The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1884-11-20
LATER NEWS ITEMS.

Matthew Arnold is about to make
anotheg American tour.
Alfred Edmond Brehan, celebrat-
ed German traveller. is dead.
Drunkenness is greatly on the in
crease in England, especially among women.
The recent death of Baron Alexander
Won Steglitz, the head of the Bank OF St.
Petersburg, is chronicled. He left ST5, 000,-
900 to relatives and employees including
the gift of the Peterhoff Railway to Baron
Fehleisen.
Slow progress attends the Nile ex-
petition, the Canadian boatmen having ex-
perienced great difficulty in ascending the
cataracts.
In the cholera plague the municipal
authorities in Paris are glad to avail them
selves OF the services of the hitherto malgned
Sisters of Mercy. They are TO be seen wher-
ever the disease appears.
The American and English residents of
Paris have associated TO assist their country
men, and for the establishing OF soup kitch-
ems. They say there is no need of fear from
the cholera. and in u manifesto advise only
the weak, incorporate and nervous to leave
the city.
Twenty-Five leading business houses
at Godsboro, N. C.fwere wiped out by fire.
causing IA loss of S25O,OO0. The fire resulted
from IA number of boys smoking cigarettes
near lot of cotton.
When leaving the courtroom at
Dallas, Tex, n lawyer named Frank l..
Irvine was stabbed in the back by a local
politician named Fred Cullen. 1t appears
that the latter was an unwilling witness in a
murder trial.
j. Hadeker & Son, merchants. Can
ton, Miss, failed, with liabilities amounting
to $4,000.
A fire at Petersburg, Va, destroyed
1900, 900 pounds of sumac.
The mill and building of the Eureka
Cotton Seed Oil Company at Arkansas City.
Ark, were burned. Estimated loss, 500, 900;
partially insured.
Meyers & Cohen, dealers in cloaks,
New York, have made an assignment, with
preferences amounting to s39, 900.
After strike of nine months, the
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hungry and half naked, are resuming work
at the old rates. There are sixty or more
still in jail in Washington County.
The entire business portion of HUI
ron Kan, was reduced TO ashes, the loss be-
ing $4,000.
Arrangements have been concluded
between Schaefer and Slosson for two billiard
matches in Chicago in January.
Two tramps entered the house of a
farmer named Danlon, at Desplaines, Cook
County, dubbed his wife to death, and IA
tally injured the farmer himself. Robbery
was undoubtedly the miscreants' motive, but
all they secured was $27. Owing to the
meager description of their persons, no ar
rests have been or are likely to he made.
The Office of the Texas Express
Company at Bryan, Tex, was burglariZed
Of $40, $50. The robbers escaped.
The explosion of barrel containing
resin and turpentine, at No. log Quincy
street, Chicago, severely burned Adam and
Runnell Poale, James Daley, Eddie and
Maggie Burke, Anna Ward, and Steive Bias
sett, children living in the neighborhood.
They were attempting to make a bonfire of
the barrel, and some of them, it is thought,
will die from their injuries.
A Halifax On. s. special reports that
while life-boat with crew of eleven wreck
ers, from the steamer Inveralt, stranded on
Pictou Island, was returning to Shore dur
ing a northerly gale, the craft was capsized
and eight OF the party drowned. A man
from shore, putting off in dory to attempt
the rescue of the others who were cling
ing TO the upturned boat. lost an oar, drifted
10 sea, and was lost.
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