The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1880-12-17

door in difficulty about a female member.
After a fst-fght, Weathers shot and fatally
wounded Miller.
THE elegant residence Of Charles o.
Fisher, in Baltimore, took fire the other
morning, and two colored servants sprang from
fifth-story window and were killed.
The official figures give Jones, Green
hacker, majority of 233 over Shepard, Demo.
crat, for Congress from the Fifth district of
Texas.
Jay Gould is negotiating for the pur-
chase Of the Iron Mountain railroad.
West.
Her & Co., wholesale liquor dealers,
and G. II. & ]. s. Collins, wholesale leather
dealers, have been burned out at Omaha. To-
tai loss, 1926, 900 insurance, 100000.
The extraordinary phenomenon of
child slowly petrifying while alive, which for
some time has COMPOUNDED the medical men Of
Cleveland and elsewhere, has been terminated
by the death of the little one.
Two thousand Oklahoma colonists,
encampod at Arkansas City, Kan, formulated an
address to President HAYES, announcing their
intention to settle upon the coded lands of In
dian Territory, and demanding that Gen. Pope
be forbidden to interfere with their plans.
Capt Payne and several of the colonists crossed
the line on the night of the 8th inst.
Two men were killed and several 9th
ers wounded by the premature explosion Of
blast in the Forman mine shaft at Virginia City,
New
Mrs. Glassma, German woman OF
Marquette, Greenlake county, Wis, in fit of
temporary insanity killed her babe by cutting
its head nearly of, and then cutting her own
throat, dying almost instantly.
Advices from Dakota indicate that the
Sioux there are unwilling to accept as binding
on them the agreement of the Spotted Tail and
Red Cloud band to the Milwaukee and st. Paul
road right of way through the great reserva-
ton. They claim that the Red Cloud and Spot
ted Tail band had no right to cede anything,
and there is trouble in prospect.
DIR. EARL, n Chicago practitioner and
notorious abortonist has been sentenced TO
five years in the penitontiary for criminal NAL
practice, resulting in the death of young and
beautiful girl.
A horrible double murder was recently
committed near Colona, Henry county, Ill. The
victims were MIR. Thomas Dilley, wealthy
farmer, and his wife. They were discovered
by some neighbors one morning in one Of the
sleeping-rooms Of their house, their skulls
broken, and their faces and heads horribly dis
figured. Near the bodies was found an old
spade-handle, stained with blood, with which
the murders had evidently been committed
Robbery was the object of the authors Of the
horrid crime.
A shocking accident occurred in Gin
cinnati, during the progress of confagration
by which five gallant fremen lost their lives
They had entered burning building and were
bravely working to subdue the flames. when
they became surrounded by fire and were suf-
located.
George Scott, half-breed Indian and
negro, was lynched at Brazil, Ind, by party
of masked men, who took him from the Jail
where he was confined for outraging Mrs. ALI
son. wife of his employer.
Joseph Jefferson, the greatest expOn-
ent of legitimate comedy in America, has been
showing the younger theater goers-older ones
had no need to be instructed to that effect
that he was not an actor of single part, by
his assumption of the role of Bob Acres, in
Sheridans sterling comedy, "The Rivals" at
Mcvicker's Chicago Theater during the past
week. The house was crowded nightly but,
in Difference to the popular demand, one week
of the standby, rip Van Winkle," is to be
tainment by Hermann, the cunning prestidigi-
tator, is underlined, while during the season
Sara Bernhard, Ada Cavendish, Lolita, Annie
Pixley, Salvini, and other stars are promised.
HIRAM S. HoLBRooK, local agent of
the American Express Company at Dubuque.
shot himself dead in his bed, the bullet also
killing his little daughter.
The Oklahoma invaders have dele
gated DR.. Wilson, leading spirit in the enter
Prise to proceed to Washington and present
their situation to the administration. The. col
onsts are camped at Caldwell, Kan, where pro-
visions for six months have been offered them.
While n number of Indians were dis
putting with each other at the Lower Brule
Agency as to the terms on which they would per-
NIT the Milwaukee and st. Paul Company to
lay tracks through their territory, the pistol of
MIR. Beveridge, the Agent, went off accidentally,
and the ball inflicted fatal injuries on Medicine
Bull, the Brule chief
The population of Utah is shown by
the recent census to be 1907.
WASHINGTON NOTES.