The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1882-01-13
NEWS OF The week.

East.

road was crossing the iron Dridge ~ Coles
Corner, Me-, the structure gave way, precip-
itating four oars down the embankment, which
was speedily followed by their destruction by
fire. One passenger was killed, another fatally
injured, and the conductor and brakeman were
badly hurt.
Oscar Wilde, the English aesthetic,
has arrived in this country. He is 26years old,
and six feet four inches tall.
J. Winslow Jones & Co., corn and lob
ster packers in Maine and Canada, have sus-
pended payment, with liabilities of $1s2,0O0
James III. Hildebrand, jewelry mer-
chant at Mercer, Pa, has absconded, leaving
creditors in the lurch to the amount Of about
$4,000.
Edwin w. Stoughton, ex-Ninister to
Russia, died in New York of Bright's disease.
John Pierpont, Chief Justice of tho
Supreme Court of Vermont, died at vergsnnes,
aged 76 years.
The great sugar refinery of the Hon.
Theodore A. Havemsyer, located in Brooklyn,
was destroyed by fire. The loss is stated at
81, 500, 900, and the insurance at about
$500. 900.
West.
Edward f. Ryan. Michael Ryan and
Richard Adkins. employed in tunnel near
Silverton, COL, were buried 100 feet deep in
a snow-shde.
w. E. Graham, who murdered and
cremated Philip Eglery at venango, Kan, was
hanged by a mob in front of the Court House
door at Ellsworth.
At Louisiana, Mo-, John M. Shaw,
ono of Bill Anderson's guerrillas, was shot dead
by his brother in quarrel over the division Of
their fathers property.
The full bench of the Supreme Court
of Kansas, in passing upon an agreed case, has
made a decision which will invalidate nearly all
the laws passed by the Legislature of that
State in 1877 and 1879. The ground of the de-
cision was that the act was passed with the aid
OF the votes of four members who were not
legally elected. Among the laws thus made
void i the prohibition constitutional amend
ment.
Smallpox of an violent type is pre-
vailing to an alarming extent in the city and
suburbs of St Louis.
An unsuccessful attempt was made the
other day to capture Jesse James, Ed Miller
and Jim Cummings, three notorious members
of the James gang. Word was received in
Kansas City that the desperadoes were in Ray
county, and a special train on the Wabash rail-
road carried large party of officers well armed;
but the gang had in some manner received an
intimation of the raid, and when the officers
tla;r ,Ia l. 4
disappeared
The business of fire insurance in Chi
sago during the year 1881 was not, on the
WHOLE profitable one. The companies
fell about S9OO, 900 short of making both ends
meet.
The reported massacre of party of
Chinese laborers by Apaches on the line of the
Southern Pacific railroad in Arizona proves to
have been hoax. 1t is said the Cinnamon
employed in grading the railroad are always in
sufficient numbers to repel an attack either by
Indians or whites.
A dispatch from Tucson, Arizona,
says that American Consul Willard. Of Guaymas,
Mexico, has received dispatch from Hermo-
allo giving an account OF q raid by Apaches in
the district near Orava, between Bronzes and
Trinidad. A. M. Maynard and some sixteen
others were among the killed and wounded.
Grave abuses are alleged in the pre-
emption OF land in Northern Minnesota, where
thousands OF acres have been located by specu-
htors, who, in most cases. make no improve
ments. and in others are not oven United States
citizens The Commissioner of the General
:. a.
In the cheerful city of Tombstone,
Arizona, from whence come SO many reports of
desperate deeds, stage coach was attacked by
FIVE robbers the other day and robbed of Sc, 200,
which was in the trcasure-box of the Wells &
Fargo Express Company. None of the passen-
gers were molested.
The perpetrators of the recent terrible
tragedy at Ashland, KY, have been arrested,
and they have made full confession. Their
names are William Neal, Ellis Craft and
George Ellis, all white. The strangest part OF
the story is that all three Of the men were
present at the burning of the house, which
they had set on fire to conceal their crime; that
one of them drove the hearse at the funeral OF
the three victims, and another acted as pail
bearer.
A frightful tragedy was lately en-
acted near MInden, La. Robert Lewis, son OF
the late Judge Langdon Lewis, and brother OF
Wall s. Lewis, shot Mrs. Will S. Lewis and her
sister, Mrs. Thompson, both severely, and then
killed himself. The cause of tho tragedy is
unknown.
Three brothers named Mcdonald, con.
fined in Jail at Graham, Texas, for the murder
Of one Martin, made break for freedom
which resulted in a very extensive and sensa
tonal tragedy. They killed one jailcr and tool
another one with them as hostage, but wer,
pursued by body of 200 citizens, and in the
fight that followed all three Of the Mcdonald
were left dead on the field, and several citizens
were wounded.
Eleven Chinese laborers working Oh
the track Of the Southern Pacific railroad, neal
IA Paso, Texas, were massacred, 1t Is said, b!
tho Apaehss, but IL 10 limited that white laborer
had hand i'm il.