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The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1888-01-11
THE WESTERN STATES.

&oUTs, Indiana. is again brought iuto notice
as the scene of railroad disaster. Two sec
tons of q fast livestock train going East col
lided on the Chicago and Atlantic road A
brakeman was burned TO crisp, and . car
load of cattle was also destroyed
The indictment charging criminal careless
ness and manslaughter upon the conductor Of
q passenger train in connection with recent
railroad disaster near Kouts, Indiana, in
which number of persons were killed, has
been quashed at Valparaiso, the court holding
that the indictment was defective in that it
did not charge evil intent, and that mere
omission of duty was not punishable.
JUDGE SHIRAs of the United States Dis
trict Court, at Dubuque, Iowa, has rendered
a decision against what are known as the
Glidden barb wire patents, under which the
Washburn- Moen Company has exacted vast
royalties from manufacturers and laid heavy
taxes upon farmers using barb wire fences
The defendants in the suit proved that the
original barb wire fence was invented as long
ago as 1859, or fifteen years prior to the issue
of the Glidden patents The case will be ap-
pealed to the United States Supreme Court.
The billiard tournament at St Louis, says
a dispatch from that city, was enlivened by a
general fight, the result of which may be the
termination of the tournament owing to the
bad feeling aroused Some time ago Dick
Roche offered to put up $50, 600 against 500
that Donovan would not take first money in
the tournament Donovan did not take the
bet, but was offended at its terms, and spoke
in derogatory manner of Roche The latter
took him to task, and assaulted Donovan with
his fist The latter responded with fierce
blow from a billiard-cue Joe Ullman, the
well-known bookmaker, knocking him down,
and assaulting him on the floor. John Davis
a leading lawyer of ST. Louis, came to Dona-
ovan's rescue. and attacked Roche. The fight
then became general, and number Of per-
sons were more or less injured
AMI BALDWIN, late cashier of the Fidelity
National Bank of Cincinnati, who was indict-
ed along with L. L. Harper and other officers
of the bank, but who had not yet been tried
died of stroke of paralysis on Thursday.
He was IS years old
A SAN Francisco telegram says that Nathan
b. Sutton was hanged ut Oakland, Cal, for
the murder of Alexander Martin, a ranchman,
in September, 1886. Strenuous efforts were
made in Sutton's defense and for commute
ton of sentence, but Gov. Waterman refused
to interfere Since Waterman acquired
Office by the death of Gov. Bartlett four
months ago, six executions have taken place
in the State and, though efforts in behalf of
the condemned men were made in every case,
Gov. Waterman refused pardons or commu-
tations When Sutton was placed on the scat
fold he made speech. Among other things
he said:
I admire the firm stand Gov. Waterman has
taken in the matter of granting communication
and pardons II he holds his grip the commu-
nifty will have but little TO complain Of as re-
CARDS the showing of executive clemency.
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%; total y7p, compared with 203 the preceding
week, and 200 the corresponding week last year.
WINNIPEG special reports that two
freight-trains ON the Canadian Pacific Road
collided on the north shore Of Lake Superior.
The engineers and fremen OF both trains
were killed outright and number Of others
injured
ACCORDING to Sir Charles Upper, the Can
adam Minister of Finance. who passed through
Chicago, the people of Canada favor free
Interchange Of the natural products q both
countries, but are satisfied with their govern
ment and are not disposed to consider any
plan of annexation TO the United States.
A WINNIPEG special reports that two heavy
freight trains ON the Canadian Pacific Rail-
road, while going twenty miles an hour, met
on q high tres:le bridge over Mink River
The bridge broke aud one engine aud eight
cen cars were thrown to tho bottom OF a
gorge eighty feet below. Three men wero
killed outright One Of the victim, was COW
cred with timbers and wheat HIS awful
struggles to free himself could be seen, but
it was seven hours before he was pulled out
and by that time he was frozen so badly that
he died soon afterward. The loss il $3.50, 00l
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THE VERY LATEST BY TELEGRAPH.


