The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1882-03-10
NEWS OF The WEEK.
AMERICAN ITEMS.

birthday, was visited by numbers Of friends
and received forty letters Of songrstulatson.
The widow Of the great Daniel Web
sier died n few days age at New Rochelle, n. Y.
She was born in 1897.
Heavy rains, followed by floods and
washouts, are reported In the Eastern States
and Southern Canada. Numerous railroad acct
dents, attended with some loss Of life, are
among the natural results. A freight train ran
into washout at 6wanton, VT, scalding the
fireman to death and wrecking nine cars. A
passenger train on the Ogdensburgh road was
di,ched at Mooers Forks N. Y, killing the en-
gineer and fireman.
The six days walking match in New
made 600 miles Five ether contestants made
800 miles and upward. Rowell, the hitherto
invincible pedestrian, fell sick, and gave up on
the fourth day OF the contest
Three railway employees were killed at
.EarlvilIe, N. Y, by a collision of trains On the
Syracuse and Chenango road.
West.
A monster Prohibition Convention is
10 be held at Chicago next August
An Alton freight car, loaded with
brick, in which ten tramps had secreted them
selves, was ditched near Joliet Two men
were killed and the others terribly wounded
The bill taxing church property was
defeated in the Wisconsin Assembly.
Repeated attempts have recently been
made to wreck trains oI the Chicago and Alton
cad at Joliet, LII.
The Iowa Legislature has passed q
resolution to submit to the people a oonstltu-
tional amendment on the question Of liquor
prohhition. BY vote Of 63 to 40, the Wiscon-
sin Assembly refused to order to engrossment
aprohibitive resolution.
Crop reports for the West and North.
west are unanimously good.
August Ash, United States Marshal
for Nevada, shot himself through the heart at
Virginia City. on account OF financial troubles
A characteristic letter from Mrs. SEQ
vile, addressed to the Senate Of the Unted
States, has been given to the press. 1t is a
protest against the appointment Of Roscoe
Conkhng to the Supreme bench, on the ground
that he is morally responsible for the murder
of President Garfield.
On opening the door of school. house,
one mile north of Salem, Adams county, Ind,
q few mornings ago, the children discovered
the teacher, Miss Emma Numbers, lying on
the floor with one arm cut off, her tongue tom
out and lying on the boards beside her, and
her neck pinned TO the floor with large
dirk knife. They ran home and gave the
alarm, and within few minutes the farmers
gathered and began a search for tho perpetra-
tors of the crime. A hasty examination of her
person showed that she had been outraged
The fiends had evidently entered the school
house during the night or early in the morn
ing, and when she arrived before the pupils TO
build the fire they caught her, violated her
person and then, to prevent her from telling
any tales, hacked her with an AK and
stabbed her with knife until her arm
was chopped off, and her bowels ran
out On the foor Still fearing that she might
tell on them, they cut her tongue off, flung it
down ON the floor and left the knife sticking in
her neck, with the point driven through to the
planhs. Miss Numbers was IS on II years old,
and is described as being beautiful girl.
At Portland, Ore, Annie Murray,
notorious woman. killed Henry q. Prang, and
then inflicted fatal wounds upon herself.
Forty Indian prisoners ut Fort Lowell,
who were implicated in the Cibicu outbreak,
are to be escorted to San Carlos reservation
and set at liberty. Their capture and deten-
ton cost SIS, 900, and no effort to punish them
has been made.
Imposing demonstrations against fur
ther Chinese immigration took place in all the
large towns in California and Nevada, business
having been suspended. The San Francisco
gathering was estimated at $4,000 Resou-
tons we're adopted urging upon Congress the
absolute necessity Of speedy legislation, to
make effective the treaty with China to restrict
the advent Of her citizens Oh the Pacific coast.
South.
DIR. Williford, of Memphis, mistook
for burglar colored nurse in his employ.
and fatally injured her by firing through a win
dow.
Five persons were overwhelmed by
the rush Of waters, caused by the breaking Of
the Mississippi levee near Concordia, La.
The three Indian scouts-Dead-S Shot,
for the onslaught ON Gen. Cars command
were executed at Fort Grant, Arizona
Robert Jones, white man, and Will
nam Miller, oolored, were hanged at Aberdeen,
Miss, for the murder OF three brothers, named
Walker, in November last.
Many people in the lowlands OF the
Lower Mississippi valley were compelled to seek
refuge in trees from the flood.
The steamer James d. Parker was
wrecked on the rocks near Louisville. and then
set on fire by the overturning of a stove. The
passengers were rescued, but a cargo valued at
100000 was lost.
POLITICAL POINTS.
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