The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1884-08-28
LATER NEWS ITEMS.

A small cyclone struck Dallas, Texas,
tearing deep hole and carrying a column
Of sand two feet in diameter TO height of
500 feet.
Jacob Romeis, Mayor of Toledo, has
been nominated by the Republicans for Con-
gross, in opposition TO Frank III. Hurd. VIII
son Cramer has been put forward by the
same party in the Fourteenth District Of
Missouri
There were seventeen deaths from
yellow fever at Havana last week.
Sir John A. Macdonald condemns the
Wyoming cattle scheme of the Frewen bro
theirs ms fraught with the greatest danger to
Canadian farmers and stock-raisers.
In the National League baseball
contest the week ended with Providence still
in the lead, having won 60 games. The rec
ord of the other clubs was; Boston, SO; New
York and Buffalo, AZ each; Chicago 40; Cleve-
land, 30; Philadelphia, 20; and Detroit, 10.
The saw mills of Little & Peck and
G. w. Peck Son, at Duluth, valued at
500, 900, were destroyed by fire.
Samuel Lilly, John Asks, and
Charles Nation went skiff-riding on Lake
Contrary, six miles south of st. Joseph, Mo.
They got into fight, the boat was upset, and
all were drowned.
Oil has been struck at Ellsworth,
Pa, which has created great excitement
thereabout.
A train on the New York and New
England Railroad was thrown Off the track
near Quinebaug, Conn. One smoker and a
passenger car fell down an embankment a
distance of twenty feet. Many passengers
were seriously injured,
Fennimore Clayton, q farmer of Mid
dlctown, n. Y, afflicted with delirium ire
mems, took his 2-year-old son into the yard
and shot him through the brain. He next at
tempted the life Of his wife and his mother,
who knocked him senseless with a baseball
bat.
The expedition for the relief of Khar-
toum will include five thousand British
troops, under command of Gen. Butler. The
last battalion can not leave Cairo before
Nov. 1.
The works of Herbert Spencer, Emile
lola, and Prof. Huxley are forbidden in Rus
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STA.
The visit of the ENJOYS of King John
of Abyssinia to Lon lon, which was expected
to be great event, has fallen fiat. Their
presence has been completely ignored by the
notables.
Gladstone is enjoying his recess at
his home at Hawarden.
Capt. Renard, a Frenchman, is said
TO have invented a cigar-shaped balloon which
is as easily directed i'm the air as n steam
launch in the water. The English, Russian,
and German Governments are trying to find
out the secret of Capt. Renard's invention.
The American Consul General at
Genoa reports that cholera has broken out at
Spezia. and that forty-nine deaths have
occurred. Marseillcs shows fourteen fatal
cases and Toulon five, caused by the return
of refugees.
After three hours bombardment by
Admiral Courbets squadron the Chinese
arsenal at Foo Chow was destroyed. Seven
/ Chinese gunboats were sunk and two escaped
/ Only one Chinese battery replied to the
French guns. The French fleet sustained nc
damage.
A mob near Lincoln, Neb., took
from the officers and hanged to a tree {
Mexican charged with assaulting girl He
had been identified by his victim and made {
full confession. Near Gainesville, Tex, the
citizens took from the Sheriff and riddleC
with bullets an old man charged with burn
ing some wheat-stacks and thrasher. HI
was dragged from bed in his shirt and al
lowed FIVE minutes for prayer.