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National Republican., 1883-02-13

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BSS tion will hold Its regular monthly meeting at
Grand Army Hall, seventh and l. streets northwest
on TUESDAY EVENING, the 18th instant, at 7:30
p. m. There will be literary and musical exercises
and addresses by members of the Iowa delegation.
All Iowa people are cordially invited bc resent.
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w. II. ANDERSON, President
National Republican., 1883-02-13
"ORDER IN COURT"

Another Exciting Day in the Star Route
Trial
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moved They were pitiable fgures--some
OF them crushed and mangled out OF resem-
blaice TO the human form. Nearly all were
injured about the head, and the begrimed
faces appeared to have been dragged in the
earth by the whirlwind Forty wounded,
many of them seriously, had been removed
to undestroyed dwellings IL was Thought
at least twenty bodies yet remained In the
RUINS The portion of the city swept by the
cyclone comprised about third OF its ex-
tent including several stores and generally
the poorer dwellings.
The storm appe AIRED to have formed
about eighteen miles northwest of Roches-
ter and, gathering violence as 1t progressed,
destroyed several farm-houses in It's course.
A lowering dun-colored funnel was
seen approaching the fated town, and in q
few moments the slaughter had been ac-
complished- No time was given for any
preparation had it been possible.
The scene among the devastated district,
and the place where the dead lay, was indie
scribably sad. Mothers wildly searched for
their children, while little homeless waits
were found whom the tempest had or
phaned One child was the only survivor
OF family of seven
The passengers ON this train were not.
aware that frightful cyclone had passed
near them until their attention was directed
to feather beds and articles OF wearing ap-
parel lodged against the barbed- wire fences
which indicated something OF blow. The
wheat and other straw which was blown
from the stacks was twisted about the rails
In large quantities, presenting singular
appearance where the death dealing funnel
crossed the track
The fatal black cloud swept toward St
Charles, five miles southeast, cutting a
wide swath through the timber and the
farms, wrecktng buildings in the country
and touching the skirts OF the little hamlet
with fatal effect, leaving two corpses and
three fatally manned Onerof the dead men
was found In a tree-top, his body apparently
having been taken limb from limb by the
mere force of the wind while being drawn
up and carried along in the terrible funnel
The Stevens family, consisting Of four per-
sons, saw the approaching storm-cloud and
hastily crept into huge tank cistern bur
led in the ground, and which fortunately
contained no water Their house was torn
to pieces and wholly carried away over their
heads Not q vestge of their house re-
manned, but their lives were spared
The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1883-08-31
FOREIGN.

The election in County Sligo, Ire
land, resulted in the return to Parliament
of Nichols Lynch, the Bome-Rule candi-
date
In order to check the influence of
French Republicanism in Spanish politics,
Madrid journals advise an alliance between
Spain, Austria and Germany.
ODonnell, who killed Informer Ca
rey, will be tried in England
Thirty miners were killed by an ex-
plosion in coliery near Cardiff, Wales.
A riot between Orangemen and Cath
olics occurred at Coatbridge, Lanarkshire,
Scotland Some police officers were seri-
ously wounded, and numbers of the rioters
were arrested
Cetewayo hobs up serenely. Having
recovered somewhat from his wounds, he
has requested that Queen Victoria have an
exhaustive inquiry made as to the treatment
he received from the insurgents
AS Francis Carey, brother of the late
James Carey, the informer, was walking
down a Dublin street at night he was at
tackled by several men. Drawing a revolver
he covered his assailants and marching them
before him gave them into the custody of
the police. The men have been put under
heavy bail for threatening him.
Senator Window was banqueted in
London. Pour members of Parliament and
Senator Hawley were present
The French are in possession of
Haiduong, Tonquin, and in the fight for it's
capture also took $50 cannon and $50, 600 in
Anam money.
An unparalleled crime is reported
by cable from Breslau, Germany The wife
of hotel-keeper called her five children to
her and carefully washed and dressed them
in their best clothes She then led them
to the attic, where six ropes were sus-
pended from a beam. A rude bench
had been placed underneath the i'm
provised gallows-tree On this she
made the children stand while she
adjusted the nooses around their necks
After the crazy mother had made all ready
she mounted the form herself, fastened the
end the sixth rope around her own meek,
and kicked the support away. The ghastly
sight was first seen by one of the domestics
All were dead. For some time previous the
woman had been acting strangely, and was
undoubtedly insane at the time she com
mitted the deed
Three policemen were shot at Ban
bridge, Ireland while engaged in evicting
an Orangeman from his tenancy.
Mr.. Ceilings, an English Liberal
member announced in the Commons the
other day that at the next session he would
introduce resolution granting home-rule
to Ireland
The attack of the North German
Gazette ON France has caused connection
in Europe, resulting In a decline of prices
in the exchanges of Paris, Vienna and Ber-
lin. The French press says Bismarck is seek
ing pretext for war; Austrian journals ask
IL hostilities are intended; while the En-
glish newspapers think that, as warning to
france, IL has been overdone
Count de Chambord has ended his
earthly career, retaining consciousness to
within n moment of dissolution He was
born I'm the Tuilleries in 1870, and was bap-
TIED with water brought from the Jordan.
He recently designated Count de Paris to
succeed him rs the head Of the Royal House
of France.
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NEWS CONDENSED.
Telegpaphic Summary.
EASTERN.

