The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1881-04-15

Ireland by the members of the Land League
gave rise to the term "boycotting," arrived in
New York last week.
On the ground that the compensation
offered is inadequate, the Mayor Of New York
has vetoed the bill permitting the Edison Elec-
trio Light Company to lay tubes in the streets.
A boy of IA shot and killed his sister,
girl of H. in Sunbury, Pa, while the family
were seated at dinner. His reason was that
they would not give him enough to eat.
Internal revenue officials found an
illicit still IN ravino about fourteen miles from
Somerset, Pa, and captured four moonAhiners
and $50 barrels Of whisky.
A Gutenberg Bible, printed in 1850,
brought $4,000 at an auction sale in New York.
The large jewelry store OF William
Wise, in Brooklyn, N. Y, was burglarized few
nights ago. Six large holes were bored in
safe containing 100000 worth OF diamonds, but
the steel plates broke the drill. Another safe,
weighing 400 pounds, was lifted out Of the wall
by jackscrews, and robbed OF 100 watches, val
ued at $4,000.
Ex-Attorney General Devens has
been re-appointed to the Supreme bench Of
Massachusetts,.
j. l.. & l.. f. Kuntz, the we'll known
lager-beer brewers OF New York, have made an
assignment to their father, their liabilities be-
ing $4,000.
West.
Mrs. Sargent, Of Santa Barbara, Cal.,
was brutally murdered by sheep herder, who,
in turn, was hanged by o mob Of indignant
citizens
In the Mormon Conference, at Salt
Lake City, john Taylor, President Of the
church, declared that the Saints proposed to
obey all Gods revelations, including even the
one on rolygamy.
Nearly all the live stock in the Mis-
souri, river valley between Jefferson and Fort
Thompson is reported to have been destroyed
by the food.
A Winona (Minn. dispatch of the 9Th
inst. says: "The work of raising the blockade
on the west end Of the Chicago and North
western railroad is proceeding slowly. There
still remains $40 miles in a blockaded state.
or this all but fifty miles can be easily raised.
that will have to be picked step by step. There
are from 400 to 500 men at work, and it is
thought that two weeks will see the road open
to Pierre, Oak No trains have been run to
WATERFOWL, Oak, since the Goth Of January.
All stations OF the blockaded portion report
scarcity of -four, oil and groceries, but no suf-
fcring from the lack of these or other living
necessities"
Moody and Sankey have finished four
months Of continuous labor in San Francisco.
A coal firm i'll Cleveland has sued two
railroads running into that city, claiming Ss27,-
600 for freight discrimination in favor of other
dealers.
A company which proposes to build n
railway from Pekin to Grafton. H.. has been
Incorporated at Springfield, with capital OF
s2,OO0,OCO.
Van Hise, Linn and Corwin, who
were arrested at Cleveland for connection with
the Missouri land frauds have been discharged
for lack OF evidence, Detective Tyrrell failing to
appear to testify.
The municipal officers of Dodge City,
Kan, having refused to surrender to their sue
cessors, body Of seventy armed men proceeded
to break the locks Of the Jail doors, and have
issued q notice to oil thugs to leave within
twenty-four hours.
Fifty feet OF the Government riprap 1T
Omaha has been washed out by the floods
Two mon were swept out among the ice cakes
and drowned
The conductors and drivers on the
West Division Railway Company, Of Chicago,
struck for an advance of 20 per cent. in Their
pay. Over half the city was deprived of street.
car facilities for thirty-six hours, and people
had to foot it 10 and from their places
of business The sympathies of the communi-
ty were with the strikers, and the corporation
finally yielded to the demands OF the EN-
ployes.
A strike of the journeymen carpenters
of Cincinnati resulted in the concession OF
1926 per day by 125 builders.
All Luck, O Chinaman, was hanged at
Nevada City for the murder of q countryman.
Col. NJ. G. CARRIER, Postmaster at Mad
ison, Ind, and proprietor of the Courier, oisd
from l. paralytic stroke.
Great activity is apparent in the work
of grading the Northern Pacific up the valley
Of the Yellowstone, where 5000 men will soon
be employed, preference being given those who
intend settling in the region.
Under the escort of Senators Conk-
ling, Jones, Logan and others, tho remains of
the late Senator Matt IL. Carpenter, of wiscon-
sin, arrived at Milwaukee on the 9th inst, and
were formally delivered to the Governor and
Legislature of the State that had elected Mr..
Carpenter to the Senate, by Senator Conkling,
in behalf Of the Senatorial committee. The
body lay in state at the Court House on Sun
day, the 10th, and was viewed by 80, 900 sor-
rowing people, after which it was buried in
Forest Hill Cemetery with imposing cercmo-
MES.
The iron-works of G. & q. Cooper a.
Co., at Mount Vernon, Ohio, we're destroyed by
fire, causing loss Of 100000