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The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1886-05-27
POLITICAL.

The bill restoring the Congressional
district boundaries of 1882 has been passed by
the Ohio Legislature.
The session Of Congress is so far
advanced now that some question has been
raised as to the calling up of the tariff bill at
this session, reports a Washington dispatch.
at has been suspected by some people that
Colonel Morrison intended. to let his bill rest
until next winter, when the Congressional
elections would have passed. and when he
could have the whole session for the discussion
of the bill, but all the speculation about the
postponement Of the matter Is idle The bill
will be called up When the other business of
the House will admit Of it without its interfer-
ing too much with appropriation bills A
tariff bill takes precedence of everything. But
it is not desired by the tariff reformers to de-
lay the appropriation bills"
The Democratic Congressional Con-
vention at Springfield Ill, renominated the
Hon. William NJ. Springer by acclamation.
The Iowa Republican State Conven-
ton will be held at Des Moines on the 30th of
June. The Kansas Republicans will hold their
State Convention at Topeka on the 9TH of July.
Richard S. Tuthill, District Attorney
at Chicago, has forwarded his resignation, to
take effect June 80.
The House Committee on Territories
at Washington reached an informal agreement
that the Senate bill providing for the admission
of Southern Dakota as State shall go upon
the House calendar adversely reported, and
that the Springer bill, providing an enabling
act for the entire Territory, shall go upon the
calendar favorably reported
The Illinois Republican State Con-
vention has been called to meet at Springfield
on the LIST OF September
The Ohio Legislature adjourned on
the 10th of May to Jan 4 next, but none of the
Democratic absontees put in an appearance.
A dispatch from Cleveland cites q
prominent Knight of Labor "a saying that
James q. Blaine, of Maine il a member of the
local as ,embly of Knights of Labor at
Augusta.
n. ID. Wallace, Democrat, has been
electel to the vacant seat in Congress from
the Second Louisiana District caused by the
death of Michael Hahn, Republican.
John H. O'Neall has been named for
Congress by the Democrats of the Second In
diana District
The bill permitting women to prac-
! tice law has been signed by the Governor of
New York.
The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1886-05-27
NEWS CONDENSED.
Concise Record Of the Week.
EASTERN.

There is intense excitement at Port
land, Nc, on the seizure of the schooner Ella
M. Doughty by the Canadian authorities The
Fish Exchange adopted resolutions declaring
that the United States should proclaim nom
intercourse with Canada in all matters pertain
ing to fisheries; asking the National Govern
ment TO send armed cruisers into Canadian
waters to protect American vessels and calling
upon Congress TO take such action as will pro-
tect Americans from seizure of their property
while in the act of trade by the colonial gov
ernment, and to demand an immediate release
of the vessels under seizure. This resolution
was adopted: Resolved, That if our Govern
ment refuses to send Immediately armed YES
sells to protect our vessels, we deem it expedi-
ent to arm and equip our vessels for their pro-
lection" fishing schooner left Portland for
the fishing grounds fully armed
Ex-Alderman Jaehne, convicted of
bribery in connection with the Broadway Sur
face Railroad. was sentenced at New York to
States Prison for nine years and ten months.
Mrs. Alice Pendleton, wife of the
American Minister at Berlin, was thrown from
her carriage in Central Park, New York, and
killed
Arthur Quartley, an American ma
rine painter of some prominence, is dead
Prof. Dwight has been elected Presi-
dent of Yale College to succeed Noah Porter.
The Yale College corporation has
voted to create a professorship of the Semitic
language.
Louis Willet, alias Charles Crosby,
was hanged in the Jail at Kingston, n Y, for
the murder of Edwin KellHnd Jan. z, 1884
For the quarter ending March the
earnings of the New York Central Road aggre-
gated S7,342, 200 After the payment of ex-
penses, charges, and one per cent dividend,
there is a deficit for the quarter amounting to
1924, 443
DIR. bio Lewis died at his home in
Yonllcrs, N. Y, after an illness OF two or three
days, from erysipelas. He was 63 years old
A wreck developed by the tides near
Provincetown, Mass, is believed to be that of
the British man-of-war Somerset driven
ashore in IT'S, while chasing the French fleet
The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1886-05-27
WESTERN.

