The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1885-05-28

Cattle on the track caused the wreck
ing OF an express train near Mount Vernon,
Ohio, but only the conductor received serious
injuries.
A tornado which passed through AL
ton, H.. wrecked several buildings. A stroke
of lightning fired. a undergrad in st. Louis,
and caused it's destruction.
w. G. Whitehead secured q judg-
ment in indianapolis for s17,50O against the
Indiana. Blooming ton and Western Road for
injuries received in an accident
The Yosemite stage, says a San Fran
cisco dispatch, was robbed by highwaymen
near Clarx's Crossing. The passengers COM
prised several members of Raymond's excur-
son party, who were robbed of everythin q
I'm the shape OF money and jewelry.
Forty buildings at Ian sing, Ia, were
destroyed by fire, the losses aggregating
sl0o. 900. Gre at Merrill, WIS.,, destroyed
property valued at $4,000. Charles X. Smith,
of Menasha, Wis, suffered the loss of $780, 900
of lumber. Forest fires ragged to the north and
west OF Tawas City, Mich, burning to the
tops of the highest trees.
A dispatch from Plymouth. Pa, re-
ports that the epidemic there has taken a
fresh start, and great dependency exists
among the people. There were fifty patients
In tho hospital.
One block of track for the surface
railway on broadway, New York, has been
laid at Fourteenth street Jacob Sharp be-
gan his fight for this franchise In 1851, his
oh Of Mt fotc lofn
Commodore Vanderbilt.
A contract has been made with five
telegraph operators in New York TO proceed
10 Siam and spend three years in the postal
service, teaching the Morse system. They
are to receive 500 per month and all ex-
penses.
The rectifying house of Elias Black
& Sons at Prestonville, KY, was burned.
Loss s25. 600.
The proprIetors of the Galveston
(Texas) Daily Nelcs have established a branch
Office al Dallas, where the paper will be
printed simultaneously with the issue at
Galveston.
Secretary of the Treasury Manning
has appointed a committee OF prominent off,
cials of the Treasury Department to consider
the propositions to renew the existing con-
tracts for fiber-paper, and to decide whether
or not il is wise to continue the use of
distinctive papers for bank-notes. The use
of the fber-paper is opposed on the ground
that il renders the note less stable and In
jures its appearance, while it offers no ade-
quate security against counterfeiting. The
nber-paper was introduced on the theory that
IL could not be counterfeited, but this notion
has been exploded. 1t is now believed that
mechanical precautions against counterfeit
ing are no longer effectual, and that the bes.
safeguard is TO secure a clean, fine note
which will retain thi ough long use distinct
appearance. Secretary Manning thinks that
the artistic appearance of the notes and Sc
curties should be improved. To accomplish
a change for the better I'm this direction the
| hber-paper must be given up, for the fiber
spoils the finish. 1t Is the intention of the
Treasury Department TO improve the backs
of the national bank notes. The object of
this change is not merely to attain greater
artistic excellence, but TO render counter
feiting more difficult. Tho first attempts al
Improvement will be on the national bank
notes and the silver certificates. The CON
sideration of the fber-paper question has
brought TO Washington representatives OF
many of the leading paper manufacturers.