The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1882-06-09

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the Wyoming Valley Hotel at wilkesbarre, Pa
Wheeling, w. Va, and Putnam, OF,
had each 100000 fire, and Lancaster, Pa,
one of $4,000.
West.
DIR. Hoffman, editor of the Gern,nnia,
daily German paper at Quincy, ILL.,, published
an account of the attempted suicide of Miss
Johanna Helhake. The article spoke in high
praise of the girl and her family, coupling DR..
Spear with the affair as the lover OF the girl,
and to whom her parents objected. DR.. Spear
and her two brothers, Gus and Casper, the lat
ter just home from bridal tour, took umbrago
at the article, and, arnling themselves, drove
10 DR.. Hoffman's residence in the northeast
part of the city, called him out and immediate
ly all began firing on him. Some dozen shots
were fired, four taking effect, two in the abdo-
men and one passing clear through the body
near the region of the heart. The wounds are
pronounced fatal. The parties were arrested.
DR.. Spear was held in $40, 600, and the Helhake
brothers in 80 900 each, in default Of which
all three were sent to Jail
The town of Willows, in California,
was almost wiped out by conhagraton, the
loss being estimated at $4,000.
The decision of the Ohio Supreme
Court on the question OF the constitutionality
of the Pond law taxing saloons $500 year was
announced the other Gay, and was in effect
that the law is unconstitutional, since it i'm
poses license tax, the constitution containing
no provision which authorizes the licensing Of
saloons.
At the annual meeting of stockhold
ers of the Illinois Central road, held in Chi
cago, 192079 shares were represented. The
lease Of the New Orleans line, which takes Of
feet July l, was ratified bya unanimous VOTE
Near the Court House of Sans Bots,
in the Cherokee Nation, Reuben Lucas was
shot by the authorities for the murder of
Thomas Mckinney in December last. He con-
fessed his guilt, but exhibited no remorse.
Buffalo Bill was robbed at Denver of
money and jewery valued at 90, 900.
Gov. Crittenden, of Missouri, denies
having offered to pardon Frank James or hav-
ing received an application from him for Glenn
ency Lttleton Younger, an uncle of the ban
dts now in the Minnesota penitentiary, has
held consultation with the wife of Frank
James at Independence, Mo.
At the annual meeting of stockholders
of the Chicago and Northwestern road, held at
Chicago, the Directors and officers were re-
elected, and dividends of per cent. on the
preferred stock and 80 on the common were
declared. The gross earnings for the year were
$23, SOC, 600, 81 per cent. of which paid the
operating expenses.
Commander Terry, of the United
States navy, a brother of Gen. Terry, died Of
consumption i'll Colorado.
Fully $4,000 emigrants, mostly Scan
dinavians, arrived in Chicago during May,
one-ffth of them to stop there.
At Red Eye, Mimi, were found the
bodies of a surveyor named Washington and
his companion, Fred Fetherbach. who are be-
leved to have been murdered by John Trbbet
is years of age.
A vein of petroleum has been discov-
cred at Baxter Springs Kan, forty-one feet be-
low the surface, aud 1000 has been offered
for tract OF fifteen acres on which the oil de-
yeloped.
South.
A bill has passed the Louisiana Leg
islature making it misdemeanor to sell or
offer to sell, to ship or place upon the market
for sale, any sugar or molasses adulterated
with glucose or any foreign substance without
branding or stamping the same.
Sandy Mathews, colored, was hanged
at Memphis, Tenn, on the I'd inst, in the
presence of large concourse Of people. He
murdered the man who enticed his wife away
from him. James A. Harvey was hanged at
Carrollton, GA, for the murder OF Arthur Nc
Nullan. William l.. Moore was to have been
executed at the same time, but he nearly de-
stroyed himself with poison, causing post
ponement for one day Of tho hangman's work.
George Ellis, one of the trio who MUIR
dered the Gibbons children at Ashland, Ky,
was convicted of manslaughter, and sentenced
to the penitentiary for life.
A party of masked men took George
Ellis from the Jail at Catlettsburg, KY, and
hanged him to tree. Ellis had just been sem
fenced to life term in the peIitentiary for par
ticipaton in the murder of the Gibbons girls nj
Ashland, KY, in December last.
There is widespread indignation in yir-
ginia over the proposal to remove the ashes OF
Thomas Jefferson to a cemetery in Washington,
and legal steps have been taken in opposition
to the project.
A furious hail-storm in Virginia and
North Carolina wrecked houses, leveled trees
and fences and ruined crops. Two children
were killed by falling debris, and railway travel
was retarded by the fallen timber
The reports from the Southwest show
that the crop prospects are unusually fine. The
Mississippi overflow is not so injurious as was
supposed. The shipments Of stock from
the Southwest to New York are unusually
large.
waSuINGTON NOTES.