The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1879-05-23
Asahel Peck, formerly Governor OF
Vermont, is dead He was 76 years old.
West.

Chicago elevators contain 6,011,715
bushels of wheat, 3,75i. 4S6 bushels of corn,
307, 594 bushels of OATS IL, SlS bushels of rye
total of 10,457, 600 bushels, against $50, 432
bushels at this period last year
The twelfth annual convention OF the
American Railway Master Mechanics Associa-
ton was held at Cincinnati last week.
The Board of Review of the National
Trotting Association (Col c. w. Woolley, of
Cincinnati, presiding), at its sessions in Chica-
go last week, expelled two of the most noted
turfmen of the country-R q. Pate, of st
Louis, owner of Woodford Mambiino, Lucille,
and other celebrated horses, and j. N. Had
dock, late owner Of the flyer Edwin
Forrest The offense for which they were
bounced was the putting up a job and selling
out a race at Utica, N. Y, in which Edwin For
rest and Mambrino were the contestants, in
August last. Edward Pyle, driver of Edward,
the winner of the race, was expelled.
Gus Gldden and Morrill, Higbie, who
drove Forrest; Jack Bowen, the driver of
Trampoline; and Biggs, driver Of Dick Wright
were suspended until next December,
and the case continued until the same time for
further investigation. The decision Of the
! Judges in the Bonesetter- Proteine 2:2O race at
Chicago, last fall, was reversed, and the race
awarded by the board TO Bonesetter. AS re-
suit of this latter decision, Proteine and Bone
setter have been ma,cned for a $4,000 race by
their owners. The race is to be trotted at Chi
cago on the 10Th of next July.
Agriculturists in the vicinity of In
dianapolis; Ind, say that there were never bet
ter prospects for fruit, and that the crop prom
Uses to be larger than can be disposed of. En-
couraging reports of the growing grain crops
reach us from all parts of the West With
favorable conditions bountiful harvest is pre-
dicted.
DR.. John H. Rauch, of Chicago, just
returned from the South informs the Chicago
Journal that all the cities in the Mississippi
valley are working like beavers to ward off the
yellow fever this year.
Grasshoppers have appeared in con-
siderable numbers in the region of Bismarck,
Dakota.
United States Circuit Judge Dillon,
of the Eighth district-comprising the States
of Iowa, Kansas Nebraska, Minnesota, Mis-
souri, and Arkansas-has decided to resign his
seat on the bench and accept an offer to pre-
side over Columbia College Law School, in
New York city
The Indianapolis Postoffice was
robbed, the other day, in bold and dexterous
manner. The safe IN the registry department
was rifed Of package of ten money order let
ters, fifty-five registered letters, and about
$4,000 in cash. The clerk had turned his back
for a few minutes to look over the morning
paper. taking advantage of which the bold thief
stealthiy crept to the safe, siezed the contents,
and made good his escape.
The most extraordinary game of bill
iards ever played was that contested in Chica-
go, the other day, by Jacob Schaefer and
George Slosson. Schaefer ran the game Of
1000 points oct in three innings, making runs
of 5, 800 and 305, thus accomplishing the ire
mendous average of 33S1G. The game was the
three-ba French carom, and was for stake
Of 81, 900 and the championship Of the United
States.
A murderer named Wallace Wilker-
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inst Under the laws of the Territory, per-
hitting choice between shooting and hanging,
the condemned man chose to die by the first
named method. He took q position on the
chair, and, at signal from the Marshal, three
concealed merksmen fired. He leaped from
the chair, exclaimed, q o God! !" fell forward on
his face, and continued writing, breathing a
few gasps for twenty seven minutes. when the
physicians pronounced him dead
Advices from the Indian Territory
report that body of United States cavalry is
raiding the Territory, turning back everything
that looks like squattng outfit The discom-
fted settlers are pouring across the Canadian
river pell-mell, evidently for the most part i'm
pressed with the belief that the soldiers mean
business, and that the Executive will maintain
the alleged treaty with the indians. Some of
the unfortunate emigrants are hard up for food.
The cavalry, it is stated, will continue patrol
ing the country until the last intruder is driven
out
It is reported from Omaha that Frank
James, the celebrated train robber, is en-
camped in the Wind River country, some dis
/ tduCe uOTtu Oh inc UNION IdcluC
has, besides his own force, large number Of
deserters from the United States army and
lot of cow boys.
A number of the people of Quincy,
Ill, are fighting taxes, because they believe
the levy exceeds the legal limit Consequently
the city treasury is empty, and the Mayor
threatens to discharge the police and firemen.
Two brothers, William and Thomas
Morgan, were drowned in the Licking river,
near Cincinnati, by the upsetting of skiff
William was cashier of the St. Nicholas Hotel,
in Cincinnati Thomas was resident of Kan
sas City, Mo.
A German gardener named Long
benin, living in Contra Costa county, Cal.
killed his little boy and girl, aged respectively
6 and years, by beating them with club aud
cutting their throats and then ended his own
miserable existence by blowing his brains out
with a shot gun
Lieut.. Charles M. Carrow, of the Sew
enth United States Cavalry, committed suicide
in his room at the Planters House, in St
Louis, Mo-, by placing q large-sized army re-
70 ax1 m a.