The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1884-08-21
WESTERN.

The Wall Street Bank of New York
closed its doors on account of the loss of
100000 or more through loans on insufficient
colateras, for which Cashier Dickinson is
blamed. 1t recently stepped out Of the ma
tional banking system. The teller has for
some time been under indictment for the
overcertihcation of checks. The concern
holds S1,25O, 600 in deposits.
1t is probable that the window-glass
factories at Pittsburgh, Pa, will extend the
usual period of suspension 1.-TWO months) this
year. They had agreed to open the LIST of
September, but prices are so low that it is
deemed advisable not to begin operations I'M
til the middle of September or the LIST of oc-
tober
The base ball club of Grand Rapids,
Mich, standing four games ahead of its ri
walls in the Northwestern League, having lost
$4,000 this season, has disbanded. Five of it's
members will join the Detroit club.
One portion of the Minnesota State
Capitol Building at st. Paul has been pro-
nounced unsafe and persons prohibited from
entering it. The walls are sinking, the plas-
ter has cracked in many places, and the joists
are sagging. Efforts are being made to pre-
vent its falling and to put it in q perfectly
safe condition.
Three children were burned to death
in barn near Circleville, Ohio. They went
to the barn to smoke, and set fire to the
structure.
A skiff containing four men capsized
opposite Bellaire, Ohio, and Walter Tunney
and Patrick Dixon we're drowned.
In Mayfeld Township, near Syca-
more, ILL.,, Louis Taylor, a hired man, shot
and killed Florence Mitchell, II years old, and
then set fire to her clothing. The murderer
then went to a creek near by, plunged in,
and then shot himself through the heart. The
theory is that he made improper advances,
was repulsed, and in his rage killed the girl,
and then, fearing lynching, he committed
suicide.
Near Iowa City, Iowa, two brewers
were on trial for violating the liquor law,
when the mob, iniamed by whisky, seized
the Prosecuting Attorney, stripped him Of his
clothing, and tarred and feathered him. A
Constable who interfered was seriously cut.
The rioters then went to Iowa City, awed
the town officers, and attempted to kill the
principal prosecuting witness and his brother.
Reports received from various points
I'm Dakota and Minnesota indicate that har-
vesting is progressing very satisfactorily.
The weather is quite favorable. The wheat
and rye crops are good. Wheat will yield an
average of sixteen bushels per acre, and in
some places the yield will be about twenty
five bushels. Rye yields about thirty bush
els to the acre. The barley crop is excellent.
Several head of cattle, infected with
Texas fever, have been killed by the author
tiles at Clinton, Ill.
A fire in the eastern part of Cincin-
natl destroyed the saw-mill of Hinton &
Cole, the cattle-sheds of the Miami Road, and
ten frame dwellings, the losses aggregating
$4,000.
Oliver Dalrymple, the noted Dakota
farmer, says he will harvest 80, 900 acres of
wheat this year, and that the average yield
will be about nineteen bushels per acre.
Gov. Murray, of Utah, has asked
that troops be used 10 drive back from San
Juan County Utes from Colorado, who have
killed two men, burned and destroyed prop
erty, and threaten other outrages. All the
whites in the valley have been expelled by
the marauding Indians.