The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1883-07-20
LATER NEWS ITEMS.

In duel at Wurzburg, student was
shot dead by German American
Five children at Barnsby, England,
sought refuge from a storm in a culvert,
and lost their lives by a rush of water.
1t is said that Carey and Farrell, the
lnformers in the Phoenix Park trials, are be
ing detained in Newgate for shipment to a
British colony.
1t now seems certain that the British
Ministry will be defeated in the Commons
when that body shall be asked to ratify the
Suez canal scheme with De Lesseps. All the
Irish members and thirty Liberals will OPP
pose Gladstone. In the meantime the Gov
ernment is begging De Lesseps to extricate
them by modifying the arrangement
The British steamer plymouth, while
lying ut Tamatave last month, was boarded
by French officer who announced the
capture of the city, forbade passengers
going ashore, and said the cargo could only
be landed on the payment of duty A
French sentry was placed on board
The Walnut Land and Coal Com
pany of Bates county, Mo-, with capital of
81, 000. COO, has been Incorporated at Jeffer-
son City by Charles Foster, j. Warren Keller,
Senators Plumb and Miller, and Thomas
NJ Nichol
Fire broke out in theshotel at Cocka-
too, Mimi, which spread rapidly, and con-
sumed three -fourths of the town. In the
hotel three men were burnt to death, and
one was injured by jumping from window.
The Central Labor Union of New
York, by large majority, refused Dennis
Kearney permission to address the meeting.
Frederick Schuldt, one of the wealth
lest citizens of Reading, Pa, caused the ar
rest of his son for threats The young man
tore up his shirt and hanged himself in his
cell with the strips
Tom Thumb died at Middleboro,
Mass, of apoplexy. He was born in Bridge
port, CT, in 1888, his real name Ibeing
Charles II. Stratton. He had been before
the public, on both sides of the Atlantic, for
the past thirty years, and had accumulated
fortune.
Two ladies undertook to drive across
the Lackawanna track at Roanoke, \. T., in
plain view of an approaching train Their
horse became paralyzed with fright, and
stood over the rails until struck by the en-
CINE The ladies were instantly killed and
young child was badly bruised
The Treasurer of the Rutland (Vt.)
Railroad Company is short s3S, 0O0
Postmaster Clingan, of Polk City,
Iowa, was recently assassinated in cold
blood Two hard characters, named Hardy
and Crawford, were suspected of being the
authors of the dastardly deed They fled
and were pursued The assassins took to
the woods in the vicinity of Elk Horn Grove,
Shelby county. Volunteers speedily turned
out from every village and railway sta
ton for leagues around and joined in the
exciting man-hunt The murderers were
surrounded in a grove, and in attempting
to capture them one of the pursuing party,
j. W. Maddy, respected druggist of
Marine, was shot and killed The assassin
was instantly riddled with bullets An
other of the pursuing posse was shot and
seriously wounded. The other assassin
then ran into an open field and
surrendered, and, after having mar
rowly escaped lynching at the hands of
the outraged citizens, was placed in jail
Before dying the murderer make n confes-
sion of his crime, and also gave a clew to
the detection of the murderers of Mayor
Stubbs, of Polk City, year ago.
The Iron Mountain train-robbers
who escaped from the convict gang at Cane
Hill, Ark returned to the stockade, having
nearly starved in wandering about the
woods.
Fifty-fve persons died of yellow fever
at Havana last week