The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1877-12-07

III. NOrtn6ll, was burned Ut lhGIOIlil6r CITY INST
week. Three colored men persisted in the
flames. The vessel was valued at $4,000.
The failure of Evans, Dalzoll & Co., iron
manufacturers, Pittsburgh, is announced.
West.
A number Of the contractors and employees
on the new Custom House at st. Louis have
been indicted by the Grand Jury of the United
States District Court. 1t has been developed
that this costly structure, upon which Uncle
Sam has already spent between 1000, 900 and
$4,000 600, does not rest upon solid stone, as
specified in the contract, but that 100 of the
foundation piers, at least are composed of I'M
substantial concrete; but these are not half
the developments now made, nor 1.-THE of
those yet come.
Information comes from the West that while
moving the Sioux from the Red Cloud Agency
to the Missouri river, LOO of them broke away,
and are now on the war-path Gen. Terry
has ordered the cavalry to prepare for winter
campaign. Those who thus deserted are oper-
ating in the Deadwood country. and have al
ready attacked trains and caused general con-
sternation.
The desperate Frank Rande was conveyed
from st. Louis to Galesburg, ILL.,, on the 2Sth
Vlt.. and lodged in the Knox county Jail.
The Second National Bank of Lafayette,
Ind, has been compelled TO suspend business
in consequence Of the heavy defalcation of the
cashier, Charles T. Mayo. His stealings amount
to about 100000.
a farmer near Champaign, H., has lost by
-. 4. -, hoo
The disease is spreading in that section.
The real name of the desperate Frank
Rande is Charles Arthur Van Zandt. He
served five years in the Northern Indiana State
prison. and was one of the most unruly con-
yicts that ever stepped inside of penitentiary.
T.. p. Hilliard, A. w. Edwards John Reid
and Martin Ryan, officers of the collapsed Pro-
lection Life Insurance Company, Of Chicago,
have been indicted for perjury in swearing to
false statements Of the financial condition Of
the concern. George w. Stanford, Henry
Greenebaum and Z. +. Runyan, late members
of the West Chicago Park Board, have also
been indicted for conspiracy TO defraud the
city.
Charles McGil, OF Cleveland, Ohio, became
incensed at his wife because she persisted in
leaving him, and murdered her by shooting
nine pistol bullets into her body.
young man named Henry Blackman, living
near Birmingham, Mich, quarreed with his
mother and sister, in the absence of his father.
and wound mp by shooting and killing them
both, and setting fire TO the house and barn.
Frank Rande, the outlaw has at last re-
vealed his name, which is Charles G.. Scott.
He says his residence is at Fairfield. Iowa.
where he emgrated with his parents in 1859.
when IL years old, from Washington county.
Ia. He says his first crime was that of bur-
glary, committed at ottumwa, Iowa, in 1871.
South.
J. J. Wright (colored), Associate Justice of
the South Carolina Supreme Court, has re-
signed.
Gov. Wade Hampton, Of South Carolina. in
his message to the Legislature strongly. depre-
Gates the repui iltiou OF the states obliRa-
tions, aud ar u that the settlement OF the
public-debt question should be made on bs isis
vva.ch shall not im. air the credit Of the State.