The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1885-08-27
LATER NEWS ITEMS.
Erastus J. Shepherd has beer

Erastus j. Shepherd has been ar
rested at Laredo. Tex, charged with COM
plicIty with Aufdemorte in the thefts from
the sub-Treasurv at New Orleans. Thirty
seven hundred dollars OF the stolen money
was found on his person.
The official returns give Tate, Demo-
cratic candidate for State Treasurer of Ken
lucky, 1887 majority. This is the tenth
time he has been elected.
appointed by President Arthur is preparing
its final report, which will be submitted to
Congress at the beginning Of the next ses-
sion. Since its creation the commission has
travelled 1900 miles aud officially visited
nine countries. The report will Ill 1000 or
1900 closely printed pages.
Since June last $40, 500, 900 of gold
coin has been transported from the San
Francisco Sub-Treasury to the New York
Sub-Treasury. Absolute secrecy has been
enjoined for fear that the knowledge that
many millions OF dollars of hard cash were
being moved In railroad oars across the con-
tinent would tempt the cupidity of desperate
road-agonts and train-wreckers.
The Executive Committee of the
Knights of Labor met at Washington. and
after considering the Wabash strike, decided
TO go 70 New York to submit the grievances
Of the strikers to Jay Gould.
The apple crop in the New England
and Middle States will fall below rs per cent.
of that of an strengthening year. The
via In Tn oil md fol halO ~ a1c Of
that country.
Dutch Mormons have just held
conference at Zwolle, at which it appeared
that the Dutch are losing faith in the Lat
ter-Day Saints teachings, and that the con-
verts who go to Salt Lake are decreasing in
number.
A monster anti-German demonstra-
ton was held in Madrid last Sunday. The
speeches were severely denunciatory of
Prince Bismarck's seizure of the Caroline
Islands.
An imposing morality" demonstra-
ton took place last Saturday in Hyde Park,
London. Many vehicles, drapel IN black,
and filled with women dressed in deep mourn
ing, were in the procession. One of the carts
carried largo fac-simile of the Queens let
Ter approving the work OF the Salvation
Army in rescuing young girls from vice.
Resolutions were adopted pledging assistance
in enforcing the criminal act.
France has sent a special envoy TO
Pekin to negotiate commercial treaty with
SthSdga:
The restrictions upon the impor-
tation of hogs from. Russia into Germany
have been removed. ------~-->----.
DIR. Richard, the German explorer,
who had been reported as killed in Zanzibar,
is alive and we'll
A st. Petersburg journal says that
Russia has decided to yield her claim TO
Zulicar Pass, and denies that she has made
any agreement with Corea.
A yacht WIS run down by steamer
and sunk of Abou, Scotland, several per-
sons being drowned, including the owner,
MIR. Crossman, and wife.
A fearful massacre is reported from
Berber. The population are said to be
starving, and have seized the city treasure.
The next outbreak, IL is thought, will occur
at Algeria.
A letter written by ODonovan Rosa
10 dynamitcrs at Havre and Antwerp, urg-
ing a speedy resumption OF operations in
England, is published by London journal.
At Alexandria, Mo-, the large grain
warehouse of Million & Mason was burned,
involving loss of $4,000 on grain. The
total loss was about $4,000; insured for
$4,000.
Life-saving stations Will be estab-
lished at Sturgeon Bay Canal, Wis, and
Pentwater, Frankfort, White River, and
South Haven, Mich.