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The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1884-06-05
POLITICAL.

A call for temperance convention
has been signed by $4,000 voters in Indiana.
New York special to Chicago Times
"Your correspondent called mt Greystonc
for the purpose OF verifying a sensational
report printed in morning paper regard
ing the health OF Mr.. Tilden. After wait
ing few minutes in reception-room, Mr..
Tiden himself came in uuannounccd. He
said that tho report of his failing health
was pure fabrication. and utterly with
out foundation; that his health at pres
cnt was better than 1t had been ut any time
during the past year and that he had merely
run down to 6reystone for a few days to
personally oversee some improvements that
he is making on the place. Mr.. Tilden shook
hands warmly with the correspondent, ex-
cusing himself with the remark thatrhe was
jtfst about TO take walk through his
grounds and make visit TO some pet
animals
San Francisco telegram: "The cleo
ton OF delegates in tho forty-seven city
clubs TO the State Democratic Convention
was continued til past midnight. The
double resolution pcdging the delegates to
Tlden and against Field was unanimously
adopted"
st. Louis dispatch "The Democrat
ic county conventions so far held i'm this
State either for the nomination OF county
tickets or the selection of delegates TO the
State convention to choose delegates to tho
national convention, have expressed 'deci led
pre- crenco for Samuel J. Tilden for Presi-
dent. There seems TO be strong desire
throughout the State for the denomination
of the odd ticket"
Judge Foraker, of Ohio. is, at his
own request, to nominate Senator sherman
for tho Presidency at tho Chicago convcn-
ton.
The Democratic State Convention of
Wisconsin adopted resolutions denouncing
the present tariff as a masterpiece of I'm 'us-
tice and false pretcnse. ana demanding that
oil custom house taxation shall DO only for
revenue.
Gen. BENJAMIN +. Butler, of Massa-
chusetfs, was nominated for President by the
National Grcenback Convention pt Indian
The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1884-06-05
NEWS CONDENSED.
Concise Record of the Week.


By an explosion in the straw-board
factsry OF Moore e. Wilson, Waterford, N.
Y, five mon lost their lives and $4,000 worth
OF property was destroyed.
New York dispatch: Seventy-four
business men Of this city, members OF an
association whose charter has been sub
soribed TO by thirty different interests, rep
resenting $3.50, O0O, 900, held an important
meeting. This union has been formed for tho
purpose OF preventing Determinations by the
railroads, telegraph, and express companies.
The meeting was devoted TO an interchange
OF views and the relation of instances where
mated against.
The international lodge of Good
Templars, in session at Washington, elected
the Hon. James II. Finch, OF Nebraska, Right
Worthy Grand Chief Templar.
frederick u. Grant and Jesse II.
New York. +. ID. Grant owes s2,2i5,oo6,
with assets nominally worth si,990.0l3. J. r.
Grants liabilities are placed at $685. tho
nominal value Of his assets being sl31, $50.
The true inwardness of the Penn
Bank collapse at Pittsburgh reaches the pub
Lilo in interesting slices. President Riddle has
filed a confession of Judgment in favor of
tho wreck for soa,75o. The overdrafts Of
$3.50. 0oe reported previously nave now swol-
len to s1,2O0,00 and it is expected that the
liabilities will reach S2,0OO,00o. The officers of
the concornare charged with desperate spec
ulation in oil ever since the Cherry Grove
district was opened.
For ordering the swathing of q fe-
male patient with banda.ges stepped in kero-
sene, and on his SECOND visit directing that
more oil be poured on the ligatures, the
woman dying in n short time, DR.. franklin
Pierce was found guilty OF mnnslaughter at
Worcester, Mass.
Charles O'Conor left $40, 900 in money
and a portion of his libraryto the Law lnsti-
tute Of New York, 500 each to four ladies'.
and two-thirds of the residue TO his sister,
Eiza NJ. Sloane.
George Mountfort died ut Boston,
aged 7s. He was a son of Joseph Mounttort,
one OF the famous Boston tea party.
A bill to abolish the prison-labor con-
tract i'm Massachusetts, WAS defeated in the
Legislature OF, that State.
BY the fall of q scaffolding in a
railway tunnel near Iigonier, Pa, nine
Italian laborers were killed and eleven 9th
ers severely injured
The Coroner's jury investigating the
Knapp Tunnel accident in Pennsylvania. by
which eleven men lost their lives, returned u
verdict exoneratng. the contractors.
Ferdinand Ward says that the re-
-sponsibillty of Gen., Grant and james ID. Fish
in the firm Of Grant g. ward,was. equal to his
own.
A violent snow-storm passed. over the
towns south of Buffalo on The morning
being covered with snow.
The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1884-06-05
FOREIGN.

