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The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1884-06-05
RECKLESS RAILR0aDING.
Somebody's Blunder Causes Fatal Col
IisiOn on the West Shore Road.
fSyracuse Dispatch.1


As q Rochester express on the Wost Shore
Road from this city was drawing onto
branch track opposite Savannah Station,
the Atlantic express from Buffalo crashed
into the baggage car and made clean
sweep of the smoker, taking an entire row
Of seats with it and leaving tho two ears
and the front end of the first passenger
total wreck. Two lnen were killed
and four seriously wounded. Nearly
all of the victims were employees of the
Baltimore and Ohio Telegraph Company,
and were on the way to their homes N
Rochester to spend Sunday.
Many curious circumstances are narrated
in connection with the disastrous occurrence.
Some passengers occupying seats with the
killed and injured escaped unhurt. George
Waggoner, of this city, stood on the front
steps of the smoker, and seeing the headlight
of an approaching engine, he ran to the other
side and jumped. He remembers being car
ried along by the car, but suddenly became
insensible. On recovering, he found him
self on heap of loose dirt twenty feet
from the track. He was notinjured. The two
sons of Mr.. Waterburys were at the station to
meet him. Not finding him, they left for
home shortly after the accident, under
the impression that he had waited
here for the next train. An hour
9fterward they were summoned back to
the wreck, when upon closer inspection tho
elder boy discovered among bodies he had
himself helped to remove the mangled re-
mains of his father. The relatives of the
killed and wounded inveigh bitterly against
the recklessness which made the accident
possible. The West Shore Company is
censured on all hands, the universal opin-
ion being that under proper management
the disaster could not have taken place.
The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1884-06-05
Ouintuple Murder and Suicide.
ALBANY On. " Dispatch


Caroline Scheifer, aged 33, quarreled
with her husband, Christopher, over the
loss of bank book representing a deposit
of over $500. The husband left home
about 1880 and returned mt 10, finding the
house dark and his wife gone. In the bed
room he discovered their children, Henry,
aged 7, Annie, 5, and John, 3, with their
throats cut, and also the baby, William, .
months old, dead in a crib. After murder
ing the children the mother took the
girl Matte, aged 9, in her arms, walked
through the fields back of the house to the
Central Railroad tracks, at the place known
as Black Rock cut, and threw herself and
child in front of an advancing train. The
woman was cut to pieces. One arm and a
leg of the child were horribly crushed The
woman was Scheifer's second wife, but
was the neither of five children. The hus-
band is nearly crazy over the deed. The
family lived in comfortable circumstances
on Third street.
The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1884-06-05
CHIPS.

LELAND STANFORD offers Gen. Grant
and his family home with him as long as
he lives.
IT is estimated that there are over 800
acres in strawberries in Marion County, Ill.
GUY JOHNSON, of Clinton, N. Y, the
last slave in the State, who was emancipated
in 1912, is dead.
JUDAH P. BENJAMIN's daughter married
French officer of the staff, and resides in
Paris with her mother.
GEN. BOOTH says to his Salvationists:
Shout; those who can't stand the noise
will never get to heaven"
DIR. Do LEWIS says the coming man
and woman will not be smaller at the waist
than Mt other parts of the body.
DURING thunder shower which passed
over Shirley Village, Mass, there fell with
the rain large quantities of small stones.
THE following is copy ola notice pasted
up in the Council Bluffs Police Station:
mo loafers allowed here, except police"
PERSONAL lite N in n Rutland, Vt, pa
per says that IS. Nj. Dorr has lost n valu-
able COW which licked apail of green paint"
LOUISIANA now has State Weather
Service Bureau of its own, and doesn't
care whether Old Prob" prognosticates or
not.
THE highest rate Of the Western Union
Telegraph Company at present is 81 for
ten words between Portland. Me-, and San
Fmncisco.
A SOUTH CAROLINA man thinks that he
has discovered that n chnlk-linc about q
barrel will keep away the ants. and is mad
because the Government will not give him
q patent
The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1884-06-05
Minnesota Democrats.