The Secretary Of the Interior Sends His
Resignation to the President.
SECRETARY LAMAR has rendered TO the Pres
ident his resignation as Secretary of the In
terror, and 1T has been accepted by the Presi-
dent Mr.. Lamar's letter is dated Jan. 2, and
closes as follows:
In terminating my relations to you as a men,
Der OF your official family, 1 desire to express
my grateful sense OF the obligation am under
TO you personally Tor the consideration and
Kindness which have always characterized your
treatment of me, and for the generous conf
dence and support which you have steadily
given me in the trying and arduous admins
tration OF this department shall always DO
proud TO have been associated with the honor
able record you will leave upon the page ot
your countrys history.
The President in accepting the resignation.
says:
am sure TINT the close confidence anu the
relations of positive affection which have grown
up between us need no expression or interpre-
tation. And Set find it utterly impossible for
me to finish this note without assuring you
that the things which have characterized your
conduct and bearing in the position from which
you now retire-all your devotion to your coun-
try and your chief; your self-sacrincing care
and solicitude for lblic interests; all the ben
tit which your omcial service has conferred
upon your fellow-countryinen, and all the atfec-
ton and kindness you have so often exhibited
toward me personality shall constantly re-
member with Tenderness and gratitude.
The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1888-01-11
THE NEXT WHEAT HARVEST.

Present Condition of the Plant i'm the States
of the Central West Better than Antici-
pated Last Fall.
The Farmers Revie,c, of Chicago prints
the following summary of thu condition of
the wnter-wheat crop:
The winter-wheat crop is in better condition
than could have been hoped for before the
breaking of the drought in the fall. This is at,
tributabe To late rams just before the setting
in OF winter and the snow mantle which has
quite generally covered the growing wheat since.
Late reports OF crop correspondents briefly
summarized give the following percentages
of condition compared with an av-
erage: Ohio, forty-t"o counties, condition
e2.s per cent Illinois, sixty-six counties, 9J7
per cent; Missouri, forty-nine counties, $50
cent Kansas, forty nine counties, 100 per cent
Wisconsin twenty-siX countless 9j.5 per cent.
Michigan, twenty two counties, oS3 per cent
Kentucky, twenty counties. ST. per cent These
figures indicate an average condition of about
81 per cent. in the winter-wheat States OF the
Central West. November reports on acreage
seeded to winter wheat in the same State indi-
Gated about "a per cent. OF an acreage, which
with the present condition indicates about 50
per cent OF an average amount OF crop for the
coming harvest provided acreage conditions
are meanwhile experienced.
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THE WORLD AT LARGE.

r. G. Dun 4 Co., of New York, in their last
weekly trade review, say:
The first week of the new yenr has not been
one of great activity, but shows some reactions
in most markets. The yenr opens with fewer fail
ures than anticipated and with n fair business
for the season at oil points reporting. The
money market generally is eaSjer. Next to the
iron industry which hesitates, wooden manu-
facture seems to have the most uncer-
tointy. Raw material declined about |
cent in December and z to cents since
July, though coarse wool yields the least, and
the largest decline has been in fine fleece. Es-
Inmates Of the clip vary widely. Cotton manu-
features are exceptionally prosperous. The
advance of fifty per cent in prices last year.
The foreign trade continues large. But for the
miners strike and threats by cotton spiuners
the outlook would be more favorabls than for
many weeks. business failures Tor the week
numbered for the United States 256, for Canada
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tening az one or the Polish houses, when .
fight began. In which fully thirty men
we're engaged Clubs, knives bottles, jugs,
and glasses were used freely. The furni-
ture was broken and the inside of the house
was wrecked They fought for fully half
an hour, and hardly one escaped mutilation.
One was found just outside the house with
six knife-wounds in the head and body, his
arm broken, one eye gouged out and his
nose smashed He is dead Two others were
fatally hurt and seven others were seriously
injured. 1t is not probable that any one can
be convicted of the murder, rs all were too
drunk to know who inflicted the wounds.
The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1888-01-11
TEE EASTERN STATES.

