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The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1886-01-21
POLITICAL.

The scenes which were enacted in the
Ohio House of Representatives just previous
to the selection of the Hon. John Sherman for
United States Senator by each branch of the
Legislature we're most exciting. A dispatch
from Columbus says:
The feeling was very high owing TO tho long and
continued contest which has been had over the
Hamilton County seats and the unusual and I'M
precedented measures which it was proposed to
adopt. The Republicans had all their members
present for the first time and were able TO GUST
without the two Republican votes which had
refused to go with them. The ball was
set a-rolling the first thing in the
session by calling up the report of the
committee recommending thnt the Demo-
cratic members be unseated. Tho Democrats
hlibustered by raising points of order, all TO no
purpose The speaker refused To recognize them
80 outside the programme which had been ar
ranged In Republican caucus The resolution
and against the protest of the Democratic MEM
bers. The Republican contestants were then
called on to take the oath of office. They
marched down the aisle amid the widest
demonstrations the part Of the Repub-
Leans, and, they formed i'm front
Of the Speakers desk, that official VIVA
unable e do ANYTHING ia the way Of restoring
order. The Infatuated Democrats after the Re-
pubhcans had chcored aud shouted for fully five
minutes, took up the yell. ieering and otherwise
insulting the new members and yelling -Ratsl-
II was feared Tor time that there would he
rOable, but order was &C last restored. The vote
on Senator was taken Immediately afterward
Sherman receiy "a "a and Thurman Al ballots
In the Senate y votes were cast for Thurman
The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1886-01-21
WASHINGTON.

The Committee ON Rivers and Har-
bors of the House of Representatives have
adopted resolution to limit the total amour;
of the appropriation for improving rivers and
harbors to sll, 100000.
A decision promulgated by Commits
sioner Sparks denies the claim of the North
ern Pacific Road to two and half million
acres of land in Oregon and the Territory of
Washington, on which settlers have located in
large numbers
The number of private claims COM
ing before Congress has grown to such pro-
portions that the House Committee having
such matters in charge thinks of suggesting
the creation of special court to pass on the
various demands for relief made by citizens
who think money is due them from their Uncle
Samuel
A Washington special SAYS that Rep
resentatives from New England States are
gratified to find that the House judiciary Com
mittee intends to take up the national bank
ruptcy bill next week, that it may be reported
to the House in time to secure
an advantageous position on the cal
endar. They have high hopes that a
bankruptcy bill will pass both houses before
the summer arrives. The opposition is ex-
pected TO come, as it has always come, from
the West and South. Only four out of the fif-
teen members of the committee are from East
ern States, but Chairman Tucker, of Virginia,
and some others favor the enactment of a ma
tional bankrupt law, and Mr. Tucker thinks
the committee will report bill
Secretary Lamar, in the matter of
the Bell telephone patent, asks the Attorney
General to proceed with thorough investga-
ton, in the name and at the expense of the
Government in order to ascertain if patent
has been obtained by fraud or issued for an in
vention not patentable.
The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1886-01-21

