The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1886-12-02
LATER NEWS ITEMS.

Flames swept away two grain eleva-
tors at Duluth, Mimi. The total loss will OK
coed 5000, 600 OF the two elevators burned,
one had a capacity of $50, 900 bushels, and the
other of $4,000 bushels There will DO a
small salvage on the grain. The insurance is
100000
The boot and shoe firm of j. < s. b.
Sachs, of Cincinnati made an assignment It's
liabilities are S20o,0eo
In the first of the series of cushion
carrom billiard games at st Louis Slosson de-
feated Schaefer in l23 innings. Slosson's av-
erage was S-l23, and Schaerers 3 9S-l23
Time of game, hours and 80 minutes.
A fire in the three-story brick build
ing Nos. 30 to 239 Klnzie street, Chicago, oc-
cupiod by Il Rothsahilds Sons & Co., manu-
facturers of saloon, bank and Office fixtures,
did damage TO the amount of about sSl, COO
A collision of trains near Green
wood, Mo, causeI the death OF Col Elijah A
Mag Fin, postal clerk, nephew of the OK
Governor of Kentucky.
The President of the Marquette,
Ontoaagon and Portage Roal Is credited with
saving the lives of twenty-four men ship
wrecked Off Marquette in a recelt storm. He
ordered the railway track cleared of trains
and appealed to the life-saving crew at Port
age CITY to travel 10 miles. with a special
engine and car at the greatest speel possible.
Robt. Vance, of San Antonio, Texas,
was thirty years ago one of the sureties on the
bond of an Indian agent, who proved to be
short in his accounts To the amount of $3.50
A jury i'll the Federal Court, last week, gave
the Government in Sment against tn Vance
estate for $4,000, including compound in
terest for twenty-sx years.
Henry M. Stanley, who has arrived
in New YORK, says the upper Congo can be
placed in direct communication with al coun-
tries by the construction of the railway along
side the cataracts as proposed by Belgian
syndicate.
George Hazlett and Miss Sadie Allen,
Is years old, went through the Niagara whirl-
pool and rapids in a torpedo-shaped barrel.
They were in the rapids and whirlpool five
minutes, and were taken out OF the eddy on
the Canadian side none the worse for their
porilous trip
The United States Minister at Paris
has been requested by the Municipal Council
to inercedc with the Governor of Illinois in
behalf of the condemned anarchists OF Chi
cago.
The British Government has decided
TO prosecute the Nationalist leaders, and also
to re-enforce the troops in Ireland by four
thousand men A dispatch from Sligo Ire
land, says:
The excitement here is intense. The streets
guarded by police and cavalry. private
meeting of the Nationalist chiefs was held at
the town hall Sunday, ut which their future
course OF action was discussed Commoner
Tanner commenced speech in n field near
town, when n body OF police appeared and dis
persed the meeting with bayonets. Messrs.
OBrien and OKelley, members of Parlia-
ment. went e. RiverstOwn, whore Mr..
O'Brien made a speech denouncing the Govern
ment aud decl iring that the Irish would be able
TO overcome tho unworthy schemes for repress-
ing opinion. The police threatened TO arrest
him, but though he desed them. he was not
molested. Mr.. q Bricn thon went TO Ball yBote,
whore n pr est advis "a him not to talk. He per-
sisted. however. aud the meeting was dispersed
by the police meeting at Tully County Mayo,
was addressed by John Deasey. He said that
If Dillon and oBrien were imprisoned the
Irish peopla would not be without friends. The
landlords were entitled 10 only five years par
chase Mr.. Thomas Mavne, member for Tip
perary, defended boycotting. A Government
reporter, guarded by constlbles. was present
and noted the proceedings of the meeting
Commoners Maurice Healy, Hooper. Lane
Fox, and Shea spoke ut meeting at killeagh.
They all declared that the Government could
not torrify them, but THEN speeches were gen
orally moderate and guarded.
Russia has stepped somewhat back
from her aggressive position, and will en-
deavor to absorb Bulgaria in some other way.
All the European nations are now charging
their armies in the belief that war will GER
certainly come in the spring. In Germany
the feeling 81 Gems to be that war is near at hand