The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1874-03-13
NEWS OF THE WEEK.
The East.

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more, aged "a. He was conscious to the last,
and death was painless.
New York fool named Henry Connors
made a wager, the other day, that he could
drink pint of whisky and gallon OF beer in
an hour. He won the bet, but died short
time after swallowing the poison.
The West.
A family of thirteen persons at Grinnell,
Iowa, have been poisoned with trichina, caus-
ed by eating uncooked ham. Three have died
and all the others are suffering from the
poison.
convention was recently held at Spring
field, ILL.,, to take action in favor of the build
ing of quadruple-track railway from Denver
Uia Quincy to Philadelphia along the fortieth
parallel of latitude. Speeches were made in
dorsing the feasibility of the project, and an
Executive Committee of fifty was appointed
to prepare charter.
The Railroad Commissioner of Michigan,
after giving the subject an exhaustive exam
ination. gives it as his opinion that it would
be impossible to devise any measure for the
regulation of railway tariffs that would be of
Just application to all the roads, and asks to
be relieved from the responsibility of fixing
rates of fare.
The Red Cloud Agency, in the Sioux coun-
try is virtually besieged by the savages. No
real hostiities have been attempted yet but
the Agency people are trembling for their
lives, daily expecting to be murdered, and
have sent messenger to Gen. Ord, beseech-
ing for immediate succor.
Friday, March 6, writes a correspondent
will be memorable day in the annals of Day.
ton, Ohio. The Women's Prayer League, in
two divisions, of about twenty women each,
marched upon the three hundred bar
rooms of Dayton through a drenching rain
and slippery streets. When the columns de-
bouched from the English Lutheran church,
after making prayers, the commotion on the
streets was intense. The saloonists were in
stantly notified to put their houses in order,
and stand guard. They were visibly agitated,
a natural consequence of an assault to which
no physical, or even legal resistance could be
offered Every saloon in the city was visited.
AT many they were refused admittance, in
some instances being rudely repealed. But
they were not to be put off in this way, and
when the doors were closed in their faces the
devout ladies dropped upon their knees in the
nasty sloppines, and sent their prayers up to
Heaven. 1t was an affecting spectacle, and
many Of the spectators were visibly affected.
The rum dealers showed little disposition to
yield but the women vow they will never
cease their labors until the Ubiquitous traffic
is banished from the city.
THE National Crop Reporter gives the most
fattering accounts of the fruit prospects and
the condition of the fruit buds in the West
1t states that there were a great many trees
killed last year in various manners, but at
present on all living trees the buds are, as a
rule, in the best possible condition for large
crop, with favorable weather in the future.
The temperance crusade in Ohio, Indiana, |
and Illinois is still being prosecuted vigorous
ly, and is gradually spreading to other States. |
At Columbus, the capital of Ohio, the war
RACES fercely, but the saloon-keepers stub |
bernly refuse to be moved. In the smaller |
towns, however, the crusaders are meeting
with better success, and hardly a day |
passes that does not witness the closing of |
several rum-mills. Praying and singing bands
have been organized in numbers of towns in
Illinois and Indiana and Iowa, Wisconsin,
and other States in the West are threatened |
with an invasion of the temperance wave.
Hillsdale (Mich.) College has been de-
stroyed by fire. Loss, $4,000 insurance,
$50, 900.
The troops sent to the relief Of the Red
Cloud Agency have arrived safely at their des-
tfnation, where they found everything quiet
and the fears OF an Indian war have almost
entirely vanished
A man named Bigelow stabbed and killed
Joseph Peschke at Muskego, Waukesha
county, Wis, few days ago.
young man named Fred Odds recently
hot and horribly mutilated grocer named
Ferris, in Topeka, Kansas.
Both Houses of the Iowa Legislature have
'assed the Railroad bill, which originated in
he State Senate, by vote of 90 to A. 1t di-
hides the roads of the State into three classes,
Ind enaets di ectly without the intervention
OF Board of Commissioners, as in Illinois
'ne rates that may be charged, in each class,
lor freight and passengers. These rates are
cents, 81 oerks, and 4 cents, respectively
VI PassengeI. A fund of SO, 900 is placed in
- @ rnor's hands to defray the expense
losecuting railroads that infringe the law.
Sben damages are sustained by any one, he
nav recoyer five times it's amount.
Tho temperance movement is beginning to
Ievelop itself in Missouri.
Scattering war-parties of Indians are re-
,orted in Dakota.
The house of George King, at Independ-
nco Iowa, was recently burned. Mrs. King !
"a two children and Mrs. Moses persisted in
he flames.
The Ohio women have closed up 396 saloons t
o far.
Eight convicts recently escaped from the a
at Laramie City, Wyoming, by '
the guard and knocking the
eeper down.
All the saloons in Winchester, Ind, have {
.pitulated to the praying women but the S
ruggists refuse to sign the pledge. ?
rho South.
Bryan, Texas, has been visited by another n
conhagration.
The Louisiana Legislature, after session
Z two months, has adjourned. The closing a