The race for the English Derby was
declared 'dead heat between st. Galien
and Harvester. Tho stakes were divided.
This is the first time in the history of the
Cerby that the contest has resulted in dead
heat. Queen Adelaide, the favorite, came in
third.
The midgets, "Gen. Mite" and Mile
Edwards, were married at public hall ut
Manchester, England, recently. The band
Of the Third Dragons played the wedding
march.
The Catholic Bishop of the Soudan
has arrived at Cairo from the south.
He reports that seven Italian Priests and
four Sisters of Mercy were assacred ut I'll
Oheid. He also reports that three priests
were exposed naked TO the sun for four
days and died from the effects of their ex-
posture.
The French Government has decided
10 celebrate the centenary commencement of
the revolution of 1850.
The Count de Jacksonville, n French
politician, and n member OF the Paris Acad
envy of the ''immortals,' Is dead. He was
born in the French capital May %. 1sOa
The annual review of the troops in
and around Berlin was held last week by the
Emperor, who appeared on horseback.
Sir Bartle Frere, we'll known in con-
nection with British South African politics.
died In London after protracted Illness. Ho
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SOUTHERN.

lingo & Malone, who carried on an
extensive tobacco business ut Petersburg,
Va, have executed a decd OF trust for the
benofit of their creditors. The junior partner
is a son Of Senator Nahone-
The absence of the President re-
suited in a run on the Hot Springs (Ark.)
National Bank. which was compelled to close
It's doors. run was also begun on the
Arkansas National Bank, amid great ex-
element
In quarrel about horse-trade near
Dublin, Ca, stephen u. radgett shot his
brother Joe dead.
Miss Medginer, the daughter of the
Baltimore merchant who had been missing
for throe days, was found near Phoenix
Station, Nd. Her mind had become I'M
'Fcttled by over-study. and it is feared that
she will not recover her reason.
Several inebriated men ut Sharps-
burg Ky, amused themselves by shooting
at lighted lamps in a grocery store. One OF
the lamps exploded and set fire TO the build
ing. The flames spread rapidly, and nearly
all the principal business places OF the town
were destroyed. The total loss Is placed at
$4,000.
The Belmont coal mines in Alabama,
in which U. s Grant, Jr,, Is a principal
-stockholder, have closed down becauseof the
Grant Il Ward failure.
In % shooting affray near CRANKY,
Mo-, resulting from an old grudge, John G.
Koontze, ex-Postmaster, and Nathan Tabor,
a merchant, were killed, and George Hudson.
O desperado, seriously wounded.
Hooper's building at Baltimore col
lapsed from the weight of cotton il oontained,
the fourth floor first giving way, and forcing
the others down. Ct a number OF persons
in the structure SIX bodies have been recov-
cred. Three persons were fatally injured,
and two others are missing and supposed to
be in the debris.
The Protestant Episcopal Conven-
ton at Baltimore, after thirteen ballots
failed to elect u bishop and decided to hold a
special session for that purpose in October,
until which time the convention adjourned.
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MISCELLANEOUS.

Mrs. Caroline Spaulding Burdette,
wife of Robert J. Burdette, of the Burlington
Qowx) Howkeye, died ut Ardmore, Pa, last
week. Mrs. Burdette had been an invalid Cor
several years, suffering from inflammatory
rheumatism, and went East, accompanied by
her husband, hoping to find relief through
the skill of some OF Philadelphia's famous
physicians. Mrs. Burdette's condition had
lately become SO alarming that her husband
Cancelled his lecturing engagements and never
left her side.
Owing to the recent departures" of
swindling bank presidents and officials from
the United Suites to Canada there has grown
up a desire TO make the extraditon treaty
between our Government and that of Great
Britain somewhat more stringent and COM
prehensive.
The exercises of the graduating elias
OF the Naval Academy drew to Annapolis,
President Arthur, Gen. Sheridan, Admiral
Porter, and tho Ministers from England,
Russia, Germany, and France.
Chatham (Ont.) telegram: During
the holiday games here the grand stand COL
lapsed, and $50 persons were injured, several
seriously. No fatal results are feared. The
injuries consisted of broken arms, legs, and
ribs. Some were injured internally.
The American Congregational Asso-
citation held its thirty-first annual meeting at
Boston. The years receipts were S23,3S9,
and the balance on hand is S233. The changes
in the directory include the dropping of
hn nF hi u
Blatchford taking his place. Annual mem.
berships were abolished, and life member
ships raised from $50 to $50.
An expedition which lately left Mas
sau on British yacht has been safely land
ed I'm Cuba. At Sainte Claire, on the island,
Col. Varona is organizing large force.
The iron manufacturers of the Ma
honing and Shonango Valleys signified their
willingness to sign last years scale with the
new additions omitted. Ii is believed that
there will be no ironworkers strike in the
Youngstown district, but ut Pittsburg mat
tiers are unsettled.
Employees of the Wabash Road at
Chicago quietly stopped work because they
had not received their wages.
William Brown, colored man, who
murdered a pedder named Lavigne at
Caholxia, Illinois, and buried his body in the
fireplace, was executed at Belleville. He
confessed his crime, and scarcely had strength
to reach the scafold. John Tucker was
hanged at Paris, Alabama, for the murder of
IA companion named Aaron Baker.
Decoration Day was observed with
unusual pomp throughout the country. At
Chicago the street parade was very large and
fine. Addresses were delivered mt The come
;eries by Hon. Emery a. Storrs and Col. II.
G.. Ingersoll. Gen. Rosecrans oficiated ut
the unwilling of the soldiers monument at
Delaware, Ohio, in presence of fifteen thou
sand persons. During the memorial exer.
cises at Louisville the speakers stand col
lapsed, fifty persons being precipi.ated to
the ground, but none received serious in
juries.
The business failures in the United
States for the week just closed number 14s,
against 1S3 the previous week.
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WESTERN.

