The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1886-04-15
LATER NEWS ITEMS.

Everything was quiet at East st.
Louis on the 18th inst Seventeen companies
of Illinois State troops, under command of
Gen. Reece, covered all strategic points in the
city. The funeral of the victims of the recent
tragedy occurred on Sunday, and was attended
by 1900 Knights of Labor, Knights of
Honor, and other organizations AT Parsons,
Kan, and Fort Worth, Tex, several
strikers were arrested, and there was more
or less excitement The troubles on the
Union Pacific at Omaha were adjusted, and the
men will hereafter be paid 10y the trip system.
The freight brakemen on the Mobile and Ohio
Road struck for $50 for twenty-si trips of one
hundred miles each. The members of the
paid fire department of Philadelphia have de-
cided to join the knights of Labor, in the hope
of securing an increase of compensation. AT
Sedalia, Mo-, woman shot at a Deputy
Sheriff who was doing guard duty at the Mis-
souri, Pacific shops Many kilograms from
Knights of Labor have been received i'll WASH
ington, asking for speedy action on the Curtin
resolution for a Congressional investigation
into the Southwestern strikes. L. " Pow
derby has written to Congressman O'Neill
that could have been passed, although it will
not be the means of settling all disputes be-
tween capital and labor. A New York dispatch
says the Vanderbilts, Astors, and Gould are
closely guarded by private detectives against
cranks. The Executive Board of the Knights
of Labor at St Louis sent the following tele-
gram 10 Jay Gould:
ITO jay Gould, New York:
THE following advertisement appeared in
many of the leading papers of the 9TH inst,
dated from the office of the agent of the Louis
vile and Nashville Railroad Company:
Ten good men from here are wanted as Dep
utyo arshals NJ East st. Louis to protect Louis
Vile and Nashville employees. Five dollars u
day and board will be paid Also II number of
Platform men can be given employment. Only
men who have plenty of grit and mean business
Il. S. GENUNG, agent.
How we'll this advertisement has been
answered is by their work in East ST.
Louis Six men and one woman were murder
ed by those who had plenty OF grit and meant
business. BY your actions in refusing the
peaceful negotiations solicited by the Board OF
Arbitration you and you alone must be held
responsible by the world for the lives OF these
innocent people.
The Hon. John Welsh, Minister to
England under the Hayes administration, died
at Philadelphia last week
The newly appointed British Minister
to China, Mr.. Walsham, has been directed to
concede the claims of China to Upper Burmah,
now in dispute, in return for concessions to
English capitalists and contractors in respect
TO the construction of railways to central points
in China and the building of Chinese fortifca-
tons.
nthOryi1U n n a w
State to be composed Of parts Washington and
Idaho Territories, to be known as tho State of
Washington, passed the Senate on the 10th inst
by u vote OF 80 To 13. Senators Butler, s. e. !;
George, Miss. Jones. Ark. and Morgan, Ala.
voted with the Republicans in the affirmative:
Senator Hearst, Cal, cast his first
vote with his party IN the negative. The
President sent fifty appointments To the Senate,
They include the successors of suspended"
officials whose terms have expired since their
names were originally presented. They are
now sent in to fill vacancies" The House
passed bill authorizing the establishment of
sixteen new life-sav!ng stations. Bills were
passed authorizing the construction of bridges
as follows: Across the Mississippi River near
Alton, Ill.,; across the west chann$ of the
Detroit River, to connect Belle Isle ark with
the main land across the Tennessee River, by
the, Nashville, jackson and Memphis
Railroad ComRnayh across the Miss she
Illinois aud Des Moines, by the New
York and Council Bluffs Railroad Company
over Bayou Barnard mississippi; across hed
River near Browns Ferry, Texas across the st.
Croix ut some accessible point between Pres
colt, Wis. and Taylors Falls, Mimi. across tho
Mississippi ut Winona, MINI. across the Mis-
souri, at St Joseph, Mo- across the Missouri ut
Council Bluffs across the Missouri ut Saline
City, NO.; across the Kansas by
the Interstate Rapid Transit Company; across
the Missouri in Clay Jackson Counties,
Missouri across the Missouri above ST. Charles,
Mo. across the Yellowstone in Montana across
the Mississippi at Red Wing, Mimi. across the
Missouri near Atchison, Kan. across the Tom
bigee, Warrior Tennessee. and other navigable
rivers in Alabama, by the Gulf and Chicago
Airline Railroad Company; across Young 8
Bay, Oregon across the Missouri near Cham
berla.n, Dakota: across the Missouri ut Pierre,
Dakota.