The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1882-06-16
NEWS Of The WEEK.
AMERICAN ITENS.


East.
f. J. Moses, formerly Governor OF
South Carolina, pleaded guilty to petty larceny
M New York and was sentenced TO nix months
in the penitentiary.
john s. Prince, of Boston, rode BIZ
sFsle fifty miles in 2 hours, 80 minutes and Is
seconds, beating the American record
West.
At Harris Station, No.. John Jackson
and mis- wife went to church, leaving their four
children locked up in the house. Upon their
return they found the building in ashes and
the children burned to a crisp.
Hugh Riddle was reelected President
Of the Rock Island road. The annual report
shsws gross earnings of &13, 266. 643, and oper-
ating expenses and taxes aggregating $7,322,-
S62. About 1866 miles Of road were operated
last year.
The Indians are reported starving in
the region of Fort Sisseton, Dakota.
Masked highwaymen robbed the
Brookfeld (Mo.) bank of $4,000, in broad day
light There were four of the desperadoes, all
masked Three marched into the bank with
venient corner and held their horses.
One OF the three who entered the bank
remained at the door to guard it, while
the other two walked up to the
cashier, John Ford, and his assistant, Miss
Nettie Scott, and coolly requested the cashier
to hand over what money he had in tho bank.
This the cashier declined to do, but was finally
compelled to comply, and the robbers were
soon in possession Of nearly $4,000 Of the
banks funds. They lost no time in getting out
of the bank, remounting, and dashing out Of
town, firing their revolvers in the AIR as they
departed. The Marshal gathered a posse and
started in pursuit in very short time after the
gang had left the bank
At Sedalia, No., Mrs. Jesse James
and her children, with lecturer, attracted an
audience of thirty nine persons, three Of whom
were ladies.
Two miners of San Bernardino, CAL,
suarreled in the streets about some unknown
matter, when one shot the other dead and then
wounded himself.
The Brookfeld bank-robbers were
surrounded In the woods northwest of Kinks
vile, No., and surrendered. Their names are
Frank and Burt Ward, Winfield Allen and Ben
Fox. They had recently rented the farm on
which they were arrested, and their house con-
tanned sixty revowers. Gov. Crittenden sent
complimentary telegram to Miss Carrie Scott,
the brave lady employed in the bank.
The new union depot at Hannibal,
NO., which cost $50, 900, was opened by BAN
quet and ball.
Near Crawford, Ohio, was celebrated
the one hundredth anniversary of the burning at
the stake of Col. Williams by the Delaware
Indians.
Fred w. Newburgh, who secured
$4,000 from the Ohio State treasury by
forgeries, pleaded guilty on two out Of fifty
two indictments, and was taken TO the penten-
tiary for six years.
At Perham, Mimi, crowd broke into
the jail and dragged out John Tribbetts, the
boy murderer. They took him to the railroad
track, and, putting rope around his neck
hung him to one OF the rungs of ladder
placed against q telegraph-pole. Trlbbetts was
about 16 years of age His crime, of which he
made full confession, was the double murder
Of Edward Washington, a surveyor, and a
young German named Frederick Fehrback.
Wheat harvesting is in progress in
Southern Kansas, where the berry grew to such
an unusual size as to protrude from the hull.
The yield on a tract of 600 acres near Par
Sons is estimated at thirty-two bushels per acre.
There was triple hanging in Law
renee, Kan, a few nights ago. Shortly after
iuht ala1 mol of 1att IL
Jail, demanded the keys, and, when refused,
burst in the door and took from the cell Peter
Vinegar, Isaac King and George Robertson.
They took them to the bridge and hung them.
AL three were colored, and their crime was tho
murder Of Daniel Bausman, farmer from
Ohio.
South.
Another of the bandits who tried to
rob Missouri Pacific train at Denton, Texas,
was overtaken by pursuing party and killed.
The fourth hghwaymen is still at large.
During tornado in Northampton,
Va, hailstones fell foot long and weighing
pound and half.
The boiler of the steamer Evansville
burst while she lay at Calhoun, KY. Two fire.
men received fatal injuries, and several others
were badly scalded.
Charles Gallino was put off train on
the Hot Springs railroad, last summer, be-
cause his excursion ticket had expired. A
jury at Little Rock awarded him damages Of
$4,000.
Two New Orleans editors-E. A.
Burke, OF the Times Democrat. and c. II. Par
ker, OF the Picdyre-fought duel in st. Ber-
naTd parish. At the fifth shot Burke was
wounded In the thigh, and the affair tormi-
mated.
Reports from Patrick county, Vir-
ginia, are to the effect that there are 5000 per-
sons in that county starving. The drought Of
Che last year greatly curtailed the corn and
other crops in that locality. In many portions
Of the county hundreds of people are crowding
around the settlements impIoring aid Con-
tributions have been taken up in different parts
OF the county, but they have not been suf-
fcient to relieve the sufferings Of the people.
WASHINGTON NOTES.
Charles III. Reed appeared before