The commercial travellers have pc
titoned Congress for relief from burdensome
taxation.
Twenty-four persons persisted in
Kansas by the recent blizzard, and others are
believed to be missing. Emily Barmore rep
utable colored woman of Anderson County,
South Carolina, froze to death with two
young children. The remains of four men,
who had been frozen to death, were found near
Benkelman, Neb. In the District of Akron,
Col, several persons also persisted by the
storm. Three colored persons persisted in
blazing tenement at Kings Mountain, Mich.
Noah Merriman, wife murderer of
Belleville, Ill, Charles Wilson, of St Louis,
and Henry NJ Stair, of Nevada, Mo-, were all
hanged at the places named In the first two in
stances there were horrible scenes at the gal
lows, the unfortunate men dying only after a
struggle. The Rev. William Jones (colored),
for the murder of his mistress, was executed
at New Providence, La The rope tore open
his neck, and, the blood squirting forth,
drenched some of the spectators standing near
the scaffold William Madison, a wife-mur-
derer was hanged at Beaumont, Texas.
Business failures throughout the
country for the week were s32, of which TWEEN
ty-five were in Canada against total of 336
for the week preceding. Bradstreets Jour
nal, in its weekly commercial sum
mary says: special kilograms report
checked distribution of merchandise
throughout the country, caused by the severe
storms of snow and wind. This appears to
have been universally recognized as tenn
porary obstruction, and the feeling among
leading bankers and merchants at almost all
points is one of confidence in the prospects of
business for an Improvement early in the cur
rent year. AS an outgrowth of the condition
noted, it is reported that country collections in
many cases are reported slow, though this is
said to be due to some extent to the holding
back of produce on the part of the farmers, or
to low prices received therefor when sold"
The carriage factory of Hiram w.
Davis & Co., in Cincinnati, was damaged by
fire to the amount of sl50,000. The car-works
and foundry at Beaver Falls, Pa, worth s175,-
0O0, were burned, as also the opera house and
the grocery of Innes Sons at Lexington, KY.
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long before the army officers succeeded IN get
ting sight of them. The refusal Of the Presi-
dent to remove Gen. Crook creates intense dis
gust here, among all CLASSES Crooks manner
of hunting the light-footed Apaches with heav-
lily equipped cavalry horses has long been the
subject of ridicule among old rangers
Reports from Indian Territory state
that numbers of cattle persisted during the
cold weather
A boiler explosion wrecked ST
Mary's Catholic Church in Fort Wayne, killing
Anthony Evans, the engineer, and school
girl The loss is $3.50
The Continental Warehouse, in Kin
zie street. Chicago, constructed by Il. c. Veh-
meyer, was burned, the estimated loss being
sl75, 900. The cotton factory of Greer & CO.,
at Summerdaie on the Northwestern Road,
valued at s55, 600. was also destroyed by fire.
An Evanston (Wyoming) special re-
ports that "a terrible explosion occurred at the
Amy Coal Mines, by which seven men are
known to have lost their lives, and seven
more, who were in the mines, are believed to
be dead; but the destruction at the
mouth of the pit is 30 great that
little can be done in the way of rescuing
them, if alive. AT the time of the explosion
two men were descending in the car.
A frightful bust of flame came from the mouth
of the pit, driving the car back and killing the
two occupants The enginehouse, stacks, fan
and farmhouse were demolished and the store
room blown TO piece. Two other miners
were blown from the mouth of the pit and their
mangled bodies were recovered nearly half a
mile away. The flames which followed the
explosion burned fiercely for several hours"
Persons boring for gas near Lima,
Ohio, struck petroleum at depth of 800 feet,
and it is expected that the yield will be heavy.
The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1886-01-21
SOUTHERN.

At points in Virginia, Georgia, Ten
nessee, and North Carolina the thermometer
registered from zero to ten below Blasting
powder is being used to remove ice gorges A
Galveston Texas) special reports:
BY far the heaviest snowfall ever known on
Galveston island occurred this morning. About
midnight last night the wind suddenly shifted
from the east to northeast and slight furry of
snow and sleet hlled the air. Toward morning
the storm developed into real northern snow
Storm and by z o'clock the sky was almost OBJ
scured by largo, wavy flakes. It is
no exaggeration to state that almost the
outdoors TO see aDd feel the snow cry
of the younger generations had never Witnessed
"A snow-storm before and to the coiored people
it is such phenomenon that henceforth they
will reckon marriages, births, and deaths from
de great snow" The average depth was six
inches, with drifts foot and half deep. No
previous snowfall since the foundation Of the
city in 1888, has equaled one-half that Of to-
day. and then only at intervals OF fifteen and
twenty years.
The Supreme Court of Virginia has
decided that the coupons on State bonds cannot
be received for taxes set apart by the constitu-
ton for the maintenance of free schools.
An Arkansas farmer, with double
barreled shotgun, captured and marched back
TO the Coal Hill Mines six of the convicts who
recently escaped He states that he will bring
in four others and secure the reward offered
Taleen, Johnson 81 Co., dry goods
and groceries at Ishpeming, Mich, failed
for $4,000.
James Cutshaur, the last representa-
tive stage driver in Ohio, who for half a
century was employed on the route from
GAINESVILLE to Chillicothe, died last week at
Lancaster, aged 81 years.
The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1886-01-21

