The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1883-11-15
WESTERN.

DurlnB the year OfO,UUU DnrrelS Oh
malt liquors were made i'm Cincinnati. Cow
ington and Newport. This would be 555
glasses per annum for every person in the
three cities.
At farmhouse near Independence,
Mo-, Henry G. MCGEE killed his wife and
daughter with shotgun, and then destroyed
himself by n dose of morphine.
Aggie HILL Senator Sharon's alleged
wife, produced her marriage contract in
court ut San Francisco, and when it was
shown to Sharon he grew SO violent in de-
nouncing it as forgery that he was ordered
out of court.
The new wing of the Capitol Mt Mad
lson, Wis, suddenly gave way the other day,
the iron columns being broken like glass. or
forty men at work in the building, four were
killed and twenty-one injured, four of them
beyond the hope of recovery. The structure
WAS S0xl00 feet. The side walls, built OF cut
stone are still standing. 1t is evident that
the inner walls, constructed of brick, we're
not strong enough 10 support the roof.
The preliminary examination of Orrin
A. Carpenter, for the murder of Fora Burns,
has been drawing its slow length along
during the past week at Lincoln, ILL.,, before
Judge Lacy. Little has been added to what
was developed at the Coroner's inquest, the
testimony ELECTED being about the same
as that given before the Coroner.
While Mrs. Dukes was giving her testimony,
the father of the murdered girl was observed
standing beside the prisoner, and trembling
violently. The Sheriff searched him, but
found no weapons, and the old man declared
that he had no thoughts of assassination. A
brother Of the murdered girl appeared on the
scene and swore that he had received n letter
from Fora announcing that the object of her
visit to Lincoln on the 14th of October was to
have an operation performed on her throat.
The defense summoned witnesses to impeach
the character and vera"ity of Mrs. Rebecca
j. Carpenter mo relation of the accused) the
woman who testified that she took Zora's
letters from her trunk and read them, and
detailed the contents of one to Carpenter at
Lincoln, in which Fora urged him TO come
over 10 Decatur and have some fun. num-
Der of the Carpenter woman's neighbors tcs-
tilted they would not believe her on oath.
testimony of an equal number of the woman's
neighbors thathcr reputation for veracity was
good. There was some talk of lynching Car
pentcr during the progress of the investiga-
ton, but they were only the utterances of
hot headed and irresponsible parties. DIR. A
n. Miller. of Lincoln, went 10 st. Elmo, and,
accompanied 10y Justice of the
Peace, cxhumed the body of Fora
Burns. The brains, liver, kidneys and intes-
tines were removed and Theoretically sealed
in cans. They were taken to Chicago, where
the parts will be examined by chemist at
Rush Medical college. II the Doctors opin-
ion that O. A. Carpenter is guilty OF the muir
der and he thinks the coming examination
will substantiate the theory of abortion.
Mr. Dion Boucicault, the greatest of
Irish comedians has been delighting large
audiences ut McVicl1er's theater, Chicago,
this week, i'm his familiar role OF Conn, the
Shanghraun. The local press is profusc in
it, praise of the work of the great artist. The
Inter Occ1n, says: Mr.. Boucicault IS not
only an elective actor, but he is u most con-
scicntious artist, and the dclneation of char
acter with him means perfect revelation,
the silent effects OF illustration being as
scrupulously looked after as the moro vital
incidents OF action in association with speech.
The occasion that restores TO our considera-
ton such acting is one TO be most interest
ingly regarded" This week 1.-THE Colleen
Bawn" will lie presented.
The roads running to the Pacific
coast have abandoned the idea of making
common rates and have substituted division
of territory, whereby Oregon business is
assigned to the Northern Pacific and San
Francisco 10 the Central Pacific thus securing
to each road exclusive rights in its own
section, and enabling It to absolutely control
limos of transportation between the Pacific
and Atlantic.
In Chicago court, the other day, it
was shown that an investor had gone into the |
show business, and that his partner, the |
actor, had used the capital of the enterprise |
TO get himself divorce.