The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1885-04-23

The United States authorities are
taking every possible preoaution to prevent
| the introduction OF cholera into this country.
The sanitary inspectors attached to the for
eign Consulates have all been appointed by
the Secretary OF State. The quarantine sta
tions at Ship Island and Sapelo Sound are
already in operation, and those et Delaware
Breakwater and Cape Charles will be put In
operation Immediately.
| News comes from the Isthmus of
Panama, by way Of the City of Mexico, that
the Colombian Government pat 100 prisoners
| on board of a vessel, and carried them out to
sea- where every one of them was thrown
overheard and drowned. The scene is said
| to have been most horrible one.
The heirs to the Townley
estate in England, valued at $500, 600, 600. re-
port having found the missing link ir their
evidence-the marriage certificate Of Mrs.
Sidney t. Brown, of Bagdad, New York. The
document is to bring her SAC, 900, Coo
Seven executions and a lynching took
place in the United States on Friday, April
IL. Thomas Samon, the triple murderer, was
swung of at Laconia, N. H., and two Italian
railway laborers at Thomaston, Me. William
Phillips was banged at Fort Smith, Ark, for
the murder of his father-in-law. Keaton and
johnson were hanged at Camilla, Ca, for a
triple murder. Gus Finley was swung of at
Prestonburg, Ky. Aaron Jones, convicted
murderer, was taken from prison by mob
and hanged at New Roads, La.
The President has made the follow
OF the United Statcs-James NJ. Morgan Of
South Carolina, for the British colonies i'm
Australia, at Melbourne; Jacob Muller Of
Ohio, ut Frankfort-on-the-M Main, Germany.
To De Consuls OF the United States-Charles
w. Wagner Of Missouri, at Toronto; Thomas
X. WEIGH of Arkansas, at Hamilton, Can
ada; Francis H. Wigfall OF Maryland, at
Leeds, England; Charles Jonas OF Wisconsin,
| to Prague, Austro- Hungafy; Richard Stock
ton of New Jersey, at Rotterdam; william
! Shade of Ohio, at Brussels, Belgium; ].
Harvey Farnham of Louisiana, at Paso del
| Norte, Mexico; william j. Black OF Della
ware, Mt Nuremberg, Germany. Francis w.
Harton is made Examiner of Claims in the
Department of State.
A dispatch from Quebec reports the
washing ashore at Pointe aux Anglaise of
several cannon belonging to an English fleet
wrecked there two centuries ago.
AN ice jam in the river at Belleville,
Ontario, caused flood, drowning number
of cattle, sheep, and pigs, and wrecking
houses and barns. The people were COM
PEELED to leave their dwellings in great haste
to save their lives. The loss is placed at
| 100000
There were 1876 failures in the United
States reported to Brddstreets during the
! week, against III in the preceding week, and
155, 160, and SO in the corresponding weeks
of 1884, 1883, and 1882, respectively. About
| 81 per cent were those of small traders
whose capital was less than So 000 In the
principal trades the failures were. as fol-
lows: General stores, 40; grocers, %; liquors,
10; hardware and implements, IL; manu-
facturcrs, o; dry goods, o; stationery, print
ers etc, O.; tobacco and cigars, 3; shoes, q;
furniture, z; hotels and restaurants, z; jew
elry, Z; drugs, 8; fancy goods, O.; bakers
and confectoners, 8; clothing. s; lumber
and material, 8; millinery, 8; produce, pro-
visions, etc., 4; carpenters and builders, 81;
crockery and glassware, 3.