The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1885-10-22

The child of Jean Baptiste Romilly
Canada.
The National League and American
Base Ball Associations adopted an agree
ment by which no player Is TO receive more
than 1000 for seasons work.
The people of Winnipeg have con-
tributed $4,000 for monument to the
volunteers killed in the Riei rebellion, TO be
placed In front OF the City Hall.
Boycotting in Ireland has been Sc
vercly checked.
War between England and Burmah
seems almost certain.
Austria has asked Prussia to explain
the expulsion OF Austrian Pc es.
The Folkthing of Denmark has re-
jected the budget by large majority, and
the ministry will be obliged TO retire in con-
sequence
MIR. Parnell promises to bring
strong deputation of the Irish Parliamenta-
ry party to the annual convention of the
National League in Chicago next January.
British troops in India whose term of
service has expired have been retained to
await the settlement of the dispute with
King Theebaw OF Burmah. An expedition
TO Rangoon with 10000 men is being rapidly
fitted out at Calcutta. France offers no OBJ
lection to the movement.
Ezra Cooper, the Pennsylvania mil
lionaire, was found guilty of an assault on
young lady and fined 5000. He was tried
for a greater ofense, and now the court is
after two of his witnesses for perjury.
Smallpox has caused two deaths at
Burlington, VT, and there are said to be sew
eral patients in the pest-house or in seques-
tered dwellings. The disease was carried d.
rectly from Montreal in the clothing of
convalescent.
The sum of $150,000 has been sub
scribed by citizens of Minneapolis for the
establishment OF an annual exposition.
Dingham's planning mill, at Detroit,
was burned, loss $4,000; also Mitchell g.
Sons feed-mills loss Sl50,O0O
The bridge across the Colorado
River at Yuma, Arizona, was burned; loss
$500, 900, and cause unknown. A prairie fire
in Dakota destroyed ESQ head of sheep for
one farmer.
The United States Grand Jury, at
Blackfoot Falls, Idaho, indicted twenty-nine
Mormons for unlawful cohabitation.
The Chicago exposition, which closed
last week, had an average paying attendance
of eight thousand persons daily, and the re-
cepts were $4,000 more than those of any
former year.
Frederick Greiner was hanged at
Franklin, Ohio for the murder of his sweet
heart. He grew impatient at waiting and
sent for the Sheriff, and when the time came
stepped on the scaffold with a smile and
smoking cigar. He looked as If he had
prepared for an evening party.
The death is reported from Baltimore
of Capt. Alexander Haley, the only colored
man who ever commanded vessel in the
ocean trade of this country. He was eighty
six years OF age.
The fourteen Southern States report
the expenditure of $780, 900 within the
present year in organizing mining and man
ufacturing enterprises, or enlarging old
plants.
A collision occurred between three
passenger-trains on the New York division
of the Pennsylvania Railroad, four miles west
Of Jersey City. Three immigrants we're
killed and seven persons injured, some Of
whom, IL is believed, will die.
Near Ozawkie, Kan, farmer and
his family we're driving homcward with a
package of ten pounds of powder in the
wagon. His wife attempted 20 light pipe.
and dropped spark. The explosion which
followed killed the woman and fatally in
jured the other three persons.