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The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1884-06-26

The Canadian Department of Gus
toms refused to citizens of Kentucky per-
mission to take whisky into the Dominion
and then export it to New York.
A resolution has been proposed in the
Toronto (Ont) Board of Trade, urging the
Dominion Government TO increase the tariff
on American -four, so as TO protect the Cana
dian millers. The resolution will be debated
at the next meeting of the Board. The tariff
now is so cents on the barrel. The proposal
is to increase 1t TO IS cents.
The Ohio Supreme Court rendered
decisions on the Scott law, declaring the Sec
ton of the act, providing for lien on real
estate tenanted by liquor Dealers to cover
the tax, unconstitutional, but refusing to
say whether the entire statute is valid, claim.
ing that that question has not been presented
in the cases under consideration.
In O horse-race at Pittsburgh the
judges awarded the contest to Ascender,
when 1t was claimed that Brunswick finished
q full head in front. An attempt was made
to mob the judges stand, but the police
curbed the outbreak.
1t is reported that fourteen laborers
were killed by a pr emature blast on the Tam
pico branch of the Mexican Central Road.
Philip Emery, q member of the
Salvation Army, who became crazed through
religious excitement, drowned himself at
Guelph, Ontario.
S. M. May g. Co., wholesale paint
dealers of Montreal since the commencement
of the century, have failed. Their liabilities
are si2o,OO0, and they offer creditors 20 per
cent
Bishop Matthew Simpson, of the
Methodist Episcopal Church, breathed his
last ut Philadelphia, after lingering illness,
at the close of his seventy-third year.
Fire swept away two hotels and six
stores at Braddock, Pa, valued at $4,000,
and hotel and two business buildings at
Bradford, in the same State. Renton's hinge
factory ut Pittsburgh was also burned. The
explosion of 40 carboys of sulphuric acid
ut the chemical works of Marsh g. Harwood,
in Cleveland, caused damage of $4,000.
The steam saw-mill of the North
Shore Lumber Company, at Parry Harbor,
Ontario, valued at 500, Ooc, was destroyed by
fire.
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Two Men Burned and Theater De-
strOyed.

A special telegram from Leadville, Colo,
says: About o'clock this morning q fire
broke out in the Zoo Theater, three-story
brick building on State street, and spread
with such rapidity that the whole building,
with three or four frame houses, was de-
stroyed before the flames could be controlled.
During the confagration two firemen,
named j. w. Mallory and Charles Sawyer,
were caught by falling wall. Sawyer
was with difficulty rescued from his peril
Gus position after being badly burned, and
he will probably die. Mallory persisted in
the ruins, and his charred body was found
about s o'clock this morning. A miner
named McCune was also caught by falling
walls and burned to DEATH His body was
recovered about noon to- day. The build
ing originally cost about $4,000. The to-
tai loss isl about 49, O0, with little or no
insurance. The fire is supposed to have
been the work of an incendiary.
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The Indiana WAY.

A minister, residing in town in In
diana, was hurriedly sent for one day
to conduct the services over the re-
mains of farmer to be buried from
his home in the country. Inthe hurry
and excitement, added to the fact that
his buggy broke down on the trip, the
good man arrived at the last moment.
Without waiting to hold any extended
conversation with the friends of the
deceased, he led in singing a hymn, and
then began:
Death comes to all. Though the
deceased was stricken down in the
bloom of life, she -"
ut was the old man." whispered one
of the friends at the minister's elbow.
although in the prime of life, he
knew that death was liable to come
at -"
"He wasn't in his prime, but was
seventy years old" whispered the
friend.
Although he was an old man," re-
sumed the clergyman, after swallowing
a lump in his throat, "he will be greatly
missed by his large circle of friends
and relations. Death -"
Didn't have friend or relation ex-
cept the old woman" put in the man.
Although, as 1 said, he may not be
missed in his home," said the now
thoroughly embarrassed minister, "his
church will sadly realize the vacancy.
He joined the Baptist Church at an
early -"
always trained with the Metho-
dists!" whispered the friend.
HE joined the Methodist Church
years ago, and has ever been an ex-"
only jined last winter"
HE was good man." observed the
clergyman with great effort. "He died
full of faith that he -"
"He isn't dead at all - he's only in a
trance" yelled one of the crowd nearest
the coffin, and the next moment the old
man sat up on end, looked around for q
minute, and then called out:
Must be mighty near time to feed
them hogs somebody bring my
breeches and boots"
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WESTERN.

