The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1885-09-17
LATER NEWS ITEMS.


A communistic uprising has occurred
in the Mexican State of Vera Cruz. The
rebels demand division of all property.
A general curtailment of expenses
has been agreed upon on the Pennsylvania
lines. Time has been reduced fourteen
hours a week i'm all OF the company's shops.
The Indian Chief, Big Bear, has been
sentenced to three years imprisonment for
his participation in the recent rebellion in
the Northwest Territory.
The lacrosse championship of Canada
was won by the Montreal Club.
Congress will be asked for an appro-
pration of $3.50, 900 TO improve the naviga
tion OF the Red River.
A committee has been appointed to
open negotiations with the Choctaws. Semi.
no,es, Creeks, and Cherokees with view to
opening their lands for settlement.
A. M. Kelley rendered his resigna-
ton as United States Minister TO Austria,
which was accepted. 1t is believed in we'll
informed circles at Washington that the
mission will be left untitled for an indefinite
period
Sedgwick. the banner corn county of
Kansas. is expected to produce 5000, 900
bushels of that cereal this year.
John l.. Sullivan, who pitched in a
game of baseball at Cleveland, last Sabbath,
was subsequently arrested for violating the
Sunday law. John ID. Rockefeller, of the
Standard Oil Company, procured the war
rant.
Near Seattle, Wash. Ter, large
was attacked by a mob of masked men. The
Chinese fed into the woods.
c. III. Cham berlain has commenced a
suit in st. Louis for 500, 900 damages against
the Chicago, Burlington and Quincy Railroad
on account of injuries received in an acct
dent at woodlawn, Iowa, ten years ago.
The stage running from Fort Custer
to Fort Maginnis was held up by three
masked men near Forty Mile Ranch and 5000
taken. Twelve thousand dollars in army
funds was sent through two days before.
The amount Of fraudulent orders
issued by township trustees in various parts
of Indiana is estimated at S25O,OO0. s. {.
rem County, is reported missing. Trustee
Cawson, of Warren Township, who issued
SO, 600 of the fraudulent orders, is reported
to be i'm Hamilton, ontario.
Emery A. Storrs, the eminent Chica-
go lawyer, died at Ottawa, ILL.,, after short
illness. He had been complaining of diff
Guilty in breathing. was taken TO his bed, and
.oio ba1 10, Ia xvffo Cho
found him resting easier. ii ordered cigars
and smoked one of them in bed, and ap-
peared so much improved that she retired,
and awoke at o'clock the next morning and
found him dead, the supposition being that
he died several hours before OF heart tt oube.
His remains were taken 10 Chicago for
burial. The deceased was born at Hinsdale,
N. V, August L., 1885.
The city of Concord, Mass, celebrated
its 25Oth anniversary. Speeches were made
by James Russell Lowell, w. NJ. Evarts, and
George william Curtis.
Twenty-Five national banks in New
York have begun suits against the city to
resist taxation, on the ground that their stock
is not legally liable for taxes.
Three members of the "Dry-Goods
Clerks Equality Association" OF New York,
have been arrested for causing dynamite
explosion in the store OF Garry Brothers, in
that city, on Feb. l last.
Diphtheria has caused the death of
leo children in a single parish of Soulanges
County, Quebec, during the past three
months. The mysterious malady prevail
ing in Clay County, West Virginia, has thus
far attacked 100 persons, of whom twenty
FIVE have died.
China has borrowed $4,000, 900 in
Berlin and London for railway construction
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