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

Bookkeeping in the Navy Department
is hereafter TO be patterned after the system
in use by the British Admiralty.
Gen. Gibbon has been assigned to
the command OF the Department of Cohim-
bia. with headquai ters at Vancouver bar
racks. Washington Territory.
Bret Harte is to lose the Glasgow
Consulate. 1t Is charged that he spends all
his time in London and has entirely neglect
ed the duties Of his office.
Attorney General Garland has
rendered an opinion to the effect that the
Government is under no obligation TO accept
the dispatch boat Dolphin, recently built by
John Roach. and that the sums already paid
him for the vessel may Ice recovered
The Austrian Minister of War pro-
poses "A two years extension OF the period of
CONSUMPTION 10 increase the number OF re-
cruits for the army.
Rumor has it that convention on the
Afghan question has been practically con-
cluded between England aud Russia, and that
its terms will soon be made public.
A serious riot is reported as occurring
tax imposed by the Government. The mob
became riotous, troops were called out, and
the disturbance was quelled only after three
of the rioters and one soldier had been killed.
A rumor is cabled from London that
convention on the Afghan frontier ques-
ton has been practically concluded between
England and Russia, and that its terms will
soon be made public.
A dispatch received at Cairo states,
on the authority OF letter received by IA
merchant at Handek, that FL Mahdi is dead
and his followers are fighting among them
selves. The story is partly confirmed from
other sources.
The Canadian Ministry has responded
favorably TO Count Esterhazy's proposition
to settle 10000 Hungarians in the Canadian
Pacific belt of the Northwest.
The rebels of Colombia, while as
cending the Magdalen River, were routed at
Calamar, most of their leaders being killed
or seriously wounded Their feet of sixteen
vessels was badly damaged by an explosion
on the ammunition boat.
The war vessels Tennessee and Yam
been ordered home from the Isthmus of Pan
anna, as the trouble there seems to be at an
end.
Riel, the leader of the half-breed
rebellion in the Northwest Territory, hopes
10 escape through flaw in the Indictment.
He claims American citizenship. but is in
dicted as a British subject. 1t is contended
that he should have been indicted as a for
eigncr levying war against Canada.
Two men and twenty-one horses lost
their lives in fire at Belfast, Me-, which de-
stroyed the American House, "A livery-stable,
and other property, the whole valued at
$50, OOo.
Reports that yellow fever had APP
pearcd at New Orleans are officially denied
ut Washington.
The Pennsylvania Railroad Company
has absorbed the last road in Delaware, and
now practically owns all that are in or pass
through the state.
The Interior Department has ordered
that all established trails in Indian Territory
which have been illegally closed or OBJ
structei be opened and kept open for all
cattle having no infectious disease, and that
those who continue to obstruct these trails
be removed at once with their herds.
At Green River Island, in the Ohio
River, near Evansville, Ind, Charles Hard
Ing and James Townsend fought six rounds
with bare knucklcs. the stake being the hand
ard heart OF Miss Sadie Corning, rural
belle, for whose affections they had long been
rtx dir,fr ToNvncan1
was severely punished.
Christopher Mann, III years old,
died at Independence, Mo.