The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1884-12-11
LATER NEWS ITEMS.

The plague in Wise County, Va,
which swept OFT nearly three hundred persons,
is decreasing in intensity.
Fire swept away the business portion
of the village of West Randolph, Va. The
loss is estimated at $4,000, with S45,O 900
insurance,
The death rate in Chicago for No
vember was 1913 to tho 1,0OO-tho lowest OF
any of the large cities of the world.
1t is rumored that the London
Telegraph has purchased large tract of land
In tie Mojave desert on the Pacific coast, to
use the yucca plant In the manufacture of
paper, the pulp to be shipped TO New Orleans
for Liverpool.
Francis Murphy, the temperance re-
vivalist, exhibits twenty-five hundred sigma
lures to the pledge as the result of a week 5
work at Pittsburgh.
During a terrible wind and rain storm
at Trenton N. j., fire broke out in the Home
Rubber Company's Works, which were entire
ly consumed, involving loss OF $50, 900.
Nearly 100 deaths from smallpox
have recently occurred in the village of
Stoco, 100 miles east of Toronto, and other
sufferers are dying for lack of attendance.
George Snyder, farmer of Darr-
town, near Hamilton, Ontario. is in Jail, ac-
cused Of the murder Of his mother, aged 10
years, the object being to secure certain
mortgage which she held on his farm.
1t is SAID that after Mr.. Cleveland's
resignation OF the Gubernatorial Office he
will extend an invitation 10 the Democratic
party leaders to visit him in Buffalo. The
most prominent Southern aspirants for Cab
met portfolios are Money of Mississippi Gar
land of Arkansas, and Barbour of Virginia.
The rest have dropped out.
Some excitement is caused in Lon
don by rumors to the effect that English mer-
chant vessels are fitting out, and loading
with cargoes, intending to run the French
blockade of the Chinese ports. French papers
express great indignation at the scheme and
say that the humiliation that was visited on
England for her course in breaking the
American blockade during the rebellion may
be repeated. 1t is said that the English Gov
ernment will not do anything IN the way Of
preventing tho consummation of such a
scheme unless there is n formal declaration
OF war between the two belligerents.
The marble cap-stone and pyramidal
apex of aluminium were set in place upon
the Washington Monument on Saturday, the
9th of December, completing the tallest
structure in the world created by human
hands. The ceremonies were quite simple,
the great celebration being reserved for
Washington's birthday. AS soon as the
cap.stone was set the national flag was
spread upon the breeze at a height of C0J
feet, a battery of guns in the White House
lot fired a salute, and the people on the plat
form 500 feet above the ground sang the
"star-Spanglod Banner" The Washington
Monument Society, perched on the platform
adopted resolution cCngratulating the
American people on the completion of an
enduring monument of our Nations graft
tude to the Father of his Country"
Masked robbers boarded q railroad
train near Little Rock, Ark, and secured
$4,000 in cash and valuables. Bloodhounds
were put on the trail of the robbers, and six
men were soon captured in the city Three
of them were identified.
The J. l. Case Plow Company, of
Racine, Wis, has made an assignment for its
creditors. The unsecured liabilities are from
$4,000 TO $4,000, and the assets nearly Si0,-
COZ. The heaviest creditor is ]. /. Case, Pres
ident OF the company. Other large credit
ors are iron and steel dealers of Pitts
burgh, Pa.