The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1881-04-01

only endangered the peach crop, but the trees
also.
Hugh j. Jewett having declined the
Presidency of the Worlds Fair Commission,
the Executive Committee will take no further
action until the transportation companies
come forward with the full amount of their
subscriptions.
o. West.
j. II. Haverly, the well-known Chi
cago theatrical manager, has insured his life
for Sl2O, 900 in Milwaukee company.
A Lake Shore express train going
west ran off the track at Nottingham, Ohio, at
high rate OF speed. Engineer Lace and Fire.
man Henderson were killed, and Express Mos
senger Schneider was severely injured.
Illicit distilling is carried on TO con-
siderable extent in Indian Territory, and Com
missioner Raum is getting ready to sup
press it.
The annual report of the Chicago,
Burlington and Quincy railroad shows that
the gross earnings for the year 1880 were
$40, 492, DAG.
Big-nosed George, q notorious Wy
oming road-agent, was taken out by party Of
masked men and hanged On the cross-arm Of a
telegraph pole, at Rawlins.
An insane saloon keeper of Sioux City
Iowa, shot and killed q 14-year-old girl named
Helen Eberhardt. and then committed suicide.
Col. Fred Hecker, one of the leaders
90 -
years vol known in politics in the West died
last week near Summerheld, Ill.
After celebrating for twenty-four
hours the jury in the Kalloch case, at San Fran
cisco, acquitted the accused Of the murder Of
Charles De Young The horses were detached
from KalIochs carriage, and he was drawn
three miles by tho crowd.
A Dakota man who lately arrived Mt
Dubuque tells horrible story of his expert
ence during the winter He homesteaded 169
acres at Big Lake. Dakota, two years ago, and
last year harvested sixty acres Of wheat, yield
ing twenty-five bushels per acre, for which he
realized $1,000; with this he laid in o supply
of fuel and fixed up his house for winter
otherwise the family would have persisted. Two
neighboIing families, not SO well fixed, came
to live with them, and the three families In
one house had hard work to keep
from freezing. The fuel ran out and they
used oil the railroad ties and telegraph
poles they could dig out Of the snow; then the
houses Of the other two families were, little by
| it'll, torn down and burned, and nearly oil
their furniture went the same way. A German
peighbor named Becker, with a five-horse team,
attempted to reach the station for supply Of
coal. He was caught in a snow-drift, and two
days afterward he was found frozen stiff in
the sleigh, his faithful dog lying on his breast,
also dead. The FIVE horses were all frozen
stiff, standing upright in the drift. Becker's
body was taken home to his bereaved wife and
children. 1t was nailed in stout box and
placed in q corn-crib until it could be buried in
the spring. Another family had lived some
time OF soup made Of an OK hide.
Col. ]. J. S. Wilson, who has been
connected with tolegraphy almost ever since it
came into practical use, has forwarded his
resignation as District Superintendent Of the
Western Union.
The famous Wisconsin war eagle, Old
Abe, is dead.
BY the breaking of the ice in the Mis-
souri, river at Pierre, Oak, the town was
flooded TO tho depth Of five feet, and the in
hsbitants encamped on the bluffs The steamer
Weston was sunk at the levee at Yanlxton, and
the Meade foated down stream with the ice
The town OF Vermillion was inundated
Eli b. Williams, one of the pioneer
settlers of Chicago, who was Receiver OF the
Land Office thirty years ago, died in Paris. He
left large estate.
The explosion of boiler in mill at
Youngstown, Ohio, mangled and scalded four
men to fatal degree, and inAic ed grave in
juries on ten others.
South.
The San Antonio and Corpus Christi
stage was stepped fifteen miles north Of Oak
vile, Texas, by four armed men, who robbed
the passengers of S4O0 In money and several
watches and other pieces OF jewelry.
Maj. Kirby, Of tho acknowledgements
service, has made bloody battle with the foii
Middleton brothers, whose illicit still is OH the
border of VIRGINIA and Kapt,c1v Kixb- ~