The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1884-07-24
WESTERN.

The failure Is announced of Buford
Rock Island, Ill.
The small mission town Of San Jose,
Cal. was almost totally destroyed by fire.
The loss is So. 600 and the insurance small.
When water was exhausted, claret was used
10 extinguish tho flames and prevent the
destruction OF she old mission church.
The Masonic Grand Lodge laid the
cornerstone of Nebraskas new Capitol, at
Lincoln. last week.
According to reports from the vari-
Gus counties Of California tho loss caused by
the June rains will aggregate 135, 600 tons OF
wheat, amounting TO ia per cent. Of the en-
tire crop, and 0O0,00 tons of barley, OF about
L. per cent Of the crop. A large portion of
the grain is lodged. and the harvesting will
therefore be expensive.
j. X. Armsby q Co. of Chicago, dealers
IN canned goods, who have been doing BUSH
ness of three to nine millions year, have
failed for about $500, coo.
The boiler 10 Carriers saw-mil In
Monroe County, Ind, exploded, killing three
men and fatally injuring four others.
The private banking house of Fletch-
er e. Sharpe, ut Indianapolis, suspended pay
ment last week, and made an assignment TO
William Wallace, who gave bond IN S500,O00.
The failure caused OUT @ run on other bank
ing houses. The suspension is said 10 be due
90 large advances on grain and pork paper,
on which currency could not be obtained.
Assurance is given that the assets arc ample
TO meet all claims by depositors.
Dawson Brothers, manufacturers of
mill machinery At Wilmington, Del, have
the firm has absconded.
The wife of William Scholes,
wealthy cattle dealer at Bettsville, Ohio, fed
with the hired man, Eugene Edridee. in her
husbands absence, and the latter, upon his
return home, found the decomposing body of
an infant in his deserted house.
Hiram Campbell g. Sons, who own
Ironton. Ohio, have suspended payment, with
liabilities of 100000
BY the capsizing of rowboat on the
Illinois River at Henry, H., Rev. L. q.
Thompson, the Presbyterian clergyman at
that place, his son, boy of IL, and a son of
DIR. Bishop, of Medina, N. Y, who was on "A
visit to them, were drowned.
The first carload of beer ever sent
east from California was shipped last week
from San Francisco to Chicago.
Rev. DIR. f. N. Potter, President of
Hobart College, has declined tho Bishopric OF
Nebraska to which he was recently elected.
Reports have reached Ottawa, Ont,
that foot-and-mouth disease prevails among
cattle at Helena, N. T.. and an investigation
will be made.
The members of the wrecked bank
ing firm Of Fletcher & Sharpe, of Indianap-
oils, have decided all their real-cstato TO n
trustee for the benefit of creditors, their
wives Joining In the conveyances.
Lair, one of the men on trial ut
Grand Forks, d. T., for the murder of the
Ward BOYS, has been acquitted, the verdict
causing much excitement. One OF the jury
men has been arrested. charged with perjury.
I'm that he went into the case determined that
the prisoner was not guilty.
Sewers & White, bankers at Ovid,
Mich, are Insolvent
w. +. Burget, saw-mill proprietor
near Delphi, Ind, has failed for $1,000
Thomas Brigham, farmer near
Whitewater, WIS.,, went TO the pantry at nisht
for lunch. He mistook for cusiard n plate
OF poison prepared for rats. and died In great
agony within an hour
Mr.. Shewell's new drama, Shadows
of n Great CITY," which had its first reprc-
sentstion at Mevicker's Theater, Chicago,