The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1886-07-15

is feared that some viii not recover
The Touring mill of Elkhart a Swan, in
amount of $4,000 by fire which origi-
mated from n sky-rocket A boat contain
ing three young men capszed in Douglss
Park, Chicago. and two of them Moses
Levi aud Michael Collins, were drowned
AT Haverhill, Mass, lad named Baptiste was
shot dead by playmate while celebrating the
Fourth. Charles Egbert and John Ward tried
10 fire of a cannon at Warren, Ohio 1t ex-
ploded prematurey. Egbert will lose both
hands, and Ward will lose his left arm, if not
his life Ed Reece and John Goggins will die
from injuries which they received by pre-
mature discharge of cannon at New York.
Poundmaker, chief of the Biackfeet
Indians, who was confined in the Manitoba
Penitentiary for nearly year, died suddenly
from the bursting of a blood-vessel
A crank assaulted Gen. Roca, Presi-
dent of the Argentine Republic, while on his
way to the House of Congress to read his
opening address, telling him TO the ground
with stone The people were with difficulty
lodged in prison President Rocas injuries
were fortunately not serious.
The Canadian cruiser Terror cap
tured two more American fishing schooners,
the q. w. Cushing and c. b. Harrington, and
took them to Shelburne. They belong to Port
land, Me-
The first through freight train on the
Lea. I'll. A.
The visible supply of wheat and corn
is, respectively, p, l95, $50 and 91SS $50 bush
els. Since last report wheat has been reduced
], 2SS 2S5 bushels, and corn has decreased $780,
2S6 bushels
Fire destroyed the Academy of Mu-
sic, the Office of the Rocky Mountain Ne1cS,
and other buildings in Denver, the losses be-
ing over 100000 Damage to the same extent
was occasioned by the burning of Norths
siorehouse at Cohoes, n. Y.
Edward Harris, wealthy solicitor
of London Ontario, has fled 10 the American
border, and is charged with financ al irregu-
larities of the gravest character.
The steamer Oconto, of the North
ern Transportation Company's line, struck
rock at Fishers Landing. on the St Lawrence
River, and sank. Her crew and passengers
were savel
Some European mail which reached
Chicago last week wac lost from the steam
ship Oregon off New York last March, and was
found in the sand at Cape Hatteras, having
drifted 400 miles
All the Canadian half-breeds now
imprisoned in the Stony Mountain Peniten-
tiary for participating in the recent Riel rebel
lion are TO be granted full amnesty by the gov
eminent and are likely TO be released before
the end of the month.
A cigar-shaped raft of logs, valued
at $50, 600, is soon to be towed from St John
TO New York by regular ocean steamer. The
customs duties on that amount of sawed tim
Der would be $4,000.
There were 1913 failures in the United
States during the week, against IA last year.
Canada had II, against 81 last year. The total
in the United States from January to date is
5,5SS against 6,43l in 1856, decline of s43
this year. BrddstreerS in its weekly review
of the industrial situation, says:
Mercantile collections have notably improved
AT nearly all distributing centers. The demand
for funds is active at New Orleans and Boston,
where money has been tight and interest rates
higher. and is increasing at Philadelphia and
st. Louis. The supply exceeds the demand at
Chicago ana Kansas City. But the visible signs
OF the reported improvement are found in the
hardening tendency in grain, pork, lard,
wool, cotton, brown and bleached cottons,
and print cloths. Iron and steel are
firm, and while not higher are not likely
70 90 lower. Oats higher on poor crop pros
poets. Pork and Lard have lost some of their
advance on speculative sales, under cover of the
advance in grain. Cotton is lsc higher on bet
ter demand and unfavorable crop reports in the
South Atlantic States. Wool remains firm at
previous advances, and manufacturers are buy
ing more freely. Higher prices for new makes of
brown and bleached shirtings and sheetngs
and for print cloths characterize the firm tone
and confidence in the dry goods trade.
Sam Archer, one of family of Indi-
ana desperadoes, was hanged at Shoals for the
murder of Samuel A. Bunch. In the Tombs at
New York, the execution of Cuban negro
named Chacon was witnessed by forty-six per-
sons
AT meeting of the International BIZ
metallist League, in Cincinnati, resolution
was unanimously adopted requesting the sus-
pension Of silver coinage