The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1880-12-24

Ex-Governor has surrounded Canonchet with
armed guards, and the Sheriff refused to serve
writ OF replevin for Mira Sprague's effects.
The case will be tried In February.
Foreign gold coin and bars to the
amount OF &6,l5l, 400 reached New York last
week.
The receipts of Sarah Bernhardt's two
weeks engagement in Boston were $4,000.
Broadway, New York, has been sue
cessfully lighted with electricity.
Jay Gould predicts, as the outcome of
The present speculative rage, one Of the greatest
financial panics in the history of the world
Brooklyn had $50 cases of diphtheria
last week, fifty Of which proved fatal
A family named Hansen, living In
Chicago, have been stricken with trichin@, the
result Of eating uncooled ham.
Near Napoleon, Lafayette county, Mo-,
Mrs. James Jones, wife of well-to-do farmer,
attempted to fill lighted lamp with coal oil,
and both can and lamp exploded. causing the
almost-instant death of her two children-a
babe of 6 months and little girl years old
and burning Mrs. Jones 30 terribly that she
died in a few hours.
The Omaha Indians have decided to
sell 81, 900 acres Of their reservation in North
eastern Nebraska, and have asked permission
TO send ten head men and two interpreters to
Washington to arrange terms.
Two coaches of the Kansas City ex-
press train, on the Missouri Pacific road, were
thrown from the track, near Eureka, Mo-, and
about dozen persons were injured moro or
less seriously.
Nobel Bennett, cooper, of Lawrence
burg, Ind, has driven his blind daughter to
the county poor-house, after vainly edeavoring
to induce her to commit suicide.
Mary and Ludolph Torney, of Mil
waukee have died from trichime.
The State Grange of Indiana demands
that the Agricultural Bureau be raised to a
Cabinet portfolio, and that a national railway
law be enacted, TO prohibit discrimination in
freights.
William Perdew, of Leon, Iowa, drank
poison in mistake for whisky, and died.
Robbers ransacked the residence of
Mrs. George Tod, at Youngstown, Ohio, carry
ing off diamonds and iewelry valued at $1,000
William and Charles Mullen, owners
of farm near Santa Rosa, Cal, were killed by
Albert and Frederick Quackenbush. The trag-
edy grew out Of disputed land claims.
Mrs. HIM and son, OF Beaver Dam,
Wis, have died from trichinH, and two men,
bers OF Mr.. Milarck's family are PROSTATE. A
piece taken from the dead boys arm was alive
with parasites.
The Mormons are crowding into Idaho
with their quadruple families. Gov. Neil
urges that Congress make polygamous cohabi-
tation an offense, and asks Territorial legisla-
ton against those who preach the doctrine Of
plural marriage.
Two masked men entered the bed
room of DIR. J. II. Mott, Of independence,
Mo-, covered him with revolvers, and forced
him to sit on the edge of his bed while they
took watches and jewelry 10 the value of $500.
They then fitted themselves out with his cloth
ing, burning their discarded garments in the
CRATE, and babe him goodnight.
John @. Calhoun, nephew of the
famous South Carolinian, having been for some
time an inmate Of the California Insane Asylum,
was about to be discharged, when he was
drowned in the river at Stockton.
A sudden fall in the price of wheat
caused the suspension OF several Chicago grain
commission houses. The heaviest failure is
that of Jones & Mcdonald, who are short
5000, O0O
Central Kansas is enthusiastic over
the prospects for winter wheat
South.
The explosion of boiler in Fable &
Sons soap and candle factory at Louisville,
KY, killed Phil Hemp, fatally injured Conrad
| Spark and Lizzie OFT, and severely injured
Peter Bolenboch, the fireman
A contract Tor a tunnel through Look
out mountain will soon be let by the Alabama
Great Southern railroad.
Daniel Keith, a negro, was hanged at
Rutherfordton, N. c., for the murder Of Alice
Ellis.
Two children persisted in burning
building at Petersburg, Va.
A prisoner confined in Jail Mt
Charlottesville, Va, wrapped his bedclothes
about his neck, saturated them with kerosene,
set them on fire, and perished from inhaling
| the fame
Mrs. Burk, of Austin, Tex, has OBJ
tanned judgment for 925, 800 against the Texas
Central railway for jewelry, pictures, etc,
burned in car on that road.
News of horrible crime comes from
Tupelo, Miss. Two tramps sought shelter at a
farm house, and, during the night, chloro-
formed the family, took oil the money and val
tables they could find, and then set fire to the
house. Father, mother and child persisted
in the flames. One of the men was
captured the next day, and, on confessing his
guilt, was tied to tree and burned alive.
Granville Harrel, a negro, who killed
David Simmons with an Ak near Jackson, Miss,
was lynched by masked party.