The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1884-03-06

In the harness-shop ut the Joliet
Penitentiary the notorious Frank Rande
seized a poker and crushed the skull
OF Deputy Warden John Mcdonald. He
then attacked Assistant Deputy Garvin with
huge knife, and that official shot the
desperate three times through the
head and body. Rande was taken
to the dead-house. but soon recovered.
Rande was received at the prison Feb. %,
1879, on iifesentence from Knox County,
Ill. He was the criminal sensation Of the day
at that time, and gloried In the various titles
of 1.-THE American brigand," ''the Knox Coun.
ty despcrado,' ''the St. Louis pawnshop
fiend," and the brilliant Bandit of the Wa
bash" His real name is Charles G. Scott,
a son OF Malachi Scott, Of Fairfield, Iowa.
Rande killed no less than five men during the
year1s77. and is the supposed murderer OF
thirteen different persons in the States of
Indiana, Illinois, and Missouri.
Gen. Graham defeated the rebels,
near Teb, after hotly contested fight. Four
English officers were killed and nineteen
wounded, including Baker Pasha and Col.
Burnaby, both of whom are severely wound
ed. Nine hundred OF the enemy's dead were
counted In the captured positions. Tokar
was occupied by Gen. Graham the following
day.
A delegation of the law and order
citizens OF Hot Springs, Ark, waited upon
Nose Harris, editor of the Daily Horseshoe,
and notified him that his immediate depart
ure from that city would contribute to its
welfare. Harris stood not upon the order OF
his going, but went at once. Harris offense
was a too close alliance with one of the rival
factions of gamblers that have been slaugh-
tering each other, and by an occasional poor
shot now and then winging an innocent spec
tator. Harris has led an adventurous career,
cutting ARRAYS in Arkansas and Texas.
The election to fill the vacancy
caused by the death of d. c. Haskell in the
Second Congressional District of Kansas,
came of on the LIST inst, and f. II. Funston,
Of Carlisle, Kan, the Republican nominee, Is
elected by about 1000 majority over Samuel
A. Riggs Fusionist of Lawrence. The vote
was the heaviest for years.
The prohibition bill passed the Iowa
House by a vote Of 52 TO 41--all the Repub.
hcans and one Democrat voting for the
measure. There being prohibition major
ity of twenty-four in the Senate, its passage
in that body is certain.
Judd Crouch and Daniel S. Holcomb
were arrested last week, and formally charged
with the Crouch massacre, near Jackson,
Mich. Four warrants for murder were
issued for the retention Of each prisoner, to
guard against possible technicalties. Three
months have elapsed since the murder.
At New Bedford, Mass, Robert
Smith and wife were found dead in bed, from
the effects of coal gas.
The Canadian Government agrees to
give Manitoba census every two and u half
years; to hand over the control of odd-num-
bered sections of unoccupled lands, and to
grant subsidy of $4,000 acres per mile for
the construction of a. line OF railway from
Winnipeg to Fort Churchill
In the recent debate in the British
House of Commons on the Egyptian policy of
the Government, w. Il. Marriott, mo mber
from Brighton, declared that the yMinistr
had lost the confidence of the country. He
Immediately resigned and has been reelected
by a majority of 1877.