The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1885-08-27

duction IN wages. and assaulted the Hun
| gar,ans and Poles working about the mine.
| who repulsed them after an hours battle.
| ten or twelve men being badly hurt. The
cloak and clothing manufacturers OF New
York find themselves seriously embarrsssed
by the pending strike OF journeymen tailors
in that city for higher wages. ComplIca-
iacturers OF the country and their employees
and general strike OF the latter isappre-
hcnded.
The Executive Board OF the Knights
OF Labor ON tho 18th instant ordered a strike
OF all members of the organization en-
ployed by the Gould railway lines west of the
Mississippi River. The strike was OF small
Dimensions, comparatively few members OF
the Knights of Labor remaining in the serv-
ice of that ompany. The Executive Board
OF the order resolved to employ counsel to
defend imprisoned members OF the organ
ization, prosecute tho Wabash Company for
conspiracy, and impeach Judges Treat
Bremen, and Krekel of the Federal courts
The drivers employed by the Memphis Street
Railway Company struck against a reduc.
ton I'm wages, and cars were only moved
under police protection and at irregular in
tervals during the day. Several of the new
strikers were arrested Employees OF the
Michigan nut and bolt works, at Detroit
went on a strike against ten per cent.
reduction in wages-At Yonkers, New
York, a number OF striking weavcrs at
tackled four men working in the carpet-mili OF
Smiths Sons, when one OF the latter drew
his revolver, and a riot was only prevented
by a plucky Catho ic priest, who, gun in
hand, dispersed the crowd and marched one
of the men to the police station.--The situ-
alton at the Marion coal mines In Alabama
laborers have been arrested at the instance
OF the strikers for carrying concealed weap-
ons, ard serious trouble is feared.
The American Bar Association held
its eighth general session at saratoga, N. Y,
last week. The annual address was made by
the President the Hon. John w. Stevenson,
OF Kentucky. He spoke in favor of advanc-
ing the science of independent Jurisprudence
and of promoting the thorough administra-
uniformity of legislation throughout the
several States.
Eighteen lives are said to have been
lost by the wrecking of British ship bound
from Astoria, Ore, to Liverpool forty miles
north of San Francisco.
The National Association of ex-Union
Prisoners of War, in session at Philadelphia.
elected John Fl. Longnecker, of Bedford,
Pa, President, and ]. II. Mack. OF San
dusky, Ohio First Vice President and adj
jcurned TO meet in Buffalo Aug 20, 1885.
/. II. Aufdemorte, recently redemp-
ton clerk in the United States sub-Treasury
at New Orleans, who absconded in June with
$4,000 of the Government funds. has been
arrested at Monterey, Mexico with two al
legged confederates, one OF whom, Rice Shep-
herd, is a notorious counterfeiter.
Smallpox g sR the Increase in Mon
treal The theaters have all '5ee s closec'
and the streets sprinked with disinfeotaGi,t.sssS
Boot and shoe manufacturers reports that
the fall orders from the West are being can
celed on account of the epidemic.
An employe of the Missouri Pacific
shops at st. Louis, who was discharged for
refusing to handle a wabash engine, was
reinstated at the demand of the Knights of
Labor, and paid for lost time. Wages in the
collieries along the Monongahela River are
lower than for years, and many miners
regularly employed find it difficult to sup
port their families. Five of the striking
coalminers at Pana, H., were arrested for
intimidation. The striking miners at Mas
sillon have offered to resume work at Go
cents, the owners Offering go cents.
During the prevalence of thunder
storm in st. Charles Parish, La, six negro
farm-hands took refuge under large tree.
A bolt of lightning struck the tree, and five
OF the party were instantly killed and the
sixth fatally injured. htning struck the
residence OF Samuel Chambers of Titusville,
Pa, instantly killing Mrs. Chambers and
seriously burning one-year-old child. The
husband was at work not three hundred feet
distant, and knew nothing OF the catas-
trophe until he went TO his supper, five
hours later, when he found his wife lifeless
on the foor and the creeping infant moan
ing piteously by the side of its mother
iehtning struck the house of Farmer Gil
lingham, near Richland Center, WIZ, in
stantly killing Mr.. CT Canoe Camp, Tioga
County, o., IT. j. JeliG, station agent OF
the Elmira and State Line Railroad at that
place, was standing on the platform under
the telegraph wires, and sudden storm
coming up, he was struck by lightning and
instantly killed.