The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1885-10-08
LATER NEWS ITEMS.
The late census gives Massach,


a population of 1871, 485, al increase of
l5s,3s0 since 1880. Boston is given 800, 400
inhabitants, against 362, 53c five years ago.
Seven veterans who were discharged
from the Brooklyn Navy-Yard last spring
on account of the depletion OF the appro-
prlaton have been reinstated under the
civi!-service rule.
The Postmaster General has decided
that no special deliveries of mail shall be
made on Sunday.
The Navy Department will expert
ence some difficulty in getting detailed de-
signs for the engines of tho new cruisers.
and the Secretary may have to go abroad
for them.
Commodore Queen has been appoint
ed to the command OF the Washington Navy
Yard, TO succeed the late Commodore
Semmes.
L. w. Hooper, late Judge at Helena,
Ark, is charged with having issued bogus
bonds TO the amount of $1,000.
The street-car drivers at Wheeling,
and dynamite cartridges into the cars. and
Dduly II driver.
The negro Mehane, who outraged
and killed Mrs. Walker near Milton, North
Carolina, few days ago. was taken from
the officers who were conveying him to Yam
ceyville and lynched.
The President has appointed the
appointed the following consuls: Owen Nc
Corr, of Colorado, at Ecuador; john Corn
well, of Texas, at Cairo; Thomas II. Jerni-
gan, of North Carolina, at Montevideo, and
Lewis G. Reed, OF New York, at Barbados.
1t is reported that the President has
secured a successor to Mr.. Eaton, of the
Civil Service Com mission, but that his name
will not be announced until the latter re-
tires, Nov. /. 1t is also reported that the
selection has the approval of George William
Curtis and other prominent reformers.
Rains, drought, and worms have
done much damage to cotton and corn in
the South. Heavy rains prevailed South and
East. In Virginia wind and rain did con-
siderable damage to persons aud property.
Heavy frosts visited portions of the West
on Saturday, but no damage is reported,
corn being out of the way. The Straits of
Mackinac and vicinity were treated on Sum
day to a severe snowstorm.
The engine of train on the Cana
dian Pacific Railroad was thrown from the
track near Kamloops, killing one American
and five Cinnamon.
A large amount OF stock has died
from hydrophobia in Guthrie County, Iowa.
Hog cholera is thinning out the herds of far
mers in Moutr!e County, Illinois. State
Veterinarian Holcomb, of Kansas, reports
that hog cholera prevails in between thirty
and forty counties in Kansas.
William Bookwalter, of Circleville,
Ohio, threatened ito kill the first niger who
passed." Samuel Tibbs was the victim. Mr..
Bookwalter was drunk.
Four cars broke away from the first
section OF II circus train near Fergus Falls,
Mimi, and running backward on a heavy
grade struck the engine of the second sec
ton. Five men were killed and many others
seriously wounded. Nearly two hundred
men were asleep in the wrecked cars at the
time.
The Democrats of Colorado nomi-
mated Wilbur +. Stone for Supreme Judge
and adopted resolutions favoring the free
coinage or silver and the enforcement of
the presumption and homestead laws against
corporations and syndicates.
Over four hundred deaths from small
pox occurred in Montreal during the week.
Rioters gathered around the Exposition
Building, which had been turned into a
smallpox hospital, intending TO destroy the
building. They shot and severely wounded
the sentry, when the Victoria Rifles, which
occupied the grounds, appeared, and the
rioters took to Their heels.