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

A terrible tragedy was enacted at
Dwight, Ill Andrew White, a wealthy and
well-known farmer, butchered in cold
blood his wife and two children, and then
blew his own brains out A number
of years ago Andrew White was one o
the most prominent property holders of
Chicago, and made for himself an i'm
mense fortune, with which he retired to a
stock-farm near Dwight, where he has lived
most of the time since. His steady atten-
ton TO business and the consequent mental
strain affected his mind to such an extent
that he had to be carefully watched by his
family. He grew steadily worse and worse,
until his strange freaks were SO un-
bearable that he had TO be sent to q
private asylum. Here he acquired the
strange and fatal hallucination that his i'm
prisonment was due TO desire on the part
of his wife and children to get hold of his
fortune and spendit Recently, he managed
TO secure his release, through the careless
ness of his custodians, and speedily, made
his way home. Reaching the house in
the middle of the night, he watched till
morning, when he advanced to the front
stoop and called out TO his wife to come down
and welcome him. The family, consisting
of the wife and two children, aged 10 and Is
years, rushed at once towards the porch re-
joiced TO hear the familiar voice, and sup
posing that the husband and father had been
released from the asylum in
the possession of his faculties
He allowed each member of the family to
him "a oft |,
least agitation, drew from his pocket the re-
volver, and, looking his wife in the face
said: you want my money, my fortune,
damn you Take that" and he sent a bullet
crashing through her brain, and she fell
dead on the porch, as he turned and buried
bullets in the brains of his boy and girl
When he had done this he laid down the re-
yolver and gazed upon the fearful deed he
had perpetrated For a moment the horror
OF the act seemed to restore his reason.
and with a desperate cry he fell upon the
corpse of his wife, kissing it and weeping
over it. His hallucnation returning
however, he dragged the bodies of the dead
into the dining room and laid them out on
the table, the wife first, the boy next, and
the girl last He then fired a shot into his
own brain
Four men were killed and several in
jured by the fall OF a large derrick near Lee
mont, Ill. A stone weighing three tons was
being placed on a canal boat, and one of the
guy-ropes gave way. The machine fell to
one side No noise attended the breaking
of the rope, and nothing was known
to be wrong In consequence of this
the men were unable to make
their escape. John Cash, Andrew Hanson,
John Coleman and Thomas Ward were
crushed under the heavy timbers, and when
taken out were dead. John Duffy and l. +.
Ward were fatally wounded Several others
were thrown to the ground and stunned,
but were not seriously hurt
The new building of the University
of Indiana, mt Bloomington was struck by
lightning and consumed by fire The loss is
estimated at 100000
President De Soto, of Honduras, Ra-
mon Rosa, Minister of Honduras to the
United States, and several associates were
in Chicago last week From here they
journeyed to New York, whence they sailed
for Europe.
1t transpires that Bishop Elder, who
for three years has been Coadjutor of the
Archdiocese of Cincinnati, was made admin
istrator at the request Of Archbishop Pur-
cell and by the law Of the church succeed
ed the latter ut the moment OF HIS death
He will be invested with the pallium-
A wide section of the West was
visited by fierce storm. accompanied by
wind, rain, hail and thunder on the 18th