The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1882-03-31
LATER NEWS ITEMS.

John Laird, who was arrested near
Independence, NO., last fall, for completely in
the "Blue Cut train robbery, near Glendale,
on the Chicago and Alton railway, has made
full and complete confession of the entire
affair, giving all the details and naming his
companions SO far as he knew them. He con-
fesses TO having participated in the affair,
which was managed and led by the James
boys. The greenhorns who aided them were
lett out entirely when it came to dividing the
swag.
A newspaper correspondent named
! Hofer was killed in a duel at Pesth.
Gambetta has gone into journalism.
He is directing the RepuJlique FrancdiSe, and
has also bought the France and tho Petit Jour
i.dL.
The German Government will not per-
init German laborers to engage for work on
the Panama canal because of the unhealthy
climate.
1t is believed that the Nihilists are
concentrating in Moscow. preparing for an
outbreak during the fair, which opens in few
weeks.
American residents in London are
making great efforts 10 save DIR. Lamson from
the gallows, basing their claims upon the al
legged insanity of the homicide.
Dublin cablegrams announce that the
residence of the agent of Lord Clonbrook, in
County Galway, was wrecked by dynamite.
shell was thown into house near Letter.
kenny, destroying two rooms.
A desperate aflray occurred at Clogh-
an, Kings county, Ireland, between soldiers and
Emergency men," The latter discharged
their revolvers, and there were several arrests
The Russian Charge d'Affaires at
Washington returned the resolutions sent him
to be presented to the Gar by citizens of Phil
adelphia, at a mass meeting, protesting against
Jewish outrages in Russia, saying he could not
receive them because of their language.
Some Russian representatives are ne
gotiating at Pittsburgh for the building of hulls
and engines for number Of steamboats,, to be
shipped in sections and completed Oh the Volga
river.
Arthur Chambers, the pugilist, has
been sued for $4,000 damages for assault.
With one blow he broke the nose and closed the
eye of William L. Harding the sporting editor
Of the Police Gazette.
A boarding-house, kept by Mr.. Nichol.
at West Ansonia, Conn, was destroyed b. fire.
and James and Eliot Bassett were burned to
death. Several men and a lady and child
| leaped from q balcony
The graduating house of the Vulcan
Powder Company, near San Francisco, was
blown to pieces, killing five whites and six
Cinnamon and injuring three others. The
pecuniary damage is $4,000.
Federal and city officers at San Fran
cisco are implicated in conspiracy to smuggle
opium into that port
In the municipal councils in Utah po-
lygamists are resigning their seats, and monog-
aL-ists are being chosen to succeed them.
Agent Niles, of the Cheyenne and
Arappahoe agency, telegraphs to Washington
that Indian outbreak is probable, on ac-
count Of the scarcity of game and the rednc-
ton of Government rations to starvation
point
A recent Washington dispatch says
Guiteau has raised his rates for autographs
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the door of his cell, with this inscription
thereafter my autographs will be sold for
$50 per dozen, or % cents each No extra
charge will be made for adding religious sem
tlments to them, such as In God we trust or
something like that. My large-sized photo
graphs, with autographs on them, will be fur
nished for 81 each, or 50 per Dozen"
The report of Judge Advocate General
SWAIN In the case OF Sergeant Mason is to the
effect that the accused is illegally confined in
the penitentiary, because the proceedings of
the court-martial were not strictly in accordance
with the law.
Dan OLeaiy was beaten by amateurs
in pedestrian contest at Galveston.
Kate Sothern, the famous Georgia
murderess, who killed her husbands paramount,
has been pardoned by Gov. Colquitt.
A hail-storm passed over Lexington.
Ind, town of 1850 inhabitants, and in ten
minutes 1000 win low-glass lights were shat
tered to atoms. Wheeling W. Va, expert
enced an extraordinary fall of hail that infiict-
ed damage estimated at s25000. Cleveland.
Ohio, sustained the heaviest storm OF the year.
Several frame buildings were toppled over and
shade trees uprooted by the hundred. During
gale at Evansburg, Pa, three-story brick
house in course of erection was leveled, and +.
Mcdonald killed, John Houser and William
Shsrle were fatally injured, and five others
slightly injured. A similar accident occurred in
Pittsburgh, the wind blowing down frame
house and fatally injuring John Atkinson and
Patrick Calvin, two workmen. In the vicinity
Of Macon, Ca. q tornado destroyed many
houses and killed and injured several people.