The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1882-08-25
NEWS OF THE WEEK.
East.

Bangor, Me-, was visited by tornado
accompanied by thunder and rain Several
buildings were wrecked, and trees and sheds
blown down.
The Sprague mansion at Canonchet
was sold at auction the other day for s62, $50
to Frank ID. Moulton, of New York. William
Sprague had torn down the bridge leading to
the place, and patroIled the avenue with rifle.
The auctloneer stood on the wreck of the bridge
TO complete the sale. eL,
The Philadelphia Lager Beer Brewers
Association have voted to pay $1,000 TO any
person who shall detect the presence OF poison
GUS or deleterious matter in the beer brewed by
any member of the association
Six Italian railroad laborers, while
intoxicated, went out in sliff on the Youghio-
gheny nver, near Shaner's station Pa, when
the boat capsized, aud three of the occupants
were drowned. ~
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Over $1,000 people were present at
the demonstration OF the Irish Nationalist at
Ogden's Grove near Chicago, on the 18th inst.
Addresses were made by James Redpath, Rev.
Geo. G. Belts, OF st. Louis, Judge Moran, of
Chicago and others. Immense enthusiasm
was manifested. n
1t has been decided to invite ex-
Confederate soldiers to participate in the
September.
An English syndicate has purchased
10000 acres land in Southern Minnesota,
swned by the Chicago, Milwaukee and st. Paul
Company, at $3.50 per acre. 1t is the inten-
ton 10 establish colonies of Englshmen on the
lands. The same company sold James Thomp-
son, a banker OF Davenport, Iowa, 40, 600 acres
in Rock county, Mimi, the price being frac-
ton less than S5 per acre. Mr.. Boyson, Of
Milwaukee, the Danish Consul, has completed
arrangements for purchasing 1000 acres from
the same company in Faribault and Martin
counties. Mimi, upon which a number of Dan
ish families will settle.
Official information received at Omaha
shows that an outbreak of the Sioux Indians at
Pine Ridge Agency is liable to occur, and a
general war with the Northern Indians Is pos
sible. DR.. McGillicuddy, Agent of the Red
Cloud Indians has been notified that unless
he Is removed by October they will rise. The
same statement is made by them to the military
commanders, who have notified the army
headquarters at Omaha. About $500 Indians
are engaged in the trouble, and i'll their neigh
borhood about 1000 more. 1t is estimated
that 600 warriors can be summoned for the
outbreak. Red Cloud Is thought to be actuat-
ing the Indians in their demand for the removal
of DIR. McGillicuddy.
Six smugglers, with forty pack mules,
encamped at Bowie, Arizona, were drowned by
a cloud burst. ,I
At Socorro, eighty miles south of Al
buqueraue, New Mexico, Juan Eyerad, a
gambler. was taken from Jail by mob and
lynched, for outraging the person OF a 12-year-
old girl.
Heavy yields of spring wheat to the
acre are reported from the tllreshing-
in the great grain fields of Dakota. A farmer
near Aberdeen threshed $50 bushels from
seventeen and one-half acres, an average OF
thirty seven bushels 10 the acre of No. wheat
weighing sixty-one pounds to the bushel.
Two sections of Coup's circus train
lObclutI utdT NcW IOuT
men were killed in a car containing eighty
sleeping showmen, and at least twelve others
were seriously injured.
No more horrible railroad crossing
casualty has been reported In several years than
that which happened at Anoka, MINI. -Four
young people, two of each sex, were returning
from a dance. The railroad and the wagon
road run parallel with each other on the prairie,
and yet the carriage holding the party was
driven on the track at the crossing in front of q
swift express train. The death Of all in the
vehicle ensued.
A recent dispatch from Mount Pulaski,
Logan county, ILL.,, says: "Charles Mcmahon,
who lived five miles east of the city, and who
has been missing for the past three days, was
discovered this morning, with two young men
who have been working for him, all three
blindfolded and their throats cut from ear to
ear"
The first bale of this years cotton crop
was received at Mobile on the 10Th of August.
Benjamin III. Hill, United States Sen-
ator from Georgia, died at Atlanta on the
morning Of Aug. l6, aged SO years. About 2
O'Clock a. m. he was discovered to be sinking,
and by 615 he was dead. Four hours before
his death he made sign for hypodermic in
lection of morphine. He appeared to be awake
and conscious several times, but could not
speak, At Gals he was apparently awake, when
he closed his eyes gently, and died without a
tremor.
The National Board of Health do not
think that the yellow fever now prevalentin the
Rio Grande region is epidemic, or likely to be.
POLITICAL POINTS.
Public Printer Rounds has appointed
Cadet TayiOr of the Wennna Ill Inder Chief