Three thousand tons of leather are
said to be in the Maine watts of Shaw Bros ),
which, IL finished, would sell for 81, 200, 600
Joseph +. Paul & Co., the large
Boston lumber dealers, are financially
embarrassed
Capt. William J. Howell, retired
Assistant Quartermaster, United States
army, was found drowned at Locust Point
Md
Pleuro-pneumonia has broken out
among the cattle at Salem, CT Two whole
herds are attacked by the disease. Both are
in quarantine, by order of the State Com
missioner, who appreciates the Importance
of preventing spread Of the malady, and
having full authority will doubtless prevent
its further extension
Potatoes throughout Western New
York have been attacked by black rust, and
the entire crop of that region is in peril
The Misses Mary Kairns and Mary
Rudd, each Is years old, were drowned while
boating In Silver Lake, near Rochester, n Y.
The funeral of Judge Jere S. Black
was the largest ever held in York, Pa, and
was attended by many men of distinction
in law and politics Gen. Hancock and
Chief Justice Mercer were among the pail
bearers
A fire ut Long Island City destroyed
the Empire oil-works and large amount of
petroleum, causing loss OF $780, and
injury to three workmen The large paper
mill of J. II. Lewis, near Chester, Pa,
valued at $50 was burned
Fourteen persons were drowned at
Wells watering place on the Maine coast.
They were bathing in the surf, and were
swept out by the strong undertow.
George Beattie, who had been en-
ployed by Noremac, the pedestrian, as bar
tender in New York saloon, killed Mrs
Noremac, in her rooms in Eighth avenue,
and then took his own life. He was found
lying across her corpse 1t is believed the
deed was committed in revenge for being
discharged.
The annual great auction sale of cot
ton goods in New York city was attended
by the most important buyers in the coun-
try. Sixteen thousand packages were closed
out in few hours at prices said to be I'M
satisfactory TO the mills The offering how
ever, as whole, was considered TO lack in
attractions, and therefore standard ele-
ments, such as tickings and muslins suffered
in sympathy
At Sunbury, Pa, Henry Stein, 40
years old, tramp who was travelling with
band of Gypsies, was bitten twice by a
Newfoundland dog and died of hydropho-
bia in the evening of the same day.
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WONDERFUL THINGS.

