The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1882-12-08
NEWS OF The week.


East.
r. Porter Lee, the embezzling Buffalo
Bank President received q ten years SEN
tence.
Among the business failures recorded
are those of Graham a Aitkin, dry goods
dealers in New York, with liabilities of $780,
O'o. and Dodge 4 Sinclair. rubber dealers,
with liabilities estimated at s2Jo,0O0
Gen. Daniel Tyler died at New York
ut the pge OF 81
The Lackawanna steel-mils at Scran-
ton. Pa. have shut down for an indefinite
period
Hon. James 8. Pike, Of Maine, for
many years.an editorial associate of Horace
Greeley. has passed away.
The Hon. J. T. Updegraff, Congress-
man-eect from the Seventeenth Ohio district,
died at Mount Pleasant, near Steubenville.
His disease was stone in the bladder. He
was treated for Bright's disease, and his true
ailment was only discovered by a post
norton.
At the Coliseum Theater, Cincinnati,
Frank Frayne, in personating 81 Socum, In
the play of the same name, shot Annie Won
Behren dead while attempting to shoot an
apple from her head He fired with his back
turned to the victim, and 1t is claimed the
accident was due to defect in the rifle.
Frayne was placed under arrest
Samuel Remington, the rifle manu-
facturer, is dead
The new penal code of New York, so
far as it relates to the observance of Sunday,
is being enforced in New York city.
West.
Mrs. Helen M. Cougar, the tenn
perance and woman suffrage leader Of In
diana, has brought suit against the Chief of
Police of Lafayette
The Coroner's jury at Cincinnati; ex-
onerated Frank Frayne, the actor, from all
blame in killing Miss Won Behren.
Owing, as is reported, to scarcity OF
orders the North Chicago steel-rail mills
have shut down. About l 800 men were
thrown out of employment by this action
The Joliet Iron and Steel Company shut down
IA portion of their works ut Joliet, leaving
700 men idle
Two Mexicans stopped stage in the
vicinity of Lordsburg, New Mexico, disarm0d
the driver and took the mail pouch Two
Chinese passengers were ordered outside,
robbed OF their money and coolly shot dead.
Five thousand citizens and $50 po-
licemen joined in an exciting hunt in Chi
cago for black desperate who had fatally
assaulted fellow African and then killed a
policeman who was sent to arrest him.
After lurking about the city several
days the murderer's place of conceal
ment was discovered. He again
resisted arrest, shooting and dangerously
wounding another officer, and again made
his escape He was finally hunted down and
found hid IN a coal-box Without summon
ing him to surrender, the police opened fire
on the desperate, and riddled his body with
bullets
A. Durango, Col, DIR. Evetzker,
was publicly horsewhipped by two women
for slandering them, and ut night he went
to his office, mortally shot his partner DR..
II. A. Clay, and then killed himself.
Kreigh q Davies, grain and provision
operators on the Chicago Board OF Trade,
have suspended payment, with liabilities
estimated as h gh as 100000.
The steam-barge S. b. Peters burned
up on Lake Michigan, and went to the bot
tom with thirteen hands on board
South.
Coigressman-elec Heron, from the
Sixth Louisiana district, died suddenly OF
heart disease at Baton Rouge
The Grand Jury at New Orleans has
found indictments against thirteen persons
for election frauds
David Lee (white) was lynched in
front of his house, at Stort's Landing, La
for hog stealing
Capt. Allen May, aged 10l, was mar
ried to girl of 10 in Hardin county, KY.
At Edgefeld, S. c., Moses Lockhart,
oolored, was executed for the murder OF
Moses Beacock, nlso colored
Flames destroyed the international
cotton compress at Houston, Tex, with s..
900 bales of cotton, and three residences.
The loss is estimated Mt $4,000.
For insults offered in court at Key
West, c. b. Pendleton, an editor, horse