York, offers to
fight any man I'm America for $780, with
hard gloves, the fight TO be in private, and
has put up a forfeit of $3.50.
The farmhouse of Michael Ulrich,
near Harrisburg, Pa, proves TO DO a verita-
BILE bonanza, not less than $4,000 in coin and
notes having been found secreted in various
places within two months.
A machine has been invented at Pitts
burgh for manufacturing hob-nails, which
has a capacity Of one ton a day, and is ope-
rated by three men. The use Of these ma
chimes VIII throw thousands of men out of
employment
The fiftieth anniversary of the ordi-
nation of Cardinal MeCloskey was celebrated
with great pomp in the cathedral at New
York. Ten Bishops and 800 priests were In
attendance. The Cardinal is feeble In gait,
but his voice is still clear.
The Panama Company has now A.
900 men employed on the work.
Swine for breeding purposes from
the Western States will be quarantined here
after at Point Edwards, Canada, for three
weeks.
Emile Karst, the French Consul at
st. Louis, says that the recent French procla-
nation against the importation of American
pork was due TO the rumor which reached
France that 10000 pounds of diseased Amer
lean meat was to be shipped TO that country.
The foreign exhibition at Boston,
representing forty-six countries is to be re-
moved to Chicago during the summer.
The orchards in the peach belt of
Michigan passed unnjured through the Sc
we're weather.
Ex-senator Dorsey has been sued at
Denver for $63, 200, with interest since 1873,
for bills of exchange he signed as President
of the Arkansas Central Railway company
about ten years ago.
A Nationalist meeting in County Fer
managh which Biggar, NJ. p, was announced
TO address, was prohibited by the authorities.
When the Egyptians evacuate Khar-
toum and adjacent cities it is estimated that
there will DO II, 900 Christian and European
victims Of Moslem fanatcsm, unless they
can be immediately transported to Upper