The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1879-06-06

A Milwaukee correspondent of the
Chicago Tribune tells . rather startling story
regarding Senator Carpenter. tits to the effect
that he is slave TO tobacco, and is killing him
self by It's excessive use. This correspondent
says that Mr. Carpenter smokes twenty cigars
q day, that he IL hardly ever without one in
his mouth. that he has wasted 30 that his limbs
have become emaciated TO the semblance Of
pipe stems. and that he is . very sick man.
West.
An examination of the books and pa
pers of tho lately suspended Broadway Saw
ings Bank, in St Louis reveals condition of
rottenness that is absolutely shocking. BY
false accounts the institution has been robbed
Of nearly $4,000 by the cashier, Philip
Krieger, Jr., son of the President of the bank.
While Krieger has been systematically plum
dering, the bank has been declaring 10 per
cent dividends semi annually, and the stock
has been away above par.
A negro tramp who committed an as
sault upon lady at farmhouse near Quincy,
H., o few weeks ago, has been sentenced to
the penitentary for forty-eight years He was
convicted on three similar indictments, SEN
fenced on one to twenty years and on the others
for fourteen years each.
A mob of seventy-fve armed men
overpowered the jailer of Bakersfield, Cal and
entered the cells containing two murderers,
Thomas and William Yoakum, and lynched
them by hanging them in the cells. William
Yoakum was chained to the floor of his cell,
and, as the chain could not be loosened, he was
hung with the chain on his feet He was shot
several times after hanging him.
Troy Dye, formerly Public Admins
traitor of Sacramento county, CAL, and his
partner in crime, Edward Anderson, were
hanged at Sacramento, on the Goth ult, for the
murder of A. M. Tullis last August
In some parts of Missouri locusts
have made their appearance in vast numbers.
The Illinois Legislature at its recent
session appropriated $1,000 to complete the
Douglas monument in Chicago.
Eva Williams, age IA, and Emma
Davies, age Is, daughters of the proprietors of
the Chittenden Hotel, at Columbus, Ohio. were
drowned while bathing in tho Olentangy river.
A widow woman named Costello was
murdered in q brutal manner near Easter,
Kansas. Suspicion fell upon one Murray, who
cultivated farm adjoining that of the muir
dered woman. He was arrested and bound
over for trial The community was greatly
ey cited over the affair, and in the dead hours
of the night q mob gathered, silently,
marched upon Murray's house, called him out
and hung him to the limb of tree. There
WAS no positive evidence that Murray muir
dered the widow Costello, and the chances are
hat an innocent man has been hung.
The Chicago church choir Pinafore
company are billed at Haverlys for the week
quisite in the way of music is promised Thi
troupe is selected from among the best singers
in the Garden City, and has been in rehearsal
for some time If the success of similar COM
binatons in Philadelphia and Boston can be
taken as an example, this will prove the most
acceptable of the thousand and one musical
crews at present on deck.
The mystery of the Manhattan On. W
Bank robbery of October last by which money
and securities worth about 50, 900, 600 were Sc
cured by the burglars, has at last been re-
vealed by the confession of the night watch
man, who was one of the gang implicated In
the affair. The plot of the cracksmen
wac formed three years before its success
full execution, but was postponed from time
TO time as unexpected obstacles were en-
countered After the robbery and division
of the swag, each member Of the gang was as
sessed $500, which was sent to Washington to
defeat the bill introduced in Congress to dupli-
cate the stolen bonds, as, II passed, 1t would be
almost impossible to negotiate the originals
Three members of the band who took part in
this extraordinary robbery have been arrested,
and the New York police are on the track of the
others
At Salt Lake, Utah, the other day,
Judge Emerson sentenced John Miles, polyga-
mist, to pay fine Of 500 and be confined in
the Nebraska penitentiary for five years Dur
ing the proceedings Miles impertinently
quested not to be lectured, and asked no mercy
of the court This case has attracted unusual
attention, from the fact of it's being the second
conviction under the laws of the United States
and that Miles was to marry three young women
at the same time, with the aavioe and consent of
John Taylor, President of the Mormon Church.
An appeal was taken to the Supreme Court of
the Territory.
At Ottumwa, Iowa, on Sunday even
ing the LIST inst, Gen. james Shields, late
United States Senator from Missouri, died sud-
denly. On the Sabbath he had appeared in his
usual health, ate hearty supper at o'clock,
and wrote several letters, but just before retir-
ing complained of pain in his chest, and soon
thereafter said to his niece that no was dying,
and in thirty minutes he expired, sitting in his
chair, and remaining conscious to the last
South.
Hagerstown, Nd, furnishes the latest
hotel-fre horror. The Washington House,
crowded with gueste was burned at an hour of
the night when people sleep soundest and It is
miracle that a score or more persons were not
cremated. As it was, one man met his death in
the flames, whiie nine of the gueets were badly
injured, some of them fatally, by leaping from
the windows.
WASHINGTON NOTES.