John Gallagher, formerly hotel-keep-
lynched Mt walmsville, NJ. T. He fired on
the Sheriff and posse who went to arrest him
for counterfeiting, when the mob took and
hanged him to a tree.
Considerable alarm exists on the Pa
cif1c Slope over the increased immigration
from China. The Chinese immigration so far
this year exceeds by 400 the total immigra-
ton for the whole year OF 1883. 1t is be-
lieved that very large number have been
admitted on fraudulent certificates, while
many afflicted with the smallpox and other
diseases have been allowed TO land through
lack of vigilance on tho part of the Custom
House officers.
Mai. E. r. Plat, Assistant Adjutant-
General of the United States army, on the
staff of Brig.-Gen. Augur, died ut Leaven-
worth, Kan, from the effects of stroke of
apoplexy.
Miss Lizzie Spencer, of Faribault,
Mimi, lost her reason by excessive applica-
tion at school, and wandered about the sub
urbs all night until found by searching
party.
Gen. Sherman intimates that he may
be compelled to remove from ST. Louis,
where he has again been pestercd by water
inspectors. They reported him for using a
lawn hose, and he showed that the water
came from his cistern.
The wife of Bishop Warren has given
TO the University of Denver 100000 to es-
tablish the Iliff School of Divinity. The lady
will be remembered as the widow of cattle
king.
Miss Alice M. Wells, of Boston,
while inspecting the machinery ut Armour &
Dole's elevator, at Chicago, had her dress
caught in the machinery, was pulled in, and
instantly crushed to death. Those who 40
companied her were unable to give any as
sistance.
The capacity of the pumps in the
Chicago Water Works is 100, 600, 900 gallons
per day. With the mild weather now pre-
vailing the consumption reaches $4,000, 600
gallons.
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WASHINGTON.

Chief Nimmo, of the Bureau of Sta
tistics, has submitted n report to Secretary
Folger, urging the Improvement of the Gal
weston harbor on the ground OF its national
importance.
Nearly 5000 citizens of North Caro-
lima assembled at Greensboro, 20 celebrate
the opening of the Cape Fear Road, which has
completed 100 miles.
Secretary Frelinghuysen has informed
Congressman Curtin, of tho House Commit
tee on Foreign Affairs, that he will present to
that body in confidence correspondence show
ing the necessity for the item of $3.50, 600
recommended to be added to the consular
and diplomatic appropriation. The money,
IL is generally understood, is required
to insure the control or tho Unted
States over the proposed waterway across
the Isthmus OF Panama along the Nicaragua
route. Capt. Eads, of jetty fame, is oppos-
ing the appropriation, and accuses those
who are advocating IL OF personal dishon-
esty.
In the town of Pendleton, South
Carolina. is half-shetland pony 81 years Of
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Paid with His Life.
Sandwich (ont.) telegram.

sandwich (Ont.) telegram
Luke Phipps was hanged here this NORM
ing for the murder of his wife last August.
Only few people witnessed the execution,
and Phipps, who behaved coolly throughout:
the proceedings, addressed them briefly.
When the trap fell few minutes after 10,
the murderer's neck was broken, and it is
believed he died almost instantly. AS soon
rs his heart ceased to beat physicians made
experiments with a galvanic battery, but
although they succeeded in making the
breast heave, no sign of heart beat was
observable.
Phipps, who was Detroit bartender
had been separated from his wife, and on.
Aug. 10, while ciazed with liquor, met her
on the steamer Hope while crossing from.
Detroit to Windsor. He at once drew re-
volver and shot her three times, the woman,
dying before she reached the Canadian
shore. After desperate struggle the muir
derer was overpowered and lodged in Jail at
Sandwich, but escaped Nov. %, in company
with another murderer, and made his way
to Pullman, Ill He was arrested at the lat
ter place, and made every effort to avoid ex-
tradition, but the adverse decision of Com
missioner Hoyne was sustained by Attor-
ney General Brewster, and Phipps was re-
turned to Sandwich in April. He was tried
and sentenced on the same day, the jury be-
ing out about half an hour.
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Lost at Sea.
philadelphia telegram. ]


