The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1884-03-13
LATER NEWS ITEMS.

LATER NEWS ITEMS
A snowslide half mile wide in the
Little Cottonwood, Utah, swept away the
works of the new Emma Mine and killed
twelve persons.
At q meeting of the representatives
of the barbci-wire manufacturers Mt st.
Louis, recently, It was resolved TO amalgam-
ate the various companies under the name of
the National Barbed Wire Company of
America.
The Chief Constable of South Caro-
lima and his armed force captured Col. T. b.
Cash by leveling their rifles at him, but
Began Cash escaped to the swamp. strong
guard was placed around the mansion, and
the prisoner was sent to Chesterfield Jail.
A largo force of men familiar with tho
swamp was summoned from Cheraw to run
down the murderer.
The leading glass works at st. Louis
andAlton have resumed operations, and others
will soon follow, after an idleness extending
over many months.
The District Convention of the
Amalgamated Association ut Pittsburgh, last
week decided to demand that the existing
rate of wages be paid during the ensuing
year.
At Pittsburgh, last week, prominent
labor leaders organized National Homestead
Association. The object ia to secure homes
for workingmen and establish more hsrmo-
NOUS relations between capital and labor.
Fires have been lighted in every
green bottle factory In Pittsburgh except one.
The men have been out on a strike for the
past eight months, and will resume work at
last years wages.
American window-glass blowers who
went to Belgium during the strike, and have
returned, say the settlement at Pittsburgh
caused the closing of forty-one factories in
Belgium, the demand being cut of, and pro-
prietors of the remaining factories have re-
duced wages 10 per cent.
A New Orleans dispatch reports
serious break In the Mississippi levee above
that city. The waters were pouring through
in torrents, and al efforts to mend 1t had
proved unavailing. Small breaks had APP
peared at other points. The Tennessee River
at Chattanooga had overhowed and railroad
traffic In that vicinity was interrupted
Five men employed in the construc-
ton of a railroad in Pyle Canon, Union Coun-
ty, Ore, were caught under "A mass of earth
and rock and instantly killed.
A party of ten prospectors who re-
Gently left Rathdrum, on the Northern Pacific
Road, for the CPur d'Alene mines, are be-
lieved to have persisted in the snow, as
they have not been heard from for thirteen
days.
A. M. Gibson testified before Mr..
Sprlnger's committee relative TO his connec-
ton with the star-route investigation. He
said he had received $4,000 for his services as
counsel, and that II was small compensation
in comparison to what was paid to other par
ties. The witness further testified that in
prosecuting the star-route men the Govern
ment took the most complicated case, when
II was its business TO take the simplest and
plainest case. Continuing, Mr.. Gibson said:
AFTER Brewster was made Attorney General
he said the duties of his Office were so en-
crossing that he could not give time to cases
of this kind. He had been in the case be-
fore simply TO make an argument as to the
legality of filing an information. That's all
he did, and for this he received $4,000"
Because of the occupation of Merv,
Russi,. will establish legation at Cabul.
Advices from Tonquin state that Gen.
Milot, commander of the French forces, has
advanced in the direction of Bac Mini.