The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1885-07-16
WESTERN.

Dispatches from points in North
western Iowa, Northwestern Nebraska,
Southwestern Dakota, and Southeastern
Minnesota state that within few days the
corn crop has been greatly improved by
warm weather.
The wife of John Rogers, of How
den, warrick County, Ind, enraged at her
husbands attentions to her pretty cousin
killed her two children with an AK and then
drowned herself in horse trough.
Judge Foraker, the Republican can
didate for Governor of Ohio, was assaulted
in n Cincinnati courtroom by a. A. Ferris
an attorney, who was fined $50 for con-
tempt.
An order has been issued by the
United States Circuit Court at st. Louis,
authorizing the lease of the Vulcan Iron
Works to an Ohio syndicate for an annual
rental of $4,000.
A large body of strikers bearing a
red flag surrounded the mills at Newburah,
near Cleveland, and although they made "A
great noise, offered no violence TO life or
property. In case OF riot the police are
fully prepared for effective work
The great strike of the conductors
and drivers OF the Chicago West Division
Railway Company is over, and the cars OF
the various lines are again running. The
strike lasted eight days. At the outset the
employees were treated with the most
naughty contempt, were grossly insuted by
having communication recitng their
grievances torn up in the rresence of the
messenger bearing it, and the officers of-the
company refused every tender OF mediation
or advice from the Mayor and other of cias
looking to u settlement of the trouble
claiming that there was but one side
TO the question, and that they would never
yield or treat with the strikers. Mean
while the strikers stood firm, public sympa-
thy sided unanimously with them. the rail-
way company found it impossible 70 resume
operations on its lines, Notwithstanding 400
policemen were placed at its disposal, and
finally unbent SO far TO hold confer
ence, through its President, with the strik-
ers. An agreement was Immediately reached
by which the conductors and drivers re-
turned TO work. The substance of the
arrangement that the charges against
the sixteen men whose discharge caused the
strike were 10 be investigated by the Prosi-
dent, and, If not sustained, tho men TO be
reinstated.
Secretary Chamberlain, of the Ohio
State Board of Agriculture, estimates that
the total wheat crop of the United States
this season will amount to 100000 bush
els, against an average OF 451, 100000 bush
es and a last years total of 513, 000. 900 BUSH
els. The coming wheat crop in Iowa is
estimated at 80, O00,O0 bushels. Corn prom
Uses an average crop.
General Schofeld advises the War
Department that no Cheyennes have yet been
in Kansas and no citizens have been killed.
hundred young mem bers of the tribe have,
however, left the agency. An order has been
issued for the concentration OF all troops
that may be available in the event of a Sc
rious outbreak.
The Apaches were defeated near
Guasabus, I'm Sonora, with n loss of forty
killed and fourteen prisoners.
A cyclone in three sections swept
through Oshkosh, Wis, cutting different
paths through the city and demolishing or
injuring hundreds of houses. The EXPOSE
tion Building and 81. Pauls Church are in
ruins, and st. Peters Catholic Church is
badly wrecked. Roofs we're blown from
stores, the rain damaging the stocks, and all
the smokestacks in town were loveled. The
greatcs< havoc was wrought in the lumber
district, and in the residence section some
dwellings are barricaded by fallen trees.
Twenty people are reported injured. one or
two fatally. In the district north of the
town farm buildings. stock, and crops suf-
fercd severely. A storm at Waupaca, Wis.,,
destroyed several small structures and blew
down trees and chimneys. Nineteen barns
and six houses at Lind, Wis.,, were wrecked.
and crops destroyed The cyclone followed
a path SIX blocks wide at Madison, en-
failing heavy damage TO buildings, resi-
dences, and churches At Sparta several
structures were leveled. and at PIaindeId