The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1886-04-22
LATER NEWS ITEMS.

The st. Louis IGrand Jury has
indicted number of persons who had
been connected with the Gould railroad strike.
Some of the indictments are for farming
switches and others for assault, and the in
dicted were arrested and gave bail Following
this the Missouri Pacific authorities issued cir
cular forbidding employment of any Knights of
Labor along the road as section foremen,
which would seem to indicate that the fight is
still on.
A scheme is said to be on foot to boy
colt the Gould railroads through Eastern man
ufacturers. 1t is said the cotton workers of
District Assembly 80, Knights of Labor, with
headquarters at Boston, will notify manufac-
turers for whom they work to stop shipping
their goods over those roads.
Barnum's new big elephant, Alice,
the former companion of Jumbo has been
safely landed in New York
1t is now pretty certain that the
schooner Charles III. Morse sunk the steam
ship Oregon The schooner was coaster of
535 tons, and was built at Bath in 1880. She
was loaded in Baltimore with coal and il was
known that she was of Fire Island the night
of the disaster, since which time she has not
been heard of. There was crew of nine men
on board, every one of whom, it is presumed
went down with her.
1t is ascertained that seventy-seven
people were killed and 2l3 injured by the recent
Minnesota cyclone. The property loss was
about $4,000
The explosion of eight cars of giant
powder at Clintonville, Wis, caused the death
of three and the wounding of six persons
The Indian Commissioner has decided
that the Pottawatomie Indians in Indiana and
Michigan are entitled to receive about s1!9,-
600 as their share of annuties which have ac-
crued on account of treaties
The Senate Committee on Public
Lands has agreed to report in favor of the bill
creating two additional land districts III Dakotl,
and defining the boundaries of the Deadwood
district
The Treasury Department is informed
that the Canadian Government has fixed an adj
ditional duty of ~ per cent on sugars i'm
ported into Canada through the United States
The ice-gorge in the st. Lawrence at
Montreal caused the inundation of the greater
part of the Wholesale and manufacturing sec
tons of the city, the water standing IN the
streets from three to eight feet
The furniture and carpet house of ID.
]. Johnson & Co., of Cincinnati, has failed, with
liabilities of $4,000; the failure is also an
nounced of Thomas b. Adams & Co.. of Bos-
ton, with liabilities of $4,000, and of Learn &
Snyder dry goods and carpet dealers, of Nc
Keesport, Pa, whose liabilities are $40 600
Owing to family pressure, Ludwig
King of Bavaria has stopped the building of
palaces and is retrenching in every way. He
will pay his debts in yearly installments of
e550,O0J
M. de Lesseps stated in an interview
at Paris that the statements to the New York
Chamber of Commerce in reference TO the
Panama Canal were absurd, and that he would
positively guarantee the opening of the canal
in 1889, and that it would have depth of
twenty -one feet nine inches.
At the cathedral at Madrid, while
the bishop was ascending the steps, he was
shot three times by prie.t, whose motive was
revenge for being dismissed. The bishop was
taken to a private chamber, where the last
sacraments were administered The assassin
was only saved from lynching by vigorous
efforts of the gendarmes, who conveyed him
to prison in carriage.