The brig G. p. Sherwood, of st. John,
n. B.. arrived at this port May from Bar
bados with cargo of sugar. As the West
India trade was dull, it was thought advis-
able to send her with cargo of 600 tons of
anthracite coal, valued at 50, 400, to Halifax,
N. S. While the Sherwood was lying here
Mrs. Taylor, the wife of the captain, came
on from st. John and decided to go
home on the vessel. June the vessel
sailed, having on board ten persons all
told, consisting of Capt. Robert d. Taylor,
his wife and brother, Daniel Taylor,
first mate Dorson Stevens, second mate
name unknown, Steward George Gittiffe
(colored). seaman Nicolas Mcmillan and
Joseph Nicholson, the latter living at 1879
Huntingdon, Philadelphia, and two other
seamen names unknown. No tidings were
heard of her until to-day, when the mate,
Dorson Stevens, arrived at New York on
the Spanish bark Rafael, and reported that
the Sherwood foundered ut sea the night Of
June IA, and all were lost except himself,
who took to boat and was picked up the
next day by the bark Rafael The Sher-
wood was double decked brig of 400 tons
register, and was built at Rockland, n. B.,
in 1870.
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SOUTHERN.

An injunction was issued at Louis.
vile to restrain the Supreme Lodge, knights
of Honor, from transferring their headquar
ters from Kentucky to st. Louis.
G. @. Morris, of Greensburg, KY,
left his home on horseback, and was soon
found dead on the road, with six bullets in
his body.
The boiler of the saw-mill of Jack
son g. Sears, near Bolton, w. Va, exploded,
killing two men and fatally injuring three
others.
The cotton firm of Gardner e. Yates,
OF Mobile, has suspended payment on $685.
900 Of liabilities.
On behalf of the cattle ranchers of
Montana, the Canadian Minister of Customs
has agreed to relax the regulations SO as to
allow cattle from the Western States to be
carried through the Canadian territory in
bond for export.
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POLITICAL.

The Thirteenth Illinois District Dem
ocrats met Mt Springfield and rcnominated
the Hon. William M. Springer for Congress
| by reclamation.
In the New York Democratic State
Convention at Saratoga tho differences OF
opinion among the various sections Of the
New York Democracy were settled and har-
mony secured by allowing Tanmany thirty
one delegates In the national convention, the
County Democracy thirty-one, and Irving
Hall ten. The convention did not instruct
its representatives at Chicago but they
are believed to stand AZ for Cleve.
land, IA for Fowler, and for Bayard. The
delegates-at-large are Daniel Manning, Ed
ward Cooper, Lester ID. Faulkner, and John
G. Jacobs. Among the district delegates are
August Belmont John Kelly, and Abram
S. Hewitt.
Samuel f. Pingree was nominated
! for Governor by tho Vermont Republi, an
State Convention, +. ]. Ormsbee for Lieu
tenant Governor, and w. III. Dubois for State
Treasurer.
Mai. Il. A. Burke, Senator Jonas, A.
delegates-at-large TO the Chicago convention
by the Louisiana Democracy, which declared
generally for the cd principles Of the party,
but for a tariff for the encouragement of
home industries and home production.
The Illinois Prohibitionists, in con.
vention at Bloomington, nominated for Gov
ernor ]. ID. Hobbs, ex-President OF the Chi
~ 40 da-
clare that both the old parties have
persstently disregarded the interests
of the people in refusing to redress
manifest evils; that all laws
licensing the sale OF intoxicants
should he abrogated, and regard with disdain
the proposition to educate children with the
proceeds of the sale of liquor. The plat
form also expresses a belief in the civil and
political equality OF woman, favors State
supported schools, and opposes the convict
labor system.
Congressman VIM. II. Calkins was
nominated for Governor of Indiana by tho
Republican State Convention, which met at
indianapolis. Resolutions were adopted ia
voring the administration of charitable,
educational, and benevolent institutions re-
CARELESS Of politics.; condemnng the system
of prison contract labor; and advocating
extreme care in reference TO the sanitary
condition of mines.
The Democrats of the Second Dis
trict of North Carolina nominated f. A.
Woodward for Congress. II. Taylor, a law
yer of Carrollton, Ohio. has been nominated
by the Republicans of that Congressional
District
Ex-senator S. G. Pomeroy, of Kan
sas, has been nominated for President of the
the United States by the American (Anti-
Secret Society party. John A. Coutant. of
Willmantic, Conn.,, is the nominee for Vice
President. The platform adopted by the con-
vention at Chicago demands the prohibition
of the manufacture and sale of intoxicating
drinks; that the charters OF all secret lodges
granted by Federal or State Legislatures
should be withdrawn; that land and other
mono. olies should be discouraged and the
abolition of electoral colleges and direct
vote for President and Vice President of the
United States.
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CLIPPINGS.

