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The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1884-11-06
WARDS OF THE NATION.
The Annual Report Of the Indian
Bureau.

The Commissioner of Indian Affairs, in
his annual report, says the progress Of the
Indians toward civilization is most en-
couaging, and that it is fair to presume
that in the near future they will be no
longer a burden but help to the Govern
ment. He states that the Indians appro-
priation is too small, and urges the neces-
sity of passing an appropriation bill early
in the session. Congress is urged to pass
a stringent law prohibiting the sale of arms
and ammunition to Indians, and to en-
force the law forbidding the sale of liquor
to them. Touching the removal of tho Crow
Indians, in Montana, it is stated that
it has thus been made possible to add
to the public domain at least 3,000,-
900 acres of the reservation, leaving still
all the land necessary for the use and occu-
pancy of this tribe of Indians. If these
1900, 900 are so disposed of as to give the
Crows some benefit from the proceeds
thereof, they will no longer require any aid
from the Government, and thus one fac
tor of the Indian problem will have been
solved, and an example and incentive given
other tribes of Indians to do likewise
Great good has resulted from the estab-
lishment of courts for the trial of Indian
offenses, and an appropriation of $4,000
is asked to pay the salaries of judges. The
Commissioner calls attention to the neces-
sity of establishing United States
court in Indian Territory, and recon-
mends that the bill pending before Con-
gress, to prevent timber depredations in
that Territory, be made to include coal and
other minerals A more liberal compensa-
ton Is asked for the Indian police, and
their efficiency is warmly commended.
School work is reviewed mt length, its great
value demonstrated, and the necessity
shown for the expenditure of much
greater amount of money in this direction.
Attention is called to the fact that Congress
granted right of way through Indian Ter
ritory to the Gulf, Colorado and Santa Fe
and the Kansas Southern Railroads, and the
statement is made that the Indians consider
this violation of treaty obligations. The
Commissioner refers to the invasion of the
Indian Territory by Payne and others, and
says there is no possible excuse for these
repeated lawless invasions. The lands are
not public lands In any sense as yet. what
ever disposition may be made of them
hereafter. II is manifest that, without the
passage of some stringent law, intruders
can only be kept out by the troops, and
should they at any time be temporarily
withdrawn for any purpose, the Territory
would be rapidly ovarun. The Commits
sioner indorses the report of the commits
sion TO review the award of damages Of
5000 to the Indians, on account of the
construction of reservoirs at the head
waters of the Mississippi, and says no one
can compute what evil consequences may
arise should Congress ignore its duty to
these Indians by failure to make appro-
prations to carry out the terms of the
award.
The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1884-11-06
WHEAT.
A Reduction in Acreage in Europe
and This Country Next
Year Probable.

The monthly report of the Commissioner
OF Agriculture, says Washington Telegram,
contains some interesting facts concerning
the crops and grain markets of Europe. 1t
seems that stagnation and depression in
prices are agitating the farmers Of Europe
as well as Of this country. There is little
if any profit to the farmers, and it is be-
lieved Chat the inevitable result will be a
reduction in the acreage OK wheat next
season. The crops have been unusually
large. and the abundance there, as we'll as
elsewhere, has furnished n supply almost
unprecedented, and vastly in excess of the
demand. The disheartening price which
all grain is now bringing is even severer
blow to the farmers than the bad crops of
previous years, and coming when their re-
sources are pressed to the utmost, the
future is looked forward to with dismay.
The papers are teeming with farm statis-
tics showing the cost of raising grain per
acre and the resulting money returns in the
markets. Average English wheat brings
$l.03 per bushel, which is less than it can
be raised for in that country. A year ago.
when the average was 20 per Cent. higher, it
was said there was more money to be made
with average crops at that price, and now as
the reductions in rent have not kept pace
with the falling markets the amount of loss
per acre is the only question.
A writer from Great Britain estimates the
wheat yield of that country for the present
year mt over "A, 600, 900 bushels. He esti-
mates the requirements of the &c, 600 900 of
people to be fed at over SOC, 900, 900 BUSH
els, of which "A, 900, 900 bushels are sup
piled at home, leaving 1876, 900, 900 to be
imported from foreign countries. About
this amount was imported last year. The
writer continues: "The stock of foreign
wheat in the warehouses on Sept. /, 1883,
was known to be enormous, and this stock
has probably been reduced. The total
price of wheat during the past year has
also caused a larger proportion of home
grown wheat to be consumed by stock, and
the still lower prices which are likely to
prevail during the coming year will tend to
increase the consumption. The imports of
foreign wheat during each year do not,
therefore, at the present time supply so re-
liable q measure of the annual require
ments as was the case formerly, when the
stock of foreign wheat had not assumed
such gigantic proportions"
This condition of the grain market in
Europe, which draws so heavily from our
supply, it is believed, will result in large
reduction in the acreage in this country
next year. With an increased foreign de-
mand and a smaller supply, the price of
cereals would be raised, a movement Of the
crops would become more active, and a
better condition of things generally is pre-
dicted for next year.
The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1884-11-06
MISCELLANEOUS.

