The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1876-02-25

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AZ will answer as regards any paper that Is In
possession of any man, woman, or child on this
. continent or ON the land and beyond the sea.
Anybody In Heaven, and anybody in hell, that has
any document that have ever written, or any in
formation that touches me in any manner, here
give my permission 10 them 10 produce II, and
challenge them TO produce it and If IL is anything
that will throw light on me, and inculpate me, de-
mand, by every consideration of honor, truth, and
Justice that IL be delivered now and here, and II
not thereafter everybody shall hold their peace.
A large tlnware factory ON Long Island was
destroyed by fire last week. The loss is esti-
mated at half million.
S. w. Barker x Co millers, OF Syracuse, n.
Y, have failed. Liabilities, 100000
Catskill, N. Y, is just now agitated about the
burial OF Joseph Waltz who was hanged about
two years ago for the murder of an Albany
scissors grinder. The Catholic clergyman has
given permission to have Waltz who is buried
somewhere on farm, inferred in Catholic
cemetery, and the congregation resist, and
have appealed to the Bishop.
West.
The Wisconsin Supreme Court has refused
young women the privilege Of practcing in the
courts.
The Western Union Telegraph Company
have resolved to reduce their rates from 20 to
80 per cent.
Tramp, tramp tramp, the boys are march
ing"-to the Black Hills. Every day we read
of the departure of one or more parties from
some of the frontier towns.
The Grand Jury of the United States District
Court, at Chicago has indicted Michael Kelley,
local politician of some note, for conspiracy
in connection with the whisky frauds. Kelley
was candidate for Treasurer of Cook County
at the fall election. A. c. Hesing, who was
a candidate for the same Office and came near
being elected, is also under indictment, as well
as 90 Buffalo" Miller, the retiring Treasurer. A
nice lot to be seeking to handle public funds.
Three Chicago Aldermen, Jonas, Hildreth and
Cullerton, and the ex-Superintendent OF Police
Jacob Rhemb are likewise among the indicted.
A REMARKABLE case Of suicide by starvation
is reported from Elkada, Iowa. Some months
ago Samuel Hess built a house on his farm,
and went in debt q few hundred dollars for
material. A suit was instituted to recover the
amount Since the commencement OF the ac-
ton Hess has refused all food, and few days
ago died, after going for three weeks without
food of any kind.
DR.. Linderman has informed the members Of
the Coinage Committee that he gees no present
necessity for mint in the West.
Three Italians were hung in the Jail at st.
Louis on the 18th of February, for the murder
of their low-countryman, Francisco Palermo
in April last.
Another heavy bank robbery is reported
this time from California. While the Cashier
of the Kern County National Bank, at Bakers
field, was sitting at his desk, one evening last
week. masked burglars entered the building,
knocked down and chloroformed the Cashier,
and carried away 1900.
In the Babcock trial at st. Louis, Col. Broad
head, the successor of Henderson, in his adj
dress to the jury for the prosecution, de-
nounced President Grant quite as strongly as
the displaced prosecutor. Referring to the
famous order reversing the transfer of the
| Supervisors, Broadhead said that the reasons
| given by President Grant and Supervisor Tut
ton for reversing the order were not at all suf-
ficient, as they amounted to really no reasons at
all. There were other and more powerful in
fluences brought to bear and the exigencies of
the case seemed to be such that the President
stepped down from bis high position to inter
| fere with the duties of one of the department
officers. The order was revoked, too. by tele-
graph, which Cf self was a strange proceed
ing and questionable in law. This suspension
was made the day after Joyce telegraphed
Do 10 ,,,,aI tbi,,os oOainat tho waakaui n
enemy
IT is now thought that Mckee, the convicted
st. Louis journalist, will be granted a new trial.
One of the jurors, man named Summers, who
swore he had formed no opinion in the case, il
to be arrested for perjury, papers having been
prepared for that purpose. Mckee will show
that Summers on more than one OCCASION ex-
pressed an opinion as to his guilt or innocence.
A bloody tragedy is reported from Warren
County Iowa. A religious revival was going
on at church, at which three families, named
! Howery. Westphall and Drillard were present
between whom for some time has existed bit
ter fued. On the way home from church the
quarrel was renewed, when general fight took
| place, in which ten persons were engaged. The
parties were armed with revolvers, stones,
slung -shots, knuckles and knives. About
twenty shots were fired, when the fight wsf
hand to hand, and lasted twenty minutes Geo
and John Howory were stabbed, and died on
the spot. David Howery was shot and stabbed
but will recover. James Groom was MORALLY
wounded.
T. A. Commerwell and Fritz Schneider were
drinking in saloon at Chicago, the other day,
when the former pulled out a revolver and
shot Schneider dead, after which he pointed
the weapon to his own head and sent bullet
crashing through his brain. Both men died
almost at the same instant. They were boon
companions and the singular tragedy is be-
lieved to have been premeditated by both men
that, having mutually agreed to leave the
world, it had fallen upon Commerwell to enact
the double murder.
South.
A resolution impeachng the superintendent
of Education, CORDOBA, has passed the Missis-