The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1875-08-20

on account of the oppo lion manifested at
Rockford. Ef
A frghtful accident occurred last week on
the Ohio and Mississippi railroad, at Loogootee,
Ind. The express train going east at the rate
of forty miles an hour ran into an open switch
and collided with the mail train. Five persons
the mail agent and baggage-master of the
express train, and two brakemen and another
employee OF the mail train-were killed outright,
and six or seven passengers injured. On the
same day passenger train on the same road
was thrown from the track near Huron, Ind,
and the engine and tender plunged into Beaver
Creek. No one was killed. The cause of the
accident was the removal of rail- the design
of the perpetrators evidently being robbery.
A nurse in the st. Louis Insane Asylum, the
other day, gave three troublesome patients an
overdose OF conium in order to make them
sleep soundly. He succeeded beyond his calcu-
lations. The poor lunatics never awoke from
their sleep.
MIR. James ii. McVicker, the popular and
enterprising Chicago manager, has leased the
Grand Opera House in that city, and will run
it, with first-class comedy company, under the
name of the New Chicago Theater." Nc
Wicker thus becomes the owner Of the two best
theaters in the city.
The miners in the Black Hills recently held a
meeting and resolved to peaceably abandon the
region for the present Late reports from there
say the men are nearly all leaving. A few on
the upper and remote creeks, it is said, will
remain.
The painful mystery surrounding the fate OF
Prof. Donaldson, the aeronaut, and Newton S.
Grimwood, Journal reporter, who assembled
from Chicago in balloon on the 18th of July,
and sailed away over Lake Michigan, has at last
been partially solved by the finding of the body
of the unfortunate reporter on the east shore
OF the lake, between Whitehall and Pentwater,
Mich. 1t was discovered on the 10th of August
by stage driver while driving along the
beach, was turned over to Justice OF
the Peace, who, after the customary in
quest, consigned the remains TO mother earth
in the regular burying-ground in Claybanks
township, Oceana county. When found, the
body was flat on its face on small pile of old
food-wool. The hair was nearly all gone, and
the face badly disfgured. The nose was en-
tirely gone, and the hat and boots were miss
ing. An India-rubber life-preserver was found
on the body. The preserver had a hole in il
about two inches long. That the aeronaute
were lost in Lake Michigan during the gale
that swept over it on the evening of their de-
parture does not now admit of doubt.
passenger train on the st. Louis Kansas
City and Northern railroad went through a rot
ten bridge near Plattsburg No., few days
since. Three passengers were killed, eight oil
ten had either their arms or legs broken, and
some twenty others were more or less injured
The accounts of ShafIenburg, late United
States Marshal of Colorado Territory, show
deficit of about 500, Shaffenbarg has
sloped, but the officers are after him.
terrible affray occurred at Eberhardt City
New, recently, between two men named Jack
son and Beck. The former plunged bowie
knife to the hilt five times into the body OF
Beck, when a bystander struck Jackson down
Then Beck, though dying of his wounds
erawled to the PROSTATE form of Jackson, tool
the knife that had been used with fatal effect
upon himself, and buried it in the heart OF
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