The schooner Lady Dufferin, from
Chicago, was wrecked on Caribou Island,
Lake Superior. The crew abandoned the
craft, reached another island in yawl boat
were picked up, and land ed at Port Arthur
Assignments have been made by S.
Selig a wholesale milliner of San Francisco:
George E. Hutchinson, a mining capitalist OF
Cleveland; william Ogle, a shoe dealer in St.
Louis.
A letter from Nassau, n p, dated
Oct. "a, says: The hurricane which swept
the eastery part of the Bahamas, from the
10th TO the 10th inst, caused considerable
damage on land and sea. a number of YES
sells engaged in sponging and inter-insular
commerce are known to be lost. The Ameri-
can schooner Jonathan Knight, from Phila-
delphia for New Orleans, with coal, was
driven upon a reef at Palmetto Point, Elem
thera, at midnight, on the 18th, and became
a total wreck. Only two of her crew were
saved. Capt. Maloy and son. the steward,
and three seamen were drowned. The
schooner San Bias, Baltl more trader, was
lost together with her crew.
Business failures for the week num-
bered 205, twenty nine less than the previous
week, but an increase of ten over the or
responding period of 1883. Brddstreet's
Journal, in its commercial sum-
mary, for the week, says: Special
kilograms this week indicate that in general
there has been no gain as compared with the
movement of merchandise for several weeks
past. General trade at almost all CONNER
cial centers continues quiet, with little If
any prospect of material gains prior to the
opening OF the new year.
The treaty now in process of negoti-
alton between Spain and the United States
provides for tho free admission to the latter
country of sugars, molasses, and raw to-
bacco, and reduction on other articles from
the West Indies. In return therefor Cuba
and Porto Rico are to receive American
cereals on the same footing as Spanish. and
the tariff on cattle, fish, and manufactures
will be freely trimmed down.
The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1884-11-06
NEWS CONDENSED.
Concise Record Of the Week.
EASTERN.

A Uniontown pa dispatch says:
"The worst fear touching the fate of the
men who were imprisoned in tho coal mine
ut Youngstown, four miles from this place.
by the explosion of fre-damp which took
PLACE there at o'clock last evening has
been fully confirmed. Six of the miners
were taken out last evening soon
after the disaster, two of them were dead
and two OF the other four so seriously In
jured that there is no hope OF their recov-
cry. This left from fourteen TO eighteen
men supposed TO be still imprisoned in the
mine. The exact number Is not certainly
known. The work of reaching these men
was continued industriously throughout the
whole night, ana 10y this morning the dead
bodies OF twelve of them had been
brought out and delivered to their
friends and relatives at the mouth eff the pit
This makes fourteen dead in all, and, to-
qether with tho four injured, accounts for
eighteen, or the whole number supposed TO
be in the mine. The scenes at the
mouth of the pit the disfgured
bodies Of the dead were brought to the sur
face and given into the hands of the wives
and relatives was distressing in the extreme,
and vividlv recalled TO mind the piteous walls
of the beraaved families who waited at the
opening of the Leisenring mine last February
for the bodies which they knew we're coming
lifeless TO them from the uncompassionate
bowels of the earth. 1t was a sad spectacle,
indeed. and moved to tears many of hundreds
who had been drawn TO the place by the news
OF the Disaster
Sig. Pasqualine Brignoli, the noted
tenor, died at the Everett House, New York.
He had been suffering for the last six weeks
with a complication of diseases of the liver
and kidneys, and had been confined to his bed
for three week.
Horace Deland, of Brookfeld, n. H.,
aged Is years, chained himself to brush
heap near his fathers house, then set the
brush on fire and deliberately burned him
self to death. A cash was found on one side
of his throat, made by razor, which was
found near by. A note was found directed
TO his PARENTS, saying he was tired of living.
He gave no reason for the act, but 1t is
thought to have been caused by unrequited
love.
Ellis Ames, one of the venerable
lawyers of Massachusetts, died at Canton in
his 10Th year.
Alfred c. Luders & Co., commission
merchants at New York, owe Sl06, 900. while
their actual assets are but $4,000.
The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1884-11-06
SOUTHERN.

