The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1879-07-04
seriously injured by being thrown from his
horse at Newport Il. L, afew days ago.

South.
Official reports from the Mayors and
Presidents Of the Boards Of Health Of the fol-
lowing cities and towns: Memphis, vicksburg.
jackson, Miss, Shreveport, La, OoDierville,
Tenn, Hickman, KY. Grenada, Miss, Helena,
Ark, Holly Springs, Mes Decatur, Ala, Tus-
cumbia, Ala, bring the gratifying intelligence
that in none of the places mentioned has the
health outlook been more favorable In no In
stance has there been any indications of re-
turn of fever Better health than usual at this
season of the year prevails, and every preoau-
ton that sanitary regulations can suggest has
been accomplished toward preventing the re-
currence Of last years epidemic. Quarantine
regulations have been established, ready to be
enforced should an exigency arise.
A Frankfort (Ky.) dispatch says:
son Saturday night q. Sand Rihe, twelve miles
distant, a party OF unknown men attacked the
house of Samuel Faulkner, severely wounding
Faulkner as he ran from the house, and then
setting fire to the dwelling, which was con-
sumed with it's inmates-Harry Russell, aged
II (who was also shot, and two children OF
Faulkner, aged II and 8 years. No cause is
given for this brutal affair"
The Crescent City Oil Works, at Me-
gainesville, near New Orleans, La, burned
the other day. Loss, sl25,ooO; insurance.
$4,000.
One of the most remarkable feats
ever accomplished III railroading was performed
on Saturday, june %, by the st. Louis, Iron
Mountain and Southern, in change of gauge
on 700 miles of road. Heretofore the gauge
has been five feet The regular business Of
the road was interfered with only about six or
seven hours The cost Of the change will not
fall short of s2.oOo.OOo.
The Indiana Supreme Court has de-
cided that Guetig, the Indianapolis servantg girl
murderer, must hang Sept 10, which will be
the first anniversary of his crime. The plea of
the prisoners drunkenness at the time of COM
hitting the murder was of no avail, the court
holding that this was an aggravation, rather
than palliation, of the offense.
Nine hundred feet of snow sheds on
the Central Pacific we're burned recently.
Congressman Robert M. Knapp,
of Jerseyville, Ill, died at his home in that
place, few days ago, aged 40 years.
Last weeks great rain-storm in Cen
trail and Western Iowa and Eastern Nebraska
did very serious damage by flood and light
ming The drowning of the wife and two
daughters of farmer at Stuart Iowa, is re-
ported, their house being washed away by the
sudden rising of small stream.
r. s. Taylor and Robert Taylor,
brothers, and B. G. Wren, all farmers, between
whom an old feud existed, met in Wellsville,
Mo-, few days ago, and renewed their quar-
rel The Taylors fired four balls into Wren's
body, MORALLY wounding him, and Wren
killed R. s. Taylor instantly and fatally wound
cd Bob
The earnings of the Central Pacific
(Cal) Railroad Company for May were 81, 541,-
600, and for the fret five months of the year
SO, zoo, 100, against &c, 4l0 800 in 1878.
A Fort Wayne Qnd.) paper reports
that there is great excitement at Coesse, fifteen
miles west Of there, over the attempts Of q
saloon keeper named Jerry Owen to murder
his four motherless children, the Oldest of
whom is aged g. He first assaulted q son,
aged z, whose ear he tore nearly of. seized .
large butcher knife and stabbed a daughter of
years three times, each wound penetrating to
the sknll She can hardly survive. He took a
large, thick club, four feet long, and beat all
four children, the youngest babe of years,
until their bodies were literally a mass of
wounds. The fend was arrested.
The boiler of Government steam
boat exploded at Nebraska City, Neb last week,
blowing the boat to atoms, killing two persons,
MORALLY wounding two othors, and badly scald-
ing several more.
By the explosion of an upright boiler
in an iron-mill at Youngstown, Ohio, number
of persons were badly injured, some of them,
it is feared, beyond the hope of recovery.
The pleasure steamer May Queen ex-
ploded boiler on Lake Minnetouka, Mimi, the
other day, fatally woundng four persons, and
seriously injuring some half dozen others.
Mayor Harrison, of Chicago, has re-
voked the licenses Of several Of the disreputable
dens of iniquity in that city, and threatens 10
close up many others II their owners do not
mend their ways
A seventy-five hours pedestrian con-
Chicago, between Daniel OLeary, of Chicago,
and Peter Grassland, ri London, was won by
the former. O'Leary made $50 miles ard the
Londoner POS miles.
In the Chicago Directory for 1879,
just issued, there are 16l. 2l2 names, being
1905 more than were shown in the same book
last year. Surprising that these names, most
of them heads Of families, represent an average
of four persons each, the population of Chi
cago would be 644, S4S
A dispatch from Sutro, New, an
nounces the completion of the famous Sutro
tunnel, for the reception Of water from the
Comstock mines. AS an engineering work the
success surpasses all expectations. In eight
hours the water in the Hale & Norcross and
Savage mines was lowered 100 feet, demonstrate
ing the capacity Of the tunnel to perform all
the work ever claimed for or expected of it.
The great undertaking has cost s6,000,000