The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1886-04-01

Quartermaster at St Louis asked the Federal
court 10 give him an escort Of deputy Mar
shals for some supplies for Fort Sill The la
Dor situation at other points is thus sum-
married.; The district assembly at Fort Worth
was said to be considering plans for q settle
ment Of the strike on the Missouri Pacific
A train was sent out from St Louis under
police protection; and number Of men re-
sumed work at St Joseph, but the trouble
at the latter place is not fully adjusted Re
ports from Milwaukee, Via, and Galesburg,
Ill, are to the effect that the men are organic
ing. Proclamations have been issued by the
Governors of Missouri, Arkansas, and Texas,
ordering mobs to desist from interfering with
the movement Of trains, and stating that the
power of the law will be invoked 10 aid in
the resumption of business. The directory
OF tho Missouri Pacific has resolved 10
do its utmost TO move trains on its road,
and it is stated that immediate pro-
ceedings will be begun against individual
strikers. An unchanged condition Of affairs is
reported from Atchison, Omaha, and other
points. In many Kansas towns there is a
serious lack of flour, coal, oil, and groceries,
and prices of goods have doubled. The switch
men OF the St Paul Road at Milwaukee are
organizing preparatory to their enrolment as
Knights of Labor. 1t is stated that the Yard
master offered them an advance in wages con-
ditoned upon their not forming union
The Knights of Labor at Toledo, Ohio, who
had planned TO place a special ticket for city
officers in the field, received letter from
Grand Master Workman Powderly, warning
them to drop politics at once, or they would be
expelled from the order The army of Bel
GUM is busily engaged in restraining rioters
in the chief cities, who daily provoke conflicts.
Citizens of Liege are repeatedly waylaid by
anarchists, and postmen are accompanied by
military guards. The troops stationed at Ant
werp are held within their barracks, TO be in
readiness for the suppress ion of disturbances
Frank Mulkowsky, the murderer of
Mrs. Agnes Kledzeick, expiated his brutal
crime on the gallows at Chicago He protested
his innocence to the last moment
A dispatch from Marshfeld, Oregon,
says the steamer Beda, loaded with railroad
iron, sprung leak and foundered forty
miles off Cape Perpetua. She carried a crew
Only two were saved-Lewis lancet and John
Throwl-who were picked up by the tug Fear
less
The Emperor of Japan has forward
ed to New York $500 IN American coin as a
contribution TO the Grant monument fund.
Grand Master Workman Powderly
has issued a circular to the Knights of Labor,
Gliding the men for rushing into useless
strikes and warning them against hasty, i'll
considered action. He counsels patience for q
while longer, and warns the membership
that unless they obey the rules and laws
of the order he will resign his posi-
ton The statements of Chairman Irons that
country are repudiated by high officials
of the knights of Labor, who seem to be anx-
ious for a speedy settlement Two strikers
were found guilty of contempt of court at Pal
estine, Texas, but others derailed an engine
while the trial was in progress. An accommo-
dation train was ditched near Pacific, Mo.
The Nickel-plate mines in the Brazil Qnd)
block-coal district shut down for an in
definite period, rendering 500 miners idle.
The Falcon Iron and Nail Company, at Niles,
Ohio, informed employees not governed by the
Amalgamated Association scale that their
wages would be advanced 10 per cent. The
Grand Trunk Railway of Canada announces a
raise of from to 10 per cent in the wages of
train and shop hands, and an advance to old
wages in the cases of number of employees
whose pay was recently cut down.
There were 191 failures in the United
States reported to Bradsreefs during the
week. against 2O9 in the preceding week, and
2l2, lG2, 10, and 118 in the corresponding
weeks of 1885, 1884, 1883, and 1882, respec-
lively. About a per cent were those of
small traders whose capital was less than
$1,000 The movement of general merchan-
disc throughout the United States, as re-
ported by wire TO BradstreefS. shows de-
cline as compared with the preceding
week This is largely due to the con-
tinuation of the strike on Southwestern rail-
ways and the unsettling of confidence gen.
orally in industrial and transportation lines.
Reports on the number of striking operatives
in the country show a total of52, 500, against
30, 100 on March IL The decline in the num-
Der striking is about $500 within two weeks,
but the 10000 striking dress and suit makers
at New York have raised the aggregate The
Gould road striking employees do not exceed
5000 with 4, 800 others thrown out of work
A negro named John Drake was ex-
ecuted at Thomaston, Ca. for the murder of