THERE are thirty professional fortune
tellers in Chicago.
1T costs not less than S33, 900, 600 annu-
ally to support the dogs of the United
States.
THERE is boy in Detroit who reioices
in the name of Bjoernstjerne Bjoerson
Bjones.
QUEEN VICTORIA is about to have life
size bronze statue of John Brown placed in
the hall at Balmoal.
THREE HUNDRED pounds of honey was
obtained from bee-tree recently cut near
Chehalis, Montana.
AMONG the brass bands that participated
in the semi-centennial in Rochester, n. Y,
was the Salamanca Indian brass band.
IN Kingston; Ulster County, N. Y, a
robin whipped n cat. The latter came too
near the nest where the bird had its young.
A PARTY Of men digging in the bed of n
dry pond near Americas, Ca, found live
alligator at the depth Of seven feet. 1t was
eight feet long and was in torpid condi-
ton.
MRS. J. r. HAwLEY is described as one
of the most remarkable women of the day.
When her husband went to the war she
went to the hospital to nurse soldiers, and
remained there through the conflict.
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NEWS CONDENSED.


s. Sommerich & Co., wholesale mil
liners of New York, have made an assign.
ment. The firm has been in business thirty
years. II failed In 1851 and compromised for
25 cents on the dollar, and failed again in
1875, when It paid 35 per cent. of liabilities
amounting to $4,000.
A statue to Simon Bolivar, the Lib
orator, was unveiled in Central Park, New
York, before large concourse of Spanish
Americans.
The suspension is announced of Car
hart, Whitney g. Co., the heaviest clothing.
house I'm New York, with liabilities of 81, 000,-
600. Pearce & Hall, fur hat manufacturers
of the same city, have made an assignment.
After suffering for many years FROM
a wound received i'm battle Gen. William
McCandless died in Philadelphia, in his fftloth
year.
In the legal proceedings against Pas
tor Newman, of the Madison Avenue Congre-
gational Church at New York, a final order
was made restraining him from acting rs
pastor, from presiding at meetings, from
receiving salary since March 81 last, and
from proceeding with the reorganization of
the church.
Commodore Garrison has made an
assignment at New York, giving preferences
for S63l 900. His counsel states the trouble
was caused by notes being protested on Sc
curitles, of which Garrison possesses a large
amount, and which are almost unmarketaDle
at present. The amount involved by the as
sgnment is placed at 100000.
James r. Keene, of New York, is
giving notes TO his creditors which guaran-
tee the payment of all that he owes them at
some future date.
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DEPOSITS AND SECURITIES.
Concerning Middleton & Co, the
Washington Banhers-An In
junction Applied For.
Washington special.l

