The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1885-04-02

Weller & Merz's ultramarine blue
works Mt Newark, N. j., were destroyed by
fire, causing loss of 500, 900: fully insured.
The Hale House and other property at
Charleston, w. Va, were consumed. The
loss is estimated at $4,000. One man was
burned to death. Fourteen business houses
At Henderson, N. c., went up In smoke, caus-
ing loss OF $4,000.
Judge Gresham in the United States
Circuit Court, Chicago, has rendered his de-
cision in the application for writ OF error
case. The writ OF error was granted, and
was ordered to act as stay of tho sentence
imposed by the District Court. Judge
Gresham nxed the bail of the prisoners at
500, 900 pending the hearing of the arguments
in the case, which will take place before
Justices Harlan and Gresham sitting as the
Circuit Court in error on the first Monday In
May. Bail was furnished and the prisoners
were released.
Joe Goss, pugilist, died near Boston,
last week. OF Bright's disease. He was
born I'm Northampton. England, in 1880.
Miss Ida NJ. Rusk. the second daughter of the
Governor OF Wisconsin, died at Madison.
Rev. William Harris, Treasurer of Princeton
College, New Jersey, died of apoplexy at
railway restaurant I'm Savannah, Ga. The
Hon. Jacob Thompson. who was Secretary of
the Interior under President Buchanan, died
at Memphis, aged rs.
Beair, the trainer of Maud S., intends
20 lower her record before the season ends,
as Mr.. Bonner does not wish to take her from
the turf until she has beaten the world.
Bithers is to have charge of Jay-Eye. See this
year.
Friends of Tom Ballard, the notori-
Gus counterfeter, are trying 10 obtain
pardon for him from President Cleveland.
Ballard is the only man who has ever sue
ceeded in counterfeiting the fiber paper, and
1t was largely on this account that he was
sentenced to thirty years at hard labor.
Ballard promises TO lead an honest life IL the
President will give him pardon, and offers
as an additional inducement to give the
Government a process for making paper,
discovered by himself, which 1t is impossible
TO counterfeit.
Secretary Manning has prepared q
requesting information as 10 tho practicable
ity Of curtailing the expense OF collecting
the revenue from customs by reducing the
present force of clerks and other employees.
Several skirmishes are reported be-
tween the forces OF Hondurassand San Sal
vador In Central America. Honduras takes
the part of Gen. Barrios and Guatemala.
San Salvador nuts har whole army into tho
field, Nicaragua provides 1000 men, and
Costa Rica contributes 1000. President Zal-
divar, of Costa Rica will assume chief COM
mand OF the allied forces. More than twenty
veteran Mexican officers have left the City OF
Mexico to join the forces of San Salvador
and Nicaragua. The hostile feeling toward
Barrios is growing more intense in Mexico
day by day, and aggressive measures are ad-
vocated.
Fire in Pueblo, Mexico, destroyed
a cigarette factory, and it Is believed that
thirteen employees perished in the flames.
There were 212 failures in the United
States last week, decrease of thirty-hve as
compared with the preceding week.
A gas explosion caused fire which
damaged the buildings of the Michigan Car
bon Works at Rougevillc $4,000. The in
surance amounts to $685. 900. Fire in bust
ness building in Duane street, New York,
caused loss of sl17. 900; fully insured.
The Canadian Government has re-
ceived advices OF battle with Riel in the
Saskatchewan region. in which eleven
mounted policemen were killed and ten
wounded. Press dispatches announce the
capture of Major Crozier and his command
of one hundred men.