The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1876-03-31

one q. m, it is agreed that Mclaughlin shall
have two-thirds and Martin one-third OF the
gate money, all bets being declared OF and the
match declared q draw.
A SHOCKING murder was committed ON Beau
bien street, Detroit one night last week. A
young man named ID. X. McKeon, who had for
several years been employed as q newsboy on
the trains running out of the city, called ct the
house OF Mrs. Berdell for the purpose of taking
ayoung woman TO the opera-house. The lady
not wishing to go, the evening WIS spent in
card-playing, two other parties taking part in
the game. About IL o'clock two colored men
appeared and ordered all hands to vacate the
room. The intruders, on being asked il they
had not got into the wrong house, returned q
negative answer, when young McEeon ordered
them to leave the house, and upon making
motion to eject them he was shot in the head
by one OF the rnffians. Both of the miscresnts
then turned and fed. McKeon never r,oke
after he was shot. He died In about ten min
utes The sum Of $2.65 was found in the
dead boys pocket and letters showing that he
had brother at Lansing where he tends bar
for the Lansing house. His mother lives at
Rochester N. Y. The murderer was after
ward arrested in Canada. His name is Almier
Smith says the shooting was accidental and
claims that he was drunk at the time.
Stra nge Scene at = Burial.
The Ovid Register says: Last Saturday VIM
Gibson, sexton of the Middlebury cemetery
near Mr.. Herricks aud Mr.. Marshalls, located
about three miles southeast Of Ovid. dug a
grave, five feet in depth, in which was placed
a coffin containing the corpse of young man
named James Fuller, Jr. At the conclusion Of
the ceremonies the friends and spectators left
the ground and the sexton proceeded 10 COM
plete his work and had filed the grave to with
in about eighteen inches Of the top. when his
attention was arrested by hearing several aud
ible groans, as from some person in distress.
Mr.. ellison says he stopped shoveling on the
instant, and looked around on every side, but
could discover no one, and directed his atten-
ton to the grave, when the earth in the grave
began to RISE especially over the head of the
coffin, toward the surface, this movement being
accompanied by groans similar to those
heard at first. At this Mr.. G.. being
somewhat startled as he admits, cried out
My God what have I done that you should
come after me in this manner..?" or words TO
that effect. He then called to some of the
relatives who we're proceeding homeward in
wagon, and who had reached distance of sixty
or seventy rods from the grave. They retraced
their way to the grave, and Daniel Wilcox and
his wife Ellen, who arrived first, witnessed the
upheaval Of the earth two or three times after
their arrival. John Fuller and Miss Jane Fuller,
Stephen Bradshaw, and William Austin also
returned and assisted in the investigation, but
not in time to witness the phenomena described
above. Mrs. w. was 30 sgitated by what she
saw and heard that her husband had to take
hold Of her arm and support her. AS soon as
the movement ceased the sexton threw the dirt
from the grave and the coffin was raised and
examined. The lid was found securely screwed
down, and on opening the coffin the corpse ex-
hibited no signs of life, and no evidence that
it had moved or been disturbed in any manner.
The coffin was therefore again placed in it's
resting place, and the burial completed without
the occurrence Of anything pee liar.