The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1886-04-08
LATER NEWS ITEMS.


The great railway strike has cul-
minated in bloodshed at Fort Worth, Texas
A posse of deputies from the Sheriff's Office
were detailed TO protect train which was
pulled out of the Missouri Pacific yards. They
were fired upon from ambush by the strikers
and one OF tho officers was killed, two were
MORALLY wounded, and one of the strikers
was hurt II was rumored that the strikers
threatened to burn the town The Governor
ordered out the State troops.
The Georgia revivalists, Sam Jones
and Sam Small closed their labors in Chicago
last Sunday evening. when an audience of
nearly eight thousand persons endeavored to
reach the platform and extend farewell greet
ing. When the recent converts were called for
225 persons stool up as witnesses to the work
The revivalsts will resume their labors in
Chicago in September.
Fire broke out in the Planters
House, the oldest hotel in St Louis, at three
o'clock in the morning. There were about $50
guests and fifty employees in the house at the
time. All escaped save four servant girls, who
persisted from heat and suffocation. The main
portion of the building was not damaged, and
the loss was only about $1,000
At Cincinnati the Ohio River reached
a height of tly-three feet one and one-half
inches, the highest point since the great deluge
of 1882
Another of the wolf-btten Russians
under treatment by Pasteur at Paris has died
from hydrophobia.
Mail advices confirm the report of
the sudden ia ling out of the bottom of the
great volcano Kilauea, on one of the Sandwich
Islands.
The Cambridge crew defeated the
Oxford, in the annual race on the Thames, by
half length. The race was against head
winds, and very exciting one. The distance
was four miles, and the time 22:291S
A Paris dispatch says that M. M.
Roche and Duquercy have been arrested at
Decazevllle and taken in letters TO prison.
Socialist leaders have also been arrested in
Brussels.
Eleven Captains of German reg
iment located at Brandenburg resigned ON ac-
count of a public reprimand gwen by their
Colonel The Emperor was informed of the
occurrence and ordered their arrest and trial
for conspiracy.
ONLY the House of Representatives. was in
session on the I'd inst. When the labor arbtra-
tion bill came up in committee of the whole,
Mr.. Warner. OF Missouri offered an amendment
providing that the members Of the uibuga of
arbitration shall receive a compensation of $40
n day for the time actually employed. IL also
prescribes the fees and compensation TO be
allowed the clerk, st snographor, marshals and
witnesses, provides that the tribunal shall have
the power to limit the number of wines e5 in
each case whose fees shall be paid by the United
States, and appropriates sufficient cum TO carry
the provisions OF the bill into effect. Mr.. Till
man, OF South Carolina, offered an amendment
TO the amendment providing that not exceeding
$1,000 shall be paid out of tae Treasury to de-
frpy the expenses of any single arbitration.
The amendment was agreed 10. and Mr. War
ners amendment, as amended, was adoI ted.
The committee then rose and reported the bin TO
the House IL was Immediately passed-yeas
195, nays % The following is the negative vote :
Allen lMiss). Barnes, Belmont, Bennett, Brock
inridge Qky.). Crisp, Croxton, Davidson Ala,
Harris Hemphill, Hill, Hutton Irion, Jones
(Aln.), Norwood, OFerrell, Perry, Reagan,
Rogers, Sadler Skinner. Tllman, and Tucker.
On motion of Mr. Kelley. of Pennsylvania, the
title of the bill was amended as TO read
10 provide n method OF settling controversies
and differences between railroad corporations
engaged in interstate and territorial transpt rta-
tion OF property and passengers and their en-
ployes." after the labor arbitration bill had
passed the House took up the silver debate. Mr..
Fuller, of Iowa, argued in favor OF double
standard and charged that the officials OF the
Treasury Department were violating the
laws and thwarting the will OF the peo-
pie in refusing to pay out silver ON
the obligations of the Government. Mr..
Barksdale, of Mississippi, OPP o5ed the sus-
pension of silver coinage, as did MIR. Caldwell,
of Tennessee. Mr.. Gallinger, of New Hamp-
shire, argued In favor of the suspension of sill
Yer coinage President Clevelands "innocuous
desuetude- was exactly what the silver dollar
needed. Mr.. Woodburn, of Nevada, defended
the silver dollar from the charge Of dishonesty,
and argued in favor OF unlimited coinage.
Messrs Price, of Wisconsin, and Niece, of ILL
nois, spoke in opposition to the suspension Of
silver coinage.