The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1888-02-15
TIE WORLD AT LARGE.

The English bark Abercorn, with cargo of
iron from Mayport, England, for Portland,
Oregon, was wrecked Oh the coast Of Wash
ington Territory. 1t is thought that fully
twenty lives were lost. The vessel was COM
manded by Captain McCullom, and was
valued, with her cargo, at 1925 600
1HE House Committee on Territories has
reported bill forming the Territory Of Okla
homa out of the public land strip and all that
part of the Indian Territory not actually oc-
cupied by the five civilized tribes.
The bill provides the necessary machinery of
government, including q governor, legislative
assembly, supreme court, and delegate to
Congress. The President is directed to APP
point five commissioners to negotiate with the
Creek, Seminole, and Cherokee tribes, and
when they shall signify their assent TO the
provisions Of the act. and the Presi-
dent has issued his proclamation fix
the unoccupied lands coded to the United
States under the treaties of June and March,
1886, shall be thrown open to actual settlers,
except the sixteenth and thirty sixth sections
in each township, which shall be reserved for
school purposes. II opens all the lands not re-
quired for the use of any Indian tribes to settle
ment. 1t makes it punishable offense for
any person or company to induce any person
to settle upon these lands with view to after
ward acquiring title for himself from said
occupants.
ISOLATION are on their way from Topeka, Kan,
to Washington to interview the President,
and from there to Liberia, to see if it is a
favorable place for Southern negroes to emf
CRATE to-
r. c. Dun & Co., in their last weekly re-
view of trade, say
In the general course of business there has
been perceptible change The volume or
40 nnaatQ snnl htnn n IL
was over Ii per cent. larger than last year out
side OF New York; evidently the gain in volume
of new transactions is much smaller. Railroad
tonnage is enlarged by wars OF rates, and the
ratio OF expenses to earnings grows less salts
factory. At nearly all interior points report
ing. trade is du or inactive. though percep-
tible imp ovement within the past ten days is
noted at st. Paul and Omaha. But collections
are slow at ST. Paul, Milwaukee,, Detroit and
Cleveland and the number of failures in the
Northwest beyond the Mississippi seems larger
than usual The cold weather, evidently, has
a retarding influence in many quarters. A
vast amount of capital has been locked up and
n vast body of indebtedness created in con-
nection with real estate, grain, and other
speculations of the past year. indebtedness
based on n fictitious valuation OF property or
commodities in not few cases, Will have to be
liquidated at IL loss. On the chance OF war in
Europe, wheat was suddenly advanced SO far
that peace prospects involve disaster to many.
Nearly all the markets are lower stocks about
SO cents per share for the week wheat about
cent per bushel; corn, Il cent; oats, y cent
cofee, cent per pOund ana sugar, Doth renneu
and crushed; 70 cent; hogs 10 cents per 100
pounds and tin, Il cent per pound.
The February statistical report OF the Ma
tional Department of Agriculture relates to
numbers and values of farm animals. There
is reported increase in horses, mules and
cattle, and decrease in sheep and swine
The largest rate of increase is in
horses, per cent, and it is general
throu yhout the country, though largest west
of the Mississippi. The aggregate exceeds
100000. The increase in mules averages
81 per cent Tho increase in cattle is 219
per cent 1t makes the aggregate over 49,,
Co., GEO. The increase is nearly as large in
mich COWS as in other cattle In sheep the
decline appears to be between 2 and per
cent, the aggregate of flocks being about 49,
600 There is a similar decline in num-
bers of swne less than l per cent, leaving
the aggre gate over Al, 000,0 900. The aggre-
gate value of all farm animals is $4,000 600
more than a year ago.