George II. Jackson, President OF q
cotton factory at Augusta, Ca, rs confess
edly a defaulter. The investigating COM
p.ittee estimates the steal at from 100000 to
100000.
Parkerville IS. O. dispatch: Sun
day last was the white church dedication.
1t is reported that colored men disturbed the
service by firing pistols. A bad feeling has
continued since, and to-day eliminated in
the killing of James Blackwell, an officer, in
attempting to make arrests, by volley fired
by negroes who were barricaded I'm house.
There is great excitement, and further
violence is expected. Gov. Thompson has
been advised of the situation. Parkesville Is
In Edgeheld County, thirty miles from
Augusta
DIR. Paret, of Washington. was chosen
Bishop of Maryland by the Protestant Epis-
copal Convention i'm session at Baltimore.
Dr. Paret who is of French extraction and q
native of New York, is IS years of ago.
Albert and Charles Goodman (col-
Parish, La. Albert said he was guilty,
but maintained that his brother was inno-
cent.
Fort Smith ARK. dispatch: While
Elijah Henderson, a tenant on the Arnold
plantation, Choctaw Nation, was playfully
presenting pistol, supposed to be unloaded,
at several friends assembled at his home last
evening, it accidentally went of and killed
his wife. Henderson became almost crazy
and begged to be killed. To-day he sur
rendered to the United States Marshal, and
desires to plead guilty to murder so he may
he hanped
The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1884-11-06

severe type Of cholera is spreading through
the French squadron under Admiral Courbet.
now blockading Formosa.
Admiral Courbet has telegraphed the
French Minister of Marine that the sanitary
condition of his troops is far from satisfac-
tory. He fears that he will be compelled to
abandon some of his projects against the
Celestials
The French Government has or
dered the dispatch of two cruisers and five
gunboats to China Italy will soon send two
war vessels to the Congo region to conserve
commercial interests.
The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1884-11-06
FOREIGN.

The steamship Maasdam, from Rot
terdam, was found burning 700 miles from
the coast of Ireland, and deserted by the
crew and passengers, of whom no trace was
discovered. The vessel was enveloped in
smoke and flames, and had evidently been
burning for days. 1t is hoped that the crew
and passengers have been picked up by a
west-bound craft
The municipal authorities of LINER
ick. by vote of twenty-seven to FIVE, de-
cided to persist in their refusal to pay the tax
assessed for extra police service. The arrest
of several members OF the corporation is
probable.
Rumors have reached London that q
The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1884-11-06
CLIPPINGS.

Gov. BUTLER does not travel on Sun.
day.
The dentist to the court of Italy is an
American.
SACRAMENTO is shipping sweet potatoes
to Montana.
NINE. GERsTEB, i'll with rheumatism Of
the throat, has cancelled all her engage
ments.
PRESIDENT DARLING, of Hamilton Col
lege, has been elected member of the
Victoria Institute and Philosophical Society
of Great Britain.
IN Cleveland John I. Raymond adver-
tised grand parade of the new party"
and in the evening hired 100 small boys to
march through the streets with torches and
transparencies, on which was inscribed:
Vote for John Il. Raymond for Congress. {"
The streets were crowded that night TO see
the parade, and the theater was packed all
week.
The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1884-11-06
WASHINGTON.

