The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1880-05-07

A contested-e election case In the Lead
Vile (Col) Common Council ended In general
drawing Of revolvers on the part OF members
and spectators, but order was restored before
any firing had been dons.
j. J. Hoover, who killed q saloon
keeper named Bennett, at Fairplay, Gal, was
taken from jail and lynched.
The seventh annual convention of the
National Butter, Egg and Cheese Association
held its session in the Chamber of Commerce,
at indianapolis. About 200 delegates were in
attendance. A resolution favoring tax of IL
cents per pound on oleomargarine was passed.
Clement Shaw, n witness who testified
before the Coroners jury that Charles De
Young fired on young Kalloch before the latter
shot at De Young, has been arrested on charge
of perjury.
A letter received in st. Louis from
Las Vegas, N. NJ, reports the killing of ex-
Mayor Joseph Brown and few other st.
Louisians by Indians. Mr.. Brown left for the
frontier some time ago. with b. Roodhouse and
David Wright, of Carrolton, ILL.,, and it il sup
posed that the gentlemen last named are the
ones meant in the letter. Thirteen Mexicans
were killed near San Jose by band of savages.
kilograms from Colorado show that
prospectors are moving on the Gunnison coun-
try, in the vicinity of the White river Utes, in
large numbers, and that trouble may occur at
any moment. Ouray advises that troops be
sent out at once to keep the peace, az he fears
that bloodshed at this time would cause the re-
of tho int
at Washington.
M. II. De Young, the surviving pro-
prietor of the San Francisco Chronicle, has
been arrested on the complaint of Mayor Kali
loch on the charge Of libel. The libel consists
in republishing in the Chronicle an editorial
of inducing Cienentshaw to swear at the in
quest held on Charles De Young that young
Kalloch shot in self-defense.
Dennis Kearney will be produced be-
fore the Supreme Court of California on the
18th inst. OH another writ of habeas corpus.
A destructive fire has occurred iii the
business portion of Jacksonville, III. Several
houses, including the postoffice were destroyed.
The entire loss is estimated at $4,000.
Six miners, returning from prospect
ing tour in Washington Territory, were drowned
by the upsetting of their canoe.
A fire which originated in laundry
located in the basement of the principal hotel
of Battle Creek, Mich, was not got under CON
troll until serious damage had been done. The
two principal hotels of the town were complete
ly destroyed, and some adjacent buildings suf-
fered also. Two firemen and a woman who
jumped from the third story of the hotel on the
kitchen attached were seriously injured.
The dispatches from New Mexico an
nouncing the killing of ex-Mayor Brown, of st.
Louis, and two Illinois gentlemen are contra
dicted
The Methodist Episcopal General
Conference began its quadrennial session in
Pixies Opera House, Cincinnati, few days
ago. Bishop Scott presiding. The delegates,
numbering about 400, are entertained at private
houses. The conference will be in session one
month.
Indians have run off all the stock from
kota.
Incendiary fires broke out at Omaha
Sunday night, for the fourth time. The peo-
pie of that city are seriously alarmed, and are
anxious to find out the incendiaries.
Indian outrages in New Mexico are
reported almost daily Thirteen herders have
been killed in the Mogulan mountains, and
100000 head of sheep have been stampeded.
messenger who arrived in Silver City brought
particulars of desperate battle between ranch
men and savages in the mountains, in which
several casualties occurred on both sides.
South.
Outrages by moonshiners continue in
Northern Georgia, and, az the United States
Marshal is supposed TO be inefficient, several
special agents have been sent out with nstruc-
tons to organize a campaign against the crooks.
For having preached that the recrea-
tons as well as devotions might be INDUCED in
during the Sabbath day, the Rev. Mr.. Moore, of
Covington, KY, has been declared guilty of
heresy by the authorities of the Presbyterian
church in that district.
A duel between two Cuban cigar
makers, at Jacksonville, Fla, resulted in the
death of one of the principals. Three shots
were fired.
Five Georgia negroes have been SEN
fenced to death for arson.
An inmate of lunatic asylum at
Richmond, Va. killed his roommate because
he smelled like fried ham,"
A Mrs. Houston, living near Austin,
Texas, in a fit of insanity attempted to murder
her five children, by driving knitting needles
into their brain, through their ears. One was
killed, and two others seriously injured.
Three colored laborers were suffocated
while digging well near Charleston, s. G.
A Christiansburg (va.) woman, who
imagined that she was pursued by evil spirits.
set fire to her house and burned herself and
five children to death.
Fifteen miles of new sewers have been
laid in Memphis this spring. The drainage
system will be extended as fast as possible un-
til the 1st of June, when operations will Cease
for the summer.