Judge Rogers. of Chicago, in charg-
ing the Grand Jury authorized TO take charge
of the cases of the murderous anarchists, told
them that no public speaker had right to ad-
wise murder or arson, and that one could be
held responsible for the result of incendiary
language Said he:
. refer TO these constitutional rights
because some men who are 30 inconsistent as
20 say that there should be no law and no such
rights as that yet claim the protection of that
right in its broadcast sense-and, indeed, inter
pref to suit their own mind-that n man may get
up in public speech and advise murder, arson,
the destruction of property, and the injury Of
people and their lives. That is q wild license
that the Constitution of this country has never
recognized any moro than it has been recog-
ni2ed in the worst despotisms Of old monarch
icGl Europe, and hope and you hope never
will recognize. man must be held RESPONSE
bic for his acts. and he must rs we'll be held
responsible for his speech.
Another Of the wounded police officers has
died at Chicago, making the sixth policeman
murdered by the bomb on the 4th of May.
The Ohio State Sinking Fund Com
mission has effected a one-year loan of $780,
COO with Albert Meter, Of Cincinnati, at 81 per
cent interest
In statement which he has drawn
up for the information of his attorneys, Max
well, the man charged with the killing of
Preller at st Louis, says he administered
chloroform to his victim preliminary to the
performance of surgical operation. The
anasthetic was too powerful and caused Prel-
ler's death. The accused says he was thrown
into a frenzy and knows little of what he did
afterward.
The Atchison road claims TO have an
interest in the right of way through Indian
Territory granted by Congress to the Kansas
and Arkansas Valley Company
Within four weeks, in the Immediate
vicinity of Nogales A. T., Apache Indians are
reported TO have murdered forty two persons
The Hessian fly is seriously dam
aging some wheat fields in the Elkhart Qnd.)
section.
1t is reported that mob visited the
house of Martin Irons, at Sedalia, Mo-, for the
purpose of notifying him TO leave the city; but
he had been warned of the intended visit
passed the night at the house of friend, and
left for parts unknown.
David Davis, the Illinois statesman,
has recovered his health efficiently 10 answer
a vast number of kilograms aid letters from
anxious friends.
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affording each other protection in strikes, es-
tablishing fair and uniform wages, arbtrating
differences with employees, etc.
The Pittsburgh journeymen tailors
struck for higher wages.
A delegate meeting of the miners in
the Cumberland region declared the strike OF,
and work resumed at the old rate OF 40 cents
ton.
Notice of reduction in wages was
recently given by tl.e edge-tool firm Of Ward
Il Payne, of Sheffield England, the reason
being the sharp competition of German manu-
facturers. As the workmen decline TO accept
the situation, the proprietors threaten to inn
port worNmen from Germany.
The laborers in the lumber district
of Chicago have resumed work on the old basis
of time and pay
The striking employees Of the South
ern Barb-Wre Company OF St Louis have
returned TO work on the plan of ten hours
Twenty-one Newark On. j. fur-hat
firms, which locked out the makers on the LIST
of May, have notified the men to return to
work
The machine-men in eighteen plan
ing mills at st Louis struck for an advance
in wages and the adoption of the eight-hour
system.
Business failures in the United States
and Canada for the week numbered lG7,
against 176 the previous week, and % the week
before that
The strike of the tai,ors at New York
has compelled the closing of 100 shops and en-
forced the idleness OF /, 800 men
The $50 men employed in the shops
of the Edison Electric Company at New York
are on strike. The company conceded them
an advance in wages and reduction of hours,
and now they demand that only union men DO
employed
New York telegram: "One week ago
BrddStreerS announced that the total number
of reported short-hour strikers at most of the
more prominent industrial centers on strike
within two or three weeks was about POO, COO
In addition to these there were within that
period at most about 5000 strikers whose
demands were not for shor'er hours of labor
daily, indicating that the grand total OF
industrial strikers for all reasons between
April "A and May If was about 100000. BY
reference 10 memoranda covering the labor
troubles specified, it is found that at no one
time were there more than 125, coo employees
ON strike, that number being in the field, as it
were, against employers during the week
ending May - The decline from that date
to Monday last was marked, the aggregate
May IL not exceeding $1,000 strikers
for ali causes. the reports of strikes from
cities and districts named May II
showed another heavy decline, owing, in part,
to defeats of remaining agtators for eight
hours at Chicago, and to the practical failure
of the btuminous coal strikes. The total of
employees on strikes, wired up to May % was
47,625. The loss of wages through strikes
since May has aggregated 100000 of re-
ceipts by employers s9,5)O,OOo, and Of future
contracts due to probability Of labor troubles
s24, $780, OO of which So, 400, 600 alone refers
to deferred or Cancelled building contracts"
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WASHINGTON.


