The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1873-09-19
The General Freight Agents of Western rail-
roads, at their convention in Cleveland, last
week, adopted the following schedule Of freight
ratea from tho points named IN New York

| Tayloryille, Ill go Des Moinee, Iowa. G.
yincennes Ind. $40. IS Keokuk, lows.........G
Indianapolis, Ind . As St Louis, Mo. .........6 @
Jefersonyie, Ind. SO East ~. Louis, MO-. %
Logansport, Ind. 40 Louisville, hy ...,..'2
| Lafayette Ind 49,. 80 Kansas City, Mo. ......7
| Terre Haute, Ind .. so Davenport, Iowa.. c.
Bloomington, Ill. 60
The press and people of Wisconsin are Just
ly indignant at the increase Of railway freighti
on all the principal lines in the State. 1t IL
alleged to be the positive orders Of the East
ern officers of the railroads for their mutua
profit and the oppression of the people, and
threats are freely made that it will DO made
hot for the railways.n tho next Legislature by
insisting on pro rata freight tariff, advance
of railway tax, and otherwise.
Gen. Edwin S. McCook, Secretary Of Dakots
Territory, famous in the history Of the late
war as Il member of tho fighting McCool
family, was assassinated ut Yankton on the
18th inst, by p. p. wintcrmute, banker. II
appears that they had had an alteration "A few
hours Previous in which McCook gave Win
termute well-merited thrashing. Smarting
under the chastisement, he went off and arm
ed himself, and, subsequently meeting Nc
Cook in the st. Charles Hotel, where q rail
road meeting was in session, deliberately shot
him down in cold blood. The murderer fired
four shots at his victim, only one taking effect,
which proved fatal. There was much excite
ment, and threats of lynching Wintermute
were freely made
Edward Beane. the fright conductor on the
Chicago and Alton railroad, whose negligence
caused the late disaster on that road, has been
indicted for murder by the Cook County Grand
Jury.
The Chicago Board of Public Works ex-
pended last year 81, 1885, 4S6.
The advance of freight rates by the Min
nesota railways has produced a feeling in
some sections which, if it continues to spread
throughout the State, will result in no good to
the capital invested in railroads.
Congressman Charles b. Farwell, of Chi
cago has been sued by Hugh Maher for the
recovery of so acres Of land valued at 81, 900
an acre, which, it is alleged, Wac conveyed to
Farwell by Maher to liquidate gambling debt
thirteen years ago.
Samuel p. Freeman City Clerk of Fort
Wayne, Ind, committed suicide last week, by
hanging himself to bcd-post. Domestic
troubles caused by too much mother-in-law,
led him to commit the rash decd.
Iowa's hog crop this year will amount to
about 800, 900 head.
The skeleton Of an immense mastodon has
been exhumed near New Paris, o.
Tho South.
Judge T.. Crawford and District-Attorney
Arthur II. Harris, of the Twelfth judicial
niqt,.iot Of .O1tisana tod
Gently, near Winnsboro, in Franklin parish,
while on their way to hold court at that place.
They were shot seven times, and their brains
blown out. The murderers are not known,
but it IL thought that personal, and not politi-
cal, differences led to tho assassination. as
Crawford was Radical and Harris Demo
GRAFT
The Louisville Co,Uier-Joundl comment
ing on the Ku-Klux outrages in the State,
proposes if the Governor has not the means
or power at his command to equip company
of men to proceed against the Ku-Klux,
that the Courier-Journal will pay the expenses
necessary to the organization of an eff
cient company for that purpose.
Baltimore has been visited by another
disastrous fire, involving the destruction,
among other buildings Of the Holiday Street
Theater. Loss, $4,000.
The ravages of the yellow fever at Shreve-
port La, are described AZ frightful.
Shreveport, La, a town Of some Is, 900 in
habitants, located on Red river, near the great
raft, is being terribly scourged by the yellow
fever. Every inhabitant who could get away
has departed, the stores are shut, the telegraph
Office closed and, to complete the isolation of
their misery, the railroads connecting with the
city have stopped running their cars. The
causes of this singular epidemic at this place
are unknown, but one hypothesis is that it has
resulted from the malarial matter set free by
the loosening of the Red river raft.
The steamer James Howard recently caught
fire on the Mississippi, near Commerce, Mo-,
and was scuttled to save her from burning.
The Howard was the largest steamboat ever
built for the Western or Southern waters, be-
ing $500 tons burden. She cost 100000, and
IVES only three years Odd.
number Of cattle thieves have lately been
hung in yermilon county, La, by the vigi-
lants.
The yellow fever is raging i'm Memphis.
Lord, the missing New York Herald corre-
spondent, who disappeared from Shelbyville
some weeks since, has been seen near Midway,
Ky, and beyond there, walking through the
country, splendidly dressed, with diamond
studs and heavy gold watch and chain exposed
to view
The sunken Mississippi steamer James
Howard has been raised, and will be re-
paired.
dispatch from Shreveport, La. dated
Sept. 1G, says: "Of the six men in our tele
graph Office, five have taken the fever, and
two have already died. The interments aver
age thirty or forty daily in population of
perhaps not over 1000 The physicians and
nurses are worked down. The people of the
should know these terrible facts, and
send aid to the suffering city,"
s. III. Tucker, one Of the oldest bankers of |
Little Rock, Ark, has suspended.
Washington.
The els, 900, 900 awarded to our Government |
at Geneva, Switzerland was paid into the |
United States Treasury on the 9th inst. by |
Secretary Fish, in one bond. The bond was |
skilfully printed with pen, being fac
smile Of a printed form. Upon being duly