The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1882-02-17
NEWS OF The WEEK.
AMERICAN ITEMS.

running fire OF Kisses, groans and hootlngs
which compelled the lecturer to pause more
than q dozen times. Whom the lectur-
of an hour, an old darby dressed with a swal-
low-tailed coat, one white kid glove, and a
bouquet of flowers as big as a peck measure,
walked down the central aisle with many antics
and grimaoes, Ia Bunthorne, and took front
seat. The Intervention Of the police was in
voked, the students beat q hasty retreat, and
the esthete concluded his lecture in the pres
ence of small audience.
A collision on the Pennsylvania road,
near Altoona, Pa, killed conductor, an en-
gineer and fireman.
Near Newburg, N. Y, two men were
blown to atoms by an explosion of giant pow
der.
The surgeons at the University Hos
pital, in Philadelphia, removed from lady a
tnmor weighing 112 pounds.
Hazing at Cornell is to be stopped,
even if it results in the depopulation Of the
university. Several recent offenders have been
expelled.
In Syracuse, n Y, William Tedre WIS.,
tied bagnio and shot two inmates, one fatally,
and then killed himself.
West.
Mrs. Vogelesang, of Canton, Ohio,
who was afflicted with cancer Of the stomach,
died after a fast Of ffty-one days.
A vaccine farm has been established
at Chicago by a physician from San Francisco
who commenced business with 200 heifers..
The Supreme Court of Kansas has
pronounced unconstitutional so much Of the
Prohibitory law as prescribes punishment for
drunkenness, on the ground that the provision
was notexpressed in the title of the bill.
The deficiency in the winter hog crop
" likely to exceed 1000, 600 head.
William Miller, the Oldest Mason in
the United States, died at Caldwell, Ohio,
aged 9S.
A car containing seven smallpox pa
tients has been side-tracked at Rawlins, on the
Union Pacific.
Charley Hing, Chinaman who killed
one of his countrymen, was executed at Win
nemucca, New.
ID. W. Vanderbilt, first bookkeeper
Of the First National Bank of st. Paul, Mimi.
has been arrested for embezzement Of an
amount varlously estimated at from $40 600 to
$4,000.
At the residence of James Sweetman,
on Michigan avenue, Chicago George Robin
son, employed as the driver OF an ico-wagon,
shot and MORALLY wounded Mary Began, who
refused his attentions and then blew out his
own brains. The girl was serving as nurse for
Mrs. Sweetman, upon whose enfeebled system
the tragedy inflicted terrible shock.
Henry II. Hall was executed for MUIR
der at Tucson, Arizona.
Three outlaws In New Mexico have
for some time been robbing and wound ng
travellers at n point 1876 miles west OF Aibu-
querque, known ss Cranes. A Deputy Sheriff
led party of citizens to the cabin of the rob
bers, and bloody encounter followed. The
villains were shot dead, but one Of the attack
ing party was killed and two others so seriously
wounded that they were sent to Fort Wingate
by special train for surgical treatment.
South.
John L. Sullivan, of Boston, and
Paddy Ryan, of Albany fought mill at Mis-
sisisppi City, Miss, for $500 side and the
championship OF the United States. Nine
rounds were fought in twenty-six minutes,
Ryan falling sen seless at the conclusion. Ho
was terribly punished about the head, his
upper lip being cut through and his jaw
broken. Sullivan showed no injuries, and ran
to his quarters at q lively gait. Large sums of
money were wagered on the result.
Maj. d. w. Washburn, a prominent
railroad man, together with a Mr.. STALL his
wife and little boy and two negroes, were
riding upon hand-car, near Waco. Texas,
when they were ruin down by q freight train,
and all of the party, with the exception of the
negroes, crushed to death. Maj. Washburn
was Chief Engineer of the Pacific Improve
ment Company, the international Construction
Company and the Mexican Construction Com
pany. He was, in short, at the head of the
construction department Of the Gould system
in the South west. He was about 81 years
DID, and held the highest position in his limo
of service in the world. He was from Elmira.
NY.
The Virginia Senate passed n bill
abolishing the whipping-post
Guy Powell, colored member of the
Virginia House of Delegates, has introduced a
bid in that body which provides that the issne
Of unlawful alliances shall be considered the
legal heir Of the male offender, and shall take
his name. The aim of the bill is to break up
the system Of white men keeping solorod mis-
tresses.
Lewis Powell, white citizen of
Lynchburg, Va, has been sentenced TO 156
lashes on the bare back fer housebreaking and
robbery.
Sergeant Bush, of the Tenth cavalry,
stationed in Texas, killed himself because no
was reprimanded and sent to the guard house.
Jesse Barber, q negro, was executed
at winnsboro, S. c., and Quirino Gaitau, Mex
lean, at Brownsville, Texas.
William McRae, who ranked high
among Southern railway managers, died at
Augusta, Ga.
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