The Democratic State Convention of Min
nesota was held at st. Paul, with the Hon.
l.. l.. Baxter as Permanent Chairman and
Capt j. G. Wood Secretary. Z. II. Kelly,
Michael Doran. G. +. Mcdonald, and Il. A.
Jones were chosen as delegates -at-large to
the national convention. A long discussion
arose as to whether the district delegates
should be chosen in the convention as
n whole or the convention should
dissolve itself into district conventions,
each of which should elect its own dele
gates. 1t was finally decided to dissolve
into district conventions. This was done,
and the following district delegates We're
elected:
First, WI. Whipple B. p. Cook; Second,
John G. Wise, Henry Poesler; Third, w.
M. Campbell, George n. Baxter; Fourth,
II. A. Smith, Il. w. Dunnt; Fifth. L. +.
Heenan, A. Gurnon.
The platform declares in favor of the
most rigid economy in the administration
rof the Government and the reduction of
the surplus in the national treasury by low
ering the taxation on the necessaries of life;
denounces, in long and exhaustive series
of resolutions, the present tariff as mas
terpiece of injustice and false pretense, and
as the cause of the decay of the merchant
marine and the present depression. and
calls for liberal pensions for the Union vet
Grams of the late war.
The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1884-06-05
Death Of the Oldest Enlisted Man In
the United States Army.

William Marshall, Ordinance Sergeant,
United States Army, died few days ago at
his home on Mackinac Island, Mich.
Sergt Marshall was without doubt the
oldest enlisted man in the army of the United
States. He entered the service by enlisting
in A Company of the Fifth United States
Infantry Aug. IL, 1923. After serving in
the field through the Fleridan and Mexican
wars he went to Fort Macldnac on duty
April s, 1S4S, and has remained on duty ut
that post without intermission up to his
death.
The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1884-06-05

BELAI3 Times: William Reynolds,
machinist at Cecil Paper Mills, re-
Gently got into an ugly predicament.
He went into what is known as the
stuff chest-a large iron tank in which
set of arms revolve and keep the pulp
agitated-to repair some part of it.
While there the pulp was turned on
and the machinery started by some one
not knowing that any one was inside.
To keep out of the way of the revolv-
ing arms Mr.. Reynolds was obliged to
walk round and round, the pulp mean
while pouring down on him. He walked
and cried out ut the top of his voice
for long time, and until he was nearly
exhausted, but at last his cries were
heard and the machinery stopped. AT
this time the pulp was waist deep, and
Mr.. Reynolds was covered with it from
head TO foot.
The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1884-06-05
Che drae 9urthrruer.


A BALTIMORE man has been SEN
fenced to three months Imprisonment
and to pay fine of $50 for lying in a
horse trade. Judge Stewart said it was
the first time in all his experience that
he ever knew q man to be convicted Of
making false representations in horse
trade, but he expressed the hope that
~others would take warning, and be
more truthful in their dealings
The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1884-06-05

DANIEL TwoGooD, of Canastota,
N. Y. recently drove into Syracuse be-
hind a pair of quick-steppinG. we'll
matched, bright red, 3-year-old Devon
steers, hitched to sidebar carriage,
which he had driven in from Canastota
after supper. They came from Canas-
tota in six hours, without fatigue, and
will easily go five or six miles an hour.
They start off briskly like pair of
sprightly horses.
The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1884-06-05

THE problem. What is the length of
the longest strip of yardwide carpet
that can be laid in room 40x12 feet?'
which, it was said, could not be solved
by any known rules of algebra, and
stumped the whole University of Penn
sylvania, has been worked out alge-
braically by quadratic equations by an
expert mathematician of Norwich,
Conn, who claims as result 40. 53O02
feet
The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1884-06-05

THE late Charles O'Conor was tall
and erect, his figure always clad in
black. His features, framed in the
silver of thick, flowing hair and whis-
kers, kept back to the very edges of his
face, betrayed his Celtic origin. His
eyes were dark and piercing, his fore
head broad and high, his whole express
sion keen and intellectual. He was
abstemious to the last degree. His
professional income at the time of his
active practice was among the largest
in New York, but his mode of life was
transformations, his tastes were simple,
his charities large and secret. He held
to his opinions with the grip of man
who came by them honestly. He was
tenacious, persevering, logged, and
yet he was often impatient of results.
The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1884-06-05