Attorney General Garland was again
summoned before the telephone investigating
committee at Washington last week. He test
fed that he had never expressed any opinion
as TO the proper method of Van Benthuysen's
application to Mr.. Ericsson, but had purposely
remained silent on the subject He denied
ever having visited Mr. Young at his rooms,
and said that he did not believe that he had
attended a Pan-Electric meeting after the
Presidential election OF 1884, certainly
not since the Inauguration In reply To
Mr.. Ranney's question, "What did those
four men wanty" referring to the visit OF
Ericsson and others to the department, witness
said: SWhat they really wanted don't know;
what they said they wanted was: we want the
name Of the United States 10 test the Bell tele-
phone patent l remarked in reply that
could not consider the application; that was
a stakeholder and attorney for a rival COM
pany. Then there was question or two about
the procedure. i don't remember what they
were. was determined to cut the matter OFF,
and may have been little abrupt am afraid
Referring to Mr.. Dana's testimony, who had
said that the Attorney General should have
protected his department against this suit
that he should have smashed it-Mr. Gar
land said that il had been conceded on all
sides that he had no proper authority TO act
in the matter because of his being a stock
holder in rival company, and his relation
ship to the country had not changed in his
absence from July to October, when he found
the action had been taken. The same dis
ability existed as when he had declined
to act in the first instance. If thar
same disability existed, then he put the ques-
ton to Mr.. Dana and the committee how he
could have smashed the suit if he did not have
the ability to institute it,
Secretary Bayard, says Washing
ton dispatch, "has lost no time in negotiating
with the British Minister for the protection of
American fishermen on the coast Of Canada
Consul Phelan has been ordered to Digby, to
investigate the difficulties at that port Mean
time the Secretary expects American captains
to observe every local regulation"
The President has appointed the fol-
lowing named gentlemen members of the
Board of Visitors to West Point for the present
year: Prof W. G. Sumner, Of Yale College;
Hon Kemp p Battle, IL d., President of the
University of North Carolina; Mr.. Wilson S.
Bssell, of New York; Gen. William II. Blair,
of Pennsylvania; Gen. George b. Cosby, Adju-
tant General of California; Gen. Francis Il.
Nichols, of Louisiana; Col Thomas C. GcCor-
vey, of Alabama
The President has approved the bill
providing for the study of the nature of alco-
holic drinks and narcotics, and their effects, to
be pursued in the public schools of the District
of Columbia, the Territories, etc
The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1886-05-27
FOREIGN.

Vice Admiral Lynch, of the Chilian
Navy, recently died on the voyage from Spain
to Chilli
So serious is the strike of bricklay-
ers in Berlin, under the influence of socialistic
leaders, that the government deemed il wise 10
prohibit their mass meetings on Sunday, under
the minor state of siege.
The House of Commons, after an ex-
citing discussion, resolved to devote four
nights each week to debate on the home-rulo
bill.
Dispatches received from Cape Coast
Castle, capital of Gold Coast, West Africa,
saws that a conflict is proceeding between the
Becquahs aud Adansis, two native tribes, and
that in consequence the roads are blocked and
all trade with the interior is temporarily
stopped The Becquahs recently captured
forty-fye German traders and killed them by
oil the most terrible fortunes and mutllations
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Scene on the Chicago Board of Trade.

