The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1885-03-19

During 1884, the gross earnings OF
tho Chicago, Milwaukee and st. Paul Road
were s23, 47o, e9s, and the gross expenses sIs,-
S596ss. The bonded debt of the line Is $780,.
254, 600, and the total stock amounts to S47,-
AS, PA. The company operates 1904 miles,
no part Of which shield upon leases, and con-
structed but forty-four miles of now track
last year. Comparatively the gross earnings
show a falling of of s1ss,s25.
Dispatches from the West and South
west report that the strike on the Gould
roads is assuming an alarming phase.
The strike, which seems 10 be pretty
general, extends along the Missouri
Pacific Road and its branches in the
States of Missouri Kansas and Texas.
The Governor of Missouri sent by special
train to Sedalia seven oompanies of st. Louis
militia, with Calling gun, to keep In check
the striking employees. There were seventy
engines in the Yards Mt Sedalia, and ten miles
of loaded freight-cars on the side-tracks.
The strikers adopted a proclamation promis
ing to keep the peace at all hazards.
At the annual meeting Of the Missou-
ri Pacific and Iron Mountain stockholders al
ST. Louis Gould Board of Directors were
elected. Tho surplus earnin1s Of the Mis-
souri, Pacific wero stated TO be 81, 2s4, $50, and
OF tho Iron Mountain route 3,4ei, 500. from
both OF which, however, taxes and fixed
charges are to be deducted.
Forty-nine Oneida children from the
reservation ut Green Bay passed through
Chicago for the training school at Martins
burg, Pa.
Fourteen merchants and the leading
banker in the town were found by the police
in gambling rooms ut Harvard ILL., All were
bound over for trial.
Nellie Koran, of Whitewater, Wis,
has been acquitted OF the charge Of poison.
ing her ster.
Mrs. Mark Hopkins, wife of the st.
Clair (Mich.) millionaire has begun suit for
divorce on the ground of cruelty.
A Cleveland newspaper, the Herald,
Wal soon disappear. 1t has been purchased
by two of its contemporaries. The crcula
ton and goodwill 20 to the Leader, while the
material an machinery will be used by the
Pldfn-Dedler for morning edition.
III tic Onlteu ObdJtb DlSITlCt OOuTt
at Chicago, after listening to arguments rel
atfve to a new trial for J. G. Mackin and w.
j. Gallagher, the election conspirators, Judge
Blodgett formally sentenced them to two
years imprisonment I'm the penitentiary al
Joliet and imposed upon them fine OF 81, 0oC
each. He ordered them into the custody OF
the Marshal, and deferred their removal &c
prison for ten days.
About twenty Oklahoma boomers
were brought TO Wichita. Kas., last week
and were arraigned before Commissioner
Sherman. They all gave bail In 80, 900 each
for their appearance at the September tern
of the United States Court They at once re
turned to Arkansas City, where the bcomers
are concentrating their forces
The wife of Caspar Hornicele, Of
Lewiston. Ohio, disappeared recently. ant
Horn.celc was arrested, charged with her alb
duction, and In the Jail attempted to Kill
himself.
Mrs. Minnie Peck, who was the wife
OF Elmer Cobb, son OF Ahira Cobb. the
Cleveland millionaire, is accused of kidnap
ping her little boy from Cleveland. and z
have taken him to Brooklyn. Elmer Cobb
who had separated from his wife, believing
her to DO unfaithful, committed suicide. and
when his putativc child was born he wa
placed with fosterparents. Ahira Cobb