The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1882-10-27
news OF The week.
AMERICAN ITEMS.



Legislature of Vermont to provide that per
sons condemned to the galows shall be rem
dered insensible before execution
President Arthur was at Princeton
College last week, and addressed the stu
dents from the steps of DR. McCosh's resi-
dcnce His son has entered the class OF lisa
Frank Queen, proprietor of the New
York Clipper, died at Philadelphia of paraly
ris OF the brain, aged 6a
A bill before the Legislature Of Yer
mont imposes a fine of sl0 for offering a boy
snder Is years of age cigar or cigarette
James II. Corey, the Long Branch
landlord who demanded g., 800 from his sick
guests last summer, has been indicted for
robbery, riot, extortion, assault and main
tanning a nuisance
r. V. Storrs 81 Co., manufacturers
of woolens at Dedham, Mass, have failed.
Their liabilities are S4S1,0oo with nominal
assets of $225, 900.
Marie Prescott, the actress, who sued
President Tousey, of the American News
Company, for criminal libel, by circulating
a dramatic sheet containing scurTllous at
tack on her, has obtained verdict from tho
jury for s12, 500 damages
Freight trains on the Hudson River
road collided at Rhineolif, by which an
engine and twelve cars were thrown into
the water causing loss of $4,000
A new 1-cent morning paper is 30 be
started in New York on Nov 10 by Joseph
Pulitzer of the St Louis Post Dispatch, and
Stilson Hutchins, OF the Washington Post
4he office will be in the Spruce street side of
the Tribune building
West.
A desperate shooting affair occurred
at Menden, Kearney county, Neb. Jack
Woods, Sheriff of Hitchcock and Dundy
counties, found at supper in hotel three
men who had stolen horses, and tried TO
make an arrest The fellows pal, sitting
across the table, then drew revolver on
Woods, who turned and was shot through
the back, dropping dead. The two men and
two more of Their gang jumped up, and, in
the melee, killed two citizens The bandits
then fled.
Twenty Mormon elders have left Salt
Lake for missionary work in the Southern
States, and seventy-fve for The European
field
At Cincinnati William Saube, 60
years Ord, after having qu.rrelcd with his
son, aged -, lay in wait for him on their
premises, shot him dead, and then went up
in barn lott and cut his throat with razor
The younger Saube leaves n wife and several
children.
At San Carlos, A. T., Gen. Crook, in
a conference with the head men of the
Apaches, in ormed them that they would be
counted every day that they could not be
permitted 10 leave the reservation. and #
found outside T. limits would he treated as
hos;iles He prohibits the manufacture OF
their favorge in oxlsnt
John 4. Cockrrell, who killed Col.
Eayback ut 81. Louis was bailed in $4,000
The Grand Jury indicted him for murder in
the second degree
A car OF new corn from Parsons,
Kansas, grading No. 2, sold at auction in St
Louis for 75 cents per busheL
The Michigan crop report for Octo-
Der states the average yield of wheat in the
state is Is 41-10O bushels per acre and the
aggregate product Is estimated a. 81 $50, 4i5
bushels
Winnipeg has celebrated the opening
OF a street railway and the lighting of it's
main tuoroughfare by electricity
south.
Hog cholera is playing havoc with
She swine in the region of Iowa City, Iowa
One farmer lost over 400 head within a few
days
Five negroes, including one woman,
were hanged ~ Eastman, Ga, for compile
ity in n terrible riot which occurred ut a
camp meeting Mt TINT place In August Inst.
The outbreak had It's origin In the arrest by
the City Marshal of n negro gambler, who,
upon resisting and attempting to escape, was
shot and killed. This infiamed the negroes
TO furious pitch, and they wreaked their
vengeance in the most horrible manner upon
n young man named Harvard, whom they
killed and mut,lated In al encounter VIII oh
followed between the VIII te citizens and the
riotous negroes three OF the Inter were
killed. The colore-i people of tho region re-
garded the punishment as out OF ali proper
ton 20 the crime committed, and there
were apprchen ions of trouble at the execu-
ton but n. ne occurred, and the five negroes
were hanged without any attempt at rescue
Near Mineral Springs, Ark, posse
who wished to arrest the two George boys
found them at their fathers residence Upon
the fugitives disobeying an order not to stir
the rursuers fired instantly killing old man
George and one son, and fatally wounding a
young man visiting at the place
Robert Paine, senior Bishop Of the
Method 1T Church South, died at Aberdeen,
Mss
The National Cotton Planters Asso-
citation, recently in session at Little Rock,
ARK. resolved 20 hold Worlds Centennial
Cotton Exposition in 1894, that year being
designated because of the seizure by the
King OF ENGLAND in 1874 of eight bales OF
cotton n contraband, il having been charged
that America could not produce 10 large q
quantity.
MISCELLANEOUS GLEANINGy.