"But what is going on here?" the
visitor asks. Gathered in circles or
hurrying across the floor in all direc-
tons he beholds hundreds and hun
dreds of men eagerly intent upon the
pursuit of some individual yet common
oh ect The different groups are close
~ huddled together, like sheep in an
Enclosure, and each man is shouting to
his associates at the top OF his voice,
and accompanying his words with fran
tic gesticulations and flushed excited
features. as this veritable 'Bedlam
let loose ~" the visitor queries in
amazement, sand are all these men
crazy?" Very far from it. The cause
Of this excitement and of the rapid
movements is the simple fact that
thousands of dollars are here changing
hands every minute. The incessant
'click of hundred telegraph instru-
ments is conveying the knowledge Of
these hurried transactions to all parts
of the commercial world. The East
and the West, the North and the South
are alike interested in the information
thus impaired, while grave and solid
grain and provision merchants in Liver
pool, London, Antwerp, and Paris
eagerly an the reports Of each days
doings. And thus the harnessed light
ming OF two continents is kept busy
scattering abroad the facts and figures
produced in this apparently insane
hubbub. On either side of the hall,
and without the line of trading pits,
are rows of handicapped tables, on
which are deposited sample bags of
grain and around thasa clusfar buvara
and exporters, examining the goods and
determiningupon the price of exchange.
Market quotations from all the large
trade centers of America and Europe
are received during the trading hours,
and are at once posted on conveniently
arranged blackboards. The wheat pit
usually attracts the largest crowd, the
provision pit comes next, and the corn
and oat trade bring up the rear, except
in times of special activity, when this
regular order of things is liable to be
reversed. In the four corners of the
hall are small separate rooms for
special purposes, and on two sides are
galleries, from which astonished spec
tators look down with feelings of won
derment upon the turbulent and noisy
scene below. As whole, the scene is
truly a strange and significant one, and
the casual visitor usually turns away
from it with brain and heart tossed by
conflicting and unwonted emotions and
reflections u. Bates, i1l the Cur
rent
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SMALL CHILDREN ROASTED.
Four Little Ones Cremated in
Burning Building at
Akron, Ohio.
Akron Ohio special.

lAhfon lOniol specihl'
For three years past the widow of Thomas
Mooney has lived in little frame cottage
on the hillside one mile north of this city.
A forty-acre plot of land gave Mrs. Moo
ney and her seven fatherless children a
meager livelihood. Last evening the widow
retired in an upstairs room with her five
children, the eldest twelve years of age
and the youngest babe in arms. In an
other room slept her grown-up children,
Lizzie and Patrick, while in the attic was
her brother in-law, Lawrence Mooney, an
old man of 60 years.
About midnight Mrs. Mooney awoke and
discovered her small chamber filed
with smoke. She rose hastily, seized her
babe in her arms, and cried to the fright
ened children who were now awake: Fol
low me; follow your mother" She made
an effort to escape by the stairway, but the
flames and smoke rushing up from below
stitied her, and she returned and jumped
from the window with the babe still cling
ing to her breast. In the meanwhile the
fire, which had originated from defective
fue in the kitchen, enveloped the little
building in flames. The two grown chill
dren and the aged man escaped with diff
Guilty. When they reached the open air the
heartrending cries of the four little ones in
the room above were heard and the old
man rushed into the burning dwelling to
save them. The flames drove him back,
but not until he was frightfully burned.
The house was rapidly consumed, and
the cries of the four children became fainter
and fainter, and, at last as the fire broke
from every window, their cries ceased, and
all was still.
This morning all that remains of the four
children consists Of tub full of bones and
masses of burned flesh.
Lawrence Mooney, the old man who so
heroically endeavored to save the children,
lies at the point of death. His flesh hangs
in shreds upon his body, while the blood is
oozing from his finger tips: his eyesight is
gone, and his gray beard is singed to a
bright yellow. His sufferings are terrible.
HI cannot possibly recover.
The scene about the ruins of the hillside
cottage this morning beggars all de cripton.
The mother, whose four little ones were
burned TO a crisp, stands about the charred
embers of the dwelling with a stolid look in
her face. She has grown aged in a night.
There is not tear in her eye. Her giief
goes beyond the perceptible emotions. She
will neither converse nor receive the SYM
pathy of her neiohbors, and it is feared heI
reason has been destroyed forever.
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SOUTHERN.

