The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1885-09-10
LATER NEWS ITEMS.

Forty thousand persons visited Gen.
Grants tomb last Sunday. Subscriptions TO
the Grant monument fund In New York have
dropped to an average OF about 500 a day
and the hopelessncss OF raising by popular
subscription the amount originally intended
is now admitted, even by tire committee hav-
ing the enterprise in charge. 1t is said that
not ten per cent. of the committee have yet
oven visited tho rooms.
Native miners in Jefferson and Clear
field Counties, Pennsylvania. threaten vio-
lence aga INST labor imported from Hungary.
About 5000 coal miners are on strike along
the river in tho Pittsburgh district. The
Utica Steam Cotton Mills and the Mohawk
Valley Mill, employing about loo hands,
have resumed operations. Single packers
and lumber pliers at Manistee, Michigan.
struck for an increase OF wages. Tho strike
OF coal-miners in the Mahoning Valley has
ended in virtual triumph for the mon.
The cotton worm has nearly de-
Indiana's corn crop rs estimated by the State
Board of Agriculture at 10000, 00a to l50,-
600, 900 bushels Deadwood and vicinity was
visited with a snowstorm last week. The
dispatches state that the outlook for grain Is
gloomy in the extreme. Experts pronounce
the disease which Is prevailing among the
Goodwin herds near Kankakec, ILL.,,
Texas fever. Sixty cattle have already
died, and as many more are SICK Texas
fever Is said to exist in Mills and Pottawat.
TAME Counties, Iowa. Corn in portions of
nak nd
ously damaged by frost last week. Two
thirds of the cranberry crop about Berlin,
Wisconsin, was destroyed.
The President returned to Washing
ton on Monday, the eth inst, much improved
In health. Miss Cleveland is expected ut the
White House about Oct. l. A brilliant social
season is contemplated. The President has
purchased, for $4,000, fine span of Ham
bletonian horses.
United States troops were sent to
Rock Springs Wyoming the scene of "a
massacre of Chinese by miners, to preserve
order and arrest the ring-leaders. largo
number were arrested and jailed, and will be
tried for murder and arson. Thirty-four
bodies have been recovered, and it is be-
lieved as many more are buried In the
debris OF burned houses. Cinnamon ut
various points along the Union
Pacific Railroad have been ordered to leave,
and are joining the Rock Springs refugees at
Evanston. Two companies OF infantry have
been sent to Rock Springs, and ono company,
with a Calling gun, to Evanston. General
Manager Galloway, of the Union Pacific,
says that mining operat ons will not be re-
sumed in any of the camps in the disturbed
territory until all employees are assured OF
full protection.
Charles Williams, O drunken negro,
at Chattanooga, Tenn, shot and instantly
killed a street-car driver named Folk Mitch
ell. At night an Infatuated mob forced their
way into the iron-clad jail with sledgc ham,
mers and chises, and battered down the door
of Williams cell. He was dragged to the third
story OF the Jail by four of tho leaders of the
mob and a rope placed around his neck.
The assassin maintained stolid midi Ter
ence, and did not utter word. He was not
given time to pray. After he had been Sc
curely tied the rope was placed around a
beam, and he was suspended between heaven
and earth.
Cholera has made its appearance at
Novara, Parma Genoa, and other Italian
cities. In Spain the daily average number
of new cases and of deaths from the disease,
though still very large, is steadily diminish
ing. The epidemic continues at Toulon,
whero the situation is very serious.
1t is alleged that the commission
which made the indemnity awards which
were paid out of the Egyptian loan was a
farce and fraud of the worst kind, claims
being allowed for which only very shallow
pretexts existed, and far i'm excess of the
amount which should have been granted.