The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1885-06-18

Baseball is being played this season
for all IL is worth In almost every part Of the
country, and the struggle for supremacy be-
tween the clubs of the National League and
American Association continues with I'M
abated interest. The race for championship
honors among the League clubs is being con-
tinued almost every day. The New Yorks
and Chicagos arc having nip and tuck bat
tie for the lead, with Providence and Phila-
del hia following closely, while ST. LOUIS,
Buffalo, Boston, and Detroit bring up
the rear. The clubs IN tho American
Association are by no means as even
ly matched 'as last year. Thus far
the Western clubs have had things pretty
much their own way. The championship
record to date shows the st. Louis team in
the front rank, closely followed by Pitts
burgh. Cincinnati, and Louisville. The Met
ropolitans of New York, last years cham
pions. are away In the rear.
Reports submitted to the National
Conference of Charities and Corrections in
session at Washington, show that the juve-
nile reformatories of the country represent
an investment OF 5000, 600, and have IL, 900
President OF the conference, and +. III.
Wines, of Illinois, a member of the executive
committee.
Judge Brewer, of the United States
Court has rendered decision holding that
Joseph +. Glidden was the original inventor
OF the barbed-wire fence.
The June report of the Agricultural
Bureau at Washington estimates the wheat
crop of the United States for this year at
$780, 900, 900 bushels. of which 201, 00O, 900 bush
els are winter wheat. This is only about 20
per cent. of the magnitude of the crop of last
year. The 80 per cent. decrease from
last year is partially due to great loss
OF acreage, large areas having been p.owed
up because of wind-kill, but the condition of
that remaining is very poor, the indicated
average yield being less than ten bushels per
acre.
Rudolph Ryan died at Montreal of
glanders--the second fatal case recently in
that city.
News of terrible disaster comes
from Zacatecas, in Mexico. Twelve miles
from that city is situated the celebrated
has produced ever since the Spanish con-
quest, yielding untold millions of silver dur
ing that time. Within the past few years it
has been newly developed and fitted through
out with the most costly modern
machinery. The work OF recovering
and reopening old poitions of the great
mine had been in progress for some time, and
was approaching completion. Large guam
titles OF timber and other material, includ-
ing basting.powder, had been kept on hand.
Suddenly an explosion occurred, plainly
heard ut Zacatecas. Five hundred cases Of
giant powder had gone Off by some means
unknown. Ten persons were killed outright,
and as many more wounded. The mine and
everything near il was complete wreck.
The surface improvements were totally de-
stroyed.
A gale on the Newfoundland coast
wrecked several fishing boats, causing the
drowning OF several persons.
There were 1877 failures in the
United States during the week-an increase
of thirty-five as compared with the previous
week BrddStreets Journal, in its weekly re-
view of the trade outlook, says:
The volume of merchandise moving, so far
as data concerning IL obtainable, is light as
compared with like periods in preceding years.
The accumulation OF surplus funds at the banks
at leading business centers East and West
shows no signs Of check The dry goods mar
ket presents no encouraging features. At Bos-
ton trade is dull with commission houses, and
only fair with jobbers. Prices in some lines
unsettled. The S3.5Oo,OOO TO 81, 600 600 sales
of fannels at New York this week were
unsatisfactory as to prices, sharp cuts
I'm prices being prime inducement TO buyers.
The enforced idleness among iron mills at the
West has resulted in a somewhat better feeling
in merchant iron at various points, though no
large sales are reported. There has been some
slight gain in the Philadelphia pig-iron market,
but meme Of these repeated improvements has
beeh noteworthy except By contrast with previ-
Gus duIlness. Akron Ohio pig-iron is reaching
out into the Hudson River Valley and into New
England, owing TO favoring railway freights. and
Southern pig-iron continues to come Northeast,
though, as reported. in reduced quantities since
the advance of fifty cents per ton in freight
rates. The production OF Eastern and Western
pig-iron has declined $500 tons Der week since
May J..