and II fsr Hhsrmsn- rfp Joint convention win
be head to-morrow, ut which Mr.. Alderman will
be chosen by majority OF %.
A Washington special to Chicago
journal says: The President has not told
any Senator what he shDnld do about the ap-
plications Of Senate Committees for informa-
ton regarding his reasons for making remov-
ais and appointments He does not intend to
define his position until some Senate Commit
tee applies directly to him for the desired in
formation. Thus far the Senate Committees
have only applied to members of the Cabinet
In several cases the Postmaster General, and
in one case the Secretary of the Treasury, has
responded with the desired information-or a
part of it, The President expressed to the
members OF his Cabinet the wish that they
should return to the Senate committees any
further applications for information with the
statement that the President had not author
lied them to explain what his reasons were
for making the removals and appointments.
Then, if the committees want to pursue
dent himself. He will then, by way of re-
ply, tell the Senate what he understands to be
his own perogatives and responsibilities, and
what he understands the functions of the Sen
ate to be- In other words, the President is
standing on his dignity, and invites the Senate
to ask him for his reasons if they are wanted,
and not waste time trying to get the informa-
ton at second hand from the members of the
Cabinet When he is asked for his reasons he
is prepared to explain to the Senators that,
while they have right to reject his nomina-
tons, they are exceeding their prerogative in
asking for his motives"
The House of Representatives Of the
Ohio Legislature adopted resolution ap-
pointing committee to investigate charges
made against four members of the present
House to the effect that they accepted brides
to vote for Henry B. Payne for United States
Senator while members of the previous Gen
eral Assembly. The committee was named,
consisting of three Republicans and two Dem
ocrats
The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1886-01-21

. famine is coming In Ireland, and that with 1t
acts of lAwlessness win be moro frequent
John Magee, the adventurer who
lately pleaded guilty 10 the charge Of attempt
ing to procure money from the Prince Of
Wales by threatening letter, was sentenced to
seven years penal servitude.
An important change has been made
in the formation of the Japanese CONVENIENT
responsible Cabinet has been organized and
the general makeup of the executive depart
ment now corresponds closely with that of the
United States and England
The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1886-01-21

A granite building in Clinton street,
Boston, occupied by W. o. Rogers & Co. and
C. II. Thompson q Co. with farm supplies, was
burned, the total loss being about 100000.
The four children from Newark, n.
j., who were sent to Paris for treatment by M.
Pasteur for hydrophobia have reached homo in
safety and good health.
Professor Fowler, the we'll known
phrenologist was arrested at Buffalo, N Y,
on charge of practicing medicine without a
license.
The miners and coke drawers at the
Standard works in the Cennelsville region OF
Pennsylvania demanded an advance of 10 pei
cent and threw down their tools
The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1886-01-21
WESTERN.

Masked highwaymen in the vicinity
Of Fort Robinson robbed q stage coach of
5000 in gold consigned TO the Paymaster.
General Howard has sent out detachments of
cavalry, and scouts are in the field from Sid
ney. Cheyenne and Deadwood The loss is
likely to fall upon the express company.
Deming On. NJ special: "A gentle
man from Santa Fe to-day, who is connected
with Territorial governmental affairs. is au-
thority for the statement that the Territorial
government is actually negotiating with Col
Baylor, OF Texas, the noted Indian-fghter, to
raise q body of rangers to come over into
New Mexico and exterminate the numbering
Apaches. Baylor has had great experience as an
Indian-huntor, and ii is thought that with a
couple of hundred picked rangers he could
capture the Apaches or bring their scalps in,
The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1886-01-21

The Gar of Russia derives an income of
S10,000,0O0 from his personal estate.
THE Australian harvest is over. Ninety
thousand tons of wheat will be available for
export.
IN New York City within the last twenty
years there have been thirty-nine deaths
from hydrophobia.
Mr.. MATTHEW ARNOLD has been spend
ing some weeks in Berlin, studying the edu-
cational system of Germany.
WILLIAM DIcKEY, the Father Of the
House" in the Maine Legislature, was a
member Of the same body forty -four years
ago.
The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1886-01-21
TEUTONIC CUPIDITY.
Germany Seizes Upon the Samoan
Islands and Annexes Them to
Her Empire.
Arbitrary Action of Bismarcks Consul
American and British Consuls
Protest.
London dispatch

