The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1880-08-13
DOMESTIC INTELLIGENCE.
East.

The beginning of the thirty-seventh
day of DIR. Tanners fast found his condition
but little changed from the preceding half
dozen days. He was still troubled with
nausea and occasional spells of vomit
ing. He was naturally quite feeble,
but during the day walked about occasionally
and affected not to feel his weakness. The
pulse was recorded IA temperature, 9S.8;
respiration IA; weight, 1851 pounds The
doctor was examined by auscultaton, and the
heart and lungs pronounced to be in excellent
condition.
The condition of DIR. Tanner at the
beginning of the thirty-eighth day of his fast
was about the same as on the preceding two or
three days. His features were no more hag-
gard or pinched and he affected TO be in good
spirits and confident of success. His pulse was
70 temperature, 80 1-5 respiration, 15 dyna-
mometrc tests "a kilometers in the right hand
and 80 in the left.
Reese Owens, prominent Pittsburgh
pork packer, has failed with liabilities OF
100000.
Pietro Balbo was hanged in New York
city on the 9Th inst. for the murder of his wife
Hon. John Bigler, of Pennsylvania,
Ex-Governor and ex-Unted States Senator, is
dead. He began life as printer.
A travelling salesman for New York
jewelry house left his room in hotel at Utica.
N. Y, unlocked, and on returning found that
his trunk had been relieved of SIS, 900 worth OF
diamonds.
South.
A secret organization, calling itself the
"Army of Occupation is now forming in
Texas for the purpose of making descent up
OH Mexico They claim to have 5000 enlisted
men already.
Another duel, with fatal result, has
been fought in South Carolina. The partici-
pants were young man named Cash. son of
the Col. Cash who not long ago killed Col.
Shannon in duel. and Mr.. Blair. editor of the
Camden Journal They fought with rifles at
twenty PAGES, and Cash was shot dead at the
first fire. The affair grew out of structures
published III the Journal on the elder Cash.
A horrible crime is reported from
Americas, Ga Mrs. Webster Gunnells put
some morphia into lemonade, which she then
gave her ten children to drink, and of which
she herself partool. Three of the children and
Mrs. Gunnells will die. No cause is assigned
for the rash act
Gen. William O. Butler, of Carrollton,
KY, soldier of the war of 1912, and candidate
for Vice President on the ticket with Lewis
Cass, in 1S4s, has just died at the ripe age of
93..years.
A series of heavy rain-storms i'll all
parts of North Carolina have seriously dam
aged the grain and cotton crops.
West.
A handsome monument to the Spen-
Ger family who were murdered by Bill Young,
a notorious desperate, has just been unveiled
at Luray, Mo.
Under direction of Census Superin-
tendent Walker, twenty-five of the most expert
enced enumerators i'll the country are making
recount of the citzens..of st. Louis.
Friends of the victims of the Mamie
disaster at Detroit will sue the steamer Gar
land which ran down the yacht, for damages.
During the month of July the death
roll of Chicago reached 1927. Nine hundred
of the deaths were Of little children under 8
years old.
A careful estimate has been made of
the yield of wheat in Minnesota, now being
harvested, and the lowest figures show an av-
GRACE of seventeen bushels per "cre-a total
yield for the State in round numbers of 90, 900,
900 bushels
A fire at East st. Louis, DLs de-
siroyed freight warehouse and fifty loaded
cars. Loss, 100000.
An insane woman at Belleville, ILL.,,
took a mattress, saturated il with coal oil, ig-
nitcd it, and threw herself into the flames.
few hours.