The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1886-07-08
LATER NEWS ITEMS.
In its weekly review of the industr

In its weekly review of the industrial
outlook, Brddstreefs Journal reports trade as
seasonably quiet and without special feature;
concurs in mentioning a very hopeful feeling
among merchants as to the outlook for the au-
tu.nL The tone of the dry goods market is en-
couraging, all advances IN cotton goods having
been we'll maintained and stocks being light
The pig-iron market is unchanged Is 10 price
Mill irons are dull Steel rails are strong at
the low prices quoted, and the mills are full of
orders The interest in wool has receded from
the Central Western States to Montana,
Wyoming and Utah, where prices are held
above parity with those ruling
at Eastern markets The clip east of
the Mississippi has been cleared up,
bought more largely by spectators than
by manufacturers, prices having risen from
one to three cents per pound within ten days
Wheat prospects, aside from Wisconsin and
Minnesota, are for a fair harvest Estimates
vary from 435, 900, % to AZ, Zoo, 900 bushels.
The foreign wheat prospects are less favor
able, particularly in India. Reports of stocks
of wheat east of the Rocky Mountains, July
/, aggregate $1,000 900 bushels, against 63,-
600, 900 three months ago, and on the Pacific
coast 100000 bushels against l0,00O, 600
April |. Lard has been materially advanced
by spectators The July cotton report shows
that heavy rains have injured the growing
crop, so that the condition may DC classed as
fair only, against good one year ago.
The Harvard Yale boat race resulted
was lowered ten seconds.
Fines and costs of $4,000 assessed
against bookmakers on the race track at Mon
month Park, New Jersey, have been paid by
the association.
Ten persons were killed by the ex-
plosion of giant-powder factory near brakes
ville n. j. Window glass was shattered with
in circuit of five miles
The Northern Pacific Road refuses
to receive packages for Wells, Fargo & Co,
because of decision by Judge Deadly, at
Portland that one common carrier can not be
forced to do business for another
The legislative appropriation bill passed the
Senate the ID inst. Senator Vance, in OPP
posing an amendme mt to the bill providing for
an additional clerk for the Civil-Seryice Com
mission, said that il the commission was unable
to do any more business il would be SO much the
Service Commission from beginning to end, a
useless piece OF machinery. IL he mad his way
he would repeal the law. Mr.. Voorhees, said
that he had never been for the law, sleeping
walking, but while it was law he would
treat it fairly and give il fair
chance. Senator Ingalls, did not wonder
the civil-service law administered
by the Democratic party, and he
quoted from the statement OF the Commissioner
OF Pensions, tina: out OF seyenty-seven men APP
pointed by him under ciyil-servce rule seventy
two were Democrats and the other five were of
unknown politics. The amendment was adopted
Senator Cockrell, of Missouri, in discussing the
,,aragraph of the deficiency appropriation bill
relating 10 the Navy Department said that in 1866
there were 800 serviceable vessels in the navy;
to-day there were but eighty seven vessels, and
of these the Secretary of the Navy certified that
only thirty-seven were serviceable. During
these twenty years S4l9, 900 had been ex-
pended TOR the naval shinent OF which S91-
900, 600 had been expended for construction and
repairs. The House passed the Senate bill pro-
vidng for an additional Justice OF the Supreme
Court of the Territory of Montana. The Senate
amendments to the bill repeating the pre-
empton, timber culture, and desert land laws
were nonconcurred in by the House, aud COM
mittee of conference was appointed. An amend
ment to the general deficiency bill providing
for the payment of the claims of the Pacific
Mail Steamship Company for the transporta-
ton OF troops TO Panama in June, 1885,
agreed to by the House. The Presi-
dent vetoed the act granting pension to
William Boone. 1t appears that Boone enlisted
in August, 1862, was in action in November OF the
same year, and was taken prisoner and ut once
paroled. During his parole he took part in the
Fourth Of July celebration at Aurora ILL.,, in 1868,
and was terribly injured by the discharge of
cannon, which he was assisting TO manage. In
reviewing the case the President says he is I'M
able to discover any relation between the acct
dent and the military service. He says further
"A disabled man and wife and family in need
are objects which appeal to the sympathy and
charitable feelings Of any decent man; but it
seems TO me that il by means follows that
those intrusted with the peoples business and
h. nf fha las itatf
ned in so executing the pension laws as that
they shall furnish means Of relief in every
case of distress or hardship"
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