The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1884-10-09
LATER NEWS ITEMS.

The staff of the New York Herald
has been reorganized, and thirty nine editors
and reporters discharged.
Ira Il. Litchfeld, Boston million
afro has been duped to the amount of $780,
600 or more by Charles II. Foster, veteran
confidence operator.
An examination of the accounts of
ex-City Treasurer John w. Stout, of Newark,
N. j., now deceased, shows $40 900 unao-
counted for.
The creditors of Shaw Brothers &
Co., the Boston tanners, have agreed to ac-
cept thirty cents on the dollar. Their liabili-
ties are S7,0cO,O0).
Gustav Fox, liabilities $50, and
Emil Dalheimer. liabilities $40 600, prominent
jewellers of Cincinnati, have made assign
ments.
Senator Morgan, of Alabama, who
has just returned from a trip to California,
expresses the opinion that steel ships and
cruisers can be built on the Pacific coast at
ten per cent less than on the Atlantic sea-
board on account OF the rich iron deposits.
A passenger train on the Santa Fe
Road escaped being wrecked by a tie placed
on the track near Emporia, Kan, but
freight train which followed was broken up
and the fireman was killed.
A Northern Pacific freight train was
thrown from the track sixteen miles from
Duluth, by washout on the road, and the
locomotive, tender, and six cars of coal
hurled into tho st. Louis River. Engineer
Harter, Fireman Judkins, and Brakeman
Olson were thrown under the wre cked train
and drowned.
A case of pleuro-pneumonia devel-
oped among some cattle of the native breed
at 81. Charles, ILL.,, and the sufferer was shot
by the State Veterinarian, as was also Jer-
sey heifer. Eight horses are reported az
fiicted With CHAMBERS at Vincennes, Iowa. A
disease resembling hog cholera prevails with
fatality in the vicinity of Dubuque.
A fire in Philadelphia, originating in
Hancock's storage warehouse IN Brown street,
soon caused the destruction of that structure
and nine dwellings by falling walls the total
loss being 100000.
The Democrats of the Fourth Wis
consin District have reuominated Congress-
man Deuster. A Woman Suffrage Conven-
ton at Buffalo denounced the candidacy OF
Mrs- Lockwood. A train carrying Mr..
Hendricks TO Wheeling collided with hand
car, killing boy.
The body of George Furnival, part
ner of Percival, who was murdered in Nance
County, Nebraska, was discovered at the bot
tom of pond, making thus far five bodies
Il
of this wholesale murder is supposed TO be
II. G. Baird, who is missing, and for whose
arrest a reward of 81, goo is offered He is
supposed to have fed to New York, intend
ing to go to England, his former home.
An iron company at Chattanooga
has closed a contract for $4,000 tons of metal
for car-wheels at $50. so per ton.
The Commissioner of Internal Rev
enue announces further postponement OF
the proposed change in the method of en-
forcing the collection of taxes overdue on
distilled spirits in bond until Sept. o, 1885,
The last postponement is believed to be a
practical abandonment of the proposed
change.
There is growing probability that
the English aristocratic party will compro-
mise with the followers of Mr.. Gladstone on
the franchise bill. The Prince of Wales is act
ing as mediator. probably because he thinks
a successful attack on the House of Lords
would result in a similar assault on British
royalty.
William Hazenclever, the Socialistic
Deputy to the Imperial Reichstag, has been
expelled from Berlin.
Mr.. Henry George is about to begin
a series of lectures in Northern England and
Scotland on the naturalization OF land.