The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1871-08-25

himself through the head about IL o'clock
Friday night, and almost instantly expired.
A MAN named Geo. M. Bandcina and his
sister, Mrs Newton, were shot and instant
ly killed by German, near Denver City, on
Friday night. Late dispatches from st.
Paul, Mimi, state that the harvest is nearly
completed, and the grain generally saved in
| good condition. The crop is usually good in
quality, and will be nearly, if not quite, an
average in quantity.....Five persons were
sufiocated by fire damp in attempting to re-
open an old coal shaft near Eddyville, Iowa,
on Friday, the 18th inst...."An expressnah
named Phelps was shot and instantly killed
at Omaha, on Sunday, by his brotherin-
law.....John Husman, German, living in
Cincinnati, shot Margaret Maloney, a girl of
IL, on Sunday, and killed her......A daugh-
ter of Henry Rieman, of Oxford, o., was
killed by lightning on Friday morning,
while standing in her fathers door.....Jas.
Sinclair, an old resident of Chicago, H.,
died in that city on Saturday. VIM. L..
Houston, very respectable young man,
suicided at Quincy, H., on Sunday.
s. F. GILMAN, a drover from Kentucky,
was drowned at Toledo, recently THE
schooner r. b. Campbell found the scow
Scottish Chief, loaded with lumber, wrecked
between Kalamazoo and st. Joseph, on the
eastern shore of Lake Michigan, on Satur
day afternoon, and towed her TO Kenosha,
Wis. The crew were all gone, and are sup
posed to have been lost..... George Shuler,
son of Harvey Shuler, Esq, grain mer-
chant Of Ottawa, Ill, aged IL years, fell from
the Illinois river bridge and was drowned,
last Monday Great difficulty is ex-
perienced by the authorities in entorc
ing the laws of the State in Min
nesota, near the end of the different rail
roads being constructed in that State. Sher-
ifs and constables are daily killed and the
law defed by the roughs who are following
up the opening of new railroads. .... Mrs.
Colburn has been arrested and admitted to
bail, at Columbus, o., on the charge of poi
sOning Bufienberger, her former husband.
The preliminary examination will take place
on the 3ist inst.....A fire at Youngstown,
Ohio, on Saturday night destroyed row
of eight small dwelling houses and three
children, aged 6, u, and II, were burned
to death.
SAM PAINTER, a Mississippi river captain,
reports that widow lady, living at Lynx
burg, near Lansing, Iowa, the mother of
three children, chastsed the oldest, ag' d IA.
After being chastised, he went into the
woods and hung himself, but was rescued
by his mother before it proved fatal. AT
night the same boy, while kindling fire,
took a can of kerosene, called the other
children, poured kerosene on the fire, ex-
ploding the con and killing them all IA
Watertown (Wis.) special to the Milwaukee
Daily NeWS says: "While Monday nights
Prairie du Chen express train was standing
at the Junction about 1870, two well-hlled
mail bags were snatched from the baggage
car and carried into corn field, where they
were found this morning. The letters were
all opened and scattered around. There is
no clue TO the perpetrators as yet. 1.-Two
negroes got into "muss" on the steamer
S. S. Merrill, recently, and when the boat
landed at Keokuk, Iowa, one of them, named
Jerry, shot the other, whose name is Porter,
and instantly killed him...... During a heavy
thunderstorm at Cedar Rapids, on Monday
afternoon, woman named Addie Eliza Will
lard was killed by lightning.
The South.
DEPUTY L. S. MARSHAL, named Muir
ply, was run over by railroad train near
st. Louis. Mo-, on Thursday, and killed.
Cause-whisky ......W VIM. r. Burner, Judge OF
the County Court of Davidson, Tenn, died
at his resid nee, Nashville, thursday after
noon, of paralysis. He was for many ears
Judge of the Criminal Court of Davidson,
prior to the war, and citizen of exalted
of II. II. Murray IL Co., situated near Louis
vile, KY, was destroyed by fire on the night
of the 10th inst.
DETECTIVE HARRIGAN, of st. Louis. has sue
ceeded in recovering $4,000 of Kansas Pa
cific railroad bonds, which were stolen from
an express wagon in that city a few days
ago.....N New cotton is beginning to arrive at
the principal cities in the South lin Day
ton county, KY, Geo. Link was killed by
lightning on Friday morning.
ONE atal case Of sunstroke in Louisville,
KY, on Tuesday. ... A drover named j.
Thompson was found dead recently, nine
miles west of Springfield, Mo. He was shot
three times, and all his money, supposed to
be between 50 900 and $4,000, and some val
uables, were gone Addison Cook was shot
and killed at Bagdad, Shelby county, on the
18th inst.
Washington.
The Commissioner of Pensions estimates
that there are at least 10000 people, soldiers
and widows Of the war of 1912, who will be
entitled to pensions under the act of Feb.
Ia, 1871 This number will require the sum
of 81 200, 900 annually. When the bill was
under discussion last winter, the maximum
number of these pensioners living was sup
posed to be only 5000, but the estimate of
the Commissioner is most likely to be cor
rect. This will require an appropriation for
pensions next year of fully S5,000,O 900. The
total number of applications for 1912 pen
sions to date is O,540."..Three new Ma
a.