The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1884-08-14
WESTERN.

In liquor case in the District Court
at Clinton, Iowa, Judge Hayes rendered de-
cision which relegates all such cases to the
district courts on indictments, the Justices
power being that of committing magistrates.
Orrin A. Carpenter, who was charged
with the murder of his servant girl, Fora
Burns, at Lincoln, ILL.,, and acquitted of the
charge some months ago, contemplates bring
ing an action for damages against the men,
bers of the committee Of citizens at Lincoln
who waited on him with set of resolutions
warning him to leave that city. Mr.. Carpen-
ter was in Chicago the other day consulting
lawyers, so says the Chicago Tribune.
The Chicago, Milwaukee and ST.
Paul Road reports an increase of Sss,OOO in
its earnings for the fourth week in July.
A mine opened on the Temperance
River, seventy-ive miles from Duluth, Mimi,
recently, is turning out rich rock silver
which yields about $500 per ton. The vein is
FIVE or six feet wide. The mine is said to be
a bonanza.
Fire destroyed building in San
Francisco occupied by the Schmidt Litho-
graphic Company and Tatum & Bowen, caus-
ing loss of s26O,OOO Seven frame stores at
Akron, Ohio, were consumed by incendiary
fire, and block of buildings in East Port
land, Oregon, valued at $4,000, was also
burned.
The baseball clubs organized at
Saltwater and Fort Wayne have been dis
banded because of financial embarrassment.
BY proclamation Gov. Crosby, Mon
tana. has established a quarantine againsl
Texas cattle. He justihes his action by stat
ing that $500, 900, 900 worth Of cattle in the
Territory would be endangered by the impor-
tation of cattle from the infected districts.
DIR. Paaren, State Veterinary Surgeon
of Illinois, recommends that Southwestern
Virginia, North Carolina, South Carolina
Georgia, Alabama, Florida, Mississippi,
Louisiana, and the greater part of Texas,
Arkansas, and portions of Tennessee, Kan
sas, and Missouri be regarded as infected re-
gions, and that cattle from those regions be
subjected to quarantine until the LIST of Nov
ember.
The famous cannon "Old Kickapoo"
was purchased for S112 from Chicago junk
dealer by the Kansas Historical Society, and
will be shipped back to Topeka.
Correspondents of +. p. Bacon &
Co., of Milwaukee, report heavy losses IN the
barley crop, by hail and rain storms, in Wis
consin, Minnesota, Dakota, Iowa, and Ne
brsska.
The estimated corn crop of Nebraska
this year is 120,000,O0O bushels-nearly 49,
100000 bushels greater than last year.
A Topeka dispatch reports that &c en-.
Hatch has encamped with SIX companies of
cavalry at point twenty-five miles southeast
of Caldwell, Kan, and proposes TO clear
Oklahoma of two thousand invaders"
Two squadrons of United States cav
airy descended upon Oklahoma Payne's
camp at Rock Falls, Indian Territory, arrest
ed the leaders, and started them of for Fort
Smith. The women, children, and new Of
tenders were escorted to the Kansas line. OF
Paynes paper, which was ready 10 go TO
press, 100 copies were printed, when the ma
chine was packed up and loaded into a
wagon. The boarding house, drug store, and
some other cheap structures were burned,
and not vestige OF the settlement was per-
mitted to remain. Payne, who had been
bloodthrsty in his threats, was docile as a
lamb under arrest.
In ball game between the Mime
apolis and Milwaukee clubs at the latter city,
Pearson, the Minneapolis pitcher, broke his
arm i'm delivering ball.
Nineteen lepers were placed on the
steamer Oceanic at San Francisco, the city
giving each of the unfortunates ticket
and s..
The defendant in Mother Hub
bard dress case Mt Omaha was dismissed.
Difference to public opinion causing the Po-
lice Chief not TO prosecute. The style of
dress involved Is now worn more than ever.
Heavy frost in Wexford and adjoining
counties in Michigan damaged small fruits.
Ex-Sheriff Goliath, of Lima, o., and