The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1886-11-18
LATER NEWS ITEMS.

The annual report OF the Commits
sioner of Internal Revenue is out The total
receipts frem ali sources Of internal revenue
for the year ended June 30, 1896 were sll6,-
COZ, $50 as compared with sll!,42l, 12l in
1885. The principal increase was in cigars,
cigarettes, and spirits distilled from grain.
Tue cost of collection during the year was
s4s09,4S5
A Chicago dispatch says: Confer
ences were ned on saturday between the
packers and the agents of the strikers, brought
about by Congressman LAWYER, but nothing
was accomplished during tho day looking TO
ending The Stock Yards trouble. In the even
ing, however, at a strikers meeting OH Halsted
street !. 7. Barry appeared and read dis
patch from Grand Master Workman Powderly
declaring tho strike at an end, and the de-
mand of the strikers as unreasoaab e.
The dispatch was a surprise, and created
considerable i'll feeling. Powderly's telegram
ordering the men back to work WAS received
Wednesday, but its announcement was for
some unknown reason held ba IL. AZ there
are now neary 600 at work in the packing
houses it il impossible that all the old hands
can lind employment Local Assembly No
1857. knights OF Labor, has pllced boycott
on Armour's products
Andrew J. Mulligan, alias James
Page who muir lered James " Hamilton his
employer, in Macon County, Ark, was taken
from the Jail at Harrison by thirty three
armed and mounted men, dragged with rope
around his neck behind galloping horse for
four miles. then strung up 10 tree and rid
died with bullets
A fire on Staten Island, caused by o
kerosene lamp, destroyed dyeing establish
ment at West New Brighton, valued at
10000
Snow fell at Lockport, New York,
Boston, and a. far west "a Cleveland last week,
to the depth of foot, impeding railway
travel.
In loft at Kingston, n. Y, there
was found the original letter written by Bene-
diet Arnold to the American people TO vindi-
cate himself for his attempted betrayal of the
country
The War Department has approved
of the allotment by the Mississ ppi River Com
mission of 100000 for the Yazoo Delta dis
trict, which will probably complete continu-
Gus line of levee from Memphis to vcksburg,
80 miles.
General Sheridan, in his annual re-
port to the Secretary of War, remarks that
unless the status of the Oklahoma lands be
fixed by leg station their advantages will prove
a continued temptation 10 adyenturers.
Gen. Chalmers, of the Second Mis-
sissippi Congressional D.strics is preparing
TO contest the seat of J. b. Morgan.
The Democrats will have ma ority
of Al in the Missouri Legislature o. q joint
ballot
The Central Labo: Union of New
York has issued an address in which the for
nation of national party is urged
The official canvass Of the vote In
New York shows that for Mayor Hewitt re-
ce,ved 81, So votes, George Is, 40, and Roose-
Welt Co. 49,
An entertainment at San Francisco
Melted 81, 600 for the benefit o. the Char oston
sufferers
Under foreclosure the Indianapolis,
Peru and Chicago division of the old Wabash
system was sold to the bonlbolder- for 81, SOC
600
The new Union Depot at Toledo,
located over a mile from the business quarter
of the city, was on Sunday thrown open "a
the public Ten thousand people gathered to
witness the arrival of the first train
John MacP herson, known as the
&c endale martyr AMI the Rev Donald
Mscallom have beel arrested in the lse OF
| Skye, charged with melting violence, in advs-
ing meeting of the crofters to resist the re-
moval of cattle