The clearinghouse of Henry Strong.
900, has cioscdits doors.
Horace b. Buell. caused himself to be
sent as express matter from Chicago to Man
haitian, KAN, ina box so arranged that he
could stiin it. He expected to escape from
the platform in the darkness, but his box
was-set,down bottom-side up. His next mis-
fortune waste he placed on his head, when
he frightened the a4ent out OF a years
growth by begging to be released. He paid
1925 for express charges, when S17.50 would
have purchased n ticket
Two masked men, armed with VIM
chester rifles. halte1 the Fort Benton coach
twenty-five miles frS,n Helena, robbed tho
passengers, and rited the mail bags
Prentice Tiller, the st. Louis express
robber, pleaded guilty and was sentenced to
five years Imprisonment.
David Stone, of H;llsdale, Mich,
pleaded guilty to the charge of numbering
hts young niece, Lulu Dyke, and was
sentenced 60 solitary confinement an the
Penitenuary for life.
The premiums for races at the Iowa
State Fair, beginning at Dcs Moines Aug 20,
amount TO $50, 900.
A vast crowd assembled in the
Criminal Courtroom at Chicago to learn the
result of the Mekeague trial. Judge
Anthony expressed the hope that the
audience would make no demonstration ov =
the verdict, but when the &C Iuittal was
announced the floor shook with APPLAUSE.
The accused was permitted to hold re-
ceptiou, when he was returned to his coll to
await trial on an indictment foe the murder
of Mrs. Wilson.
In Fountain County, Indiana. in a
deposit OF black sand, gold has been discov.
cred yielding a large percentage 10 the ton
Tho ''and" has caused no little excitement in
she district.
Wesley Johnson was hanged of Ma
poseon, Ohio, for the murder OF George W.
Williams and his vito near that place the gid
OF October, 1888.
At Tower Hill, Ill, mob attempted
TO lynch three highway robbers. on their way
60 the Shelbyville JUL. The officers threat
ened the vigilantes with death, and sa ely
lodged the mon inside tho prison walls.
A mob wrecked the Office of A. X.
webb, lawyer OF Madrid, Iowa. Webb had
brought suit n ainst half-witted boy and
earnished his wages for fec In case which
was never brought to trial.
Isador Jones, Detroit dent st, was
pardoned from the Mich gan Penitcntiary.
II appears TN & he had tasto or detective
work. and voluntarily aided the pei CO, who
soon prcw tired of him and convicted him OF
receiving stolen property in order to rid
themse'v of his presence. II is not be-
loved that he committed any crime.
After the ceremonies at Vevay, Ind,
Decoration Day. Peter Joyce, While drunk.
for no reason, shot Squire Sanders lcoIoredJ
dead.
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Hiram Sibley & Co.'S extensive ware
house at the foot of Dearborn street, in
Chicago, was entirely destroyed by fire.
Tho building was used as a seed storehouse
by the irn. The flames spread with ex-
traordnary rapidity, and the efforts OF the
fremen to save the building were utterly
unavailing. The conHagration was witnessed
by great mass Of people, probably $4,000.
The loss is estimated at $3.50, 200, about two.
thirds OF which is covered by insurance. A
fire in the works of the Atlantic Oil Refining
Company, Philadelphia, ragged for many
hours, causing lsss OF s6as, 900. The hand
some building OF the Toronto Mail was dam
aged by IRE To the extent of 100000. The
central seiephone sflieo was destroyed, and
every wiae was torn down. Other fires:
The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1884-06-05

