The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1885-04-16

BTQQStTeetS, In Its weekly summary,
says: "The apparent relicf to the conges-
tion I'm the industrial world noted In the sur
render OF tho Western Pennsylvania en-
pioyes-6,00 600 soft coal miners, who de-
manded cents instead Of ga cents per
bushel-has been Offset by LOCO agricultural
Implement strikers at Chicago, 400 quarry
men strikers at Joliet, H., and various
small strikes In iron and building
lines at different points. aggregating
about 1900 workingmen. The 700 carpet
strikers mt Philadelphia and at Yonkers are
still out, are the 1900 railway pit miners
In the Pittsburgh district. Furthermore the
Amalgamated Association of Iron and Steel
Workers threaten to resist the demand OF
the Western Pennsylvania iron and steel
mill owners for reduced wages to be made
June 1. AS the latter base their demand on
the fact that the selling price OF iron is far
below the point at which the existing rae of
wages is fixed, they have much better Case
than they did when making like demand on
June 1, in 1884 or 1884,
The crop returns of April to the De-
partment of Agriculture ut Washington indi-
cate a reduction of over 10 per cent. OF last
years area of winter wheat. The aggregate
shortage amounts to 5000, 900 acres. A de-
crease is reported in every State except Ore
gon. 1t Is % per cent. in Kansas and Vir-
ginia, 20 in Mississippi, Is in California, IA
in Alabama, IL in Tennessee, Illinois, and
Missouri, III in New York, 2 in South Caro-
lima, 10 in Maryland and Texas, in New
Jersey, West Virginia, Kentucky, and Indi-
ana, Z in Georgia and Ohio o in Pennsylvania
and Delaware, 8 in Michigan, 3 in Arkansas,
and = in North Carolina. The present condi-
ton Of wheat, as reported, is worse than in
1883. 1t is II pOr cent. az ainst SO last year
and 80 in lss3.-The Chicago Times prints
variety Conformation In regard to the winter
wheat crop in the West and Northwest.
Dispatches from Kansas and Illinois agree
upon conditions which will lessen the yield
one-half Some portions of Ohio entertain
hopes for an average crop, while the central
counties show decreased acreage. Very
little injury was done in Michigan by the Sc
we're winter. Great damage is reported in
the southern counties of Indiana. A crop OF
nearly II, 100000 bushels is expected in Mis-
souri,, while the decreasing acreage IN lows
will bring the product of that State down to
200, 900 bushels.
There were la failures in the United
States reported 10 Brddstrcet's during the
week, against 225 in the preceding week, and
1876, l5], and III I'm the corresI onding weeks
OF 1884, 1883, and 1882. respectively. About
S3 per cent. were those of small traders,
whose capital was less than $4,000. In the
principal trades they were as follows: Gen.
eral stores, 81; grocers, 81; liquors, 20 dry
goods, 8; tobacco and cigars, s; manufact-
urers, Z; clothing, 8; hotels and restaurants,
q; shoes, 6: hardware and agricultural i'm
plements, 81 books, stationery, ETC., d; drugs.
4; mems furnishing goods 4; markets 3;
lumber, etc., 3; harness, g.; grain and
-four, 3; furniture, 3; carpenters and builders,
3: fancy goods, 3; jewelry, 3. Brddstreet's, in
its weekly commercial summary, says:
Trade ha, been favored during the week by
very generally Letter weather. In the re-
gions west of and tributary to st. Louis and
Omaha. where IL has been cold, the reports
are almost uniformly of full inquiry from
the interior. At New York the movement of
dry goods has not been as favorable as ex-
pected. At Boston it has been notceably
been disappointingly low. At Philadelphia
there has been fair movement of dry
goods, but orders continue small.
News has been received of the killing
of fourteen white settlers at Frog Lake,
eighty miles from Battleford, by the Cree In
dams. One woman was captured. The dis
patches state that Fort ] lit was in danger.
Battleford was surrounded by 1000 Indians.
general rising was feared.
Richard Fraser. colored, was hanged
in the yard OF the county jail in Charleston.
S. c., for tire murder of Jack Gethers, also
colored, last July. Columbus Crawford. col
ored. was hanged at Yorkville S. c.. for the
murder Of Ellison Sanders. also colored.
George IL. Mills, wlfemurderer. was exc
cuted In the jailyard at Brooklyn, N. Y.
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