FIVE men were killed and dozen injured
by a collision on the New York. Pennsylvania
and Ohio Railroad. near Meadville. Pa
JASAUscHEK, the actress, has instituted suit
for $40, 90 damages age inst Henry Bull, Jr.,
proprietor of the Perry House at Newport.
r. l., for injuries sustained by falling down
stairs, May IL, 1887, and breaking her arm.
ADEsPERATE fight between drunken Poland
ers is reported by telegraph from Wilkes
barre. Pa A large part Of the population
consists Of Hungarians and Polsnders A
grand debauch was in progress over chris
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quietly, IL TO have an organization repre-
senting both political parties, and primarily
the business men, though, Of course, the
leading men in politics will not be left ont,
and so far as possible the organization will
represent other States as well as North
Carolina. This organization will send Q
large delegation here to bring its influence
to bear upon Congress, and possibly the
President. Such an organization does not
seem very necessary, as the repeal OF most
or all the tobacco taxes looks like FORE
gone conclusion, but the matter Is Of so
much importance to the people OF North
Carolina that they will take no chances.
The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1888-01-11
MANY ROADS HAVE FAILED.
Annual statistics Show Badly for Railways
The Alton Is still Fighting.

IN its last issue the RailWay Age, of Chi
cago, publishes q statement showing that
During the year 1887 thirty-one railroads in
this country, with an .gregate funded debt OF
S164, J22,0O0 and capital stock OF Sl63. 659 100,
have been foreclosed ana sold. Several very
large companies contributed TO swell the total
to its appalling aggregate, notable among them
being the Indiana, Bloomington q Western,
Kentucky Central, New York, Chicago d ST.
Louis, Buffalo, New York & Philadelphia,
Central Iowa, and Texas Pacific,
these six companies alone being reponsi-
BILE for nearly 20 per cent of the mile
age and nearly 81 per cent. of the capital
represented in tho aggregate for the year. The
record OF cases of railway insolvency is
also quite large, eight roads having passed
into the hands of receivers during tho year
These eight roads represent l,O46 miles Of
track, and have u funded debt of SAP, $50 90,
and capital stock aggregating S47, $1,000. The
large amount of new construction during the
past year is regarded us ominous but the fact
that the greater part Of the new building has
been by strong lines renders the railroad situa-
ton for 1888 stronger than 1t appears.
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REQUISITES FOR STATEHOOD.
Enabling Acts for Some of the Territories
Likely To Ise Passed.

Enabling Acts for Some of the Territories
Likely TO iSe Passed.
Mr.. SPRINGER, Chairman of the House Com
mittee on Teri tories, in an interview at Wash
ington the other day, ss!d:
Very probably enabling acts will be pa ssed
for some of tho Territories that is we may pass
an act enabling some O: the Territories to adopt
State constitutions and 20 construct the ma
chinery of State government preparatory to re-
cognition as states. Tho admission of new
State ~ very important matter and cannot be
done ON mere application or ON any mere
aritnmetical basis. somehow an impression has
got abroad That n territory must have a certain
population to qualify it for admission. There
is no law and no custom about il. The admis.
sion OF new slate is entirely "a matter of
Legislative disci elton. 10 ia within the power
OF Congress to erecJ mo Mans Land into
State aud almit it To the Union. The state OF
Illinois was admitted when she had less than
$1,000 people. Dakota has over GOO, 900. The
Congress, in its discretion may exclude Dakota
AMI may admit No Mans Land"
The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1888-01-11
THE SOUTH GROWING.
Figures Which Show Its Remarkable Pros
perity Duringtthe Past Year.

perity Duringtthe Past Year.
The Manufacturers Record of Baltimore
prints review of the industrial growth Of
the South for 1887, which, it says, was in
many respects the most remarkable year in
the history Of that section, as more was &C
complished for the progress and prosperity
of the whole South than ever before in
the same length of time. From Mary
and to Texas the progress was re-
markable, covering almost the entire range
of industry, and there is scarcely single
line Of manufacturing or mining business
in which the number of new enterprisesl
reported during 1887 is not more than
twice as large as in 1856. OF the fourteen
Southern States there are only four in
which the capital invested in new enter
prises is not double the amount invested
last year.
The amount of capital. including capital
stock or Incorporated companies organized
during 1887, compared with 1886, was:
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any effort should be made % defeat the meas
ure which we think will cover the ground the
parties engaged In IL will suffer-" Congressman
committee. declares he will fight to the bitter
end for reduction of the surplus revenue
protectionist basis. He SAYS he 10 thoroughly
committed to the policy OF protection for the
United States, and will not allow any reduction
made with his consent on free trade lines.
The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1888-01-11

In cotton manufacturing there has been
great ACTIVITY, and seventy-seven new mills
have been pro. ected, many of them being
now under construction. This is the largest
number of new mills ever reported in one
year. Cotton mills are reported as having
largely oversold their production. ana many
old mills ne being enlarged to meet the
demand for their goods.
The Industries of tie South are being
greatly diversified Nv well as increased.
The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1888-01-11
IOWA FARMERS SQUEEZED.

