The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1880-11-12

the passenger train and the fireman OF the
freight train were killed.
1t is now deemed certain that within
two years 81, 900 will be expended on the
Cape Cod canal.
Mrs. Kate Chase Sprague has deter
mined TO bring action for divorce against her
husband, ex-Gov. sprague, of Rhode Island.
Willie, 15-year-olL son of ex-Goy.
Sprague, made an unsuccessful attempt. at
Providence, II. l., to shoot Robert Thompson,
his mothers trustee.
John =. Gordon, of Quincy, Mass,
was fatally shot in midnight struggle with
housebreaker.
The steamer Rhode Island struck
Whale rock, and went ashore i'll Narragansett
bay. She had ITO passengers on board. all of
whom were saved. She was valued at 100000.
Wreckers pronounce her total loss.
Sarah Bernhardt's appearance on the
New York stage was the signal for prolonged
applause and showers of bouquets. Among
her auditors we're Clara Morris, Senator Blaine,
and Gov. Cornell.
The Citizens National Bank has been
opened in Cincinnati, with 81, 100000 capital.
A German Count, who stole several
saws at Fort Wayne, has been sentenced to the
penitentiary for one year.
There are twenty-five murderers in
the Jail at San Francisco. awiting trial.
The Grand Jury of San Francisco has
indicted Sheriff Desmond, of that city, for fel.
ony in permitting prisoners to escape.
The st. Paul Company will lay its
Black Hills track to within twenty miles of the
Missouri before closing operations this fall
A collision on the Milwaukee and st.
Paul railroad, near Minneapolis, killed three
men and wrecked two locomotives.
Mayor Kalloch, of San Francisco, has
been arrested on an indictment which sprang
from his employing laborers by the day on the
new City Hall.
The Milwaukee and st. Paul railroad
has agreed to pay Red Cloud and Spotted Tail
$1l0 per mile for the right of way through the
Sioux reservation "a per acre for station ground,
and So per acre for town site.
Elbridge j. Dawson, Assistant Post
master at Leadville, and Edward A. Clark,
stamp clerk, are in Jail for embezzling $4,000.
Mr.. j. b. Polk, who is favorably re-
I3nembered in Chicago for his representation of
fnipps in 1.-The Bankers Daughter" is now
starring at Mcvicker's, in that city, in a piece
written by Mr.. George II. Jessop, entitled "a
Gentleman from Nevada" The central figure
topher Columbus Gall. "a Gentleman from
Nevada" is comedy-drama. the first act of
which transpres in little way-station on the
Pacific railroad in Nevada. There murder is
committed. The subsequent acts occur III
England. on the estate of a noble Lord of high
degree, where Christopher discovers the perpe-
traitor of the murder, becomes the lion of the
aristocratic circle in which he finds himself and
marries titled lady. The support is strong.
The town Of Batesville, Ohio, has
been the scene of most horrible tragedy. 1t
seems that Frank M. Biedenbaugh, wealthy
young German who three years ago married
the daughter of neighboring farmer, came
home late at night intoxicated. and, entering
the room where his wife and child slept, as
saulted them with an ak. His wifes
skull was crushed by single
blow, and then his sons throat cut by the edge
of the ak. He then went to a room where Mrs.
Stephens, visitor, and her child and servant
girl were sleeping, and killed Mrs. Stephens
and child The servant-girl, awakened, sprang
toward the door, but was knocked senseless and
left for dead. Upon recovering consciousness
she gave the alarm, and the neighbors came.
1t was not until morning that the murderer was
found hidden in tobacco-house, with bis
throat cut, not fatally. Jealousy, insanity and
drunkenness are the theories advanced to ac-
count for the horrible crime.
South.
In an election row at Lexington,
Miss, J. w. Ashcraft was killed, and T. j.
Lockhart and G. NJ. Hall badly wounded.
John W. Former, Jr., was shot dead
by his brother Edward, on election day, near
Cedar Rock, N. @. They had been drinking,
and got to discussing the political situation,
one being Democrat and the other Republic
can. The dead man fell with knife clasped
in his hand.
White Oak mountain, near Ozark,
Ark, is reported in state of volcanic eruption.
One of the most revolving tragedies on
record is reported from Loudon county, Va.
Merrill Mott small farmer, luarreled With
his wife. His sister-in-aw took his wife's
part which so enraged Mott that he went
into his barn, where he obtained
arge knife, with which he made a
savage attack on the sister-in-law, in
licting wounds which he seemed to think
were fatal. He then took down his gun, fired
it's contents into the air, coolly reloaded it, aud
placed it under his own chin, and fired. The
shot blew away the lower part of his face. tear
ing away the tongue, but did not prove in
stantly fatal. While lying in pool of blood,
he noticed that his sster-in-law began to show
signs of life, and, with demoniac purpose, he
dragged himself toward the PROSTATE body,
lifted large stone, and allowed il to fall on
her head. He was about to repeat the fiendish
act, when his wife came on the scene. She
wrenched the stone from him, and used it on
booI H.