During the year ending Nov. 1, the
eral Treasury 81, 1920, 3l3 deposited to secure
circulation. At the prepared rate of re-
demption the per cents will disappear by
June, 1885.
Washington special The par
value of the United States bonds
held to secure circulation at the close OF
business to day was 1925, 34l, 300. The value
of those held for the same purposes the LIST
day of July. 1888, was 1855, 595, SEQ, showing a
reduction in sixteen months of S3l ,255, ZOO
The per cents have disappeared from
the vaults; the 6's remain substan-
italy unchanged; the 3s have de-
creased nearly % per cent; there ace no
longer any of 3h's ,while the As and az s show
an increase Of about sl2, 100000 and $40, OOO,-
OOO, respectively. While the 3's held in the
Treasury show the most marked decrease,
the proportion of these bonds so held to the
full amount outstanding is greater than 1t
was a year ago. Then the ratio was as two
TO three; now 1t is about as three to
four The bond-call maturing to-mor-
row is the last of those already made, and
as there will be about SIS 00O,0C0 to pay
out on account of pensions before the close
of the year Treasury officials are of the
opinion that Secretary McCulloch will not
issue another call to mature tefore Jan. /.
The per cents now held for the banks are
nearly all of the lower numbers, as the banks
made special efforts to secure those likely to
be called last, but another call cannot fail
TO draw out a considerable number of them,
unless Congress takes some action TO prevent
further contraction of national hank cir
cnlntinn.
The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1884-11-06
WESTERN.

Three masked men bound James
Grain in his house. near Brookston, Ind, and
maltreated him when he refused to disclose
where his money was concealed. They found
S4OO, but $4,000, hidden in a secret place, es-
capped heir clutches.
Portland (Ore.) Dispatch Two In
dams are reported killed at Long Creek,
Grant County, by party of unknown
whites. The band had camped on the stream
for the purpose of hunting and fishing, and
the whites crept within rife-range and fred
into their camp, killing two braves, and
made their escape. 1t is said these Indians
took an active part in the recent Bannock
war, and COMPUTED several outrages and
murders among the whites. In that county
hatred of the Indians is intense The matter
is to be investigated, as trouble is feared,
and an Indian outbreak of serious proper
lions is thought very probable.
Denver (Colo.) telegram "Rumors
have reached here of the lynchng, by vigi
lants, OF n gang of seventeen cattle-thieves,
captured while in camp On Rock Creek, in
the Gore range of mountains, twenty or
thirty miles west of Georgetown. No par
are III present ODldlnuDle. Inc re-
port is thought to be exaggerated"
A six-storv building ON the corner of
Michigan street and La Sale avenue, Chi
cago, owned by Charles L. Culver and occu-
pied by several manufacturing firms, was
destroyed by fire. the loss being 100000.
James Carr, foreman of n cigar-box manu-
factory, conducted thirty OF his employees to
ha nd Lost hxyf fol IN,
from window-sill.
G. d. Cobbitt's Peoples Bank, at
Canton, H., failed for 100000. The assets
are placed at $4,000.
Owing to internal dissensions, the
Ohio State Dental Association, which has
been in existence since 1866, disbanded at
Columbus after a two-days' session.
Lena Haberland, aged 10, died at st.
Louis of trichiniasis. the muscles and tissues
of her body being found infested with pork
parasites. Her little brother is i'll from the
same malady, and her mother, who passed
away month ago, is believed TO have died
of the disease.
r. Power Palmer, connected with an
insurance agency in Chicago, poisoned him
ecll III u nOtci VIII eNlueHtly OH
account OF poor health.
T. j. Moses, formerly Governor of
South Carolina, having been jailed at De-
troit for ling clergyman, nearly sue
ceeded in hanging himself in his CELL When
cut down he was black in the face, and had
lost consciousness. On recovering he was
sentenced to ninety days in the House OF
Correction.
An explosion in the gas-works at
Milwaukee, caused by stoppage in pipe
leading to the purifiers inflicted damage
amounting TO $4,000.
Two men were killed at Duluth by
falling from n scafrold on the side of an eIe-
yator 100 feet high.
The Federal Grand Jury at Cincin-
natl has indicted Police Lieutenants Michael
Mullen and John Burke and Patrolmen Keat-
ing and Cunningham for preventing a party
of coored men rom voting, at the recent
election, by locking them in the station house
all day.
The Presbyterian Synod of Ohio,
I'm session at Cincinnati, deplored the desc
Grafton of the Sabbath. and favored prohibit
ton OF the manufacture and sale OF intoxi-
eating liquors.
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Stabbed in q Ballroom.
Wheeling wv. Va special