"A four-pound eel has been caught in
Kalamazoo lake.
Thirty Kalamazoo liquor dealers have
taken out licenses.
For the first time in fifty years Gales
burg has no saloon.
-Emmet County Indians ore suffering
severely from sickness.
"A female peddler with two horse team
is doing the State, selling notions.
Some thirty buildings in process OF
erection constitute Gladwin's boom.
Flint is having an immense building
boom. which shows that the city is alive.
According to the census of 1880. there
were then 6. $50 negro voters in Michigan.
There are now $40 boys in the Reform
School, and the number is steadily increas.
ing.
Warren II. Day, an old and respected
resident of Hudson, died there Of pneu.
monia.
Mrs. Isaiah Dibble, II years old, and
weighing 400 pounds, was buried recently
at Hudson.
"A hearse drawn by yoke of oxen at
tracted considerable attention in the streets
of Cadillac the other day.
Leonard Pike q Co. 8 saw mill at Stan
wood burned early the other morning. Loss
about $4,000. No insurance
The Roman Catholics Of Fair Haven,
st. Clair County, will build 50, 900 addi-
ton to their church this season.
The people of Omer, Arensc County,
are very public spirited, and will donate the
County Court House if they secure the
county seat.
There is something in a name after all.
A man named Bulge is looking around in
Northern Michigan for location to estab-
lish drug store.
"A Flint man wintered seventy five
swarms of bees for himself and eight for
outside parties and every swarm came
through alive and well.
An 1S-months- daughter of VIM.
Neal, of Saginaw City, ate some morphine
pills she picked up in the house, and lies
in precarious condition.
While driving logs for the Big Rapids
Booming Company, Michael Robin fell into
Muskegon River and drowned before as
sistance reached him. His age was %
years, and his home was in Canada.
Col. Joseph Fisk, for many years q
leading railroad contractor, and formerly
Sheriff of Allegan County and President Of
the village, died at his residence, aged "a
years. He was one of the pioneer settlers
of Allegan County.
"A Bay City drayman had six large lights
of plate glass in his dray for delivery to q
block on Washington street, when in some
manner, by a sudden jar, the glass was
thrown to the ground breaking in dozens
of pieces. They were valued at $500.
"A Riga man ran away with another
mans wife. The other man made fuss
about it, and settlement was effected by
the eloper giving mortgage on his farm
for $500. Then the deserted husband got
q divorce and will now foreclose that mort
gage.
AT Kalamazoo certain colored damsel
refused to keep her promise. and also
would not give up the valuable articles her
beloved had bestowed upon her, whereupon
he proceeded to recoup by taking what he
could find, such as lace curtains, Brussels
carpets, ilk dresses, ETC., and then there
was q row.
The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1884-06-05

time ago. and while in Arkansas sent
the following letter to his journal "Ar-
kansas is situated between Memphis
and San Francisco. It's climate is mid
in winter, but in summer, am told by
an old inhabitant, is extremely cold.
The Governor of this State receives
$500, 900 year, which he spends main
ly for the entertainment of his friends.
am much concerned in American poll
tics, and never tire of studying the sit
uation. At the present writing the
country is much stirred up about Pres
ident Dorsey. He went out on his
sheep ranch somewhere in Cleveland,
and has not been heard of since.
Should he never be found, Vice Presi-
dent Sam Tilden will be knighted in
his place"
The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1884-06-05

Mr.. IRVING, says Joe Howard, in the
Boston Herald, is an Englishman who
came here twenty-seven weeks ago,
hard up, and has gone away with So, 900
clean cash in his brooches pockets.
Listen to this gush from morning
paper: "You will soon be home again
and happy" suggested Mr.. McCul-
Tough. A momentary shade of sadness
passed over the features of Mr.. Irving
and his eyes filled with tears. Il am
going home" he said, after pause,
"and / shall be happy when l get there,
but / seriously doubt, my friends,
whether the happiness that awaits me
will compensate for the bitterness of
this hour of parting" Now, consider
ing that this mans life for fifty odd
years has been in England, where he
has reached the pinnacle of celebrity
without much money that his home
and his family are there, and that his
fifty years friendships are there, and
that he left here only few club and
journalistic acquaintance, while he took
away $4,000, don't you think the
"pathos" in his face and those tears in
his throat are trife exaggerated, dear
bov2
The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1884-06-05
Health I'm MICHIGAN.