In Bedford county, Va, there stands a
chestnut tree that is twenty-seven feet
around
In jefferson county, Mo-, a parsnip fifty
inches long apd fifteen inches in circumfer-
ence was grown
AT the Tokay Vineyard, near Fayetteville,
n c. is vine 25 years old which has bore
over 100 bushels of grapes.
, The Arctic raspberry is one of the smallest
plants known. A six-ounce vial will hold
the whole plant, branches, leaves and all
A WATERMELON vine grown by the Reams
Brothers, Of Harris county Ga, is 7O0 feet
long, and it has produced 400 pounds Of
melons
A LARGE farm near Stockton, Cal has
been completely cleaned OF its crops by
millions of little birds no larger than a mans
thumb.
THE famous Bidwell Bar orange tree, in
California, is twenty-five feet tall, and its
trunk is forty five inches in circumference.
1t bore last year 2, O75 oranges
In n garden at Bowling Green, Ky, is q
bush that bears large deep red rose, with
two perfect small roses in the center which
are miniature copies of the big one
THE largest apple ever grown in America
came from Nebraska, and weighed twenty
nine and a half ounces The Smithsonian
Institution has a model of this apple.
ANOTHER Blind Iom has come to astonish
and plague the American public colored
boy, years Old, at Rome, Ga, is said to
play the piano like an educated performer.
On the tabe-lands of Southwestern Arizo-
ma, at attitudes of 5000 to L., 600 feet, a spe-
cies Of wild potato grows which is said to
be superior in taste and flavor TO the best
cultivated potatoes.
JOHN IL PARNEIL's peach orchard at West
Point, Ga, is the largest in the world The
trees are planted upon different slopes, so
that when all are bearing a crop Is certain
in one place or another every year. There
are %, 600 trees
A CAVE on the Colorado river, over one
mile In length and in some places thirty
feet in width, is attracting considerable
attention at Lampasas Texas This cave
Is about sixteen miles from town, and has
two small streams running through IL,
which are about two feet deep.
AT Jonesville. Ind, Henry Prather wentto
an old, unused pump, and while drinking
from the spout felt something go down his
throat He soon turned deathly sick, and
vomited up small water-snake, four or
five inches In length, after which the young
man recovered The snake came out alive
and unhurt
j. L BEAsLY, of Santa Rosa, Cal has hen
with a progressive turn of mind. She has
scratched around and laid for her master
pair of eggs of entirely new design One
egg contains the yelk, the other the white
Both are Joined together by ligamentous
membrane, something after the style Of the
Siamese twins
A GENUINE whipsnake, six feet long, at
tackled d. b. Taylor. of Charlotte, Va, and
tried to Jump into bis wagon With every
Jump It would crack its tail like whip and
with such force as TO make the horses
prance. Mr. Taylor finally succeeded In
knocking it senseless, and one of his sons
cut off los head After the head was cut on
1t snapped e. the hoy.
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Fire losses: The Eclipse 1ubricat-
ing oil-works, at Franklin, Pa, loss $780,
600; the Lincoln house and stables, Rich
mond, Mo-, loss $4,000; the Illinois Iron
and Bolt Company's three-story brick
factory, Carpenterville, III; loss, $1,000;
the Cheshire House block, Keene, N. H, to-
gether with the contents of the entire row
of wooden stores, loss s25, 900; Mcdowell 4
Sons large paper-mill, Lambertsville, Pa,
loss ESQ, 600; the Kennedy Oil Company's
large oil-tank ut Garfield, Pa, containing
700 barrels of oil, loss s25, 600; Williamson,
Libbey Co.'S sash factory, Oshkosh, Wis,
loss $4,000
The Mexican Secretary of the Treas
ury has called q conference of delegates
from the States to discuss the modes of abol-
ishing the internal Custom Houses and de-
vising more equitable tax.
For the first seven months of 1883
tho Pennsylvania lines OF railroad earned
over $4,000 more than they did in the
same time during 1882. The Eastern divis-
ion made proportionably the most money.
The Federation of Trades and Labor
Unions, in session at New York last
week, resolved that the question Of short
to all questions at present and demanded
the enforcement of the eight hour rule
on general and State Government work.
Patrick IL McLogan, of Chicago,
was elected President A letter received
from John Jarrett President of the Anal
gamated Association of Iron and Steel
Workers, stated that the association would
not connect itself with the federation on
account Of the position of the latter on the
tariff question, the iron and steel workers
being in favor of high tariff. 1t was re-
solved to answer the letter, stating that the
tariff question should be ignored entirely
OH account of the diversity Of opinion on
the subject among the different trades
unions
Jack Reilly, who was accustomed to
drink heavily and then shoot off lamp CHM
neys with a revolver, was placed in the call
aboose at Stevens Point, Wis, for brutal
assault. The other night unknown parties
went to the jail and shot him dead In Wayne
county, Tenn, q negro named McLain,
under arrest for criminal assault upon q
young white woman, was riddled with
bullets, and the Sheriff was killed while
defending his prisoner In Kaufman county,
Texas, two negroes, were lynched for n
similar crime
The failures reported for the seven
days, ending Aug. 25, throughout the United
States and Canada, numbered 165, against 10
fOr Ctv III hut n,a
was as follows: New England States, %;
Middle, 20; Southern, 80; Western, As; Pa
cifc States and Territories. Il; New York
city, 4; Canada, 10 A brisk fall trade is
predicted by the mercantile agencies
The American Bar Association held
it's annual meeting at Saratoga Cortlandt
Parker, of New Jersey, was elected Presi-
dent, and c. c. Bonney, of Illinois, one Of
the Vice Presidents.
The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1883-08-31
SOUTHERN.

