The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1884-11-06

A fire along the wharves of Lubec,
Me-, destroyed $4,000 worth of property.
The Willow Springs distillery prop
erty at Omaha was totally destroyed by fire.
Loss, S25, 900.
The National White Lead Works at
Willow Grove, Pa, were ruined by fire.
The Office of the Montreal Herald is
in the hands of it's creditors, whose claims
aggregate $4,000. C.. II. Ccrdingly g. Co.,
liquor importers, of that city, have made an
ass gnment. A petition in bankruptcy was
filed at Oakland, Cal, by Alexander b.
Cooper, mining SPECTATOR, who owes
$3.50. OOO The city OF Wheeling is in default
of the interest on its building loan.
A press dispatch from New Iberia,
La, gives the following particulars of a
bloody ARRAY at Republican meeting day
or two before the election: Judge Fontelieu
and eight or ten others left here for Louis
vile to hold political meeting i'm the inter-
est of Kellogg. After the crowd had assem-
bled, n disturbance was created by persons
halloong "Hurrah for Gay" Joseph Gull
faux rushed to the scene of the trouble,
and was fired at, the bail passing through
his hat. He returned the fire. At that
moment there was a general row, and Capt.
Bell prominent sugar planter and Demo-
crat, and Joseph Guilfaux, u leading Gay
man, and Oliver Boutte (colored), Il Kellogg
supporter, from New Iberia, were killed
outr ght The wounded, as far as known,
are: Jules Messenger, Republican candidate
for Sheriff last spring, thigh broken; ex-
Sheriff r. Viator, shot twice in the abdomen.
About dozen others were slightly wounded.
Six negroes were killed so far as known. The
perpetrators were surrounded and kept under
guard until the Sheriff arrived to arrest them.
A courier was then dispatched to New Iberia,
and in few minutes after he arrived the
town was in the widest excitement All sa-
looms were closed by order of the Mayor.
Fifty or seventy-five men from here left I'M
der order from the Sheriff for the scene of
trouble. All were armed with double. barreled
shotguns aid rifles. They arrested Fontelieu
and Adolph Benvenu, and five white men,
who are now in the parish jail under heavy
guard. 1t is said Thousand shots were fired
simultaneously.
A Dresden (Tenn.) dispatch says that
lul ioIs VIM pOlooucu HNc men Win cuutuu-
rides near Pillowville, Weakly County, from
which two have died, was taken from jail
and lynched. Twenty. five or thirty masked
men walked into Dresden, and with sledge
hammers broke down the doors of Taylors
cell. Taking him out, they carried him about
half mile from town and shot him to pieces.
The mob was sober and orderly. Taylor was
n cousin of Andy Taylor, the notorious East
Tennessee desperate.
The cry of Fire" was raised in the
Star Thcater at Glasgow. In the rush to
escape sixteen persons were killed and
twenty others were wounded.
A gas vein with flame of fifty feet
was struck at Cannonsburg, Pa.
The members OF the Providence
Baseball Club, who won the championship,
have each been presented by the manage
ment with gold badge and an order for
new suit of clothes.
The lumber shipments from Saginaw
have been 1000, 90 feet more this year than
last.
A passenger train on the Baltimore
and Ohio Road, while running at full speed,
leaped the track near Alta, Ohio. Eighteen
persons we're injured.
Judge Anthony has decided in the
Scott law tax cases in Cincinnati that where
the suit was not commenced within year of
the tint the tax was paid nothing can be re-
covered. Hamilton County is interested in
the decision to the amount of 100000.
In street duel at New Orleans, John
Duffy killed Edward Gardner, Master Methan-
ic of the City Railway.
The Rev. DR.. Paret has been elected
to the bishopric Of Maryland.