The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1881-10-21
West.


whose camp lay directly on the route of the an
nual migration, buffalo have returned to the
northern plains. q,
l.. Rosenheimer, a merchant at Kewas-
KUN, Wis. states that burglars obtained from
his safe $4,000 in cash and $4,000 in bonds.
William Wilcox, a dissipated and
once well-to-do farmer of Marion county, Ohio
murdered his wife. and then ended his own
worthless existence by going into the woods
and hanging himself to tree.
D1ed, at Carrollton, Greene county,
Ill, Mrs. Martha Scales, aged 10, native OF
Halifax county, Va.
The farmhouse of Ezekiel Perrin,
near Girard, H., was invaded by three masked
men, who tied and gagged the family and rode
away with $4,000.
Four masked robbers burglarizeci the
the house of Allan Fairbank, in Wayne town
ship, Dupage county, Ill. The robbers gagged
Mr.. Fairbank, Mrs. Fairbank and their two
daughters, and then took from various hiding
places $4,000 in registered United States
bonds, about $3.50 in currency, and some Sc or
81 in small silver.
Flames swept away the town of Ko-
komo, Col, involving money loss of s4OO, 900.
Capt. Paul Boyton foated out of
Pierre, Dakota, on the 18th inst, on his voyage
down the Missouri.
A freight train on the st. Paul and
Omaha road was wrecked by striking a COW
near st. Peter, Mimi. killing brakeman and
the fireman. A car containing trotting horse
was thrown bodily over the engine.
The monument to President Garfield
which it is proposed to erect in Lake View
Cemetery, near Cleveland will cost about
100000. Cleveland alone, 1t is thought, will
subscribe $4,000.
Very complete reports by telegraph to
the Chicago Times from the great corn belt of
the West show that the crop is in an unsatis-
factory condition. In Illinois, Indiana and Iowa
considerable damage has been done by
the recent prolonged rains, and the
crop will probably fall 20 to 80 per
cent. short of an average, the quality
being inferior also. In Missouri, Nebraska
and Kansas the rains have been beneficial in
the main, and hopes are entertained that the
yield will be heavy. Owing to the high prices
which corn has commanded Of late, farmers
have been selling literally, and but small por-
ton of last years crop now remains in their
hands. The reports agree that the number Of
hogs now fattening is very much smaller than
usual, and that they viii not come up to the
average in weight
Pilot Temple, who had a brilliant
career on the trotting turf, died in St. Louis of
pihk-eye, aged 80 years.
A fire which broke out on Spear street,
San Francisco, destroyed the California plan
ing mill, Wigmore's lumber yard and other
property valued at $25O,OOO. Two charred
bodies were found in the ruins.
Henry Mcdonald was hanged at Sill
yer City, Idaho, for the murder Of George
Mayors.
AtLouisiana, Mo-, Edward r. McQuie,
dissipated scion of an old and worthy family,
shot his wife and then killed himself.
The wife of DIR. Harper, residing In
Henry county, Mo-, crazed by the cries of her
little step-daughter, cut its throat with butch
er-knifc. The doctor has to be constantly
guarded to prevent his self-dearuction.
The repertoire Of Miss Anderson's
last week at Mcvicker's Theater Chicago, in
cludes " Hunchback," "Ingomar," "Galatea,'
LADY Of Lyons" and " Daughter Of Roland
On Monday. Oct. "a, the old favorite, Joseph