The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1884-04-03

who for years had refused 10 support HE
family, ehot his VITO Ave times and then blew
out his brains. Five small children are left
20 charity.
A mass meeting at Lincoln, Ill, de-
nounced the acquittal OF o. A. Carpenter of
the murder OF Zura Burns. Tho resolutions
adopted expressed the belief that Carpenter
Is guilty of the crime, and demand that he
leave Logan County without unnecessary de-
hay.
The special commissioner sent out
West by the Chicago Tribune to investigate
the gold region of the Occur 'Alene Mount
aims, reports that there is no doubt of tho ex-
istenoe OF gold deposits along the banks of
Eagle Creek. On bar-claim forty feet above
the water he himself washed out Is or 20
cents worth of gold from a handful of dirt,
and another Chicagoan secnred be-
tween 20 and 80 cents worth I'm the
same way. But he does not undertake to
say from this that there is gold In
sufficient amount to pay. Claims are not be-
ing worked at the present time, owing to the
deep snow, nor arc they likely to be worked
for six weeks 10 come. 1t is believed there
Will DC trOuDle III Jnc ulSLTlct OH ucCpuub Ol
opposing claims when the mining season
opens. All persons are warned against at
tempting to enter the region for the noxt six
weeks, rs during the spring breaking-up
travel will be far more difficult than it was
during even the severest portion of the win
ter.
A gale of sixty miles an hour struck
oil %
the finest blocks. A hurricane at Kansas
City unroofed three dwellings and tore up
the sidewalk for a distance OF two blocks.
The first through train from the City
of Mexico reached Chicago on the ssth ult
The Legislature of New Mexico has
passed bill fixing tho capital at Santa Fc
and appropriating 100000 for a building,
Notwithstanding determined opposition from
Las Vegas and Albuquerque.
The Illinois State Labor Association,
in session at Chicago, adopted platform de-
mandiag the abolition of the contract system
for convicts, the establishment of boards OF
arbitration, and the enactment of an eight
hour law except for farm hands.
At Cincinnati, the other day, one
William Berner, the author OF most diaboli-
oal murder, was sentenced 10 twenty years
in the penitentiary, and hustled off 10 Column
bus by the first train. Ten thousand citizens
gathered at the Cincinnati Music Hall to ex-
press their Indignation al the escape from
the gallows of the murdorcr. On tho ad-
journment of the meeting, rush was made
for the jail, where n vast assemblage at once
attacked the DOORS having supplied them
selves with tools from q blacksmith's shop
The militia was called out, and several shots
were fred. Four persons were struck by
bullets, and two of them fatally injured
The mob, frenZied beyond I'll reason at the
action of the militia in firing upon them,
next broke into the armory of the State
Guard and captured all the guns and ammu-
milton of the troops, and also secured piece
of artillery, which they wheeled TO the
vicinity Of the JUL, and fired several shots,
with very poor aim, ut the military. The
latter returned the fire, instantly killing four
and wounding fifteen. The mob then set fire
10 the Jail by rolling coal-oil barrels into the
basement and igniting them.
Judd Crouch and Dan Holcomb were
held for trial at Jackson, Mich. for the muir
der of the Crouch family.