The true northerner., 1880-10-29

could make little resistance. The back OF Mrs.
williams head was pounded in, her teeth
knocked out, and her skull broken in over the
right eye, and her lips cut open. Mr.. Parks
head was pounded up, one arm broken, and
probably the neck broken. Mrs. Parks head
was crushed in the same as the others. The
dead body of Blake was found in the barn sus-
pended by the neck with rein taken from
some harness.
Lydia Maria Child, whose pathway
for nearly sixty years has been strewn with
Massachusetts,
Maine is having water famine, and
several mills and manufactures have been
forced to shut down.
Mervin Hurlbert & Co., dealers in
firearms and ammunition at No. SO Chambers
street and No. 65 Reade street, New York, have
failed. The liabilities of the firm are variously
estimated at between $l5O,OOO and 100000.
A French fleet of five vessels anchored
in Newport harbor last week.
J. Herbert Reed, well known in the
insurance line in Boston, killed himself by a
West.
Hon. Edward G.. Ryan, Chief Justice
of the Supreme Court Of Wisconsin, has closed
his career. He was,a native of Ireland, was in
early years Prosecuting Attorney and news
paper proprietor in Chicago, and participated
in the first Constitutional Convention Of Wis
consin.
It is estimated that at least fifty ves-
sells foundered on Lake Michigan during the
late gale.
A terribly fatal accident occurred in
the distillery of Cox & Fairbanks, at Terre
Haute, Ind. From some unexplained cause
hree Of the large boilers of the distill-
cry exploded with frightful effect, par
italy demolishing the building and bury
ing a number of workmen in the ruins
nine of them being taken out dead. Following
are the names Of the killed: Frank Stanley
(engineer), William Kirty, John Brooks, Jo-
seph Denny, Howe Day, William Bergman
Henry Dinkle, Mike Kelly and a stranger from
Cincinnati. name unknown. In addition, eight
persons were wounded some of them danger
ously. A large piece of one of the boilers fell
into the cattle pens and killed two of the steers.
Another piece knocked out the end of the malt
house. 600 yards away
In Hereford county, Col, Antonio
Mestes, a Mexican, murdered his wife and babe
most horribly. He first knocked the woman
down with club and then seized knife and
18th it savagely lacerated the lower portion of
the womans body cutting out i'm
mcnse pieces Of flesh. He then de-
lberatey ripped open her womb and
took th. still-living child from it, which he
dashed to the floor and stamped upon until life
was extinct After this he tore the body of his
wife almost apart, and, after further mutila-
tions, fled. He was found near his old home
and placed in a school-house for safe keeping
with guard of men. 1t having become gen
rally known that he had been overtaken,
and his whereabouts being ascertained, q
body Of sixty men were soon got to-
gether who marched to the school-house
and. taking him out, proceeded TO administer
punishment to the man for his crimes. His
body was mutiated in precisely the same man.
ner rs was his wifes by him. His scalp was
then lifted, and rope tied about the mans
neck, the other end being attached to the horn
saddle. He was then dragged about over
the ground until his body was entirely un-
recognizable.
A shocking calamity is reported from
Cincinnati Fire broke out in the shoddy
manufactory OF Benjamin Hey, corner of Sec
ond street and Broadway, in such way as to
cut off escape from the third story, where
number Of women were at work. The fircmen
made heroic but Intellectual attempts to rescue
the women. After extinguishing the fire they
succeeded in extricating the dead bodies of five
women.
Fifteen passengers were seriously in
jured by collision OH the Cincinnati, Hamilton
and Dayton road, at Jones' Station, Ohio.
Sitting Bull has signifed his willing
ness to surrender, but does not want the troops
to move against him.
The National Grand Lodge of the
Anti-Horse-Thief Association held its annual
session at Keol1uk Iowa, last week, The order
was organized in 1862, and has to-day men,
bership of 174 lodges, scattered throughout
Kansas ana Nebraska, and it is claimed has
been of great benefit to the community.
A dispatch of Oct. %, from Holland,
Mich, says that six bodies from the wrecked
steamer Alpena had been recovered namely:
f. Spaeth, of Grand Rapids Mrs. Cole, Of
Muskegon Mr.. Crossman, Of Grand Haven;
Mr.. Locke, Of New York boy about 10 years
old, and an unknown woman. A watch fouiiti
on one Of the bodies was found
to have stopped at 1890, and it is inferred from
this that the ill-fated vessel went down at that
hour on Sunday morning, Oct IL. The wreck
of the lost steamer is scattered along the east
ern shore of Lake Michigan for distance OF
seventy miles, 1t is the impression of expert
enced mariners that the vessel met her fate
near the middle of the lake.
George A. Wheeler, of San Francisco.
murdered his sister-in-law by choking her 10
death while sitting in his lap, and then packed
her remains in trunk.
The Pacific coast whalers report nn