The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1885-08-20
LATER NEWS ITEMS.

A new gas-well was struck at Find
lay. Ohio. yielding 10000 cubic feet per hour.
There is considerable excitement at
lshpcming. Mich, over the alleged discovery
of a rich gold-quartz vein.
The new census puts Minneapolis
ahead OF st. Paul. The former has popu-
lation of 129,2GO, and the later ILL., 1897.
The Piegan Indians lost but one man
in their recent skirmish with cowboys at
Billings, Montana, instead of twenty, as at
first reported.
The Illinois State Department of
Agriculture received letter from State
Entomologist Forbes stating that great dam
age was being done by grasshoppers to crops
in the northern portion of the State.
Maxwell, the alleged murderer of G.
Arthur Preller. reached St Louis on the 10th
inst, and was met at the railway station by
several thousand curious people. The prison.
err still maintains do yged silence whenever
questioned about the hotel tragedy.
1t is alleged that four distillers who
il had been discovered were using the ''thick-
ened-staves" whisky barrels have compro-
Hlstu WIFI inc uONtTnucnt, tue sum W Ot
paid amounting to $4,000.
The Court of Commissioners of Ala
bama Claims will expire by Limitation Dec.
81 An enormous amount of business re-
mains unsettled, and an effort will probably
be made TO induce Congress to prolong the
courts existence.
Defective drainage has caused an cpl
demic OF typhoid fever at the Morris Plains
Insane Asylum New Jersey.
In race between bicyclists and
team of horses near Erie. p, the horses be-
came frightened and ran away, throwing the
driver and killing him instantly.
1t is reported that the Anthracite
Coal Companies have determined TO reduce
the output of the mines to the extent of $780,
600 tons during September, and contemplate
an advance in prices October l.
Jasper w. Umberfield, New York
boy OF seventeen, committed suicide at the
cottage of a relative in Port Chester, after
shooting and dangerously wounding j. NJ.
Carpenter, a cousin, of about the same age.
The tragedy is attributed to an unbalanced
mind, the result of overstudy.
The Attorney General of Pennsyl-
vania proposes it is said to take Official ac-
ton TO prevent contamination of a bargain
between Mr. Vanderbilt and the Pennsyl-
vania Railroad Company by which consoli-
dation of certain lines is proposed.
Waldo p Johnson, prominent law
yer of Missouri, died at Osceola, I'm that
State. He represented Missouri in the
United States Senate ut the outbreak of the
war, and was expelled for disloyalty. He
was afterward member OF the Confederate
Senate.
Ann Hogan, colored, age 120 years,
died near vicksburg, Miss, last week.
At Graham, Ga, the house of Simon
Ashley, colored, was burned, and the dead
bodies of his four children found in the
ruins. IL is thought they were murdered,
and the building fired to destroy evidence of
the crime.
Montreal hospitals are completely
filed with smallpox patients. In fact, there
is not sufficient room to provide for the
stricken.
A sensation has been created in Lon
don by the marriage of Lord Chief Justice
Coleridge to Miss Amy Augusta Jackson
Iawford. The ceremony, which was per-
formed quietly ut the residence of the
brides mother. IL said TO have been hastened
by threats OF an action for breach of prom
ise against his lordsAip. Tho bride is an
English woman of 80, whose acquaintance
Lord Coeridge made on the steamer in
which he returned from America two years
ago.
Cable advices are to the effect that
all Europe enters upon its vacation season
with prospect undisturbCvl by war.
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