The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1886-07-01
LATER NEWS IETMS.

Twenty-Five passenger conductors on
the Lake Shore Road, running between Buffalo
and Chicago, were dropped by an order from
the company's headquarters.
Henry Primrose, a Captain in the
Salvation Army operating at New Phiadel-
phia, Ohio, has been arrested and taken to
Steubenville, where he has two wives living.
Sam Jones denied at the Red Rock.
Mimi, camp meeting last Sunday that he had
said the previous day that @down in Georgia
the Lord didn't object to the use of tobacco, I"
but that he used different expression. Jones
called for vote and several persons indorsed
his version, but the reporters, who took down
his statements, voted in the negative when the
nays were called, by mounting table.
At Baltimore Geo. Forsythe killed
his wife and then shot himself through the
heart
A lumber firm of Grand Rapids,
Mich, has this year entered l00, 600 acres of
pine lands in Louisiana and Mississippi Other
Western men are prospecting in that section
"A cotton-buyer in Texarkana sold to
Eastern parties three thousand bales of good
against them. BY filling his orders at St Louis
with the cheapest grades he robbed his Gus
toners of $4,000
At the Allegheny (Pa.) County Pro-
hibition Convention held in Pittsburgh William
b. Brickel was nominated for Congress, Sec
ond District, and Thomas II. Rabe for the
Twenty third District
An exciting episode in the Lake
Shore Railway switchmen's strike occurred at
Chicago. 1t was a wild chase of NIckel-P Plate
engine, literally black with infurated strikers,
and Milwaukee and st Paul engine draw
ing a box-car filled with men down the
Lake Shore tracks after two engines
drawing two cabooses filed with rail
road officials, imported switchmen, po-
licsmen, and reporters; and the exchange of
pistol shots for heavy iron coupling pins,
bricks, and Jumps of coal The pistol-shots
we're fired by Matt Pinkerton and four officers
on the platform of the rear caboose, and the
iron missiles and coal were hurled from the
sloping tender of the Nickel-Plate engine,
which was slightly in advance of the Mil
waukee one and running tender first ct
Grand Crossing the Lake Shore engines were
obliged to come TO a standstilL The pur-
suing engine was reversed, but not one
second too soon, and, as it was, it went crash
ing into the caboose with sufficient force TO
throw a number of men from the tender and
drive the train forty or fifty feet forward. The
instant the collision took place the strikers
swarmed out upon the tracks and took posses
sion of the Lake Shore engines and cabooses,
and they were then drawn back 10 Chicago.
Four men on the pursuing engine were shot,
but none dangerously. A large number of
strikers were arrested
Reports from Hot Spring state that
Secretary Manning is very much improved in
health and in good spirits.
1t is said to have been pretty defin-
itely settled that the love-sick Senator Jones of
Florida will not return to Washington during
the present session of Congress His daughter
graduated at the Catholic seminary in George
town last week, but he was not present on the
occasion He still remains in Detroit, the
home of the object of his hopeless passion.
Fifty-one persons have been killed
in CHILEAN election riots.
Richard Chamberlain, member Of
the British Parliament, was mobbed while
trying to address the electors of West Isl
ington.
Further fighting has occurred be-
tween the Dacots in Burmah and the British
troops. The latter lost seven killed and twenty
three wounded
THE sundry civil appropriation bill occupied
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