The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1886-03-25

WESTERN.
The visible supply of wheat and corn
in the United States and Canada, March Is
was, respectively, 5o,s8o, 42i and l4,6l6, S67
bushels,
Mr.. Jay Gould, who is now at Jack
sonville, Fla, has for the first time given utter
ance to his views regarding the great strike on
his Southwestern railway system He says
the action of the labor organizations is antag
onistlc to the public good
Five employees of the Union Pacific
road at Omaha seized Missouri Pacific freight
train about to start, put the engine back in the
roundhouse, and blockaded the track with box
cars.
The Knights of Labor at Akron, Ohio,
persuaded the boarding houses in that city 10
stop entertaining employees of 5. +. Sieberling's
factories. Ferdinand Schumacher, the oat-
meal king, thereupon threw open his two
hotels to the homeless workers.
A st. Louis dispatch says: "Not q
car of freight has crossed the St Louis bridge
for a week, and there is every prospect that
the strike on the Gould system of railroads in
the Southwest will last for some tune longer,
although the Texas and Pacific is reported to
be open from end 10 end A
switchman who went to work for the
Missouri Pacific was assaulted by a
number Of the strikers and quite seriously in
jured suburban train was side tracked out
side the city limits, and the passengers were
obliged to walk four miles before they reached
the street-cars The yardmen and switchmen
employed in East St Louis, TO the number of
about 200, representing more than half a
dozen railroads, have demanded an advance of
80 cents a day."
Young grasshoppers have appeared
in great numbers In the Toledo Ohio section,
and farmers fear the worst
Four Apaches have arrived at Camp
Lieutenant Maus in Arizona, with the tidings
that all the hostiles wish to surrender uncon-
ditionally.
George Q. Cannon failed to appear
in court at Salt Lake when his case was called
thereby FORGETTING So, 600
Harlan p. Tracy and F. b. Tracy,
bankers of Elmwood Ill, have assigned
Their assets are estimated at SIS, 600, and their
liabilities at $4,000
S. b. Watrous, a well-known mer-
chant and stock-raiser, who possessed great
wealth. committed suicide at Watrous, ~ NJ,
using the same weapon and selecting the
same spot upon which his son killed himself
six months ago.
The Ohio, Indiana, and Michigan
trotting circuit was formed al a meeting held
loo
gregating $4,000 W. T. Beauchamp, of
Terre Haute was elected President, and
Charles Reed, of Toledo, Secretary.
In q dispute at st. Louis over his
second wiles effects, Nicholas Emil shot and
killed his mother-in-law. He then hurried
home and Gu: his throat
Fearful that she will lose her trade,
st Louis is fighting the construction of a
bridge across the Mississippi at Alton, IL
Three working girls at st. Joseph,
Mich, became insane over religion, and eight
others are slightly affected The Pentecost
Band brought about their dementa.
The Illinois Supreme Court has re-
fused rehearng in the case of Joseph G.
Mackin, who il serving term for perjury in
connection with the election frauds in the
Eighteenth Ward of Chicago.
Four or five persons are mysteriously
missing at Milwaukee.
The strike in the Studebaker Car
rage and Wagon Works at South Bend, Ind +,
IL ended.
The failure is announced of Lehman
* Co, who own eight elevators along the
Northern Pac fic track in Dakota
At Oshkosh, Wis, the other after
noon a sudden and thick darkness settled
upon the city, causing CONSERVATION and stop
ping business. Horses ran away, and num-
beers of persons sought refuge in cellars,
though not breath Of wind was stirring
After lapse of ten minutes the phenomenon
passed away, apparently travelling in an east
ery direction.