The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1886-08-19
LATER NEWS ITEMS.


A total of SAG, 396.50 has been sub
scribed for Mrs General Hancock.
New York dry goods merchants are
trying to get the railroads to reduce freight
rates.
New York spectators claim that
they are unable to borrow money at low rates
of interest
The strike among the canal boatmen
at New York is spreading rapidly. The
knights of Labor are backing the Boatmen's
Union
Oarsmen in the employ of the con-
tractor for the Eau Claire Lumber Company's
lumber, on the Chippewa River, struck for
more pay. The men were allowed to go.
The Central Labor Union, of New
York, elected j. z. Archibald as Marshal for
the grand procession in September. The
printers refused TO abide by the choice, and
threaten to parade independently with twenty
thousand sympathizers.
An officer of the United States army,
sent by General Mackenzie to investigate the
army of Mexico, reports standing force of
AZ, 600 men, divided between four great mill
tary districts. Ten new batteries of field guns
have of late years been imported from France
There is a factory for small arms near the
capital The officers come from the national
military school at Chapultepec, and the rank
and file are the lowest of the poems The
food supply is the simplest in the world
The introduction to "Poor's Railroad
Manual for 1886 which has just been pub
hshed, shows that 3, l3l miles of road were
mileage for the whole country being now 1885,
g73. The capital stocks of all railroads is So
Sl1697, S32 The earnings of all roads
equaled s772, Sos, $50, against s770,6S4-
9OS for 1884 the introduction says tAe last
year undoubtedly marks a point of lower de-
preston ia the earnings of railroads in ratio
TO their cost and mileage than is likely to be
Witnessed for some years to come Illinois
Central Railroad earnings for the last week in
August, 1886, s229, 800; 1885, sl97,25l.
In 1875 there was inserted in the
Nebraska State Constitution provision that
at the general election Immediately preceding
the expiration Of the term of United States
Senator from that State, the electors shall by
ballot express their preference for some per-
son for the Office of United States Senator
No action has been taken on this process
up TO the present time Senator Van Wyck,
who is candidate for reelection, has deter
mined to appeal to the people for their express
sion of preference under this proviso and he
has accordingly issued manifesto This will
be the first instance of n direct vote of the
people for United States Senator and it is sup
posed that the choice thus made will be bind
ing as matter OF honor on the Legislature.
So wide is the territory traversed by
the forest fires in Northern and Middle Wis
consin and 80 meager the information as to the
actual extent of the damage that the losses can
only be roughly Appropriated A Milwaukee
dispatch says:
The greatest damage was to standing timber
and the loss will amount to millions of dollars.
Portage, Marathon, Wood, Clark, Brown, Door,
and Calumet Counties suffered most severely.
1t is feared that half the timber resources of
the counties named will be destroyed. The
drought has been so long sustained that leaves
have withered and fallen weeks before
their time, swamps and marshes have dried
up, creeks have disappeared and streams have
dwindled to insignificant rivulets Everything.
therefore, burned like finder, with no barrier
70 impede the progress. Hundreds Of thousands
of acres of openings where tbs second growth
OF pine was growing have been burned over.
From the best information obtainable IL is
tmated that fifty saw mills were consumed
along the line of the Wisconsin Central Railroad,
and thousands OF cords of piled wood,
ties, ETC., i'm ashes. The num-
Der OF homeless families is estimated at
sevsn hundred, representing some $500
people. Their individual losses
paratively light but will in the aggregate reach
over a million, mostly uninsured. The cram
berry marshes destroyed were among the larg-
est in tho country. AS several years will be re-
Gnired 20 replace the bushes, the loss is severe;
il is estimated at 100000. Cattle and horses
persisted by the hundred. Many were suffocated,
or died from inability 10 obtain water. Hundreds
OF acres OF srainiand thousands of tons Of hay
were consumed
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