The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1880-02-27

the Los Pinos Agency, last week, and at once
started for Washington under strong military
escort
The statement that thousands of ad-
venturers are gathering in Southern Kansas
preparatory to a raid on the Indian Territory is
confirmed by dispatches from that quarter.
f. H. Bowen, of Dubuque, Iowa,
adopted rather novel method OF put
ting an end to his life. He asked for pail of
water that he might battle his feet before re-
firing to bed. This was supplied him, and his
wife retired to her own chamber, leaving him
alone. Next morning. on opening his room
door, she was Mortified to find him dead. he
had taken the pail of water and placed it under
meath the side rail of the bedstead, then rolled
back the tick, He removed two of the cross
Stats of the bed. climbed upon the bedstead,
thrust his head through the aperture into the
pail of water, and was discovered in this posi-
ton. Mr.. Bowen was newspaper writer of
considerable ability
Two Ohio men claim to have solved
the problem of perpetual motion. model of
the machine which they have in operation has
been sent to Washington for patent.
Three men were killed, two fatally
injured, and three others seriously burned, by
the explosion of boiler in distillery at Peo-
ria. Ill.
The Illinois Press Association held
its winter session in Chicago last week. There
was quite large attendance President
Snively, in his annual address, said that were
it not for the increased price of print-paper he
should be able to congratulate his brethren
upon an increase of prosperity. The associa-
ton voted unanimous Endorsement of the
efforts now making in Congress to secure a
reduction of tariff on paper and the admission
free of duty of chemicals entering into its
manufacturer and by unanimous vote the
association adopted a petition to Congress
setting forth the embarrassment and loss in
flicted upon publishers by the present high
price Of paper, and praying for relief from the
burden by legislation which will be fair and
equitable alike to the manufacturers and con-
sumers of paper-A canvass Of the members
of the association as to their Presidential pref
erences, shows tina. among the Republ cans
Blaine is first, Grant second, and Washburne
third choice; while among the Democrats Til
den, Bayard, and Seymour stand in the order
named.
According to the Cincinnati Price
Current, Chicago, Cincinnati, st Louis, In
dianapolis, Milwaukee and Louisville-the six
leading packing cities of the West-have
slaughtered, since Nov. /, 1879, 4, ~ 900 hogs,
against 1866, 500 hogs for the same time in
1889 The packing in the West during the
present winter season is expected to show re-
duction of some 900 hogs as compared with
the returns for the winter season of 1889
A man has been arrested in San Fran
cisco for violating the law forbidding the en-
ployment of Chinese.
The Chinese quarter of San Fran
cisco has been officially declared a nuisance,
and will probably be demolished.
a Cairo dispatch states that parties
interested in the coal mines in Northern Illinois
are securing colored miners 10 take the place of
the strikers Several hundred, collected from
various points in Tennessee through their
agency in Cairo, have already gone forward
The Parnell meeting in Chicago was
one of the largest popular assemblages
ever witnessed in that city, and was as enthu-
siastic as the most ardent sympathizer with
Ireland's woes could have desired. 1t is est
mated that not less $4,000 people were pres
ent Hon. Shelby NJ Cullom, Governor of
Illinois, presided over the meeting, which was
held in the Exposition building Speeches
were made by Mr.. Parnell, Mr.. Dillon, Gov.
Cullom, Hon. Thomas Hoyne, Gen. J. c. Black,
Mr.. John Murdoch, a kilt costumed son of
Scotia, and letters of regret were real from
many prominent statesmen and officials
throughout the country
r. M. Moore, ex- Mayor of Cincinnati,
| is dead
The Cheyenne editor and Postmaster
who has been waging war on Gov. Hoyt, of
Wyoming Territory, has been found to be de-
faulter to the amount of 81, AGO, and summariy
dismissed from Office.
Michigan farmers complain that the
mild weather is injuring their wheat, and pre-
dict that unless March brings heavy snow
storms the crop will be light.
South.
A family of nine women and chill
dren, living on the bank of creek near May
| field, KY, were surrounded by water and all
drowned. The house was washed away
The printers and publishers of New
Orleans, at a public meeting held the other
day, unanimously adopted resolution calling
on the Louisiana Congressman to support the
bill repeating the duty on paper and the chem
icals and materials used in the manufacture
! thereof
During the session of the Louisiana
House of Representatives the other day, Speak
er Ogden's parliamentary pistol fell from his
hip pocket and was discharged. He has been
cited TO answer a charge of carrying concealed
weapons.
Page Wallis was lynched at Leesburg,
Va, for outraging Mary Marmon. He was
first hanged and then riddled with bullets.
His victim was with the mob, and exercised the
privilege of shooting the first bullet into his
dangling form
A dispatch from Fargo, on the North
ern Pacific railroad, in Minnesota, says: "Win-
ter is 80 severe that railroad travel west Of
here is almost practically abandoned. 1t lie
costing the Northern Pacific 500 passenger