The true northerner., 1880-03-26

genuine note, bat the general appearance OF
the bill is good.
Forty.two mercantile firms in Chica-
90 have petiticned Congress for the passage of
a uniform Bankruptcy law.
julius De Boer was hanged at Ponti-
&C. Ill, on the 10th of March for the murder of
Miss Ella Martin, beautiful young girl, on the
10Th of October last The culprit was only Is
years old, and native of Germany.
A murderer named Fields, confined
in the jail of Winchester, ILL.,, for cold-blood-
ed murder, was shot dead in his cell by a mob
of masked men, q few nights ago.
Martin Power, of Chicago, quarreled
with his wife at the breakfast table, and be-
came so enraged that he drew pistol and shot
her three times, winding up by pointing the
weapon at his own head and blowing out his
worthless brains. The woman may possibly
recover.
A convention called for the purpose
of promoting the construction of a ship canal
connecting the great lakes and the Mississippi
river was held at Ottawa, ILL.,, last week, about
600 delegates being present Resolutions were
adopted favoring the enlarging of the Illinois
and Michigan canal to the dimensions of ship
canal by means of Government aid, and COM
mittee was appointed to urge upon Illinois
Congressman the importance of moving in the
matter forthwith.
Three attempts to fire the st. Louis
Chamber of Commerce were made in one day
last week The object of the incendiary is
mystery.
Ten children, seven in one family
and three in another, have died of diphtheria,
at GAINESVILLE, Ohio.
The notorious Mrs Glenn has been
convicted at Indianapolis of perjury and grand
larceny in connection with one of her peculiar
business transactions, and will be sentenced to
four years imprisonment
Peter Stout, a wealthy farmer living
near Stoutsville, Ohio, fatally shot his brother
the other day.
Cannon, co-laborer of Dennis kear
ney in the labor agitations in San Francisco,
has been sentenced to $1,000 fine and six
months Imprisonment for having used indis
CTect lduBudbe Ill puOHS Spc'Cu'
BARLEY CampbelPs "Galley Slave" is
continued at Haverly's, in Chicago, another
week. The engagement has been one OF the
best of the season, the play seeming to have
taken fast hold upon public favor. The
stage settings have attracted considerable at
tention and excited applause. They are varied
in character, handsomely finished, and marked
.,c Joto dol
The city of Chicago has decided to
levy tax of 81 on dogs
Apache Indians have killed a mail
carrier and cut the military telegraph lines on
the Tornado del Muerto, in New Mexico
The United States Circuit Court at
San Francisco has pronounced unconstitutional
the recently enacted law forbidding the en-
ployment of Chinese labor by corporations in
California
At Alma, Col, w. J. Porter shot and
killed Thomas Carmody. The murder WAS un-
provoked, and in less than an hour about fifty
unmasked citizens gathered at the Jail and
hung Porter to the ridge-pole Of the jail. He
swore until they put the rope around his neck.
He then spoke few words, and said, Pull up
VIC IOpc DOyS.
South.
Cowboys recently captured town in
Baylor county, Texas, shot the Constable, and
dispersed the Justices of the Peace.
The lower house of the Kentucky
Legislature has refused to give Henry Ward
Beecher permission to speak in its hall.
A child with two well-developed
heads, four hands, two trunks, twenty-four
ribs and two spinal columns has been born in
North Carolina.
S. T. Myers, boy of Is, was hanged
at Dallas, Texas, March 19, for the murder of
his STEP mother.
Edward G. Palmer, of New Orleans,
has been sentenced to the penitentiary for
three years for embezziing the funds of the
Louisiana Bank of which he was President.
A negro child-murderer was lynched
by the people of Page county, Va, last week.
The northwestern frontier of Texas
is threatened with serious Indian raids.