The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1886-06-24

The executive of the Irish National
League of America has summoned a national
convention to assemble in Music Hall, Chica-
go, Aug. Is next, and has fixed the quota of
delegates. All true friends of Ireland are re-
quested to make tho event worthy of the cause
they represent
Cardinal Taschereau, of Canada, has
issued pastoral letter announcing that the
Catholic Church cannot consistently tolerate
the organization of Knights of Labor or ap-
prove of the means resorted to by that organ
i:alion to obtain its ends
After six weeks attempt to force
manufacturers to accede to their demand for
the adoption of the eight-hour system, the st
Louis furniture workers have ended their
strike and the men, about 800 in all, have re-
turned to work on the old plan.
A. w. Mclean, Minister of Fisheries
for the Dominion, states that American vessels
will be allowed TO purchase bait or supplies, or
make shipments at Canadian ports, but must
not remain longer than one day.
1t can be announced as certain that
Captain Frank Mason, formerly managing ed
itor of the Cleveland Leddcr, and now United
States Consul at Marseilles, and Mrs Mason
are the joint authors of the "Breadwinners,"
that mysterious novel which has been credited
to and disowned by half-a-dozen men, includ-
ing Col John Hay
Reports from Delaware indicate that
the peach crop will be almost complete
failure.
A rainfall of twenty-eight inches in
fifty hours is reported from Alexandria, La.
A conspiracy to murder ranchman
near Sipe Springs, Texas, was exposed by one
of the parties. Five neighbors seized the
ringleader, perforated him with bullets, and
hanged him to tree, where his body was al
lowed to dangle for five days, as the Comanche
County officers were away vacation.
S. p. Hollingsworth made Isl miles
on a bicycle at Greenfield Ind, in twenty-four
hours. He rested two hours and forty-nine
minutes
Gaul, the Sioux chief who was in
command at the massacre of Gen. Custer and
his soldiers, has agreed to so to the battlefield
on the tenth anniversary and describe TO par
ty of army officers the chief features of the
affair
Senator Blair's educational bill has
been disposed of for the present session of
Congress by the Education and Labor Com
mittees of the House, which made final
adjournment without acting upon the New
Hampshire statesman's scheme. This bill was
debated in the Senate for weeks, and the dis
Gus sion will no doubt have to be gone over
again
The funeral of King Ludwig of Ba-
varia took place at Munich. The procession
was three hours i'll passing from the palace to
st Michaers Church. The bells throughout
Bavaria will ring every day for six weeks from
noon to o'clock, i'll mourning for the King
Hobart Pasha, Marshal of the Turk
ish Empire, is dead He was a son of the
Earl of Buckinghamshire, served for many
years in the British navy, and in the last
between Russia and Turkey was appointed
by the Sultan Commander I'M Chief of the
Turkish Black Sea fleet
The influential London journals, with
the exception of two personal organs, are
united against home rule on the Gladstone
plan. Some of the weeklies favor restricted
forms of home rule. Lord Greville, an nfiu-
tial Irish landlord, is convert to Gladstone
Punch has gone over TO the Tories
Oh motion of Mr. Weaver, of Iowa, bill au-