At Louisville, KY, Davis, Trabue q
Co., wholesale cotton dealers; Trabue, DAVIS
q Co., cotton factors, and Davis Mallory &
Co, wholesalers of dry goods and notions,
made assignments. The three firms are con
nected and owe in the neighborhood Of
$4,000, principally to Eastern houses.
The Chief OF Police of st. Louis has
been instructed by the Commiss oners to ar
rest any person utterng incendiary speeches
and dispense any assemblage of anarchists.
The Grand Jury at Belleville. Ill,
refused 10 indict the deputies who shot aud
killed six persons during the labor troubles at
East st Louis, AMI the deputies were set at
liberty.
In the Superior Court at Chicago
John B. Jeffcry, President of the John b.
Jeffrey Printing Company confessed judg-
ment ON obligations amounting to over
S1CS,O0O
The cottage of Mrs. Thomas Mooney,
near Akron, Ohio, was destroyed by fire, her
four children perishing in the flames Thomas
Mooney, aged GO, in attempting 10 rescue tho
little ones, was fatally buraed, and five other
persons received slight INJURIES 1t is feared
that the mother has lost her reason
In a quarrel over step-ladder at
Apple Grove, W. Va, James Guerin, aged
nineteen, crushed in the head OF Mrs. Thomas,
his aunt, with stonc. and the young murderer
was then riddIcd with shot by his cousin. Eliza
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THE INDUSTRIAL OUTLOOK

Most of the Chicago metal-workers
have returned to work Nearly all the foun-
dries are running with reduced force.
The hat finishers at Reading, Pa,
were locked out rather than grant their de-
mands.
j he pottery establishments at Akron,
o., also closed, aud the shoe factories AT
stoneham, Mass, shut mp rather than grant
any advances to- their men.
The Brooklyn sugar-workers' strike
has ended in the defeat OF the workingmcn.
The coal trade is reported as very
dull, with no prospects of an advance in prices.
All the troops ordered to Cincinnati
by the Governor OF Ohio as a means of pre-
caution against violence in connection with the
recent strikes have gone home.
An association of textile manufactur.
ers, representing a capital Of sl50,0O0,OCO has
been formed at Philadelphia with the object OF
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David Davis was born in Cecil County,
on the eastern shore of Maryland, on
March O. 1915. His family was of Welsh
extraction, and had first settled in that
region early in the last century. He was
an only child. He received his educational
training at Kenyon College, Ohio, where
he graduated in 1892. From college he
went directly to the Harvard Law School,
and as soon as he finished the course there
removed to the West and settled in Bloom
inQton, ILL.,, where he was admitted to the
bar in 1885, and commenced at
once the practice OF his pro-
fession. He was soon brought into
public life, and as early as 1914 was elected
a Representative in the State Legislature.
In 18i7 he was delegate to the Constitu-
tional Convention, and a year later was
elected Judge of one of the Circuit Courts
of Illinois. This office he held by repeated
elections until he finally resigned. it in 1862,
when he was appointed by President Lin
coin Judge of the Supreme Court of the
United States. He remained on the SUI
preme Bench until March 5, 1877, when he
resigned to take his seat in the
United States Senate, to which Office
he had been elected by the Democrats and
Independents in the Illinois Legislature.
During his service as United States Senator
he maintained strict independence and allied
himself with the organization of neither
party in that Legislative body. He was
elected presiding officer of the Senate soon
after Vice President Arthur assumed the
duties of a higher Office following the death
of President Garfield, and continued to hold
this position up to the expiration of his term
of Office in 1888, when he was succeeded by
Senator Cullom. Soon after his retirement
from the Senate Judge Davis married, and
he has since been living very quietly at his
home in Bloomington, ILL.,
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"THEBE is perfect rage" says the Lon
don Queen, "for wearing flowers in the
hair. Flower aigrettes are the fashion for
the moment, and all other forms of orna-
ment are at a proportionate discount. A
tuft of osprey is introduced among the
natural blooms, and owners Of single dia-
monds have an opportunity of displaying
them rs dew-drops sparkling on freshly
too, large sprays of flowers and foliage are
arranged, and long, rich trails ornament the
skirt
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Cholera in q violent form has APP
peared among the fishermen of Bretagne,
France.
Natives in the River Tanna district
East Africa, have murdered Missionary Hough-
ton and his wife near IAmoo.
Later advices from Cape Coast Cas-
tie. West Africa. say that the forty-five traders
murdered by the Becquahs were natives be-
longing TO the Gamin tribe, and not Germans,
as the first dispatches stated
The volcano Etna, says cable dis
patch, is in violent eruption. Torrents of lava
are issuing from eleven craters
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Thomas. the fifteen year-old daughter of
Guerin's victim
A boat containing Sam Johnson. his
wife, daughter, w. Hall, and two negroes,
struck rock near Knoxville. Tenn, and sunk.
Johnson escaped, but the others were drowned