The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1886-02-25
LATER NEWS ITEMS.

Baltimore street railway employees
are organizing for the purpose Of demanding
higher wages Boycoaing will be resortcd to
in St. Louis by tho Knights of Labor to compel
the street car companies to give better pay and
shorter working hours to their employees The
managers of the iron-works at St Louis
threaten to shut down for want of coke.
The shoemakers of Beverly, Mass, to the num-
Der of 900 quit work because their employers
refused them a raise of from 20 to 40 per cent
The coke syndicate of Pennsylvania has col
ceded the strikers demands, and work has
been resumed The Western Nail Association
has passed resolutions TO stand by it's non
union workmen- Every mill in the associa-
ton west of the Ansghenies was represented
at the meeting.
It is reported that the suit to de-
termine the validity of the Bell telephone
patent viii be tried at Columbus, Ohio.
John L. Sullivan issued q challenge
to fight Jem smith, of England, for 5000 or
$4,000 and the championship of the world,
and pat up forfeit
The Ontario Provincial Government
has adopted high license in modified form
II has decided that in cities over 10000 in
habitants the fee shall be $3.50; in cities under
&c, 600 500 In towns the fee is fixed at $50,
in villages at $3.50, and in townships 500
Secretary Manning has issued his
third call for SIC, 0OO, 600 of 8 per cent bonds,
the principal and accrued interest to be paid
April l.
While attempting to cross the Sus-
quehanna River in a row-boat four young men
were drowned at Harrisburg, Pa.
The Panama Canal Company will
ship from New Orleans third party of go
negro laborers.
Samuel Kaiser, of Fort Worth, Texas,
has been awarded damages of So, 900 against
H B. Olafin 4 Co.. of New York, who attached
his stock and ruined his business before his
indebtedness to them had matured
A. A. Steagall, of Henrietta, Texas,
charged with incest with his daughter and with
numbering her babe, was hanged by mob,
but was cut down by the Sheriff before life was
extinct
A FIRE which originated on a cotton
steamer at Wilmington, N. c., swept along
Water street for three blocks causing losses
estimated at 81 50OrOOO The First Methodist
Church and two freight depots were among
the buildings burned.
There are no new developments in
the Windsor QlL) outrage Miss Aldridge's
condition is improving, and she will recover.
The Supreme Court of Indiana up
holds the law fixing the rent for telephones at
So per month
1t was decided in the Utah courts
| that wife could testify against her husband
in unlawful cohabitation cases
Major Williams, special agent of
the Treasury, reports that nearly all imported
books are undervalued more than 80 per cent
He recommends that duties be assessed on the
average retail price, and that stereotype plates
be treated az originals
Sylvia Dumont, q queen of the Paris
demi- monde, was stabbed by her jealous lover,
Emile Bottle, whom she thereupon shot with
a revolver Both died
The Irish party will hold a meeting
in London on St Patrick Day, Parnell fresid-
ing, the object of which will be to issue to
England the ultimatum of the Irish people
concerning home rule. Meetings of the same
nature will be held throughout Ireland the
same day.
The loyalists of County Tyrone at a
monster meeting resolved to oppose home rule
and maintain the union.
The new Lerd Lieutenant of Ireland
made his state entry into Dublin, and reports
say there was no display. body of students
following the procession was attacked, and
some of them were seriously injured