A heavy frost in Southern Wiscon-
sin. Northern Illinois, Northern Ohio, and
portions OF Pennsylvania aud Michigan seri-
ously injured fruit buds In those sections on
the night OF tho Goth ult.
A sculling~race for 81 900 side took
place on Lake Calumet, near Chicago, ON Do
coration Day, between John Teemer of Pitts
burgh, and Peter II. Couley OF Halifax, the
former winning by quarter length.
Right of way is being purchased for
q railroad from Belvidcre to Peru. ILL.,, eighty
Eve miles. Sixteen thousand acres OF coal
land has been secured on the Illinois River,
elk miles west OF Peru.
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DEATH FROM CARELESSyESS.
Mining Engineers Pass on the Causes OF
the POcahontas Mine Disaster.
New York Dis patch1

New York Dis patch.l
Stuart Buck, of Coolbaugh, w. Va; j. II.
Bnmwell, of Roanoke, Va; and f. II. Will
Jams, Jr., of Bethlehe m, Pa, q committee
appointed to investigate the Pecahontas
Va.) mine explosion of March Is, submit
ted report at the meeting of the American
Institute of Mining Engineers. They re-
ported IAN exceedingly dry and dusty
mine, the dust floating into the cham
bers, was among the causes leading to
the disaster. The ignorance of the under
bosses in having unimportant doors tended
while the main door was left fastened open
during the night was another contributory
cause. The committee found that the sub
ordinates were not only careless but failed
to follow the rules of the company in re-
porting such n state of affairs to the Super
intendent. 1t was found that powder had
been carelessly used in blasting off from the
solid without making the necessary under
cuts.
There was the bare possibility, in the
committees estimation, of very slight
amount of fire. damp, as shown by the per-
sistency of flame of blown-o out shots. and
when the smoke from the blast was subse-
quently ignited. No trace of gas was found
in any part of the mine before the ventia-
ton was resumed. Any Of the causes
named were harmless singly, but combined
were sufficient to cause the explosion. Dust
was the agent for extending the explosion.
Had it been gas it would have been local.
The mine was well ventilated, and the car
rying out of the rules of the company by its
employees would have spared the necessity
of Investigation.
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Kansas Democrats.

The Democratic State Convention of Kan
sas, which met at Topeka, was the largest
body Of that complexion in politics ever
held in the State, nearly every county being
fully represented.
j. Il. Buriss, of Jackson County, was
elected Temporary Chairman. In brief
speech he pronounced for tariff reform, and
hoped the great political crime in 1867
would not be forgotten, and that the ma
tional convention would nominate S. j. Til
den and Thomas A. Hendricks. This re-
mark met with wild applause. The usual
business committees were then appointed.
The resolutions adopted indorse Speaker
Carlisle's position on the tariff, and de-
nOunce the present system of taxation,
which imposes duties ON the necessaries of
life for the benefit of few to the injury of
the many. The resolutions also declare
emphatically for Tilden, but do not instruct.
Gov. Click, the first Democratic Governor
of the State, is also Endorsed. The tenn
porary organization was made permanent.
Congressional delegates We're chosen rs
follows: First, G. G. Burns and Ed Car
roll; Second, b. j. Sheridan and w. c.
Jones; Third, c. G. Black and A. Mathew
son; Fourth, II. E. Norton and j. MIleham;
rlItn, "A. IL. Marun ana H. A. hlllOWell'
Sixth, John A. Schaffer and j. II. Schuyler;
Seventh, A. +. Petition and G. Diffen-
decker.
Gov. Click was then nominated for dele
gate large, upon which the rules were
suspended and the nomination made by ae-
clamation. The Governor made brief
speech, in which he hoped the national
convention would declare against sumptuary
legislation. The other three delegates
large are t. z. Fenlan, w. c. Perry, and
II. j. Hudson.
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A Dream OF an African Empire.

