The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1881-09-30

despite due warning, took hand-car at Bea-
con, Pa, TO go to their work. A special train
filed with newspaper correspondents, bound
for Cleveland, to attend the Garfield funeral
ceremonies, crashed into it on an iron trestle-
work, killing four men instantly and wounding
two others 30 that they died in a few minutes.
Three made their escape by leaping.
DIR. Bliss asserts that the results of
the autopsy on the President were correctly
given, and that the wound was necessarily fatal.
DIR. Lamb, who held the knife, makes the same
declaration.
A party of twenty-five gentlemen in
Dallas, Tex, made the first response to the
call of the Cleveland committee for dollar
subscriptions toward monument TO Garfield.
A car loaded with dynamite, resting
ON the track near the Rock Island round-house.
at Council Bluffs, exploded the other day. de-
molishing four engines, freight house, an ice
house, seven passenger coaches and eighty
freight cars belonging to tho Rock Island Rail
road Company. Some oll-cars resting on the
track were set on fire. and the flames communi-
Gated to some houses in the vicinity, and seven
Of them were burned to the ground The loss
to the railroad ID estimated at 100000.
The Maxwell bandits have made their
appearance in Calhoun county, ILL., An at
tempt to capture them resulted in the killing
of Sheriff John Lammie, and the wounding of
of John ii. Churchman and Frank McNeG.
The Deputy Sheriff of Pike county, G.. w. Rob
erts, pursued the desperadoes, but was kept
back by steady firing.
Swarthmore College, at Philadelphia.
has been burned. There is insurance to the
amount of $50, 200, with which the institution
can be rebuilt
An exhaustive review of the Presi
dents case dictated by DIR. Frank Hamilton,
appears in the Medical Gazette He SAYS the
lungs contained not even the most minute alb
scesses, and there was no cicatrix or wound of
the liver
The whaler Legal Tender has arrived
at San Francisco from the Arctic seas She
reports having spoken with the Corwn, and
brings the intelligence that the Corwin landed
on Herald island and explored, and landed on
Wrangls Land and formally took possession of
it in the name of the United States. The Cor
win has so far not discovered any traces of the
Jeanette, but additional relics of the missing
whalers were obtained from the Indians at
East cape.
A recent dispatch from Minden, in the
ire-devastated region of Michigan, says: $40
seph vicokowsky Of Paris, aged 20 years, has
died of exposure Walter Johnson, of Austin,
and Mary Kolar, aged so, of Minden, are dy-
ing OF exposure. The latter is lying in an open
board shanty eight by ten feet, which contains
thirteen persons. Typho-malarial fever,
bilious colo and Inflammation of the lungs
are increasing to an alarming extent. George
McRary is dying Of his burns William McRary
is slowly recovering Mrs. James White pa
tient in Minden Hospital No. 2, is in q very crit
ical condition. The condition Of the people in
this section is simply terrible. 1t will take s2,-
500, 600 to place the burned-out in comfortable
circumstances. Not one-tenth of that amount
has been raised. The prospects are gloomy
indeed"