The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1886-09-23
LATER NEWS ITEMS.

John Roach, it is announced, will
surely be a bidder for the contracts to build
the new cruisers for the United States navy.
The contracts will hardly be given out before
Congress is again in session.
The rumor that Secretary Manning
may be appointed Minister to Austria grows
in Washington. Two ends are sought viz,
that Mr.. Manning may try certain Austrian
springs, and that the United States may have
an expert in finance in the field in the expected
European controversy over bi-metallism
The New York Chamber of Com
merce has raised $40, 4SG Tor the Charleston
sufferers
Asher B. Durand, the oldest Amer
lean painter of note, died at South Orange, n
He was born in 1896.
The nephews Of the late S. j. Tilden
have commenced contest Of the clause in the
will of the deceased which gave a trust fund
to New York City.
John l.. Sullivan met Frank Hearld,
Of Philadelphia, with hard gloves at Pitts
burgh. A hot battle was stopped by the police,
IN the second round, with Sullivan the winner.
Joliet, ILL.,, was swept by cyclone
which demolished fifteen or twenty houses
Despite this frightful destruction of property
not a person was fatally hurt Everybody
seemed TO be aware of the approach of the
cyclone some minutes before it struck the city,
AMI secured their safety by fleeing to their
cellars. The cyclone came from the south
west straight up the Desplaines River Con-
slant flashes of lightning lit up the sky 80 that
the funnel-shaped monster could be plainly
Seen as II came whirling toward the city with
roar like hundred locomotives blowing off
steam The air was filled with boards, limbs
Of trees, sections of roofs, and pieces of
heavy timber. A bridge was picked up bodily
and deposited almost intact two blocks away
A heavy grindstone was blown $50 feet
Pieces of houses were carried a quarter of
mile. large number of houses were more
or less moved from their foundations and
wrenched out Of shape, many OF them with
great patches of shingles missing from their
roofs. Telegraph poles were twisted off like
pipestems, and the streets were blockaded with
a mass of tangled wires. Numerous holes
were scooped out of the hard gravel streets
Eye-witnesses say that these holes were made
by balls of electricity, or fire, which bounded
along the ground during the rush of the cy-
clone, Great trees were torn up, and their
bodies twisted into every imaginable shape
Numbers of horses and COWS were buried be-
meath falling barns, and some were badly
crippled. The horse and buggy of Deputy
Sheriff Ward was hitched in front of his house
when the cyclone came and after it had passed
the horse and buggy had disappeared, and no
trace Of it has yet been found The damage
to property in the city is estimated at s75, 600,
and may exceed that sum-
Subscription lists have been opened
at all of the American consulates in Germany
for the benefit of the earthquake sufferers at
Charleston, and liberal contributions are being
made.
A patent has been taken out for an
aerial ship by two British inventors, who hope
to investigate the Congo and other countries
with it
The guaranty fund for the projected
Paris Exhibition is being rapidly subscribed,
and the total capital of $500, 600 is now as
sured
In the rowing match, at London, for
81, 900 and the championship of the world,
William Beach, of Australia, defeated Jacob
Gaudaur, of St Louis, by four lengths.
The American Minister to Corea re-
ported that cholera was raging at that place,
that five hundred deaths were occurring daily
inside the walls Of Seoul, and that at least
twelve thosuand had been taken of to date.
Ex-Governor Foster, of Ohio, is
President OF company organized to convey
natural gas from Findlay to Toledo dis
lance of forty-five miles. The plant will cost
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