The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1873-07-04

without any provocation, DIR. Halstead, re-
spectacle citizen Of the town. Since then
threats of lynching the murderer have been
frequently whispered around, but no open
demonstration toward that end had been made
previous to the 29th ult. About o'clock on
the morning of that day body of masked
men entered Salem, and, after Selling the
town patrolmen, proceeded to the jail. The
Deputy Sheriff refusing to give up the keys,
a sledge-hammer was procured, with which
the mob proceeded to force their way Into the
cell occupied by Hebron. After re-
peated blows with the ponderous hammer
the two doors that interviewed between the
mob and their coveted prey finally yielded, and
the murderer stood face to face with the vigi-
lants. Hebron had watched the progress of
the mob which came thrsting for his blood,
and had prepared himself as well as he could
for desperate resistance, knowing death
awaited him if taken, determined to fight to
the last. With some pieces OF furniture of the
cell he stood like tiger at bay and guarded
the door. The mob, knowing the desperate
character Of the man, and that the first who
entered would meet certain death, hestated to
attempt an entrance. They procured balls of
Irvine. and, saturating them with coal oil and
turpentine, threw them into the cell, and
thrust others forward on the end of long
poles. Having thus lighted up the cell. bring
ing the victim into full view, they opened fire
on him, firing some twenty shots, one
entering his breast and another break
ing his arm. This incapacitated him from
using the chair which he had seized to defend
himself, when a rock thrown at him struck
| him on the head and knocked him down. and
before he could recover he was SEIZED tied,
and dragged out OF the cell and Jail. "What
are you going to do with me? z" he asked.
"Hang you" ~ will go along with you"
he said. He was Immediately taken to the
covered railroad bridge, about thirty feet
high, two squares from the jail, where he
asked time to pray but the lynchers replied
that they could not wait rope was put
around his neck, and thrown over the rafters
of the bridge and Heffron was pushed off, AS
soon as he was dead, the lynchers returned to
the Jail, gathered up everything they had left
that could afford clue to their identity, re-
leased the Sheriff and guards, and scattered
in every direction.
The South.
Mr.. Roddy, of the village of Burlington,
near st. Louis. the other day killed two bur-
glars, and fatally wounded third, while they
were attempting to rob his store.
Faqui & McQueen's pork packing establish
ment, in St. Louis, has been burned. Loss,
1926, 900.
The cholera is rapidly abating in Nashville
and Memphis.
The parties charged with shooting at Gov.
Kellogg, at New Orleans, some time ago, have
been tried and acquitted
Ex-Congressman James Mullins, of Ten
nesse, died at Shelbyville, i'll that State, re-
Gently, of cholera.
The Cairo and Fulton railroad has been
completed to within forty miles of Fulton, on
Red river.
James West and Levin Palmer, both col
ored, have been sentenced to death at Balti-
more-the first for murder, the other for rape
on white girl.
Washington.
1t is stated that the suspended Commission
ers to the Vienna Exposition, Gen. Van Buren,
and others, will appeal to the next Congress
for an investigation of the case.
The Postofice Department has ordered the
establishment of 293 additional money order
ofices-seven Of which are in Ohio, eight in
Indiana, thirty-three in illinois, ten in Mis-
souri,, twenty-five in Michigan, eleven in Wis
consin, and sixteen in Iowa. This increases
the total number of money-order postoffices to
3,079.
The official report of the Agricultural Bureau
on the wheat crop shows large increase of
acreage over last year, with good prospects
for more than the average yield per acre. The
report on cotton shows the average increase
of acreage over last year nearly II per cent.
The present condition of the crop stands as fol-
lows Florida, per cent. above the annual
average. All the others fall below, viz. Vlr-
ginia andAlabama, per cent. North Carolina,
10 South Carolina, IL Georgia and Louisi-
ana 6; Mississippi and Arkansas, s. Texas,
IA ; and Tennessee. TO- The acreage cultivated
will fall considerably below that planted. The
weather generally during the last week in May
was favorable and there was a hopeful pros
pect that the condition of the crop would rap
idly improve. The worms and caterpillars have
made an early appearance at various points,
and are causing considerable apprehensions OF
destructive ravages. No estimate of the crop
is made.
THE Commissioner Of Pensions has promul-
gated the following new and important order
con and after the 1st day of July, the con-
sideration of all invalid increase cases will be
suspended by the Pension Office, until the
biennial examination, which takes place OF
the 4th of September next. Medical exam
nations, however, will continue in such cases
! so that no applicant may suffer loss as to the
commencement of increase by reason of date
of the medical examination. Meantime al
original cases upon files will be considered
and disposed of so far as the evidence viii
warrant"
Washington special says "The officia
life of Minister Jay will terminate on the clos,
i, of the Vienna Exposition, as he has long beer
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