The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1900-11-09
BRIEF DISPATCHES.

Hugh s. Hart, we'll known writer
on sports, died in Brooklyn Sunday
evening OF complication OF diseases.
President Morton Of the Glover Leaf,
has placed his order with the Baldwins
for ten new engines to be delivered be-
fore March l.
The German government has adopt
ed the American system OF onsular
reports, and the first batch y. special
representatives appeared Tuesday.
The Cabine manufacturers of Ger
many, Austria, Switzerland, Norway
and Sweden have been in session in
Berlin and have decided TO organize
syndicate.
The report that an English syndi-
cate, with a capital of 100000 rou-
bles, has taken over the naphtha
properties of the Kieff syndicate is
confirmed.
According to a dispatch from Pie
termaritzburg, the Times OF Natal says
that the return of Lord Roberts to
England may still be delayed for sew
eral weeks.
The Duke of Abruzzi has chartered
the Gothenburg whaler Capella to pro-
coed from Stockholm to Franz Josef
land in search of three missing Arctic
exploration expeditions.
w. s. Weed of Toledo, formerly
freight traffic manager of the Glover
Leaf, has been selected traffic mana
ger for the Chicago Junction railway,
and will take charge Nov. /.
Nine. Yvette Guilbert, the French
music hall artistic, is in Berlin to un-
Ia TO-
for the relief of her throat. This will
be performed by Prof. Israel.
The government of New South
Wales has invited the premiers OF
Canada, Cape Colony and Natal togeth-
er with other representatives to at
tend the Inauguration OF the common
wealth of Australia.
In a political row at Butte, Mont,
Monday night, several persons were
injured. Michael Torpy's injuries
were severe. The disturbance grew
out of an attempt to break up a march
ing clubs parade.
"Advices from Tien Tsin," says the
Shanghai correspondent of the London
Times wiring Sunday, "show that con-
fusion, disorganization and absence of
security are the chief characteristics
of the allied occupation"
]. w. Seligman & Co. of New York,
stated Monday that their San Fran
cisco correspondent, the Anglo Cali
fornia bank, has about $2,000,000 gold
on the way from Australia. 1t is due
at San Francisco in a fortnight.
c. c. Van Meter of Louisville, KY,
Monday sold to r. S. Strader, for A. c.
Overholt of Pittsburg, the five year old
stallion Minola, the two year old filly
Bell Sligo, and the yearling filly Kate
Sligo. This trio brought $4,000.
Norman Brokaw, millionaire paper
manufacturer, died at Kakauna, Wis,
Tuesday, from appendicitis. He was
one of the most prominent paper man.
ufacturers in the country, owning
mills at Kakauna, Little Chute, Apple
ton and Wausau.
The close of the campaign in New
York finds the betting that has obtain
ed during the last fortnight practically
unchanged. Only comparatively small
bets are being made, the ruling odds
ranging anywhere from to l to to
in favor of Mckinley.
The Norwegian government, accord
ing to a dispatch to the London Daily
Mail from Stockholm, has decided to
impose a special tax upon all evading
the CONSUMPTION. The amount of the
impost will be settled at the next ses-
sion of the Storthing.
The board of election of Springfield,
o., Monday afternoon refused to
grant registration to Gen. j. Warren
Keifer. The general threatens to
bring mandamus proceedings. He was
out of the city campaigning on the
regular registration days.