The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1881-01-21

The late Joseph f. Armour. Of Chi
cago, bequesthed to three trustees the sum
Of 600, 900 to establish mission church and
school, 70 be exclusively used for charitable
purposes.
A ynow-slide on Brown mountain, near
Georgetown, Col, carried down 10 death two
men and q woman.
A Salt Lake dispatch says that 'snow
has fallen almost continuously in the wahsatch
range OF mountains since Christmas. slide
on Wednesday evening. at the littlo mining
hamlet of Alta swept away house, killing
four persons, and another avalanche buried two
unforlunates. On Friday night a slide half
a mile in width, which would have demolished
the town but for a flat area intervening, caused
four Deaths and swept away the buildings of
the Joab Lawrence Company, People arc fee
ing from the Big Cottonwood region, as sew
eral other avaanches are impending"
A locomotive company nj Providence,
r. l., has purchased thirty acres of land near
Chicago, and will erect shops there, the only
ones of the kind in the West.
Indians attacked the stage running be-
tween Messila and Fort Cummings, N. NJ, and
killed the driver and four passengers, one Of
whom was woman.
William Belden, step-father of Gen.
Garfield, died, few days ago, at his residence
in Kent county. Michigan.
The next novelty Mt McVicker's will
be the production OF "Sam1 of Posen, the
Commercial Drummer" in which Mr.. NJ. b.
Curtis il said to have found fresh and favor
ing field for his ability of a character comedi-
an. The play puts forward the Hebrew of to-
day with his comic side foremost. Mr.. Curtis
is considered by critics in the American Orient
to "play the drummer for all he is worth"
A dance at Las Mulas, a small village
in New Mexico, ended in free fight between
Americans and Mexicans, i'll which two of the
former and one of the latter were killed.
A singular and shocking murder was
committed Sunday evening, at Lapeer, Mich.
While the people were at church, Mrs. Barnard,
wife of n prominent lumberman at Greenville,
went to the residence Of Rev. Z. Curtis, at
tackled his wife, threw her down, poured gaso-
line over her clothing, and set her on fire. The
unfortunate lady was terribly burned, and died
within few hours. AS there was no apparent
motive for the crime, it is believed the murder
ess ia insane.
J. Philip Krieger, Jr., at one time one
Of the prominent men Of st. Louis, and ex-
Cashier of the defunct Broadway Savings Bank,
was found dead in his room at the Western Ho-
tel in that city. An empty morphine bottle and
letter to his father told that it was a suicide.
A Creek Indian has arrived at Abrams,
Battle river, from Cypress hills, with the re
port that six half-breeds and thirty Greeks were
killed in a fight with the Sioux.
South.
A bill is before the Legislature of Ten
nesseee to settle the debt of Memphis with
bonds at % cents on the dollar, bearing per
cent. interest.
Mrs. Anne Wood, who resided in
Hampton, Va, when the British troops entered
it, in 1912, has passed away from earthly
scenes.
A negro who had outraged white
girl near Mariana, Ark, WAS taken from jail by
an armed mob, some of whom riddled the vii
iain with bullets before the hanging faction
could reach tree.
Frederick Wintz, President of the
New Orleans City Railway Company has been
arrested for the embezzlement of $4,000, OBJ
tanned ON check evidently intended to grease
the Council