The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1886-03-04
LATER NEWS ITEMS.

LATER NEWS ITEMS.
Edward o. Oliver, an employe of the
electrio-light works at Evansville, Ind, was
killed by an accidental connection.
Kansas has twenty-seven paper rail-
roads, but every one is operated by the Atchi-
son, the Union Pacific, or the Missouri Pacific.
Judge Tuttle, of East Tawas, Mich,
refused to pay taxes, aud the Town Treasurer
seized a span of horses valued at sll7.
Considerable excitement has been
caused by the arrest at Windsor, ILL.,, of Will
lam 4 Price, on charge of committing the
outrage on Miss Georgia Aldrldge, which so
shocked the community weeks ago. Price was
held in s., 900 bail
John Swinton believes that the most
deadly blow yet given 10 KING Alcohol is the
rule Of the Knights Of Labor excluding liquor
dealers and saloonkeepers from their organiza-
ton. at is doing more" he says, ito put an
end to drunkenness and to bring the rum traffic
under the ban than all the laws of Maine aud
all the speeches of Gongh ever did"
Bills are pending in both branches of
Congress to increase the rate OF postage on
fourth-class matter from | TO 2cents per ounce.
The reason is that the deficit in the Postoffice
Department for 1885 was $40, 100000 and the
deficit for the current year is estimated ut So
O)O,0C0
Sam Ennis, a brother of the Sheriff
of Baldwin County, Ga, shot and killed Dep
uty Sheriff g. N. Haywood The trouble grew
out Of Haywood, who is Prohibitionist, crit
a.. H.,
brother of Ennis.
The Louisiana Board of Pardons has
refused TO interfere in the cases OF Pat Ford
and John Murphy, the murdcrers of T. j.
Murphy, and they must hang. A petition of
Communication of sentence was signed by "a, 900
persons
Servia refuses to accept the treaty of
peace drafted by Bulgaria.
Prince Bismark has recovered from
his recent illness
The Archduchess Maria of Tuscany
was married at Vienna to the Archduke Carl
Stephan, brother of the Queen Regent of Spain.
Mr.. Henry Stevens, the American
bibliologist died at London, Eng after long
and painful ilness
A Paris journal asserts that Lord
Salisbury drew up a convention with Turkey
for the cession of Crete to England on the
payment of f3,0OO,CC> and a guarantee that
Greece would be prevented from taking ag-
gressive measures, but that Gladstone hest
tates to confirm the same
REPRESENTATIVE WoLFoRD, of Kentucky, who
a Colonel i'm the Union army made a speech
In the House on the 9th ult giving credit to the
Southern members for voting for all the pen
sions asked. He then gave notice that he would
introduce bill TO give TO every Confederate
soldier in need of il an artificial leg arm. Mr..
Weaver OF Nebraska, discussed the silver ques-
ton, aud predicted that the effort Of the
money oligarchy, assisted by the Executive Of
ficers OF the nation, TO double the peoples bur-
dens and cripple the business OF the country by
the suspension of the silver coinage, would prove
unsuccessful, now the attention OF the people
was attracted to the subject. He favored un-
limited coinage, and assert I'd that IL the whole
yield OF the min was coined annually 1t would
be twenty years before the per capita circulation
of the United States would be equal to that OF
France, and this calculation he said had been
made without taking into account any increase
in the population of the country. Mr. Gambler,
OF Georgia, submitted an argument against the
suspension OF silver coinage and contended
that there was no sound basis for the prediction
made by TIE -goldbugs" that the continued
coinage of silver would have the effect Of driv-
ing gold out OF the country Mr.. Clements, Of
Georgia, t1ought that the true test of the
value of silver. was not the gold standard
as established in countries where the value OF
gold had been enhanced by the demonetiz .ton
of silver, but the purchasing capacity OF silver.
Tested by its purchasing capacity, silver was
worth much as it ever had been, and
there ground for the asser ion that the
standard dollar dishonest dollar.
Mr.. Jones, OF Texas, advocated the free coin
age OF silver, and earnestly opposed the propo-
sition To suspend the operation Of the Bland
net. Mr.. Perkins of Kansas, opposed the sus-
pension of silver coinage. aud denounced the
demone t'zation OF silver in 1873 as tho dshonor-
ing of American silver. and as bringing in its
train business Disaster, which had continued
until the passa 90 OF the Bland act IN 1873
There was no sssiOn of tho Senate.