The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1874-02-06

harm TO the train men.
The jewelsy store of Bernard speyer, in st
Louis, was recently robbed of diamonds val
ned at $4,000, by an employee Of the house
who has absconded.
Elijah Cowles, the Iowa mail robber, ha'
been adjudged insane by Council Bluff
jury.
The crusade of the women of Southern OhiC
against the iquor-saloons continues to in
crease in exteat and Importance, In many
towns the women have formed themselves
into bands, with leaders, and begun sys'
tematic attacksof prayer on all the rum-deal'
ers within reach. Their efforts, in many
cases, are meeting with considerable success.
John Lynn. Edward Erickson and Oscar
Isaacs were killed, few days ago, by tho ex-
plosion of boiler in John Gray's MILL III
Marathon county, Wis.
The Mormons and Navajo Indians are at
war, and several on each side have been
killed.
A reign of terror exists in Lincoln county,
New Mexico. Some twenty persons have been
murdered within few weeks and the civil
officers have fed from the county.
The South.
The town Of Liberty, Casey county, Ky,
was the other day the scene of lively shoot
ing ARRAY, in which Lew Napier was killed
and several persons wounded. Thirty-five
shots were fred during the battle.
The Legislature of Georgia has indefinitely
postponed proposition for State Constitu-
tional Convention.
NJ. L. Smelzer and Charles T. Robinson, two
belligerent Memphis newspaper reporters en-
gagged in lively shooting ARRAY the other
evening" in the course of which, seven shots
were fired. Fortunately, either from bad
Workmanship or nervousn esq, 10th came off
unframed.
While attempting to cross the Ouachita
river at Rockport, Ark. few days ago, the
skif upset and three young men were drowned
The Kentucky Senate has passed bill pro-
viding for the education of colored children
1t taxes the property of colorod people 20
cents on each 800.
The Memphis and Louisville railroad shops,
in Memphis, were recently destroyed by fire.
Loss, $3.50 900.
Washington.
The House Committee on Indian Affairs
have nearly completed bill, which will be in
troduced at an early day providing that here
after all Indian annuities shall be paid in kind
rather that in money.
A Washington dispatch says; "The House
Ways and Means Committee are still unani-
mously disagreed on nearly every measure of
Importance that comes before them. The
statement is made that no two members of
the committee coincide on any of the financial
measures. that have been brought forward
this session
A novel claim has been presented to Con-
gress by one DR.. Zacharie, a chiropodist, who
alleges that he removed $40, 900 worth of corns
from the aching feet of Union soldiers during
the late war. The testimony of number of
Federal officers is adduced in support of the
claim. Every Congressman who suffers from
corns is expected to vote for it.
The annual report of the Board Of Indian
Commissioners TO this President has been pub
ished. 1t indorses the peace policy of the
Administration, states that the supplies for the
department have been purchased at much
lower price than in anv former year recon-
mehds that no territorial government be
adopted for the Indian nations without the
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