The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1881-05-20

FIRE In the MlSSOufl pcuitoutihIy oc-
stroyed e6o, 900 worth Of property.
Annie Myrtle, . young miss Of Ra-
cine, died from the effects of skipping rope
over 100 times consecutively.
keston, No., Deputy Sheriff Laforge and Albert
Hunter were killed. One Of the desperadoes
was captured and hung.
The officers OF the Northwestern Tele.
graph Company have signed contract with
the Western Union for . lease for ninety-nine
years
Lieut.. Cherry, OF the Eighth cavalry,
while pursuing some dcserters who were rob-
bling ranches near Niobrara, Neb., was DELHI
erately shot dead by one Of his swn soldiers
The cattle plague in Nebraska and
Council Bluffs il decreasing.
Hartman ended his walk ut tho Ex-
position, in Chicago, with tho best heel-and-
toe record ever made, viz, $50 miles in sx
days.
BY the capsizing Of boat in the
Licking reservoir at Newark, Ohio. Brioe
Stowe, Mrs. John Lasch, and two children
were drowned.
Lawrence Il Martin, wholesale and
retail liquor dealers of New York and Chicago,
and manufacturers OF Tolu, Rock and Rye, have
failed for 4 large amount.
lightning struck barn ut Norcfoss,
Mimi, and killed twenty three horses.
Alarming reports reach the frontier
posts in regard to the recklcssness of the Nsva-
10 Indians. They secure liquor from the trad
ers who follow in the wake of the railroad
builders. They are stealing stock, claiming
lands not belonging to them, and threatening
whites who settle outside their reservation. A
company of infantry has been sent to the res
ervation from Fort Wingate.
South.
-Four negro laborers on the Alabama
and Great Southern road were covered by q
landslide and killed.
In Dooley county, Ga, Joe Stovall
was indulging in the pastime of beating his
wife, when his brother Jetf interfered, where
upon Joe shot JEFF, inaicting mortal wounds.
The ceremony of dedicating the tomb
Of the Association Of the Army of Northern
Virginia, and the unwilling Of the statue of
Stonewall Jackson. took place at Metairie Gem
etery, in New Orleans.
Two men named Hart and Register
fought duel with knives in Sumter county,
Ga, resulting in the death of both par
ticipants. Hart was disemboweled and died
instantly, and Register died four hours after
the ARRAY.
Lieut.. Bulls, Of the Twenty-fourth
infantry, commanding body of Seminole
scouts, came upon the band of Indians who
murdered the McLawrin family, in Texas. He
attacked their camp near the Pecos river,
killed four bucks and one squaw, and cap
tured one boy, one squaw, and twenty-one ami
mails.
A picnic party near Talladega, Ala,
had among its participants child of 7 years,
adorned with gold ornaments and a damoni
pin On being missed, search was made, and
she was discovered dead in the arms Of negro
thief, who was about to throw her body over
the falls. 1t took but q moment to hang the
to dsngle in the wind.
A ludicrous affair of honor is reported
from the Carolinas, where two telegraph OPP
orators exchanged insults and challenges over
the wires, and met half way between Column
bic and Charlotte and fought out the fuss with
fists
James W. Powell, of Owingsville, KY,
who suffered from dreadful maady for more
than year, claims to have been restored to
complete health by prayer.