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

Recent rains have greatly improved
the Kansas corn crop, and 1t is now predicted
that the yield will be large beyond precedent.
A fire broke out in the city of Anoka,
Mimi, about twenty miles from Minneapolis,
and before the flames were subdued the en-
tire business portion of the city, the High
School building, three banks, two Touring
mills, an elevator, and several other lmpor-
tant structures were destroyed. The fire
spread with extraordinary rapidly, and de-
fed every effort to stop its progress. The
heat was intense, ana many were Frustrated
while trying to subdue the flames. The
losses are estimated at Sl,OOO,OOO. w. ID.
Washburn g. Co., are the heaviest sufferers.
Mr.. Hiram Price has rendered his
resignation as Indian Commissioner. He
does not care to live at Washington, where
he would hc separated from his family.
A lightning and rain storm visited
Pittsburgh and Allegheny City, cellrrs being
flooded and buildings blown down or
wrecked by lightning. Water in some places
was two feet deep in the streets, and the
damage will be heavy.
Tom Griffin, notorious Cherokee
outlaw, was shot dead at Eufaua while per-
petrating burglary.
The cotton counties of Arkansas sur
prised the statistlcians by reporting an ag
gregate yield of 100000 bales.
Ex-senator John Pool, of North Car
DINA, died suddenly at Washington, ID. c., of
apoplexy. He was Senator from 1868 to
1873.
Seventy-eight buildings, comprising
two-thirds Of the business portion of Grena-
da, Miss, were destroyed by fire. The loss
is estimated at 100000. The insurance is
about S65, coo.
Lord Dufferin has assured the Sui
tan that Lord Northbrook's mission to Egypt
does not indicate any change in England's
Egyptian policy.
Visitors to London from India are
said TO have recently imported in their bag
gage large numbers of mosquitoes of very
poisonous character. They are causing much
annoyance to the Londoners.
The American Board of Foreign
Missions makes an appeal for 500, 050 during
August, to keep up its work.
Sixteen deaths from yellow fever have
occurred Mt Hermosillo, Mexico, and cases
are reported at five adjacent cities. The
disease apparently originated in germs re-
naming dormant since last year.
Warren p. Sutton, Consul General
to Mexico, reports u large emigration across
the Rio Grande, and states that $50 900, 900 of
American capital has been invested in rail-
roads, ranches and mining in Northern Mex
leo within few years.
Roscoe Conkliug, in a letter refusing
an election as honorary member of the Al
bany Plumed Knights, says:
w. r. Nichols, Secretary: Noting yours, and
thanking you for the offer of an honorary mem
bership of the political organization referred to,
must ask you to excuse me. / am quite out
of.politics, and don't wish i'll any way to be
drawn into the pending canvass. Your obedient
servant, Roscoe CoNKLING."
Alsop and Graves, the ringleaders of
the gang that broke Jail at Frankfort, n.y.,
recently, were discovered about nine miles
from Lexington. AEeputy Sheriff and posse
went in pursuit. The convicts resisted, and
killed George Cassela, farmer, in whose
field they were found, and who had but just
Joined the posse Both the scoundrels were
then shot dead, the members of the pursuing
party evidently not caring to capture them
alive.
The Executive Committee of the Anti
Monopoly party assembled in Chicago last
week and nominated Gen. A. NJ. West, of
Mississippi, for Vice President 1t was re-
solved to issue an address urging vigorous
efforts in close Congressional districts, and a
union of all the Butler forces, under the
title of the Peop'e's party, was advocated.