The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1886-03-25

Ex-Congressman Casey Young, Of
Tennessee, testified before the telephone in
vestigating committee at Washington that not
a word had ever been said about the associates
in the Pan Electric Company using their official
influence or taking advantage OF their official
position TO accomplish anything for the COM
pany. No man had ever said a word that could
be construed into an intention to do anything
corrupt or improper Van Benthuysen had
asked witness why he did not get Garland to
bring srit against the Bell Company Witness
replied that Garland was a member of his COM
pany. its counsel, and witness would not do it
Mr.. Young referred 10 DIR. Rogers statement
OF the conversation in which witness was re-
ported IA saying that Attorney General Gar
land had consented to bring suit against the
Bell Company. He asserted that the Doctor
had been in error as to the conversation Il
am positive that never told Rogers that At
torney General Garland had agreed to bring
suit against the Bell Company to annul their
patent said Mr.. Young, emphatically.
In discussing the propositions of the
Governors of Missouri snd Kansas for a set
Element of the troubles on the Gould roads,
H. M. Hoxie makes the qualification that the
Missouri Pacific Company cannot re-engage
men who have injured or destroyed its prop
erty, but will pay rate of wages equal to that
of other roads in the same section of the
country.
In answer to Mr.. Hoxie's refusal to
arbitrate the Southwestern railway troubles
with the strikers the Knights met at Fort
Worth, Texas, and passed resolutions declar-
ing that they would never go to work for the
Gould system until they were recognized as an
organization. On the other hand, the business
men along the lines held large meetings in
which the strikers were denounced and Mr.
Hoxies course approved
In consequences of the warfare in ILL
nois against convict labor, the Penitentiary
Commissioners have notified the Department
of Justice at Washington that no more Federal
prisoners will be received at Joliet unless the
cost of their keeping is guaranteed.
The Missouri Pacific Railroad Com
pany procured injunctions in the United States
courts at Topeka and Atchison against the in
terference of the Knights of Labor with their
business az common carriers. few of the
strikers subsequently violated the injunction
and were promptly arrested
knights of Labor at Omaha seized
Union Pacific engine with which to follow and
sde-track Missouri Pacific freight train at
PspiIlion.
Cooperative farming, under the aus
pieces of the knights of Labor is To be tried in
Grow Wing County, Minnesota.
VI
pletely restored
Political distrust in England makes
traders uneasy and capital is tmid
Bismarck is accredited with de sign
to sustain Mexican finance with view of OK
tending Germany's colonial influence.
Paris advices were to the effect that
Russia had refused TO join the other Powers III
coercing Greece TO comply with Turkeys
policy in the Balkan states, and that the Rou-
manian Minister TO Russia had been recalled.
Measures are being prepared by the
Russian Government 10 practically restore to
the mobiles the control of affairs, and to expro-
pirate the wealthiest Polish landowners for
the benefit of small tenants
Hope is about abandoned in Germany
that n reconciliation with France could be eff
fected by peaceful means, and the talk about
war is more bitter and earnest than ever. The
view entertained appears to be that Germany
has nothing TO fear while France is isolated
from other nations, and the introduction of the
espionage bill In the French Chamber of
Deputies seems to have added bitterness 70 the
feeling against that people.
THERE was no session OF the Senate on March
60 and the House devoted the day to speech
making ON the freo-coinage bill.