The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1879-02-28

The Chicago Daily Commercial
Bulletin prints q resume Of the hog-packing
business in the West during the winter season
1889 The estimated increase in the number
of hogs packed is 5000. but the quality is not
quite az good as that of last season, and the in
crease in product il only about equal to $50, 600
hogs of last years weight The total number
of hogs estimated packed for the season is
| 1896, 900.
The Kansas House of Representa-
tives has passed bill creating Patriot Guard
for the frontier, with view TO repelling Indian
invasions, and appropriating $4,000 for its
maintenance; and the Senate has passed bill
forever prohibiting the manufacture of liquor
in the State of Kansas.
The town of Stockton, Cal, has been
the scene Of shocking calamity, by which six
teen people were suddenly launched into eter-
nifty, and twenty six others wounded, several
of them fatally. A crowd Of more than 200
people had assembled to witness the trial of
new propeller pump set in the slough and run
by threshing engine, which exploded. Those
who stood near were FRUSTRATED The body of
the engine was blown distance of $50
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PROSTATE in every direction, some falling into
the slough from the bridge. Ten or twelve
dead bodies lay in one heap near the bridge.
/ Others lay strewn dead and dying on the street,
blown from fifty to one hundred feet The
heads of some were blown to pieces Others
were blown to the ground with such force as
to break every bone in their bodies Their
faces, hands and bodies were steamed in
dirt and smoke and cnders The explosion
was the result Of recklessness on the part of
tho engineer. The steam gauge refused to
work. and, after the engineer had attempted to
fix ii and failed, he screwed down the safety
valve and went on with his work Many were
blown considerable distance and escaped I'M
injured. The body of the engine, weighing :, 800
pounds, was blown over the telegraph wires and
landed on the plaza.
Little VOLTS band of Cheyenne In
dams are raiding through the Black Hills, tax
ing scalps and attacking wagon train occa-
sionally
George w. Dupre, State Printer of
louisiana has been indicted for perjury by the
New Orleans Grand Jury.
John McLeon, quondam Methodist
preacher, now in prison at Ashevile, y. C., is
/ the champion bigamist of the age. He has
been married nineteen times, his wives are all
alive and none of them has he ben legally
separated from.
A dispatch from Atlanta, GA, gives
the following brief particulars of a shocking
railway disaster "A passenger train on the
Selma, Rome and Dalton road, which mad just
left Selma, Ala. fell through rotten bridge over
Mulberry creek thirteen miles from selma
George Evans, prominent young Albanian,
and four negroes were killed. Three white
men were fatally hurt NJ Stanton, Superin-
tendent Of the road, Is among those fatally
wounded Twenty persons were injured
Conductor White was terribly wounded. The
sleeping car did not go down with the wreck All
the rest of the train, including several freight
cars and the engine, were smashed in one mass
The bridge was perfectly rotten, and much in
dignation exists The escape Of 30 many il
considered miraculous.
The press and people of New Orleans
Indignantly deny tlat the yellow fever has re
appeared in that city
In Sumter, S. c., two negroes, who
burned another's barn because ho voted tho
Democratic ticket, have been sentenced 10 tAe
peuitenuaiy for two years.
Near Baltimore, Md, Farmer Parks
ON horseback drunk refused 20 ride home
with hi- wife aud family in g carriage eNeItim-
ing that Dee could ride TO hol After fun
eallop for short distance, he wa= deshcl
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