The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1879-01-17
DOMESTIC INTELLIGENCE.


iHe supreme Court OF Pennsylvania
mas just rendered decision which has startled
"e people from one end of the State to the
other The decision, which is to the effect that
@"ioows dover remains unapproschable by
any power directed against her husband, will
affect the title to millions of dollars worth of
real estate in Pennsylvania, and lead to meal
culable litigation
Benz. Hunter, for the instigation of
the killing of John NJ Armstrong, for the pur-
pose OF securing life-insurance policy, was
hanged at Camden, N j., on the 10th inst The
wretch had made two unsuccessful attempts 1T
suicide-first by blood-letting and then nv
searVauon-and was SO weak and exhausted that
ne had to be carried to the gallows and held up
whiie the rope was adjusted around his neck.
lie died by strangulaton
The brewery of Peter Hauk, in New
ark, N. j., has been burned LOSS, 100000
At New York, Madame Anderson has
completed her tremendous undertaking in pc
oestr1anism-that Of walking 270O quarter
miles In :, 700 consecutive quarter hours
West.
"A bold robbery was perpetrated in the
city of Chicago the other day. Two men. in n
cutter, drove up in front of jewery store in
one of the most crowded thoroughfares, at 6
O'Clock in the evening, alighted, broke the glass
showcase, seized $4,000 worth of diamonds.
seaped into the cutter, drove Off and have not
nince been heard of
Fort Robinson, in Nebraska. has
Deen the scene of bloody emeute, resulting
i'm IL
IN wholesale slaughter Of Indians and the
death and wounding of several soldiers For
some Tune large number of Cheyenne Indians
VINO were engaged in the raid in Western Ne
praska last summer, and were subsequently,
captured, have been held under restraint at
that post II having been determined by the /
government to send these savages south /
INTO the Indian Territory, preparations
were being made to that end They declared
mer determination not to go south, asserting
that they would die in resisting sucb a move
ment The military tried to starve them into
SUBMISSION, ana even went so far as TO deprive
them OF fuel, but their stubborn natures would
not yield Finally it was determined TO
place the two leading chiefs. Old Crow
and Wild Hog, in irons. and separate
them from the common Indians Tn
carrying ont this step there was a furious
struggle between Wild Hog and the puards in
which one OF the latter was danoerouslv
stabbed This affair caused the widest excite
ment among the savages. Some of them com
menced chanting war song and NJ
given signal, the entire BODY made
dash through their prison windows and a.
ing on the guard with revolvers which ,bev
mad succeeded IN concealing, all ran for the
open prairie. The guard opened fire ON Tho
fleeing savages, shooting them down bv dozens
m tho frozen snow, presenting scene
that discounts the custer massacre THO
cavalry continued in pursuit. of the retroo.
ing savages, killing them without mercy. Fo,r !
soldiers of the Third cavalry were wounded
and one killed. having been shot through tho
heart Dull Knife, the Cheyenne SAVAGE !;
leader, was numbered among the dead. having r
been shot through the head Altogether he, ;
tween thirty aid forty OF the Indians wero ;
Killed and great many wounded I
fire on Nam street. Cincinnati. d. 4
'Toyed property valued at sI5O,OOO.
At recent meeting in Toledo Of I
prominent horsemen of various Western cities b
was decided to arrange a great Western '
acing circuit
Two Umatilla Indian chiefs, White =
'wl and Quit Jumps, have just been hanged
. Wala Walla, Ore. They both preserved =
the last the Characteristic stoicism of their y
ace, dying with the death-chant on their lips. U
Troy Dye, ex-Public Administrator Il
Sacramento, Cal, who killed A. M Tullis :,
DR. the purpose of securing the emouments :.
nat would accrue from administering on his :. q
'rse estate, has been found guilty and SEN =,
need to death
In race at the Exposition building. 81
hcsgo, between horse and professional pc. re
esuian, the former scored 2Ol miles in 52 ca
ourS' The pedestrian making 149 miles in the
me time. The equine was on the track 27lS -,
'urH, and averaged s:2l per mile. =,
Advices from the Cheyenne River an
dian Agency report that runners had arrival an