The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1871-09-22
The West.


a WIDOW woman named Finley murdered
her three children on Thursday, about six
miles north Of Wabash, Ind. She is believed
to be insane..".. The Cold Spring race track
at Milwaukee, Wis, on which Goldsmith
Maid performed her wonderful trotting, has
been measured twice since the race, and
found to be SO feet over a mile in length ......
The Republican majority in California at
the recent election is claimed to be 6 5000.
boiler in a Touring mill at New Haven,
Ind, exploded on the 9TH inst, instantly
killing Chas. and Louis Lepper proprietors
of the mill, and Albert Carr, engineer.
JACOB GREENEBAUN, an old and well-known
resident and merchant of Chicago, H., died
in that city on the 9th inst. Henry Met
calf. one Of the earliest citizens of Jt. Joseph
county, Mich, died at Constantine recently
THE turf sports Of the East feel much
exercised over the time of Goldsmith Maid
at Milwaukee. They seem to think it is i'm
possible to beat DeXter's time, and say the
Maid" was timed with Z" sun dial" Time
only can satisfy them.....The Chicago
Times, Of the 10th inst, contains an expose
of the abortion business as carried on in
that city, which, if true, eclipses anything
of the kind ever heard off,. Three hundred
thousand dollars worth of property was
destroyed by fire at Bloomington H., on
Saturday nght....The Republican majority
In California is now said to be $780,. Chas.
Davis and his wife were killed, recently
near Dakota City, Neb., by being thrown
from their buggy while their horse was run
ming away ...John Golfer was thrown from
his horse and instantly killed, near Farley,
Iowa, on Saturday last.....Johu Roe,
prominent commission merchant of Peoria,
H., died on Saturday morning ....Alex. F.
Bloheim, the oldest Mason in the United
States, died at Fl. Wayne, Ind, recently
He joined the order in Paris in 1906. He
was 80 years of age."..The boiler of a port
able engine exploded at Cincinnati on Sun
day morning, and killed the engineer in
stantly Wv. B. Goodrich, a medical student
at Jacksonville, H., died from an overdose
of aconite on Saturday."...A fire in Chicago,
on Saturday night, burned barn containing
II horses, only two of which escaped .....
The junction railroad shops at ambrdge
City, Ohio, were burned or Saturday night.
Loss, 10000
GEO. L. BELDEN, well-known Indian
guide and scout, was murdered on Sept lst,
while on lis way from the Grand River
Agency, Dakota, to Grass Camp.."..An acct
dent occurred at the Penitentiary, in Joliet,
H., on Monday, whereby a convict lost his
life. a guy rope to one of the derricks
broke, and the derrick fell upon John Mos
by, convict. He died before he could be
carried TO the hospital. The Coroner held
an inquest, and rendered verdict accord
ingly.
The Baraboo Extension of the Northwest
ern Railroad was formally opened on the
18th inst....Coal of an excellent quality has
been found two miles northeast of lie Claire,
Scott county, Wis, and the parties are at
work developing the mine..... Bloomington,
H., is to have n new $4,000 hotel ....A
young man named Price was accidentally
shot and instantly killed, near Logansport,
Ind, on Tuesday An old man named
Daniels fell between the cars, at Corners
vile, Ind, Tuesday night, and was instantly
killed.