A bloody murder occurred at an early
hour this morning at Martins Ferry, just
opposite this city. A dance was in prog
ress. and Benjamin Frazier and George
Bleubach claimed the hand Of girl
for n waltz. Their quarrel was made
intense by an old feud. Bleubach
took the girl, who threw herself be-
tween them, when Frazier drew a huge
knife, and reaching over the girl, made a
lunge at his opponent, inficting fatal
wound. Bluebach fell, and Frazier, throw
ing the girl aside, buried the blade in his
enemy's body. Others then interfered, and
the dying man was borne ont. Two officers.
it is said, saw the affair, but did not venture
to interfere. The murderer went on with
the dance for two hours, and then came to
this city, and is somewhere here secreted.
Bluebach died tonight
The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1884-11-06
PENSIONS.
Some Facts and Figures About the Pension
Bureau.

At the breaking out of the rebellion in
1861 the total number of persons on the
pension rolls, including revolutionary pen
sioners, was 1912, and the aggregate
amount required TO pay these pensioners
was 81, 034, 800. In 1862 there were added
1854 names, and notwithstanding this
addition at the close of that year
there were but $3.50 names on the
roll. This is explained by the fact that
large proportion of those on the pension
lists prior to the rebellion took part in Sc
cession and were dropped from the pension
rolls. The report for the fiscal year ending
June 80. 1864, shows the effect of the war
of the rebellion on the pension rolls, the
payment for that year rising to "a. $50. 474.
From 1864 to the present time there has
feen n steady increase on the rolls; the
total number, according to the last official
report, being 303, sos. The amount of
monev paid to pensioners in 1868 was
81, O25, 140, and in 1888 it was S60,431 1913.
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Poisoned Her Children and Herself.
wheeling wv. Val dispatch.l

A terrible tragedy is reported from CAL
houn County. Mrs. Johnson, while labor
ing under fit of temporary insanity
poisoned herself and two of her step chill
dren with arsenic. The poison was mixed
with sugar. One of the children refused
to eat, but she succeeded in inducing the
others to partake of the compound, and
they died in few minutes. Mrs. Johnson
then swallowed some of the mixture her.
self and soon died
The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1884-11-06

Mrs. A. II. REED, Of Oshkosh. Wis,
has begun suit against the Central Wiscon-
sin Railroad for $4,000 damages, for iniu-
ries received by her husband year ago.
from his team taking fright at Nine.
Modjeskas private car, which blocked the
street crossing
The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1884-11-06

In q Republican procession in Tay-
lorville, H., Leroy Hunter allowed his torch
20 hit Eugene Darner ON the head. A quarrel
and fight ensued. when Darner struck Hun
ter with baseball bat, breaking his neck.
The murderer was arrested, and taken out OF
town for safety.
The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1884-11-06

ALEXANDER GRAHAM BELL hopes to in
troduce generally into the deaf and dumb
institutions the entire substitution of articu-
late conversation for the present system Of
sign language.
The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1884-11-06

1T is said that gold and silver mines
changed hands over the result of the
Owens Murphy prize-fght at Butte City.
They do things in large way out in Mon
tana.
The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1884-11-06

WASHINGTON MCLEAN has given up his
comfortable residence in Cincinnati to his
son and his bride. The old gentleman
will make Washington his future home.
The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1884-11-06

Mr.. FRELINGHUYsEN denies the story
that his daughter is to wed the President
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1T has been proposed to furnish the
railroads with grain cars built entirely of
steel. 1t is said that more grain can be
carried with less wear and tear.
The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1884-11-06

ONE OF the daughters of Henry wads-
worth Longfellow is engaged to be married
to Mr.. Thorpe, brother of Mrs. Ole Bull.
The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1884-11-06

The Metropolitan Railroad In London
runs / ,2l1 trains day.
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LIEUT.. GREEDY has leased house on ]
street. Washington, for the winter.