The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1881-06-17

with clubs aud revolvers, made descent upon
o crowd of citizens attending Bowery dance,
and commenced Wholesale attack using wea-
pons Unfortunately. Augustus Emery. po-
hceman, was pounded to death. Fred Wenzel
was fatally injured. ]. %. Griswolj. Village
President, was severely bruised. Charles Ho-
mer received pistol ball ia the side of the
face, and dozen others were cut and bruised.
Five Of the gang were arrested, and with diff
Guilty the people were restrained from lynching
them.
Jay Gould and others have filed arti-
Giles Of incorporation for the Missouri Pacific
railway in Nebraska. 1t is believed that they
will build river line from Omaha TO Atchson
or St. Joseph.
Robbers took bunch of keys from
the pocket Of the County Treasurer at Pawnee
City, Neb, and obtained from his safe curren-
cy to the amount OF IS, $50.
Clovernook, the former home of Alice
and Phoebe Cary, near Cincinnati, has been
purchased by Alexander Swift who will pre-
serve the homestead and dedicate q memorial
TO the dead poets.
A most destructive hurricane swept
over Dickinson county, Kan, in the vicinity OF
Solomon City. 1t swept over a tract SIX miles
long and five miles wide, demolshing nearly
everything in it's path. The hail beat the corn
and other crops into the ground. Some Of the
stones were ten inches in circumference. Six
houses were torn into fragments, and, so far,
seven persons have been killed. 1t is thought
that other persons have persisted also.
Billy the Kid, The rising young bandit
OF New Mexico, has filled three more graves on
his way to Mexican sod. Patrick Garritt, the
Sheriff of Lincoln county, has been on the trail
of this fend since April q. but has failed to
come up with him.
According to the report of the illinois
Board of Agriculture, so per cent. Of the fall
wheat in the northern grand division Of Illinois
has been plowed up, "A per cent. in the central
DIVISION and l6 in the southern, and the por-
ton remaining gives indications Of only about
half an average yield.
AS the Chicago express train on the
Wabash railroad going north, passed through
Raymond, Montgomery county, ILL.,, on the
night of the 18th inst, il ran into wagon con-
tanning seven persons, killing four of them out
right, and more or less injuring the others.
The wife of a respected farmer named Albert
Creswe. her child and two nepnews wero the
victims
A flock OF 100 blooded sheep were
killed by lightning on the farm of Col. d. A.
Alkert, in Nodaway county Mo.
The villages of King City, Rosendale
and Berlin, situated in Northwestern Missouri,
were visited on Sunday night, the 18th inst,
by catastrophe Of appalling dimensions.
Early in the morning a cyclone swept down on
the devoted villagers and their rural neigh
bors with resistless fury, aad marked
its pathway with desoation and death.
Scarcely had the people begun to
comprehend the calamity that had befallen
them, when second cyclone appeared to
complete whatever destruction the first had
left undone. The resultant loss of property
is placed at from s400, 600 to 100000,
while the death list is large but not
definite. most destructive hurricane
also swept through Central Iowa on the
afternoon of the 18th, killing and manning
a lumber of persons, causing immense damage
to the crops, killing cattle and poultry, and
demolishing many residences and outbuildings.
The number Of human lives lost has not yet
been definitely ascertained, but it will not be
much If any less than twenty. The storm at
some points was of tremendous force, and
there was no withstanding it. The hailstones
which fell were of immense size, in some cases
as large as goose-eggs, and caused great havoc
among birds, rabbits and game of all kinds
throughout the storm area.
The vicinity of Wells, in Minnesota,
suffered from a cyclonic visitation OH the 18th
inst. Houses, barns and fences were prostrat-
ed, and two or three people killed.
South.
John B. Gordon has been elected
President of the Georgia Pacific Railroad Com
pany, which has capital stock of S10,500,000.
The line will be built from Atlanta to the Mis-
sissippi river as fast az men and money will
avail.
Three negroes were lynched in Sewer
county, Ark, for numbering an old man named
Hall.
A solitary robber stopped stage near
San Antonio, Tex, in which were four passen-
gers, and forced one of them to bring the mail
pouch near him, cut it open, and pour out the
contents. Two Of the passengers had cooked
revolvers In their hands, and on the person of
one was secreted Ell 1000, which fact was not
ascertained by the robber.
While racing with rival packet near
New Orleans the steamer Hanna exploded a
boiler, killing five men, and seriously scalding
several Others
Hays White, who killed Sheriff Beat
tie, was hanged at Warsaw, Ark, in presence
Of 1000 persons
William Ryan, who was arrested at
Nashville for robbing the Government Pay
master at Mussel shoals, on the Tennessee
river, has been fully identified az one OF the
party who took $4,000 in gold from train at