Five hundred negroes and 200 whites
suburbs of Nashville, Tenn The colored
people became excited, and their demon
STATIONS while singing provoked the ridi-
Guile of the whites This angered the dar-
hes and words soon turned into blows A
general row began, in which knives and
pistols were used. Fifty shots were fred
and when the smoke of battle cleared away
fifteen were found to be wounded, three
fatally.
A train on the Memphis and Little
Rock road broke through trestle near For
est City, Ark, by which three persons
were killed and fifteen injured
Representatives of every colony of
Cherokees east of the Mississippi met re-
Gently in Swain county, North Carolina, and
reported a population of 5000 A chief
will soon be elected, and delegates will
be sent to Washington to secure 5000, =
600 allowed the tribe by u late act of Con-
gress
H. j. Kimball, of Chicago, will re-
build the Kimball House, at Atlanta, at a
cost Of $500, 600.
A yellow fever panic prevails at Pen
sacola, and the people are seeking safety in
flight
The newest avocation in South Caro-
lima is the destruction of illicit stills for n
Government reward of $50 each 1t is freely
charged that the moonshiners are in collu-
sion with the raiders in putting up cheap
distilleries in remote localities, to be capt
ured and credited.
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and thrown to the ground head-foremost,
their horns being left In the ground.
The laborers on railroad grade in
Lenawee county, Mich, were paid of
the other day. When they became suffi-
GENTLY intoxicated to be helpless, they were
raided by gang of twelve thieves from
Senators Dawes, Logan and Gamer
on OF the Senate Select Committee held a
council with the Sioux Chiefs at Fort Yates,
Oak Sitting Bull asked for $4,000 600, iu-
suited the Commission grievously, and left
the council. He afterward returned, apol-
ogized, and listened quietly to a severe re-
buke at the hands of Gen. Logan, who
told him he was an old man whose
glory had faded away, and who
would be put n the guard-house the next
time he talked like drab to people who had
journeyed the length of continent to see
that he and his kind were well fed and
warmly clothed
The Northern Pacific railroad is fin
ished, Just a decade from the time that
Jay Cookies failure was seized upon by ev-
cry weak concern in the land as an excuse
for going into bankruptcy. Irack-laying
was completed on the 22d of August, the
last iron spike being driven at o'clock
p. m. of that day. The formal opening will
occur on the sth of September
At the triennial conelave in San
Francisco, Robert Z. Withers, of Virginia,
was elected Gand Master of the Knights
Templars of the United States Charles
Roome, of New York, was chosen Deputy
Grand Master; John p. s. Goblin, of Pennsyl7
vania Grand Generalissimo; Hugh Nc
Curdy of Michigan, Grand Captain General
and ]. Larue Thomas of Kentucky, Grand
Senior Warden
The recent reported robbery of rail-
road laborers in Michigan was exaggerated
The pillaging PARTY were workmen from an
other section, who run short of whisky, and
limited their degradation to relieving per-
sons they met of any bourbon in their pos
session. OF the seven arrested, two were dis
charged, and five were given ninety days in
Ionia prison
The Sir knights gathered at San
Francisco laid the corner stone of a monu-
ment to James A Garfield at Golden Gate
Park.
At the County Infrmary at Zanes-
vile, Ohio, two sisters named Littlefeld at
tempted to escape by means of rope made
of bed-clothing. One was found dead and
the other fatally injured beneath the win
dow.
The regular season at McVicker's
Theater, Chicago, commenced on Monday
evening, with the brilliant young TRACE
dienne, Miss Margaret Mather. She opened
her engagement in the charming character
of Juliet Alexander Salvini personating
the role of Romeo GAS You Like 1t, Leah,
the Forsaken," and other plays in which
Miss Mather has achieved her wonderful
success, will follow. The supporting COM
pany is a strong one, including Mines
Levick, William Davidge. and Mrs. Carrie
Jamison.
The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1883-08-31
A THRILLING EXPERIENCE.
A French AerOnaut Dragged to the
Clouds at the End Of q Rope.
ICablegram from Parish