Unable 10 Take Up Mortgages Resulting
from Meager Hallway Facilities.
A RECENT dispatch from Des Moines, Iowa,
states that
Complaints of the scarcity of cars continue to
come from the farmers OF Northwest Iowa.
Railway Commissioner Coffin recently paid a
visit to that part of the State, and has since
been urging upon the roads the Importance of
furnishing necessary facilities for farmers
to move their surplus produce. One of
the chief articles OF shipment is baled
hay and dispatch states that while
there is a shortage OF cars for all purposes the
hay men only get about ne-tenth or less of the
cars that come. Thousands of dollars OF mort
cages are just due III that part of Iowa. A
strong effort should be maze TO relieve the
farmers in some form, as they are at the mer-
cy OF the collectors and attorneys. If collec-
tons are enforced it will create panic, s they
have as u rule received credit during the sea-
son. and perhaps o.r0wud money to get along
with VITA the exception of market for the
hay and chances Tor shipments.
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LANDS.
Total. ............2j, 629, 534
Total bonds AID lands. .

The report then contrasts the management of
the Union Pacific since 1SS4 with the methods
OF Mr.. Gould. which are discussed in n manner
not to the latter r credit The huntington man.
agement of the Central Pacific is also criticised
severely. AS an evidence of the Huntington
management the cost of the Central Pacific is
given ut Sl2O, ,52l. when the commission
found it was 1901, 1871, leaving a profit of
So, 90, 900, which was paid TO Stanford, Hun
tington, Hopkins and Crocker, being voted to
them by their own votes. Other similar trans
actions are given The commission finds,
while there is no proof OF actual bribery, that
money and passes have been used by officials
of the Union Pacific Company for influencing
AS to the Sioux City and Pacific Company.
the Commission finds that none Of the require
ments Of the act granting the subsidy have
been kept. and that the action of the directors
in dividing among themselves the first mort
gage bonds of the road was n wanton violation
of the grant
The minority report of Commissioner Patti
son is radically different from that of his asso-
ciates in respect TO his recommendation for the
action of Congress. His report occupies sixty
pages, and begins with q most sweeping and
earnest denunciation and arragnment
of former officers Of the Union Pacific
and the present management of the Central
Pacific, whose malfeasance, diversion of
moneys belonging to the stockholders of the
roads, and deliberate ana fraudulent i'm
pairment of the Governments liens are pointed
out with great particularly and eloquence He
says that it is not question Of the payment of
the debt to the Government, but Of the puni.h-
ment OF these CRIMINALS. lie recommends as a
preliminary step that the Government shall in
stitute suits in the courts to have the charters
OF both roads forfeited, and for the appointing mt
OF receiver, who of course, will then have
power t. institute both civil and criminal
suits against those who have defrauded at once
both the roads and the Government. He
suggests that the roads, after the forfeiture
of tho charters. shall be offered for sale. and
believes That they will be bought in by the
stockholders He discusses ut length what he
terms their present bankrupt condition, the
practical impossibilitv Of collecting the Gov
,rninents debts and the imperative necessity
OF making an example Of the men who have
wrecked the roads and defrauded the people at
large. The minority report, therefore, IL not
accompanied by proposed bill for Congress to
pass. holding apparently that the proceedings
Tor the forfeiture of the charters must lie had In
the courts, and are not within the province OF
COuQYess
The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1888-01-11
THE NATIONAL CAPITAL.

ACCORDING to the debt statement, the de-
crease of the national debt since June 80,
1887, has been S53, $50, $50; al cash in the
Treasury available for the reduction of the
debt, 1926, 9l9, 424; total cash in the Treasury,
s527, 265, $50 Following is the official state
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THE TOBACCO TAX.
Its Repeal Said to he Foregonc Conciu-
Washington special.

