The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1872-09-13
The West.

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| The West.
The mean average temperature at Chicago
| for fifteen weeks ending with August was
| 73lI-the highest ever recorded in any previous
summer for the same period of time.
William Kaff. editor OF the Detroit Journal.
daily German paper, fell down flight of
stairs, last week, and dislocated his neck, caus-
ing instant death
The number of deaths in Chicago for the
week ending Aug. "a was S54 of when 1873
were children under one year of age.
The bill-posters of the country met in cen.
vention at ST. Louis, last week, and formed a
national organization for their mutual protec-
ton and benefit.
A mob composed of citizens of Hayes City,
Kansas, broke into the Jail at that place,
short time since, and killed two noted des.
peradoes confined therein.
Government troops recently seized and
destroyed all the liquors in jamestown, Da-
kota. and imprisoned nearly all the liquor
dealers.
A little two-year-older of Washington,
Iowa, strayed away from home the other day.
The alarm was raised and the whole country
turned out to search for the lost child After
thrae drys' hunt the little fellow was found
in corn-deld two miles from home.
Jacob White, the Oldest white man in Indi-
ana, died in Clay county, in that State last
week, at the advanced age of 1OS years.
Four persons were killed by the bursting Of
a boiler in Cleveland rolling mill, last
week.
The boiler of a thrashing machine engine,
in Oakland county, Mich, exploded the other
day with fatal effect, four persons being
killed and two others dangerously wounded.
Three more kerosene suicides-Mrs. j. c.
Mcconnell, of Mareng Iowa, and Cora
Mcgee and Maria Alexander, at indianapolis.
Ind.
BY the explosion of the boiler of a saw mill
in Lawrence county, Ohio, a few days ago,
four men lost their lives and two others re-
ceved serious injuries.
Jacob Thacher, of Peoria, H., died last
week from hydrophobia, from being bitten by
a dog eighteen years ago.
Mrs. Henry Keep, of Chicago, is having
erected over the grave of her late husband
formerly President of the Chicago and North
western railroad) splendid mausoleum, to
cost 100000.
Track-laying has been commenced on the
Dakota Southern railroad, between Sioux City
and Ylnkton and will be pushed forward at
the rate of mile day.
A number of diamond expeditions are being
organized in San Francisco.
San Francisco telegram announces that
the subscriptions to the Atlantic and Pacific
railroad have reached $1.628, 600.
John b. Lyon, the chief manipulation in the
late wheat corner, has been summary ex-
PEELED from the Chicago Board of Trade. The
verdict is, Served him right
Near Colu.nbus Ohio, the other day, Michael
Monk, in fit of insanity. supernduced by
whisky and jealousy, murdered his wife by
shooting her three times with pistol. and
then blew his own brains out.
A slight frost--the first of the season.
visited some portions Of Northern Illinois on
the night of Aug 80.
4 modern Borgia by the name of Mrs. Char
lotte Lamb has been arrested in Pierce coun-
ty, Wis, on a charge of poisoning five per-
sons.
Pittsburgh telegram announces that the |
Western Nail and Iron Associations have de-
cided to raise the price of iron a per ton,
and nails 25 cents per key.
Adyices from Camp Mcdowell, Arizona,
state that every Indian has left the reserva-
ton there, and that deprcdations are going
on in every direction. Meanwhile the troops.
in accordance with the peace policy, are lying
idle in camp, while the work of pillage and
murder goes on.
The California Atlantic and Pacific Rail-
road Company. having in view the construc-
ton of the Thirty-ffth Parallel railroad, has
been fully organized at San Fra ncisco. Stock
to the amount of 500, 900 has been sub
scrbed, and is increasing at the rate of
$50 600 a day. The city of San Francisco is
asked to subscribe3l0 200 and the PROPOSE
ton is to be submitted to the vote of the peo-
pie IN November.
The editor of the Omaha Republican lately
had "head put on him" by an ex-police
captain, on account of certain editorial rcfec-
tons on the ex-officias character
Fever and ague and intern ttent and bilious
fevers prevail in the towns along the Illinois
river to an unprecedented extent.
woman in Trumbull county, Ohio, has re-
Gently surprised herself and everybody else
by giving birth to eight children, three boys
and five girls. They are all living and are
healthy, but quite small
The new Iowa Pententiary, at Anamosa, is
to be of cut stone, five stories high. $40 feet
wide by 9s5 long, inclosed by wall 22 feet
high and feet thick
The reported Indian raid on a Government
train between Carson City and Fort Lyon
turns out to be canaFd.
The Northern Pacific railroad engineering
party under escort of Gen. Stanley, at last
advlces had reached the Yellowstone. They
had encountered two parties of hostile In
dians with each of whom they had slight
brush-both engagements resulting in the
rout OF the redskins.
a boiler in SCOTS mill, near Springfield, l.,
exploded the other day. killing two of the
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