Intelligence has been received here that
Germany has seized the Islands of Samoa
in the Pacific Ocean. The King and his
chiefs were insHlted, and finally fed, A
force of marines were landed from the Ger
man war ship Albatross. The German Con-
sui then hauled down the Samoan flag and
ran up the German colors in its stead. The
Samoans threaten to make war on the Ger
mans. The American and British Oonsuls
protested against the action of the Germans.
In February, 1885, the announcement was
made that Germany had annexed these
islands, and that its action was in pursuance
of secret agreement between the Govern
ments of Germany and England. The
officials at the Colonial Office in London
said that they believed that the agitation of
the Australians was only temporary, and
that there was a growing feeling both in
Australia and England that Germany would
be good neighbor, and that it was wise to
give Germany an interest in the Pacific
Islands to Offset the aggressions of France.
Strangely enough the dispatch announcing
the annexation said that Germany's proceed
ings were "despite the protests of the Eng
lish and American Consuls."
than any other power, because the Samoans
are distant only 400 miles from the British
FIJI Islands, and contain two of the safest
and best harbors in the Pacific. The islands
are nine in number, have an area of about
l 400 square miles, and population Of
nearly $4,000. The largest island is Upola;
area, 335 square miles; population, 1900.
On this island is Apia, the capital of the
group, residence of the King and foreign
consuls, and principal commercial town in
the kingdom. The soil is rich and
the surface densely wooded. The products
comprise cocoanut-oil, arrowroot, cotton,
castor beans, ginger, coffee, tortoise shell,
and vegetables. The commerce of the
island is mostly controlled by single Ham
burg house, and the protection of that SOL
itary German trading establishment fur
nishes to the Berlin island grabber a pre-
text for the theft of whole Polynesian
kingdom. The inhabitants are superior in
bodily and mental endowments to those Of
other parts of Polynesia. They are Chris
tians and mostly Presbyterians. The coun-
try has been under the protection of the
United States.
The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1886-01-21

WILLIAM MCCOY died mt Nashville,
Tenn, Mt the age of 105 years His wife
survives him, at the age of 30 years.
The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1886-01-21

DANBURY, Conn, makes one fourth of
all the hats worn in the United States. 1t
turns out hourly on an average ,343 hats.
The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1886-01-21

The Bar Association of New York recon-
mend TO the Legislature of that State the
passage of n marriage license law.
The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1886-01-21

PRINCE BISMARCK is the first Protestant
that has ever received the decoration of the
Order of Christ. The badge is worth f600.
The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1886-01-21

ALPHoNsE DAUDET is getting ready to
write life of Napoleon Bonaparte.
The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1886-01-21

MISS CLEVELAND always speaks of her
brother as :" the President"
The Washington critic., 1886-04-09
LETTERS FROM THE PEOPLE.
The Gas Problem Solved.

EDITOR CRITIC: Your practical suggcs-
tion In yesterdays CRiTtc as TO the proper
manner to do away with the gas monopoly
is heartily indorsed by the numerous citl-
zens with whom I've talked upon the sub
iect. Let the Government take charge OF
the gasights for the National seat OF Gov
ernment the same as IL does with the water
eupply. The District of Columbia Is set
apart as the Capital of the country, and
here are gathered It's thousands Of officers
and employees engaged in the discharge Of
the immense business of the Government
which centres here from all parts OF the Re-
public. Here the Representatives OF the
people assemble to enact laws for the
nation, and IL does seem ridiculous, upon q
moments reflection, that this great Gov
ernment should pay tribute and a large
OF light, so essential an element In the
transaction OF public business. II seems the
more absurd when the fact Is considered
that over the affairs Of this National seat
Of Government, Congress exercises ex-
elusive legislation in ali cases whatsoever.
Let Congress therefore provide for con
demning the property Of the present gas
corporation, paying Its proper value there
for, and then conduct It's management In
the same manner as II does the water sup
ply. BY this means the Government will
receive its supply Of gas at an inconsiderable
cost, and the community domiciled here
could be supplied at a nominal price, at a
rate say that will pay the. Government a
fair interest upon It's Investment. You
have struck the keynote for the solution of
system Of oppression which has long
harassed this community. The CRITIC,
by its practical work in behalf Of tha peo-
pie Of tho District, is rapidly becoming a
recognized power. Keep the ball rolling.
Connecticut Avenue. A. ii. b.
The Washington critic., 1886-04-09
NOTES AND GOSSIP.