Reports TO the State Board of Health, Lansing,
by observers Of diseases In different parts of the
State show the principal diseases which caused
most sickness in Michigan during the week
ending May "a, 1884, as follows. Number of OBJ
servers heard from, A:
The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1884-06-05
John Gateman was killed at Malonoy's

John Gateman was killed at Maloney's
shingle mill at Midland by being caught in
a belt and wound around shaft. He was
stepp ng over the shaft when his foot
caught in a loose belt, which frightened and
threw him around the shaft forty or fifty
times, breaking his arms and legs, and
mutlating him in a horrible manner. He
lived about fifteen minutes after being taken
out.
The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1884-06-05

ARKANsAw 7rdreller:: This country
will moi be a success until En-
glish editorial writer's pay more
attention to American politics. A staff
corresponds mt of one of the great Lon
don dailies visited this country some
The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1884-06-05

Miss CLARA BARTON is closing the sea-
sons work of the Red Cross Society by dis
tributing steamboat-load Of household
goods and building material at the upper
end of the Ohio River.
The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1884-06-05

Has Mrs. Langtry come over to
teach us the Kings English? In New
York, lately, she was the defendant in
a suit brought by John Stevens, who
claimed $500 damages because she
failed to perform at a matinee during
her engagement at his theater. She
alleged that she was unable to appear
on account of illness. During her ex-
animation tho lawyer asked: "Wero
you not frequently very sick?' Mrs.
Langtry looked in luiringly at him, and
he asked: What do you understand
me to mean when 1 say sick?" Sick
ness means nausea, does it not?' she
asked, in return, and the question was
altered to suit her delicate sense of
liguistic propriety. Webster defines
the word sick as affected with disease
of any kind, i'll, indisposed, not in
health" and the same definition is
given by the imperial dictionary, an
authority in the country from which
Mrs. Langtry comes. The word may
not be used in this sense in the society
with which Mrs. Langtry is familiar,
but it has thus been employed by
Shakespeare, Milton, Dryden, Byron,
and others.
The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1884-06-05

A WILDCAT measuring five feet four
inches from the nose to the tail, and two
feet six inches high, was killed recently
near Brownwood, Texas, by cur dog.
The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1884-06-05

TELEGRAM from Boston, The COM
mercial employees in Boston are ex-
cited over an event that occurred
on last Monday. The dry goods clerks,
it seems, have no liberty of action in
trying to better their condition, as the
principal Boston houses have COM
pact not to hire help from each other
nor to encourage any advance in salary.
A Philadelphia house sent an agent to
Boston on Monday to engage men, and,
of course, many Boston clerks were
anxious to apply. The large dry
goods houses sent out floor walkers and
deputy managers to stand at the Office
of application and spot all clerks. The
result was big black list and num-
Der of dismissals. The question now
arises, were these deputy spies guilty
of intimidation, for which they can be
punished by law, and is it crime, in
free country, for men to honestly en-
deavor to better their condition? A
large organization is being perfected
to explain to the American people this
new phase of genteel slavery.
The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1884-06-05

GERMAN measles is epidemic in Syn-
cuse. Old people take il.
The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1884-06-05

George A. Starkweathcr, of Plymouth,
has GO. 600 cabbage plants growing.
Delta chief., 1884-05-21
One Of ArtemuS, Best.

Cor. New York Tribune.
OF the countless good stories attribu-
ted to him, the best to my mind is the
one which tells of the advice he gave to
Southern railroad soon after the
War. The road was in wretched
condition. and the trains consequently
were run at phenomenally low rate
of speed. When the conductor was
punching his ticket Artemus remarked,
docs this railroad company allow
passengers to give it advice, if they do
so in a respectful manner?' The con-
ductor replied in grufi tones that he
guessed so. ''Well,' Artemus went
on, ..it occurred to me it would be well
to detach the cow catcher from the
front of the engine and hitch it to. the
rear of the train. For you see we are
not liable to overtake a COW; but what s
to prevent a COW strolling into this car
and biting a passenger"
Delta chief., 1884-05-21
Under the Bridal Bell.
Kansas City Times.

Kansas City Times.
A sensation CT no mean proportions
was created in the city by rumor that
well-known young physician had
captured the hand of bride Just rs
she was in the act of being united in
wedlock to another. Investigation
showed that the report was founded on
facts, and the details of the affair form
n rather startling romance, the princi-
pals in the story being Mr.. c. W.
COPYRIGHT, who really did marry Mrs.
Jennie Chatham, and Mr.. c. F.. Har-
ris. from whose arms she was torn at
the nuptial altar.
About five years ago DR.. Courtright,
formerly n physician of New York, re-
moved to this city, and at once began
the practice of his profession. He was
accompanied by his wife, n pretty and
amiable little woman, and for time
the married life which had promised so
much ut the outset ran smoothly rs
deep water, but finally shadows began
to fall upon the household and domes-
tic infclicity was the result. She went
to New York and he left the city, re-
naming absent about three ye..rs. Last
November he again took up his resi-
dencc here and since that time has oc-
cupied an Office Mt 1921 East Ninth
street About the first of the year he
Delta chief., 1884-05-21
Pension Frauds Years Ago.