At Rowan, on the Gironde, III. Gratien, q,
well-known aerenaut was about to1nake an
ascent in hot air balloon called La Vidou-
villaise last Friday. Mdlle. Albertine, the
heroine of several balloon ascensions, was
seated in the car, and NJ Gratien was hold
ing in his right hand loose coil tied to one
of the cords that served to attachtthe bal
loon. The air-ship Unexpectedly broke
loose, and the cord, unrolllng itself with
lightning rapidity, caught in sort or run
ming knot around the first and second
fingers of Gratien's right hand The aero
naut was Immediately whisked off into the
air coo meters high In vain he tried to.
haul himself up on the cord and loop it
came exhausted, and hung at the end of the
cord suspended solely by his two fingers,
and suffering excruciating agony.
Owing TO the Jerking of the balloon the
cord cut like razor through the flesh to
the bone. In that situation Gratien was
carried to the distance OF nearly four miles
at the height of 600 meters above the earth.
Mdlle Albertlne, overcome by the horror of
the situation, tainted away and sank help
less TO the bottom,of the car. AS the air IN
the balloon became cool 1t descended, but
bumped against the earth in the midst of q
dense mass of thorny shrubbery. Gratien
was not only stripped of his clothes but his
skin was literally torn in strips from his
body as he was dragged for nearly half a
mile through the thorny brambles Some
peasants finally managed to cut the cord
Gratien appeared to be mass of wounds,
and TO be near bleeding to death Strange.
to say, he did not lose consciousness for q
single instant He suffered no internal in
jury, and although his condition Is critical,
he will probably recover.
When the rope was cut and the balloon
was freed from the weight of Gratien's
body it again arose in the air carrying off
Mdlle Albertine. By singular good fortune
last stood on terra tirma. She was sorely
distressed in mind and badly scared but
otherwise safe and sound
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WASHINGTON.

j. j. Gardner, wealthy citizen of
Boston, recently deceased, provided by will
that large sum of money, bonds, and other
securities, aggregating in value 1881, 600,
should be turned over TO the United States
treasury to be used in helping pay the
national debt The bequest has been
received at the Treasury Department, and
placed to the credit of the patriotic dona-
tions"
The Commissioner of Internal Rev
enue has decided that bitters sold in good
faith as medicine need not pay special tax
as n beverage One specimen which he
caused to be analysed contained 50 per cent
of whisky.
The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1883-08-31

Sir Stafford Northcote steps aside as
leader of the English Tories
The steamer Ionia arrived at Ply
mouth. England, forty-five days from New
Zealand, with 1890 frozen carcasses Of
sheep.
Something like the Bulgarian atroci-
ties which gave an excuse for the wars OF
1876 and 1877 Is reported from Turkey once
more. Ninety-two Christians have been
murdered In one district of Albania
Twenty-three villages have been abandoned
The Turkish officials wink Mt the slaughter
and persecute the Christian priests
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A run of horrible crimes seems again
begun At Cincinnati, Ohio, a man killed a
woman and himself; at Detroit, Mich. a
bartender killed his wife; near Albuquerque,
N NJ, to officers tried to evict ranchman
and all three were killed; at Nebraska City,
Neb., a woman shot and killed her husband
and killed herself; at Elmo, Texas, a man
shot his wife fatally and fled before a troop
Of lynchers; at Muncie. Ind. a man shot and
killed his wife and Immediately killed him
self
The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1883-08-31
POLITICAL.

John G. New says the leading Re-
publican candidates for Governor of Indi-
ana are Postmaster General Gresham and
Congressman Calkins
The Democratic State Committee Of
New York voted to hold the nominating
convention at Buffalo, Sept 20
A joint resolution has passed the New
Hampshire Legislature favoring a Govern
ment postal telegraphic system