The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1888-04-18
TIE WORLD AT LARGE.

ONE Of the physicians who attended Mr..
Blaine IN his sickness NJ Fort Scott just before
he left for Europe, is authority for the state
ment oorroborating tho foreign news regard
ing Mr.. Blaine's present condition. that his
real trouble is Brights disease.
CANADIAN farmers are emigraing to Mani
toba in large numbers More than two
thousand immigrants have reached Winnipeg
since the middle OF March.
FIRE destroyed the William Arson Wood
Reaper and Mower Works at Youngstown,
Ohio, involving a loss OF s25J, 900 aud throw
ing five hundred men out of employment
Eighteen buildings we're burned at Whining
ton, DEL, at a loss Of $4,000; partially in
sured
PRESIDENT CLEVELAND has appointed as
Government Directors OF the Union Pacific
Railway Company Frederick r Coudert Of Now
York, Franklin MacYeagh of Illinois, Alex
ander c. Haskell of South Carolina, M A
Hanna of Ohio. and James A Savage Of Ne
braska
GEN SHERMAN has addressed letter TO
Gen. LongstreeI Gen Buckner, and others,
asking them TO take part in the celebration OF
Gen. Grants birthday at banquet at Del
monico's.
THE Illinois Central Railroad Company has
just borrowed SIS, 000, 900 with which to COM
plete and equip its branch lines
The suspension Of the American Exchange
in Europe limited, is reported. William c.
Boone, the treasurer Of the company, was
appointed receiver by Judge LaCombe of the
United States Circuit Court of New York
lal, no
company was formed in 1880 under the En-
glish limited liability law with an authorized
capital of $4,000, coo, OF which $3.50, 600 was
paid in, and succeeded TO the business of II.
L. Gillig & Co, which had been established in
1873, paying $500, 900 in stock for the pur-
chase. Henry F. Gillig remained as wee
president and manager, the Hon. Joseph r
Hawley being the president.
DUN 4 Co., of New York, in their last
monthly review OF the business outlook, say:
II dullness in trade were always a bad sign,
the present outlook could not be called hope
full. At only one or two interior points LIB the
actual business transacted satisfactory in vol
ume and nearly all report comparative in
activity in the present, with hopeful anticipa-
tions, though at several points a considerable
slackening of trade is now noticeable. Money
has become tight at some Western and South
ern points, the complaints OF poor collections
being much more frequent The Government
report, showing injury TO wheat. was the oc-
casion of a sharp advance in breadstufis, and
wheat is still two cents higher, though il has
lost part of the gain, and corn gains also, but
oats closed no higher than n week ago.
NUMEROUS fires are reported in different
parts of the country. At Boston a building
in Fort HUI Square was burned, and six fire.
men were badly injured by an explosion AT
Depere, Wis, a number of buildings burned.
with q loss OF about $4,000 AT Wheeling,
West Virginia, several stores were burnel;
LOSE, So, CO., At Clinton, Iowa, brewery
was destroyed; loss. $4,000 At New York a
steamship took fire at her dock; loss, $780,
000 At Ann Arbor, Mich, several business
places burned; loss, $4,000 At Florida, n.
Y, two dwellings burn cd. and a woman and
her baby persisted in the flames.
AT Warsaw, n. Y, Robert Van Brunt was
hanged for the murder of William Roy, Oct.
q. 1886: at Fergus Falls, MINI, Nels Olson
Holong was hanged for the murder of Lilly
Field, May %. 1887; and at Wlllisville, Texas,
Chillers Banks, colored man, was hanged
for the murler of negro woman.