The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1882-12-29
LATER NEWS ITEMS

A horrible accident occurred at ES-
telline, MINI. During the absence of Mr.
Barker, his wife left three children, two OF
them aged and years, and her little baby
8 months old in the house, while she went
out to do the chores about the barn, and it is
thought that the children commenced play
ing with the fire and set fire TO themselves
Mrs. Barker saw the fire and fastened 10 the
house, but two of the little ones were
charred corpses, and the fire in the house
was under such Roadway that in rescuing
the baby, which afterward died from burns
received, she herself came near perishing in
the flames and is now in a critical condition.
Capt. A. G Mutt, cashier of the Penn
sylvania State treasury, was shot and killed
at Uniontown, Pa, by " L. Dukes, a mem
Der of the Fayette county bar and member
elect of the State Legislature. Both were
men of high social and political prominence,
and the affair has cast the deepest gloom
over the community in which they resided.
A serious business failure is reported
from Philadelphia James Smyth & Co, the
proprietOrs of two large mills where ging-
hams and cottons are manufactured, having
allowed their paper TO go to protest. Their
liabilities are estimated at s500000
In the matter of Sunday trading by
Hebrews, in New York, Judge Arnoux holds
that Jews and Gentiles are alike under the
constitution.
The Pope gave 10000 francs, on
Christmas day, to purchase beds for the poor
of Rome
In receiving the Cardinals, at Rome.
the Pope said the papacy was recognized as
q great moral force and that the powers are
reknitting their relations with it,
McDermott, well-known Nationalist
and ex-suspect, was remanded at Sligo,
Ireland, on the charge of using seditious Ian
guage at the meeting of the National League.
The prisoner, during the speech, said the
gallows were reeking with the blood of in
nocent people condemned by drunken juries
and partisan Judges
DAvITT, in speech at Wolverhamp-
ton, England, summed up the present con-
dition of Ireland as one of famine, discon-
tent and coercion. He considered the pre-
vailing distress to be owing TO the unjust
system OF Land laws, rack-rent and discour-
agement of every form of trade revival
The remedy consisted in the turning of a
great part of the grass lands into cultivation
and tire introduction of system of loans To
oppressed tenants in order TO enable them to
tide over the coming winter
Soldiers walking the streets of Linn
erick Christmas night were attacked and
roughly handled by civilians and the police
were called upon to quell the disturbance.
Two great-grandsons of Daniel Boone
received mortal wounds ut the hands OF Will
lam Vaughan, of Iadonia, Tex
By decision of Virginia court the
school fund of that State has been increased
by $500, 600, one-fifth of which sum is To be
devoted to the maintenance OF a colored
normal school.
A collision of trains occurred on the
Chesapeake and Ohio road, near Millboro,
Va, by which five men were killed and two
wounded all but one being employees.
In an affray at Chicago, Theodore
Nooy killed his brother Bohemiel with u re-
volver.
Johann Most, the noted London So
cialist, arrived in Chicago last week.
Elk Marshal Henry wrote II letter TO
the President asking for an investigation of
his official conduct. Henry vehemcntly de
MED that he lodged behind Garhelds tomb
stone for defense. The Attorney General, to
whom the letter was referred, replied that
the x-Marshal deserved his punishment