The people of North Carolina are organ
izing business mems movement in favor
Of the repeal of the tobacco taxes. The
.cheme which 10 Seing carried on very
Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1888-12-08
m ma DAILY REGISTER, SATURDAY, DECEMBER 8, 1855.

mostly for fractions only. Sales 303, 430
shares. Quotations clot ed bid IS follows:
Adams E1pEess. lie; American Express,
it5: Canada faciac, 81; Central Pacifs,
81; chesapeake and Ohio III; preferred do
irsts, 14A; do seconds, Isl; Chicago and
Alton 1874; chicago, Burlington and Quincy
1O7; Delaware and Hudson. 1871; Della
ware, LAckswanna and Weetern 1861;
Denver and Rio erande, 16; Erie, 27si
do preferred, 60; Fl. Wayne, $50; ILL.,
nois Central, 49, Lake Shore, 1908; Mich
isan Central esq; Minneapolis and St Louis
S; do preferred, Is; Missouri Pacific,
iii; Northern Pacific, 24s; do preferred,
ST.; Chicago and Northwestern les; do
preferred, 1873; New York Central, 107t;
Oregon Trauscontinental, 2B2; Pacific Mail,
80; Peoria, D. & E, z5!; Pittsburg, 155;
Pullman Palace Gar, 1884; Reading, AS;
Rock Island. SS2; st. Louis snd San
Francisco, 25l; DC preferred, 654i first
preferred, Ill; st. Paul, Minneapolis and
Manitoba, 100, St. Paul and Omaha, 3S;
do preferred aS3i Texas Pacific, cit;
Unioz Pacific, 625; United States Ex-
press, "a; Western Unicr, S25.
Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1888-12-08

Belisire now is, but there was no Beiiaire
there then. John died on the same farm
IN which. be Rrst tsttlsds on May 80 ls45i
"He brought q barrel Of apples across
the mountains with him, Planeeo tne
seeds, and raised a seeding orchard; From
one of tie trees we have the spple known
in the nurseriS, as the Belmont, or Fari'
sweet .1
"Of the sixtsen children in the combined
Fa1is ard Carson family all nave gone
home but john. -
"Of the twelve in the CUNNINGHAM fsm'
;Iv but three r,main, Able John and he
beccs. -a
"Surely God has been good to The orld'
and groom of fifty yesrs ago, when &C
nearly all of their companions are gone
vet they sre spared to each other n tc
their children D.
Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1888-12-08
CLIPPED FACTS OF INTEREST,

Senator John Sh'rman, al Insurance.
pepper reports, carries $500 in policies
on his life.
William Writ Henry, of Richmond, Va,
is writing a life of his illustrious grand
father, Patrick Henry.
John L Sullivsn's physician asserts the
connection between the ~slugger's brain and
legs is rot as fres as it should be.
1t is said that when General BoulsngeI
obtains a divorce from his present wife he
will marry ore Of the richest widows IL
France.
Marshal Mcmahon has flushed his me
MONS. This work will be published in a
few months simultaneously in Paris, Lon
don and Lsipsic.
The indianapolis Sentinel calls attention
to the TACT that Ex-Governor Albert ?.
Porter is not extensively mentioned fol-
\ Cabinet pO. ition.
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LIVE STOCK.
OhicaRo.

CHICAGO, December 7.-Csttle-.Re-
os,pts IL, 900 head; shipments 3.OOo neso;
market steady; choice steers "a 75a5 oV'
steers So 9Oa4 60; stockers and feeders
81 75a3 90; COWS, bulls aud mixed 81 ooa
; 80: western rangers 81 OOa4 %:
Boeg-Rsceipts Is, GOO head; shipments
1000 head; market strong and 3alOC
higher: mixed and light S. 1913 30; heavy
IS 15a5 40; skips So 25a4 80.
Sheep-Receipts 5000 head; ahipments
> 600 head; market 1oc lower; Wee'e1
So OOa4 90; Texans s. 35a3 %; lambs
So 00a5 25.
East Liberty.
EAST L1BKRTY, December Cattle
Receipts ESQ head; shipments DDS head
market nothing doing, all Though cen
signments. .L;,u.rt
2 800 head; market s~ctive; PhilaGtlPnis
IS 4Oa5 so; mixed S. 35s5 40; Yorker
* 25s5 35; common to fsir S. l5a5 -
pipp S. OOs5 p.
shseu-Receipts 500 head; shipment
Loco head; market dull ard unchanged
Cincinnati.
CINCINNATI, o., December 7.-HoRs--
HIGHER; common and light 81 so; pack
inc and butchers S. 10a5 so; receip'
3 500 head; shipments LAO head.