The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1880-11-19

Sitting Bull, in British territory. has returned
about 300 warriors, who are nearly out OF food
and ammunition. Ho asks Gen. Tory to wait
until Nov. 40 for tho return OF Maj. Walsh, who
had offered mediation
The railroad war continues. The
Wabash system Of roads last week reduced
rates from st. Louis and Chicago TO all East
ern points. The schedule adopted for limited
tickets Ii Boston and New York, $4.25 Phila-
delphia, s3.75 Washington, s.; Harrisburg
and Buffalo, 1925; Pittsburgh, $2.25. The
rate between st. Louis and Chicago continued
at 81 for tickets limited to twenty-four hours.
A five-story building ON Randolph
street, Chicago, occupied by Dwight Bros. q
Clark Il Co., furniture and picture-frame manu-
facturors has been destroyed by fire. Loss,
about 100000.
Six desperate characters broke Jail at
Las Vegas New Mexico. A posse which pur-
sued them killed two nurderers and wounded
another.
Petroleum has been discovered at
Ponca, Neb, twenty-five miles west Of Sioux
City. The oil was found at $50 feet below the
surface.
Two small children left alone by their
mother in house on Poplar street. Mlwau-
ke were o,irred to death.
The Chicago Times is going to have
Ito type sot by macAinery, several type-setting
machines for this purpose having been or
dered from Brussels, Belgium.
Mayor Kalloch having. in recent ser
mon, denounced tho Grand Jury of San Fran
cisco, and uttered bloody threats, Judge Froelon
has cited him to appear for contempt
A railroad official at Cleveland says MI
the funds required for new line from Buffalo
to Chicago have been raised, and that work will
soon commence.
A st. Louis saloonkeeper named Jo-
seph P. Flanagan killed one man and MORALLY
wounded another.
A telegram from ut. Peter, Mimi,
dated the 18th inst, says: "At q late hour to-
night fire broke out in the insane asylum at
this place, containing about 600 patients. The
building, which was one of the finest edifces
sons, was burned to the ground. At this writ
ing it is thought that from $50 to 200 of the in.
mates have persisted in the flames"
Sitting Bull, who some time ago
evinced disposition to surrender, now bids
defiance to tho United States Government, and
says he will fight to the bitter end, that no will
die rather than surrender, and his warriors
seem to share his hostile sentiments, and dare
Gen. Miles to attack them threatening him with
Clusters fate if he does.
The new enumeration Of the inhabit-
ants Of st. Louis credits that city with popu-
lation of $40, 800, or about 5000 more than the
June census.
Another theater is to be built in Chi
cago, to cost $4,000. 1t will be located on
West Madison street.
The last rail on the Wisconsin and
Minnesota road has been laid, completing a
new line from the Wisconsin Central to st.
Paul.
Hog cholera, of violent type, pre-
walls in several sections Of Indiana.
South.
The town of Keochie, La, has been
demolished by q cyclone. One man was killed
and ten persons injured.
A Deputy Marshal in Florida arrested
five citizens for violation of the election laws
but body Of masked men boarded tho train at
Madison and released them.
The epizoot has reached Texas in its
travels and is proving more fatal to the horses
than in the Western and Eastern States.
Hon. Fayette McMullen, q prominent
Virgins politician for the last thirty-fve years,
was recently run over by the cars ana killed nj
! wytheville, Va. He was one of the Readjuster
candidates for Congress from that State at the
recent election. He was once United States
Senator from Virginia, and was also member
Of the Confederate Congress.
Libby prison went to the auction
block in Richmond. yesterday, under deed Of
trust, tobacconist making the best bid,
S6.725.
Four of the five prisoners who were
rescued from the United States Deputy Mar
shall at Madison Court House, Fla, have sur
rendered to the authorities
Yellow fever claimed two victims ut
Key West, last week, one being an Episcopal
clergyman named Gilbert. An army surgeon
reports ten cases at that point.
Daniel G. Potter was executed at
Newport, Tenn, for the murder of Willis Nc
Mahon. The crowd around the gallows was
drunken and noisy.
Warren Sheppard, n colored man, was
hanged for murder at Montgomery, Texas.
Glen Canana, q negro, has just died
at Guilford, Va, at tho age Of 121 years.
Another exodus of negroes from Ala
bama and Louisiana is setting in.
Texas has a cotton crop estimated at
1850, 900 bales, and valued at s6O, 100000.