The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1885-01-08
LATER NEWS ITEMS.

The works of the Plymouth Cordage
Company. Plymouth, Mass, were burned
down, causing loss OF S4OO.OOO. on which
there is an insurance OF $500
Fire destroyed Smith & Hedges fur
niture factory, Newark, N. j.; loss $4,000.
q. s. Grant, Jr.. testified in New
YORK court that the day succeeding the col
lapse of the family banking -house, Ferdinand
Ward made TO him q full confession of his
rascaity.
Reports from different tobacco Sec
tons of Connecticut show good crop, but
Indifference on the part of manufacturers to
buy until the action OF Congress on the
Spanish treaty is known.
The Rev. DIR. Noah Hunt Schenck,
of st. AIMS Episcopal Church. Brooklyn.
died of blood poisoning, resulting from the
amputation OF a corn.
DIR. Tanszky, the well-known expert
In insanity, attempted TO kill himself and
wife In Lexin yton avenue, New York. Ills
friends have considered him OF unsound mind
for some time past.
A bare-knuckle prize-fght between
Jero McCloskey, OF Mount Pleasant, Pa and
Rosser Price, of England, took place near
Pittsburgh, Pa, resulting in favor OF Nc
Closkey. who knocked his antagonist sense
less in the tenth round.
Ex-Gov. Cobourn died at Skoehegan.
Me-, aged s2 years. He never recovered
from a severe attack OF illness received
while attending the electoral college at Au-
gusta.
American exporters should take warn
ing from the information constantly fur
nished by the State Department at Washing
ton. The Consul at Londonderry reports
steady decrease in the importation of Indian
corn from the United States, on account OF
damaged cargoes. The Consuls at Jerusalem
and Amsterdam complain of manipulations
in petroleum by Americans, causing de-
mand for the Russian product.
The Irish Republican National
League is out with an address calling on its
members to organize and prepare for victo-
ries to come.
A howl is being raised by the Govern
ment of Hayti concerning the occupation by
an American company of guano island
which Hayti claims us its own property.
Failures are reported of j. A. An
drews g. Co., tobacco dealers, of Cincinnati;
Graham, Walls Co., dry goods merchants,
of Charlottesville, Ind; Marks Brothers,
cigar manufacturers, OF East Saginaw,
Mich; Thomas ii. Phillips, Jr, a hardware
dealer. in Montreal; and Levy, Heineman &
Co., lace merchants, OF Boston.
The seats of Brown and Butterworth,
from Ohio, are to be contested; also the seat
of Romeis who beat Hurd. In the latter
case the notice has been served.
Judge Bradley of the United States
Supreme Court seems to have no idea of re-
firing, and those who hoped to succeed him
are likely to be disappointed.
The Democratic members Of Congress
are growing more liberal in the matter of
building up the navy. A Louisiana member
is advocating the appropriation of $4,000
600 for new steel-armored vessels, and others
are favoring liberal appropriations for coast
defenses.
Taxes will fall due this year on A.
594, 4O6 gallons of whisky. 1t is denied that
the opinion of the Attorney General, II car
ried into effect, will necessarily extend the
bonded period, but the whisky men say that
they will be satisfied If the intent of the
opinion ia carried out. Secretary McCulloch
is said to be in favor of extending relief to
the whisky interests Gen. Raum, ex-Com-
missioner Of Internal Revenue, says that
the plan proposed is an easy way out of the
diNculfv Tho Unitod Statpe he declares
will not lose dollar Of revenue.
News is received from Dallas, Tex.
Of the sale of the Munsen ranch in the Pan
Handle and its stock of $4,000 cattle TO w.
W. Ewing, of Kansas City, for 100000.