The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1884-03-27
LATER NEWS ITEMS.

Tho slaughter-houses in Jersey City
and Hoboken, employing 200 butchers, have
been forced to close on account OF tho COM
petition of dressed beef from Chicago.
Frank l.. Chamberlain, of Cleveland,
has perfected u machine capable OF charging
1,5oo shotguns Per hour. A company TO
manufacture the invention has been formed
with a capital of s25, 200.
In the case of o. A. Carpenter, the
Lincoln banker. tried for the murder of Fora
Burns, the jury at Petersburg. ILL.,, returned
verdict of mot guilty" This was expected
Carpenter was approached, after the trial,
for an interview. The only statement he had
to mako was: al am innocent. / was at
home the Sunday night the murder was COM
mitted. was treated fairly by the press.
Some papers excoriated me, but 1 could not
blame them. do not care at present 10 talk
more about the case"
An Associated Press dispatch from
Neosho Falls, Kan, says: 1.-The veterinary
surgeons here investigating the cattle dis
ease are now positive that they have discov-
cred the source OF the trouble, and all agree
that IL is not epizootic aphtha lacking many of
tho important symptoms of that disease. It is
not lack of care, neither Is 1t alkali water 1t
IS no contagious disease. DIR. Salmon says
that as soon as he saw the cattle he thought
of ergot, and they proceeded TO examine the
hay. This had not been done before. They
found it to contain a large amount OF wild
rye which was full OF ergot. The surgeons
all say they never saw one-twcntloth part so
much ergot In bunch of feed. The theory
Is that the ergot, by contracting the blood
vessels and otherwise retardlng the circula-
ton in the extremities, caused the feet to
freeze. This ends the great scare.
Bishop 81. II. Kavanaugh, of An
chorage, Ky, ono Of the ablest of the college
Of bishops OF the Methodist Episcopal Church
South, died recently while on a pastoral
visit TO Columbus. Miss. He was aged SO
years. He had been minister of the Cos
pei for upward OF sixty years, and was
ordained Bishop in 1854. He had been
tensely. His last hour was peaceful;
Madame Anna Bishop, once famous on both
sides of the Atlantic as an operate singer,
died of apoplexy In New York, where for
many years she had lived in retirement. She
was born in London in 1Sl6; Godfrey Weitzel,
whom Gen. 2utler promoted from Lieutenant
to Brigadier General at New Orleans and
who since the war has been Lieutenant
Colonel In the Engineer Corps, passed
away at New York. Other deaths:
George Fuller. landscape and portrait
painter of Boston; Edward b. Watkinson,
President OF the Connecticut Trust Company;
Count Adelberg, a distinguished Russ an
statesman, aged Oh; Judge Thatcher, of the
Supreme Court of Colorado; Buena Ventura
Baez, ex-President of Santo Domingo
Willis S. Webb, retired banker Of Indian
apolis; Mrs. Sally Talmadse, tho oldest lady in
Rockford Miss Fannie Mosher, a resident OF
Dowagiac Mich, for half a century; ex-State
Senator Nathan II. Bitely, OF Lawton, Mich,
one of the most prominent fruit-growers in
the West; Admiral Lessofoky, commander of
the Russian squadron In the American
waters during the civil war; L. L. Warner,
MISUNDERSTANDING of Louisville,
KY. Charles Laugheimer, known as "Dick-
ems Dutchman," who had served fifty years
in conviot's cell at Philadelphia; Col. Nor
man Curtis, the oldest Freemasou In Illinois,
at Rockford; DIR. Ezra Abbot, Of Boston,
noted for his great Biblical and historical
learning; Rev. Henry Morgan, OF Boston, for
twenty-five years the relentless enemy OF
gambling and the social OWL
In the House of Representatives, March %,
favorable reports were made on bills to estab-
lish an assay Office a Deadwood and for the
return of the rem inder of the Chinese indem-
nity fund, and adversely to reduce lifetime
patent, TO five years. A resolution was adopted
callins for infor nation TO the lease OF grounds
in Yellowstone Park, and what provision was
made for the preservation of fish and game The
Senate was not in session.