That the bad name which pension
agents of to-day have earned is nothing
of which they can boast as smacking of
originality may be seen by the follow
ing anecdote: .In 1884 the names of
the Revolutionary pensioners We're
printed, making several volumes. This
alarmed Robert Temple, who had been
pension agent in Vermont, and who
had for years been drawing and pock-
eting the pensions of deceased and tic-
titious soldiers. He came to Washing
ton and attempted to bribe clerk in
the Office to alter the books and make
out false lists for the printer. SO as to
conceal his frauds. The clerk succeed
ed in drawing from him list of about
sixty cases, in which he desired altera-
tions to be made or the names omitted
He promised to write under a fictitious
name, and left Washington. The
affair was then disclosed BY the clerk
to his superiors, and an investigation
took place in the War and Treasury
departments, in which many circum-
stances were developed tending to
strengthen the disclosures made by
the clerk. A special agent was sent
to Rutland 10 secure the arrest of Tenn
pie, but the guilty man, learning of
his arrival. hastened to his house, took
his gun, went to his stable and shot
himself through the heart.
Delta chief., 1884-05-21
PrOnting by IdiOcy.

Speaking of the return of Gen. Henry
S. Taylor, who has been visiting the
insane asylums of Ohio in company
with Superintendent Gundry, OF a Mary
land asylum, the Baltimore American
says that he found in the idiot depart
ment Of one of them the two children
who for many years travelled with Bar
NUNS circus rs the great and only gem
uinc Aztec children. He was told that
the pseudo Aztecs were idiots, who. be-
fore Barnum got them. were in the
idiotic department of one of the Ohio
asylums. and after they no longer prov
ed curiosity were returned.
Delta chief., 1884-05-21
Rush Of Blood to the Head.

A rush of blood to the head or face.
causing hot sensation for moment.
when not occasioned by violent exercise
or mental emotions. is due to some dis
turbance of that portion of the nervous
system which regulates the circulation
of blood in the small blood vessels
Such disturbances usually accompany
conditions of the system in which there
has been loss of nerve tone. 1t is fire.
quently present in nervous dyspepsia,
and is one of the indications of the
approach of the menopause, or change
OF life, in women.
Delta chief., 1884-05-21
CANINE SUSPENDERS.
CY. J. CEEMLEK.

t1. j. tIAEhITh'
Thc IIatchct.
Two statesmen were talking together,
When one of them said, II confess
That am surprised and astonished
At your universal success.
NO doubt YOU could make living wages
And something to spare, ] suppose,
II engaged In the business OF selling
Suspcndcrs to dogs, II you chose
'Why nott" his companion responded;
Zone certainly ought to succeed
In selling to them OF all others
What they most exceedingly need.
II can't understand, | acknowledge,
The first said, his wits in a fog;
.What sort OF advantage suspenders
Can possibly be TO dogn'
Responded the second, "Suspenders
Are articles every dog wants,
For the very same purpose man does
In order TO keep up his pdHis''
Delta chief., 1884-05-21

Relief from Sick Headache, Drowsi-
ness, Nausea, Dizziness, Pain in the
Side, &c, guaranteed to those using
Carter's Little Liver Pills. These COM
plants are nearly always caused by
torpid liver and constipated bowels.
Restore these organs to their proper
functions and the trouble ceases. Car
ter's Little Liver Pills will do this every
time. One pill is dose. Forty in a
vial. Price 25 cents.
Delta chief., 1884-05-21

"The proof OF the pudding is in the eating"
so says the old adagc, and so the proof of the
who. have used II, Thos. Bass, Sr.. of Steel
vile, says, ~ have used Prickly Ash Bittcrs In
my family for years for ailments OF the kid
neys and bowels, and find there is no remedy
equal to It."
Delta chief., 1884-05-21
PENSIONS.

Soldiers, Dependent Fathers, Min
ors, Mothers and Widows. if you are in
doubt rs to whether you have received
all that is due you from the U. S. Gov
ernment, send to us for blanks and in
structions. Stoddart 4 Co., 4lS G
Street, Washington, ID, c.