The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1886-08-26
LATER NEWS ITEMS.
Reports from Texas indicate that the

Reports from Texas indicate that the
recent storm was the most destructive ever
known there. The wind attained velocity of
seventy-fi five miles an hour and continued for
eight hours. Every town along the western
Gulf coast suffered severely. In Fort Worth
forty houses were completely demol shed,
and hundreds had their roofs blown
of. From Indianola comes the sad
dest news. Here the signal office was
blown down, carrying with it Captain l. A.
Reed, signal officer, and Dr. ii. Rosencrans,
OF Elgin, ILL.,, both of whom were lost Fire
broke out among the ruins and extended for
blocks, destroying thirteen houses The total
loss in Texas is: Thirty eight lives 81 000, 900
TO crops, So, 4OO, 600 TO city and town property,
and 5000 to shipping and harbor improve
ments.
The Bulgarians have deposed Prince
Alexander A dispatch from Sophia, the cap
ital of Bulgaria, says:
The populace and the troops quartered in the
capital surrounded the palace early Saturday
morning Prince Alexander l. aDdicated, ana
was escorted over the frontier. There
disorder. The populace then assembled and
adopted Il resolution praying the Gar TO re-ex-
tend his sympathy to the Bulgarian people.
The assemDlage proceeded TO the palace Of the
Russian agent and submitted to him the resolu-
ton, all kneeling The agent assured them of
the Cars friendship. The following provisional
government has been formed Prime Minister,
Mgr. Clement, Metropolitan of Tirnoya Minis
ter OF Foreign Affairs NJ Stojanoff; Minister OF
the Interior, Nj. Zankon. Minister OF Finance,
Nj. Hurmof Minister of War, NJ. Nekiforfoff !;
Minister OF Justice, Nj. RadeslavOh Minister OF
Education, NJ. Velichof. The people tran
quill Premier Clement issued proclamation
announcing the formal abdicaton OF Prince
Alexander who renounces the throne forever,
being convinced that his reign would be fatal To
Bulgaria.
Adviccs from Corea show that cholera
swept OFF twenty thousand persons in one
province.
Two hundred lives were lost by the
burning of passenger steamer on the RIVER
Volga, near Sarutov, Russia.
Mr.. Ferguson, the Gladstone candi-
date for Parliament in Leith, was elected by
an overwhelming majority.
1t was announced in Parliament that
the Government would oppose all notices of
motions and private members bills, the OH
ject being to insure short session.
William j. Kendall, of Boston, clad
in a cork vest swan the whirlpool rapids of
Niagara River. The trial was TO settle wager
of $4,000, made by Boston parties, he to re-
ceive s., 0O0 of the stakas. Kendall relates
the following experiences:
When he reached the spot where Captain
Webb is supposed TO have lost his life, the
water seemed 10 GO from under him, and huge
wave struck him on the head and shoulders,
knocking him unconscious for a few moments.
He found his swimming abilities Of no use
whatever, and never expected TO come out
alive. When entering the whirlpool he
SO benumed he could not use Il limb, and
did not know what he was doing The current
took him into the main eddy and sucked him
down like n flash, keeping him under fully hf-
teen seconds. Upon reaching the under current
he was shot ont OF the pool fully fifty feet from
the center. When he reached the surface he
had partly recovered consciousness, and know
ing there was no time to spare before he would
be dashed down the lower rapids, he SWAN to
the shore. While landing he was so over
come that he again became unconscious,
and his assistants were fully half an hour
cupied in reviving him with the aid OF stmu-
lants and by rubbing When asked If he would
ever make another trip he said, most emphat-
cally, NO, there's not enough money in the
world to induce me to repeat this afternoons
experience. child would have the same
chance to go through the rapids and come out
all right as an expert swimmer"
The President and his party are hay
ing delightful time in the Adirondacks
A fire at Earlville. n. Y, destroyed
property to the value of $780, 600
1t is claimed that ghouls made an eff
fort to steal the body of w. H. Vanderbilt at
Staten Island
The war feeling growing out of the
Cutting case has entirely died out in Mexico,
where it is thought, the trouble will be ami
cably adjusted An FL Paso dispatch says:
at is understood that the Supreme Tribunal
of Chihuahua will order the release of A X
Cutting, the Texas editor, on the ground that
he has already suffered enough imprisonment
for the offense which he committed"