The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1883-11-29

Madison, holds the contractor, 4. +. Nowlan,
of GAINESVILLE, guilty OF gross negligence in
causing certain pier 20 be improperly re-
paired; and Supervising Architect Jones,
of Madison, and Consulting Architect
signing the interior construction with
out due regard to its safety during cree
ton, thereby contributing TO 'ts falling.
Judge Buckholdt, County Clerk at
Salt Lake, confessed polygamist, gives
notice that he will not relinquish his Office 20
Utah commission. He is not the only polyga-
nous official who takes the ground that the
recent election was mere farce.
Pogue's run, at Indianapolis, over
flowed last week, inundating dwellings and
business houses in the northeastern part of
the city. The loss is estimated ut S250,0OO.
The recent food in Southern Hi
nois and Central and Southern In
diana was notable one. Great tracts
of country were inundated, fences
and other farm property were destroyed
or seriously damaged, numerous coal
mines were flooded, many miles of rail
way track and numberless bridges were
swept away and a good deal of live stock
drowned. The rainfall was unprecedented,
amounting TO from four TO six inches i'm thirty
six hours The loss will amount TO hundreds
of thousands of dollars
A horrible quadruple murder was
perpetrated in a farm house seven miles from
Jackson, Mich. Jacob ID. Crouch, his daughter,
son-n-law, and stranger from Pennsylvania
named Policy, were murdered in their beds
while asleep. They were all shot by re-
vClger of the same caliber, in precisely the
same manner, each bullet entering the victim
inst behind the ear They had evidently
been chloroformed before receiving the fatal
shots. Tracks showed that the house had
been guarded outside while the deadly work
was going on inside. Two servants who slept
upstairs heard the robbers, but were afraid
10 make q noise. Policy, the stranger, had
shown considerable money before going to
Crouchs house, and stated that he was going
to purchase fine cattle. Crouch is said TO
have had over $4,000 in currency in the
house, all Of which was secured by the muir
derers. Crouch was one Of the wealthiest
farmers in Michigan.
The alleged Sibley murder, at Mar
shall, Mich, which created quite sensation,
turns out to have been case Of suicide.
Independence Mo. telegram: Frank
james is reported 10 be dying OF oonsump.
ton. a visit TO him disclosed the fact that he
is losing flesh rapidly. He says that lie will
die before the courts reach "A settlement of
the case. He is also penniless and his cell is
no longer richly furnished and upholstered,
as il was yer ago
Ellen Beardsley Reed, wife of Chas.
II. Reed, who was the attorney of the assassin
Guiteau, has filed II petition for divorce in
the Superior court at Chicago
Horace Allen, his brother. and a
servant were bound and gagged in their resi-
dence, at Newton Falls, Ohio, by masked
burglars, who carried away $4,000 worth Of
property.
Fora Burns father went 70 Lincoln,
H., last week, because a so-callcd cairvoyant
had sent him word that she could disclose the
secret place OF the dead girls valise and hat.
The seeress, Nine. dc Silver, utterly failed TO
get up even Il plausible yarn.