The local bank failures here are worse
than had been anticipated. The filing of
bill for an injunction against the private
banking house of Squiers 4 Co. has resulted
in the disclosure of some peculiar facts.
When the writ was served yesterday meet
ing of creditors was being held at the
bank, and Judge Edmunds, District
Commissioner, was endeavoring to explain
TO the creditors that a small safe in the
Office was his private property, which he
had stored there because he had not room
for 1t at his house. This circumstance, to-
gether with many others, has given rise to
the rumor that Judge Edmunds is partner
| in this enterprise. Fhe cashier is reported
to have said that the small safe contains
army and navy vouchers. Judge Edmunds
denies that he has any connection with the
firm. Squiers' business consisted almost
exclusively in loaning money to clerks and
army and navy officers at excessive rates of
interest
Some extraordinary disclosures are being
made as to the Middleton failure. The
Evening Star has the following:
One of the latest developments of the
way in which their customers were plum
dered is shown in the case of James II. Nc
he1iney, Clerk Oh the supreme court OF the
United States. Mr.. Mckinney had been
the close friend from boyhood of d. w.
Middleton, Jr., and succeeded Mr.. Middle
ten, ST., as Clerk of the court and his con-
fidence was therefore unbounded in Mid
dleton, Jr. His deposits in securities and
money with the firm amounted TO the large
sum of SCI, 900, every dollar of which is
lost. They not only took his money in
the general default, but cut open the
envelopes in which he had placed
his securities, such as bonds and
stocks, for safe keeping, and sold them. Mr..
Mckinney has nothing but the plundered en-
velopes to show for the savings of life
time, though part of this amount belonged
to the court In another instance $4,000
in trust bonds have disappeared in the
whirlpool. There is still another aggravat-
ed case. They had power of attorney from
a man of means absent from the city to at
tend to his business here, and had the key
to his safe. On hearing of their failure this
gentleman hurried to the city to look after
his own securities. He found that every
one had been sold. His safe was not in the
Middleton bank. Gen. Frank Morey, of
Louisiana, one of the committee of credit
ors, loses about $4,000.
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of Cork caused the discovery OF quantity
OF arms and ammunition which had been
buried near the barracks.
Three Italian workmen have been
arrested ut Pola, Austria, for stealing dyna-
mite from the arsenal.
An incendiary conspiracy which has
been developed In Berlin is said to have been
aided by contributions from the United
States. Notice is sent out from Berlin that
II the suspicion proves true immediate action
viii be ~ en- by the German representative
at Washington.
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FOREIGN.

DIR. John Gustavus Droysen, Pro-
fessor of History at the University of Berlin,
is dead. He was born i'm Pomerania July 9,
1905.
Several factories at Warsaw and
other manufacturing centers of Poland
have been searched, and many workjngmen
have been arrested on the charge of being
anarchists.
The fear of dynamite in London is SO
great that tho gates of the palace yard are
now locked at night after the sittngs OF Par
lament.
Information furnished to the police
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HERE AND THERE.

Two MORE Maine towns, Dover and Fox
croft, have returned to local time.
LUCKY BALDWIN, the San Francisco.
millionaire, has married Miss Bennett, 90
years old.
SEVEN of the jury who condemned John
Brown to deah are still living, and their
ages average 40 years.
A HEN at Greenville, Cal, sat on lot of
eggs in an out-building while the stru cture.
was burning, and came out all right.
COMPETENT milroad men estimate the
loss to the various lines in Texas incurred;
during the recent floods at g, 200, 900.
Two western inventors have recently OBJ.
tanned patents for the use of sawdrst in.
stead of sand in plastering compositions.
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Four Fishermen Drowned.
Portland (Oregonl dispatch. ]

NOiSGohl uiSphONhJ
A special from Astoria, Oregon, states
that four men engaged in salmon fishing
were drowned near Columbia River and
swept out by the tide to the open sea and
lost The loss of life by drowning among
fishermen this season has been very heavy
The season is not much more than half
over, and it is estimated that between thirty
and forty have been carried out to sea and
persisted. Many have been lost and no re-
port ever made of the accident.
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age. which was presented by nm English
nobeman TO a citizen OF Charleston. The
animal was originally black, but its head has
turned white from age.
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A Terse Answer.

An enterprising boot-black was dis
playing his abilities on his own pedal
extremities, and had succeeded remark
ably we'll in obtaining patent
leather" shine on each of his brogans.
He had neglected, however, to give a
coat of blacking to the heels, and on
being questioned concerning the omis-
sion replied:
"A good soldier never looks behind.
Carl Pretzeps Weekly
A FRENCHMAN has discovered and pat.
n,.f. 49,. l.
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IN Zacatlan, Mexico, Peddlers' Protec-
tive Association is being formed.
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CREMATION is an established usage in.
japan, the oldest empire in the world.