The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1881-04-29

Chicago, were higher than they have been IN
twenty years. r<
Thirty lodges of Maricopa Sioux In
dams lately surrendered at Fort Keogh. They
are allies OF Sitting Bulls band. 1t Is said
that S. Is. himself will shortly come in and give
himself up. He has only $50 braves left with
him.
The Elkhart paper-mill, at Elkhart,
Ind, has been partially destroyed by fire.
Cause of the fire, spontaneous combustion.
Loss estimated at $4,000; fully insured. The
mill was owned by the Hon. Rufus Beardsley
and the Hon. John Cook. The work OF re-
pairing the building will begin at once, and the
mill will be ready again within few weeks.
A shocking accident, resulting in the
death of half dozen people, happened ON the
Rock Island division Of the Chicago. Milwaukee
and st. Paul railway, about q mile below Al
bany, Ill. The Meredosia river is crossed at
that point by trestle bridge, 200 or 800 fee,
long. This bridge had become so weakened by
the strong current that it gave way beneath an
express train, and the engine, tender
and the two forward cars went down
into the river. The locomotive and
tender, with the engineer and fireman,
went to the bottom. The express messenger,
baggage man. conductor and brakeman hap
pened to be in the passenger car, and escaped
by climbing to the roof, az it was sinking, and
leaping thence to the sleeper, which remained
on the bridge. The passenger Car, with it,
eleven passengers, hoated off until grounded
near an island. Five of the passengers es
capped. The three passengers in the sleeper got
out without injury.
Frederick Smith was shot and dan
gerously wounded by John Finnick, near Dale
vile, Ind, in quarrel over the possession of
field. Smiths wife then knocked Finnich
down with hoe and chopped his head into
slivers.
An Omaha telegram of April % states
that the flood on the Missouri had severed
railway connections between that city and
every point. Several dwelling-houses foated
past the city that day, and half a mile Of rail-
road track was washed away. All important
industries were drowned out. At Sioux City
both rail and telegraph communication with
the North and West was cut of. Four hun
dred houses were either submerged or sur
rounded by water, and communication with
their occupants was had only by RATS. AT
Rockford the Wilson ice-house, containing
about 1000 tons of ice, sunk into the Rock
river.
The printers on the Cleveland Leader
have been granted an advance in their pay.
Manager Haverly, of Chicago, will
build in that city the finest theater in the
United States. The sigte selected for this new
dramatic temple is Monroe street, opposite
Haverly's present theater.
A special train on the Denver and Rio
Grande road jumped the track near Ozirr, New
Mexico, and rolled down an embankment Il
$50 feet Seven men and one woman were
killed, aad I'll the other passengers injured.
The wounded were taken to Denver.
While the population of Chicago has
increased 20 per cent. in the pt.st ten years, the
growth of the churches in membership has
been only II per cent.
A fire at Salinas, Cal, burned the
residence OF Mayor Ball. and bis wife and two
daughters persisted in the flames.
A joint agreement has been signed by
the Chicago, Milwaukee and st. Paul and sew
eral other railroad companies for the erection
Of q union depot at Minneapolis. The struc-
ture will cost about 100000.
Z. w. Bond & Sons saw-mill, to-
gether with 4,000,00 feet Of lumber, were de-
stroyed by fire at Fife Lake, Mich.
A physician of Cincinnati claims to
ba va fo,,nd oenu;na fricl,ino ir,had,lad -, tlo
backbone of some fish.
The Commissioner of Health of Chi
cago advises the people Of that city to abstain
from the use of water beverage. The
river has got mixed up with the lake.
South.
Additional particulars respecting the
killing Of her five children oy Mrs. Mutt, near
Camden, Ark. mentioned heretofore, are, that
the frenzied woman called her eldest child, a
boy IL years old, from q field where he was
plowlng, knocked him on the head, and threw
him into the well, where she had previously
thrown her four other children. Finding that
one of the children was not drowned, but was
clinging to the side Of the well, she descended
ih'o tuO Mch ahu eoio away 10 biueP ahu tbiubt
it down into tho water, thus complet ng her
diabolical work.
At Uvalde, Tex. shooting affray &C.
Cured between Gen. John r. Baylor and son
on one side, and Mr.. Glhurst and two sens on
the other. Baylor escaped unhurt, but his son
was wounded. Gillhurst was killed one son
was fatally wounded, and another well filed
with buckshot
Thomas De Jarnette, the young man
who murdered his sistW at Danvllle, Va, be-
cause she had entered upon a life Of shame,
has been acquitted upon the ground Of in
sanity.
A block of the principal business
houses in Sheridan Miss, has been destroyed |
by fire. Loss, $3.50, 900; insurance $4,000.
The fire was the work Of an iDcendiary.
Sheriff w. F. Beattie, of Crittenden
county, Ark, was killed and Deputy Sheriff |
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