The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1872-06-28

commenced operations.
The National s@ngerfest opened at st
Louis on the 18th. over 10000 strangers
were in attendance.
Near Peoria, H., on the 18th inst, ter
! freight cars became detached from train
on the Peoria and Rock Island railroad
and, starting off on a steep down grade, at
the rate of 65 miles an hour, collided, with
terrific force, with some empty cars on the
track, smashing the cars into millions OF
fragments William Thompson, a theater
actor-the only person on the train-wal
instantly killed.
Valentine Fisher and Frank Lower, while
driving in hack, at Chicago, on the 18th
inst, were crushed to death by the falling
of a derrick.
Two precocious Chicago youths last week
stole So, 900 and started out TO see the world.
They were overhauled at Detroit, having
squandered the greater portion of the
money.
Kate Kousen, aged sweet 10, shuflled of
her mortal coil, at Chicago, on the 18th inst,
by hanging herself in her fathers wood
shed.
Iowa glories in 1900 dogs.
The Michigan Prohibitionists have nom
mated ticket for State officers and Pres-
dental Electors. Henry Fish, of Port HUI
ron is the Gu bern atorial nominee.
Ex.Alderman Whitaker, of Chicago, under
indictment for malfeasance and bribery, has
been pronounced insane by competent ex-
perts, and the prosecution dismissed.
Notwithstanding the late frosts, California
will produce, this season, over eight million
gallons of wine, and more than her usual
quota of brandy.
The assessed value of property in Califor-
MIA is over $500, 100000.
But three polygamous marriages occurred
in Utah for the month ending June l.
R. C. Gordon, wealthy citizen of St.
Louis, while spreading tarpaulin over a
newly made wall of an addition to his res
idence, to protect it from the storm, last
week, slipped and fell, rupturing blood
vessel, and died in half an hour.
Bennett Peters, a fermer wealthy citizen
of Chicago, and the inventor and proprietor
of the once famous Red Jacket Bitters, has
just enlisted as a private soldier in the reg
ular army.
By the explosion Of the raft-boat D. A.
Mcdonald, on the Mississippi river, oppo-
site McGregor, Iowa, June 10, about thirty
persons were killed, and a great many
wounded.
The murderer of Hon. Sharon Tyndale, of
Sprinl field, H., has at last been discove cred
in the person of James Kennedy, an Illinois
Penitentiary convict. Gov. Palmer has just
pardoned the culprit out of prison, in order
that he may be put on trial for the deed.
The credit of unearthing the author of this
foul and mysterious murder is said to belong
to Mr.. Charles T. Askins, a st. Clair county,
H., farmer, who, obtaining faint clue, pur-
sued it for months, in the face of the most dis
couraging obstacles-even after the profess
sional detectives had abandoned the scent
until he has succeeded in establishing a
chain of testimony which, it is claimed, can
not but result in the conviction of the man
Kennedy.
A Mrs. Logan, residing near Rockford,
H., last week, ia fit of dependency, super
induced by domestic troubles, threw her
babe into the river, and then jumped in
herself, both being drowned.
In boring an artesan well, at Jackson
vile, H., on the 18th inst, vein of water
mendous force as to drive off the workmen.
At last accounts the auger was still in the
we'll. and the water spouting up through
four-inch pipe to the height of fifty feet.
Reports as to the state of the winter wheat
sown in five of the prominent Northwestern
States indicate the failure of the crop. In
many instances the crop has been plowed
in, being useless but as manure, and in the
remaining cases the yield has scarcely been
one-third or one-half of that of last year
Studebaker Brothers extensive wagon
mandatory, at South Bend, Ind, was
burned Monday, June II. Two adjoining
dweling-houses were also consumed. Loss,
$4,000.
Four persons were killed and twenty in
jured by the wrecking of construction
train near Paxton, H., June Il.
At Cincinnati, few days since, Rev. J. j.
Thompson, pastor of Christie NJ. Z. Chapel,
had his head split open with Ratchet in
the hands of Thomas Bond. Cause-Thomp-
son kissed Bonds sweetheart.
p. T. Barnum is on a temperance lecturing
tour out west. The great humbugger lee
tured the Clevelanders on June II.
A correspondent, writing from Fort Ben
ton on June 9, says the Sioux Indians are
all on the war path, and the wood choppers
and traders have left the country, not one
remaining between Fort Buford and Camp
Cook, a distance Of several hundred miles.
dispatch from Fort sully says the indians
are getting extremely troublesome and it IS
the opinion of men who have been among
them many years that open war is sure to
ensue this season.
Articles of consolidation were entered into
at Indianapolis, on June Il, by and between
the New York and Western railway, a COM
pany organized to build a railroad, or rail
roads, with one or more tracks, within the
States Of Indiana, 10 va, Illinois, and Ohio,
marty of tho frat mart and tho Cop4;nantaI