The true northerner., 1879-10-24

degree. No bill was FOUND against Mrs
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The village of Chittenango, fifteen
miles east of Syracuse, N. Y, is greatly excited
over the alleged crimes of a modern Borgis,
whose deeds, IL proved, eclipse the bloody
deeds of the ancient demon OF that name.
Mrs. Frances Schroeder married woman, Is
charged with poisoning her father, mother and
aunt The woman and her husband are both
under arrest.
A Memphis dispatch of Oct. 16, says !:
''Total yellow fever deaths to date, 5S4. Rev.
Jacob j. Peres, who died yesterday, was the
learned Jewish divine, well known all over the
country. Concordla, Miss, has lost sixteen
out of forty-eight cases. There is no hope of
the fever apating here during the continuance
of the present warm weather"
A gang of Georgia desperadoes is
terrorizing the people in the vicinity of Mill
edgeville, Ga. Their chief occupation is muir
der and arson, and they defy the civil authori-
ties.
A dispatch from Gastonia, n. c., says
Revenue Agent Blacker, assisted by Deputy
Collector Gyles, has unearthed gross frauds in
CASTOR county, N. c., carried on by registered
grain dlstillers in colusion with Government
officers.
The negro exodus continues to boom.
Arrivals at st. Louis from the South average
from twenty to thirty families per week, those
now coming being mainly from Alabama and
Tennessee. 1t is reported that the movement
will be larger than ever in the spring
A dispatch from Sparta, Ga., states
that the accounts of the outlaws in the eastern
portion of Baldwin county have been greatly
exaggerated. The trouble is political one.
The outlaws burned the gin and cotton houses
and fodder-stacks of Mr.. Robson, for the pur-
pose of drawing him out of the house to shoot
him. They killed negro man for reporting
them to the Grand Jury. They burned the tan
merry and barns of Luke Robinson and whipped
a colored woman and her daughter in Hancock
county. The gang have taken refuge in the
swamps of Oconee and Ogechee.
West
Two men who are believed to have
been OF the party of masked desperadoes who
ton railroad at Glendale last week have been
arrested at Holden, johnson county, Mo- The
circumstances attending their capture indicate
that the detectives were not mistaken in their
men,
Lachutte, an Indian, for the murder
of Chinaman, was hanged at New Westmin-
ster, Cal, a few days ago.
Thirty-nine Mexicans were killed by
he Apache Indians, at Hillsborough, New
Mexico, last week, and their bodies burned
Santa Fe has organized for defense against the
savages.
A serious railroad accident happened
on the Lake Shore and Michigan Southern rail-
road, near Cleveland, Ohio, on the morning of
Oct Is. An express train, running at the rate
of twenty five miles an hour, dash cd into
freight train which had stopped on the
road on account of the inability of
its engine to pull the heavy load.
demolishing the caboose and several freight
cars loaded with coal and merchandise, and
wrecking also the engine of the passenger
train and the mail and baggage cars The car
following the engine was postal car, in which
a gang of clerks were at work. The car was
telescoped for about ten feet by the tender of
the engine, and three of the clerks were caught
in the debris. and were unable to extricate
themselves, all being seriously injured about
the legs and lower parts of the body. Three
or four other persons were injured by the coll
ision, but all will probably recover.
Great preparations are being made in
Chicago for the reception of Gen. Grant on the
10Th of November, it being the intention to
make the affair surpass the San Francisco re-
ception. The railroads will undoubtedly offer
reduced fares, and all soldiers are invited to
attend The manager of the military parts
of the affair desire the soldiers, where il is
practicable, to form in companies or squads,
and forward statements of the number of men
to the Secretary of the Union Veteran Club,
Grand Pacific Hotel, Chicago, so that they may
be assigned, in advance, to their proper position
in line; also to report whether accompanied
with music.
Baumgarten, the perpetrator of the
atrocious murder of little Sandy White, near
GAINESVILLE, Wis, has been sentenced to a life
term in the Wisconsin penitentiary, having
pleaded guilty.
The Coroner's jury has completed its
investigation into the causes of the Michigan
Central railroad horror at Jackson, and has re.
turned verdict severely censuring the yard
master. who ordered the switch -engine upon
the track within ten minutes of the time the
express train was due. The jury in the YER
dict, also censures the switchman in charge of
the engine, and the engineer of the switch
engine.
The nephew of Wise, the missing
aeronaut, who was also his manager, has pub
lished his view of the fate Of the men who
went up in the Pathfinder. He is firmly of
the belief that the balloon sailed beyond Lake
Michigan and descended in some forest and,
the aeronauts being injured, probably were
starved.
Gen. Grant left Oregon on tie 10th
inst, and returned to San Francisco, where he
was entertained by the Forty-niners at Pioneer
Hall, and presented with a certificate of men,
bership in the Pioneers Society.
The determination of the authorities
at Washington to abandon the campaign against
the Utes has brought out indignant protests