The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1885-09-24

Barnum's great elephant Jumbo was
run into by railway train and killed near
st. Thomas, Canada. A dispatch from To
ronto gives the following particulars of the
accident
The animals were being transferred from the
tent to the car on the London and Port Stanley
Railway track, which was struck by a freight
train on the Air Line. which crosses at st.
Thomas. The baby eggplant, which was stand
ing alohgsiue upp' was also fsoc, S.rucA T bs
keeper of Jumbo did not. IL Is learned, see the
train approaching. Jumbo gave the alarm OF
the danger first by trumpeting loudly. This
leading the animal, He tried TO get him of the
track, but Jumbo seemed struck with terror at
The engine, which was attached to a
heavy freight train, struck the elephant
on the side. causing him to make a
striking Jumbo and cutting badly into his side,
ran over one OF his legs. The cars coming against
the locomotive with great force sent it crashing
against the beast with renewed force, after
which il was derailed. regular stream of blood
rushed from the injured side of Jumbo as he
lay painting and moaning across the track, and
in an hour or so he died from loss OF blood and
the great gashes plowed in his ribs and side by
the front Of the engine. The engine was badly
broken up.
The anniversary of Mexican indie
pendence was celebrated in the City of Next
co by grand civic and military procession,
in which twenty thousand persons partici-
pated.
There is no perceptible abatement of
the ravages of smallpox in Montreal. The
cholera has practically disappeared from
Marseilles. The yellow fever is abating at
Vera Cruz.
The Cincinnati Price Current esti-
mates the corn crop of the country at $780,
OOC 900 bushels, an increase of II per cent.
over that of last year.
The annual statement of the North
ern Pacific Railroad shows decrease in
earnings of over 81 Goo 900 as compared with
last year.
Twenty-nine deaths from yellow
fever have occurred at Guaymas since Sept.
/, and the disease has appeared at Hermo-
sillo and Mazatlan.
A yacht capsized in Lake st. Francis,
Ontario, and two of the three occupants per-
ished after a night of exposure. The
schooner Edwin Post has been sunk off Bed
loes Island, ana its captain and steward
drowned.
LII u MOubIcdl Icotdui dHb Ola uiCh
were found eating, while boy afflicted with
virulent case of smallpox lay in an adjoin-
ing room. The lads father was serving as
juror in a murder trial, and the Judge, being
informed of the circumstances, discharged
the jury. after which the court was cleared
and the building disinfected.
The Montreal committee acting in
behalf OF Riel, the condemned REBEL. have
issued an appeal asking French-speaking
people to assist in saving him from the gal
lows. Riers counsel has gone to England to
lntercede in his behalf
The number of failures in the United
States and Canada reported for the week
was 166, of which 81 per cent were those Of
small traders. The number for the proceed
ing week was POI, and for the corresponding
week of 1884 PA. Brddstroet's Journal in its
commercial summary says:
No gain on the recently reported improvement
in trade circles is recorded by the special tele-
most directions the full measure of the move
ment Is maintained, but that is all. From Chi
cago, It. Paul, st. Louis, Cincinnati, and De-
troit at the West comes the word that interior
purchases are as heavy as previously: Iron Is
slightly firmer and in better demand. Prices
are unchanged. There is no prospect OF any
boom, Steel rails are encouragingly in demand,
but no more A sale of 5000 tons at $50 is re-
ported. The movement OF dry-goods from job
bers and agents continues as active as hereto
fore noted, and the firmness in prices OF prints
and of bleached and brown cottons is fully sus-
tanned