The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1885-07-23
LATER NEWS ITEMS.

Senator Henderson, of the Senate
Committee on Territories, has just completed
tour of New Mexico. and us a result will
file report next December against fits ad-
mission as a State. f.lr
The Georgia Legislature, by a vote
of l22 10 Ill, passed Il general option law for
counties which have not already adopted
prohibition.
j. j. Howard q Son, bankers,
Cartersville, Ga, made an assignment. Their
liabilities amount to $40, 900.
There is great excitement in the vii
lage of Stepstone. kentucky, over the kill
ing OF three men by Marshal Jerry Oakley.
Oakley represents the local option party,
and his victim were identified with the liquor
interest. Friends of both sides are arming,
and further bloodshed is apprehended.
An Ell Paso, Texas dispatch states
that an east-bound Santa Fc passenger train
was wrecked near Wallace, Texas, by strik-
ing culvert which had been washed out by
a rain-storm. Engineer Wilson, two firemen,
and an extra fireman were killed, and one
passenger, name unknown, had his leg
broken.
Petroleum has been discovered at q
depth OF l,22O feet on mountain near Ell
mira, N. Y.
The Rev. DIR. S. Irengus Prime, for
forty-eight years editor of the New York
Observer, died at Manchester, VT, aged II.
The car-shop and other buildings of
the New York and New England Railway at
Norwich, near Boston, were burned. Loss,
$500, zoe. J. b. Kings s. Co.'S plaster of
paris works at New Brighton, n. Y, were
destroyed by fire Saturday afternoon. The
loss is placed at $3.50, 600, with insurance of
$4,000.
At Hoboken, New Jersey, John
Gaunt, while intoxicated, murdered hts wife
with butcher-knife. The couple had been
married thirty years, and had five children.
Gaunt is in jail.
In an accident on the West Jersey
Railroad Engineer, George Murphy, who, by
remaining at his post, prevented shocking
loss of life was killed, and number of pas
sengers slightly injured.
Notices have been posted announcing
the suspension of work throughout August
Of the Utica Steam Cotton-Mi.ls and the Mo-
hawk Valley Mills at Utica, n. Y. 1t is
thought the suspension may continue for a
longer time. Overproduction is given rs one
of the causes of the stoppage
In the contest for the League base-
ball championship, the Chicago nine still
maintains the lead with the New York, Prov
idencc, Philadelphia, and st. Louis clubs fol-
lowing in the order named. The Boston and
Detroit clubs are tied for the next place, and
the Bufralos are at the foot of the class
Chicago has won IS games, New York AZ,
Providence 80, Phiadcphia -, and Detroit
and Boston 20 each.
John Roach, the ship-builder, has
made an assignment To George L. weed and
George W. Quintard. His preferred claims
amount To about Sl22, coo. No statement is
made in regard to his financial condition, ex-
cept that the trouble about the Dolphin, and
the more recent decision of the Attorney
General that no valid contract existed between
him and the Government are the causes lead
ing TO the assignment. Roach has ex-
pended great amounts OF money on the Dol
| phin and the three new steel cruisers, the
Boston, Atlanta, and Chicago, and sees no
way by which he can he reimbursed. 1T is
said that the trouble with the Govern
ment has preyed so heavily on his mind that
it has been necessary TO keep constant
watch on him. When he found that there
was no prospect of being reimbursed by the
Government he decided that the best thing
| he could 90 would be to make an assignment.
He had s3l, 900 in bank which he drew out
and paid to his men. His employees number
$500.
A dispatch from Centralia, Ill, states
that the apple crop in that vicinity will he
| larger than for many years past.
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