The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1883-12-06
WESTERN.

The Jackson Mich massacre was
followed by grotesque episode. A crack
Drained fellow, arriving in Jackson from
Chicago, announced that he could discover
the murderer, and carried out programme
which included special train and the ar
rest in another town of an innocent man.
The usual mob gathered, awaiting the ar
rival of the falsely-accused man, but a
shower of rain abated the popular fury and
an easily-proven alibi set the victim free.
The detective" was then Gagged and is al
legged TO have been himself out of jail but a
few days.
A strange youth examined a revolver
in a hardware store az Parsons, Kan, and re-
quested that it he loaded. When il was
handed to him, he blew out his brains in a
twinkling.
At hartford, Wis, Mrs. Ellen Long
confessed that she murdered the whittemore
boy on Oct. "a. She killed him in her house,
threw the corpse in an old well, but sub
sequently removed it 10 the river where it
was found.
Sojourner Truth, the colored lect-
urer, died at Battle Creek, Mich, at the age
of l07 years She gained her freedom in 1928
under the Emancipation act of New York, and
for 40 years she has spoken to the public on
liberty, temperance, and woman suffrage.
At South Chicago, ILL.,, John
Schmidt, a German butcher, walked up to
his wife, who was standing on street corner,
drew his revolver without u word of warning
and shot Mrs. Schmidt and then himself
He died without speaking a word. The two
had not been living together, and jealousy is
supposed 10 have been the cause for the ter
rible tragedy. Mrs Schmidt is in u critical
condition. with but small hope of recovery.
The female baseball club which has
been exhibiting in the larger cities was
stranded at st. Louis, last week. Their
trunks were held by the indianapolis road
for express charges; a hotel-keeper attached
certain property, and the manager applied 10
the Mayor for passes 10 New York, which
were refused.
A Grand Trunk passenger train
jumped tho track eight miles east of Chicago,
killing the conductor and brakeman, and
badly shaking up and bruising many of the
passengers.
Thomas A. Doyle, who for fourteen
years was Mayor of Providence, II. has
been called back to the position in order TO
inagurate r. reign of progress
Fritz Rummel, butcher employed
at the Chicago Stock Yards, recently obtained
divorce from his wife i'm California and en-
gagged himself 10 Emma Laveuve. She Tilted
him because of his incorporate habits, and
the other evening he took her life and his
own with n revolver.
Clara King, IA years old, is missing
from st. Louis Her friends say she had no
lovers and has not COPIED.
At Dixon, H., runaway horse
dragged Miss Eleita Lewis and two young
girls into the river, where they wse drowned.
An affray between Jacob Block and
Eli Frank, rival clothing merchants of Rush
vile, Ind. resulted i'm the death of Frank
and the mortal wound ny of Block.
The Citizens Association of Chicago
scl:-const tutcd organization OF lie ldlng citi
zcns, that exercises fatherly guardianship
overt he city and looks after the " fare of the
inhab.tants-is again prodding up the theatri-
cal mana gers of that city, with view of
lessening the danger 10 audiences in case of
fire. With one exception all the theates in
Chicago are pronounce faulty in one respect
or another, and some OF them are veritable
rc.traps. Mcvicker's thcater which is
built upon plan that ought TO be forced by
awup)n all builders of houses of amusement
that is, with n wide alley upon both sides
has some fifteen separate exits, and is so adj
mrab'e in consti uction that the committee
pla e. II at the head of all as the best build
ny in the city TO afford facilities for the safe
dispersion of an audience.
No light has, up to this writing, been
thrown on the massacre at Jackson, Mich,
which bids fair to pass into history rs one or
the great criminal mysteries of the age. IL
is pretty well settled that the robbers got no
such sum of money (s5O,COO or thereabouts)
az was at first reported, as Crouch had very
little cash in the house. IL is probable that
the only plumber they secured was
the few hundred dollars which
Policy, the bloviating visitor, exhibited in
saloons and among low company. previous
20 stopping at Crouch's, aud which piece OF