Tropical Africa contains what the
world wants. 1t Is country of ex-
haustless resources. This will lead to
humane intercourse with foreign lands,
the introduction of improved agricultu-
raj and manufacturing implements,
steam engines, railroads, printing press
es, machines, land the thousand proc
esses and appliances by which the
comfort, progress, and usefulness of
mankind are secured" Growth and
development will come from within, not
from without. The spirit of modern
progress will be Africmized. People
of the same blood, dwelling together
on the same soil, having the same aims,
aspirations, and interests, will unite
and move on In the same lines. A
great mind will be result of the changes
and growths that are even now taking
place in tropical Africa. Influences
will go out of Liberia and Sierra Leone
that will give shape to such political
possibility as an African Empire. Per-
haps the great African general and
statesman may come out of one or the
other of these two countries. Many q
man has been laughed at as "a dream
err" whose dreams have come to pass in
living realities. Truly has it been said,
~The evolutions of fact are sometimes
stranger than the romance of fiction"
The Bible contains the prophecy, "Ethi-
opia shall suddenly stretch forth her
hand unto God" We believe that this
prophecy shall be fulfilled. Influences
will work as leaven in lump until an
African Empire shall suddenly arise
among the Ethiopians. and men will
cry, a nation is born in day."-The
Ncac York Globe ,regro oroanl.
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took conspicuous part In connection with
the Boer and Zulu difficulties OF England In
the Cape region.
Mr.. Thomas Sexton, the most elo-
quent of the Parnellte members OF Parlia-
ment, is about to proceed to Australia on an
Irish patriotic mission. He will be accom-
panied by the younger of the Redmond broth
ers.
Nubar Pasha, the Egyptian Premier,
I'm a statement to European powers, asserts
that Egypt is not able to support the present
rates of taxation. The land-tax, he says, ex-
ceeds the value of the crops.
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LATER NEWS ITEMS.

At the National Horse Exhibition in
New York, Freddy Gebhard's horse Leo
cleared a barrier six feet and six inches in
height, leating tho English record for high
jumping.
At the semi-monthly meeting OF the
Trades Assembly OF Chicago three delegates
from the New York Typographical Union de-
tailed their grievances against wbitelaw
the Republican National Convention into
boycotting him.
Fire at Paducah destroyed the
Knights Templars' hall and a large store.
The falling walls demolished three small
structures. The loss is placed mt $780,
600. A paper mill at Rockton, Wis, valued
at $50, 0J0, was destroyed by fire, and Inde-
pendence, Iowa, had $4,000 blaze.
Mayor Martin, of Boston, refuses to
issue licenses to liquor dealers In that city.
A case has been carried to the Massachusetts,
Supreme Court with a view to compelling
him to issue the licenses.
William Cook, Edward Lover, and
William Debus were drowned near New Or
leans by the overturning of IA sail boat
G. B. Eens, n prominent citizen Of
Petersburg, Va, well known as IA contractor,
has assigned his property to secure the pay
ment of State funds deposited in the wrecked
Planters Bank, of which he was a director.
Barley & Hasson, coffee and tea
merchants OF Baltimore, have made an
assignment. Their liabilities are placed at
s225,OOO
Some miscreant fired three shots
Courtroom in Baltimore, the only damage
being TO the window pancs.
Unknown men entered the residence
of the widow of Senator Truck, at Osborne,
Mo-, and after ransacking the house commit
ted n criminal assault upon her. A large
party of citizens is securing the country in
search of the villains.
At Lille, France, the car of balloon
containing twelve persons fell forty metres.
Three we're killed, and the remainder severely
injured.
Death has taken away Harvey d.
ton; Hon. Wesley C. Hobbs, of the ST. Louis
bar; Samuel s. Shoemaker, ex-Vice Presi-
dent OF the Adams Express Company, and a
prominent citizen of Baltimore; Judge Hen
ry II. Coolidge, of Niles, Mich; John ID. Glib
son, one of the proprietors of the Gibson
House, Cincnnati: DR.. Thomas Griffith, Of
Louisville, of paralysis, after a long illness.
John G.. Emo, late President of the
Second National Bank of New York, was
captured at Quebec, on board a steamship
about 10 sail for Liverpool. With u COM
panon dressed rs priest, Emo took passage
at Montreal, and the suspicious behavior of
the pair led 10 their arrest.
The banking house of ID. w. Middle
ton & Co. has suspended payment The cap
tai of the concern was S400, 600, and the liabil-
tiles are nearly 100000. The heaviest cred
itor is Mrs. Hutchinson, who had about $780,
600 on deposit.
Long-continued drouths have had
II damaging effect on the crops I'm England.
The farmers anxiously hope for rain.
King Tawhiam, of the New Zealand
Maoris, is on a visit to England to urge his
recognition as King 80 that he may be able
the more successfully to prevent the New
Zealand whites from grabbing the lands OF
the natives. II is mentioned in tho dis
patches "a a remarkable fact that Tawhiam
was sober on his arrival in England