Ex-CoNGREssMAN SHIELDS Of Missouri is
now law partner OF ex-senator Henderson
at st. Louis
DR.. OLIVER WENDELL HOLMES will sail
from Botton for Liverpool April 81, to
spend the summer in England.
THE American hen is working on two
big contracts-Easter eggs and q crop of
spring Chickens Inter Ocean.
A TABLET TO the memory of the late DR..
Austin Flint will be erected In the main
hall of the Bellevue Hospital, New York.
Mr. WELSH Of Philadelphia, ex-Miuister
TO England, has been prostrated for several
days with pneumonia. He Is now so years
OF age.
LAWRENCE BARRETT is in New Orleans
this week, and next week will traverse the
large towns OF Texas aud make his way to
San Francisco.
THE American Medical Association will
meet in st. Louis May 4, and the physicians
OF that city are making elaborate arrange
ments for the reception OF visitors.
THE Boston Record wants to have John
J.. Sullivan 20 to New Mexico and meet
Geronimo. Is this the Boston way of set
Ting the Indian question, or OF settling
John J.. I'm. Y. Tribune.
A WORCESTER girl at Vassar, who spent
the evening outside without permission and
climbed In at window, tried to ''cover her
tracks," but couldn't find anything large
enough TO do It with.-[Lowell Courier
THE SENATE having passed bill appro-
priating $500, 900 for the erection of monu-
ment to Lincoln in Washington, one is
prompted TO ask what has become OF the
proposed National monument to Grant,
IN. Y. Graphic.
GENERAL FRANCIS A. WALKER of Boston
has been made president, and Richard T..
Ely of Johns Hopkins University, Balti-
more, secretary, of the American Economic
Association, which was organized at Sara
toga last summer.
THE Easter number of the Chicago
Current, Of which hundred thousand
copies will be issued, and which is intended
to be number Of remarkable brilliancy
and variety in all its departments, will con-
tain sketches by Eugene Field Of the Chi
cago Ne,Us, Dom Piatt, Bill Nye, James
Whitcomb Riley aud John McGoyern; also
prose and poetry by Professor Swing,
"Gath," Hon. John A. Bingham
of Ohio, Judge Thoman of Ohio,
VIII Carleton, Henry Guy Carleton,
Robert Burns Wilson, William II. Hayne
and numerous others.
The Washington critic., 1886-04-09
THE NEW YORK PRESS.

The WOTld this morning says of Mr.. Glad
stones speech that it was mot so much a
splendid achievement of oratorical skill as a
clear and straightforward presentation of
forcible and convincing arguments" OF the
action of the House on the silver question
yesterday 1t says: "a majority of III, on
vote only 80 short of a full House, makes II
certain that tho friends of silver have the
power In their hands and that there will be
no suspension of the silver coinage this ses.
sion."
The Herald says of Mr.. Gladstone's scheme
of home rule: 1T is the very least which Eng
land would receive from Ireland were she in
Irelands place." It still vigorously protests
against the revocation of Commissioner
Sparks April land order and informs the
President and Secretary Lamar that they are
wrong in this matter"
The star trusts that whatever notifications
Mr.. Parnel asks to Gladstone's scheme for Ire
lands deliverance may be agreed on. "In any
event, the great fact remains that Irish
wrongs have been confessed, and home rule
proclaimed by British Ministry as the only
remedy for these wrongs, and the only assur-
ance Of imperial unity" AS to the silver
question 1t says: "Any policy that is supported
sentatiyes cannot be knavish, even though
events may prove 1t unwise."
The Tribune says: "Home Rule for Ireland Is
coming. There may be Ministerial defeat
and an interval of Whig Conservative dal
lance, but coercion is from this day imprac-
ticablc, and without coercion the English
must leave the irish to govern themselves" q"
1t commends the Congressional Library bill
as most excellent measure.
The Times says of Mr.. Gladstone's bill: "Its
prospects can be judged Of only when the
cable has Informed us of the effect that the
study of its provisions has upon the doubting
Liberals, butin this country at least there
will be very little doubt that Mr.. Gladstone
has presented a practical solution OF the first
great problem Of home rule"
The SUn says: 1.-THE bill proposed by Mr..
Gladstone Is downright repeal OF the Act of
Union carried by Pitt at the beginning of the
century. II inyokes no sweeping changes of
the British Constitution. II gives back to
ireland her ancient Parliament, not as Grat-
tan saw IT, but as Grattan hoped that he
might live TO sec It,"