The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1885-06-11

The Pennsylvania Company held its
annual meeting I'm Philadelphia, reporting a
loss of slsi,s07 in operating the Fort Wayne
Road, and of s2O5.s47 Ia running the CIeve-
land and Pittsburg-
Special reports by the Signal Service
from stations In the cattle-range regions will
be furnished the Secretary OF the National
Cattle and Horse Growers Association mt
st. Louis, by whom they will be disseminated
throughout the districts named. Special bull
ietns will be furnished during the preva-
lence of severe weather
A Pittsburgh dispatch states that
"the iron strike has closed one hundred mills
and thrown out of employment fifty-eght
thousand men. Thirty-four nail factories
are also idle, and two are running. All win
dow.glass factories west of the Alleghanies
will be closed down within two weeks and
when work is resumed In the fall wages will
be reduced twenty-five per cent"
at the annual meeting of stockhold-
ere of the Rock Island Road, Warren G..
Purdy was elected Secretary and Treasurer.
i. II. Tows resigning ON account of poor
health. The Office will lie removed from New
York 10 Chicago. The net earnings for the
year show N decrease OF S190,92j.
Four of the marines who were sent
10 quell the disturbance at Aspinwall died
OF yellow fever at Panama. The Survivors
OF the expedition have all returned to New
York.
Consul Beckford Mackey, who shot
a newspaper editor named Amorin, at Rio
Grande do Sui, Brazil, has been acquitted of
ali blame in the affair
The number of failures during the
week in this country and Canada was 22S, rs
against 206 during the week previous. The
week, "a reported TO Brddstrcet'S Journal,
''shows an increased depression in general
trade. The volume of merchandise is not
large. The demand for fall goods is below
the anticipations. and in transportat on
circles freight rates are lower than ever.
Tho banks at Eastern and Western ccntcrs
continue TO accumulate funds. Interest
rates at the interior are lower than ever be-
! FORE and in still other ways there are evil
denccs of accommodating idle commercial
machinery. The industrial situation is com
! pllcated 10y the strike or lockout of 10000
employees of Western iron nils. 1t is doubt
ful whether the stoppagc will be long-con-
tinued, although the Amalgamated Associa-
tion declare they will all remain out 10 help
the Stockholders. The dry-goods market is
noticeably dull, and jobbers do not express
any reasonable hope for improvement dur
ing the month
Foster Chase and Robert Williams,
colored, were hanged for murder in the par
ish prison in New Orleans, in tine presence
of fifteen persons, the new law forbidding a
large number of persons at an execution.
Joseph Clark, colorcd, was hanged at Boli-
var, Hardeman County, Tenn, for the muir
der OF Peter Wooten, colored, near that
place, March, 1884. Sanford Ssco was hanged
as Hackcnsack, n. j., for the murder of
Abram Gunner. a mob forced an entrance
into the jail at Hearne, Texas took out
Henry Lumpkn, negro charged with muir
der, and hanged him TO n gateway.
The international Typographical
Union held its annual session in New York.
Martin NJ. II. Witier, OF st. Louis, was re-
elected President. A resolution was adopted
that in case Public Printer Rounds is re-
moved, President Cleveland be requested 10
appoint man who sympathizes with organ
lied labor. The next meeting of the union
will be held at Pittsburgh.