The Northern Pacific farmer., 1884-08-07
few days before, and it was Believed that Lucy
was seduced and in their shame both killed

yard. A young man disappeared suddenly {
few days before, and it was Believed that Lucy
was seduced and in their shame both killed
themselves.
In Spencer township, Harrison county, Ind
a gang Of twenty masked men, who belong te
regularly organized band known as the
''Knights Of the Hickory Switch, :" went to the
house Of Mrs. Salie Upton, widow at mid
night and taking her from her bed, tied her tc
q tree near her residence and gave her most
cruel beating with hickory switches. The
woman's shrieks for mercy were heard q
quarter of mile away. The occasion fol
tho outrage was the fact that the woman was
suspected Of being unchaste
During the past three months a number OF
horses have been poisoned near Taylorville,
for the detection of the criminals John l.
Bethel obtained evidence showing that the
guilty parties were John Ingram and Jacob
Spradley, who were arrested, with two daugh-
ters of the latter Ingram gave bond and left
the country. and Spradley. was given ten days
ell was found dead in the streets Of Taylors-
vile, evidently murdered, and it is thought the
crime was committed by either Ingram OF
Spradley.
.. A young man about twenty-five years old en-
tered the foot-rule factory in Chicago Tuesday
afternoon and asked permission to use one Of
the fires. He was told to 60 ahead, and second
later the young man tore open q package and
exhibited an assortment Of silver ware of vari
GUS designs. He heaped a big ladle full of sill
melt them down. The factory hands became
suspicious, and called an officer, and the young
man was made a prisoner. Between twenty
and thirty pounds Of silver was found on him
rolled up in ball. He was recognized as
Dave Winter, q noted housebreaker. Some OF
the articled were recognized as having come
from the residence of H. n. Shufeldt of Geneva
Lake, and Charles Northrup of Racine, Wis.
whose houses were robbed few weeks since.
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Foreign Flashes:
At Airdrie, few miles from Glasgow, the
magazine of Dixon's collieries was forcibly
broken into by pickaxes, and fifty-six pounds
of dynamite. carried of. No clue and no arrests.
A dispatch from Vienna announces the death
Of Heinrich Laube, the German literateur.
He was born in Prussian Silesia in 1906, and
the author of numerous dramas, novels, and
books of travel.
An establishment for the manufacture of
explosive bombs was discovered in the Rue
st. Jaques, Paris, recently. 4 workman
named Rosieres and his mother and brother
were arrested.
The Gar has abandoned his contemplated
visit to Copenhagen in consequence of warn
ing from St. Petersburg police that delegates
of Nihilists and Anarchists at Paris and in
Switzerland had gone to Denmark, and were
concocting another attempt on his life.
The British ambassador to France has urged
inio 20 i,
the transportation of confirmed criminals to
penal colonies This action is based upon the
determined hostility of Australia, which is de-
cidedly opposed to being continued resort fol
escaped French criminals.
Burne-Jones has just eampleted in Rome a
design for the decoration of the apse in the
American Protestant church there The Gen.
ter picture will represent Christ seated and
holding the world in his left hand. Archangels
are pictured around the Saviour, and an angelic
host is represented above with rivers of re-
velation rolling beneath. The eentire design is Of
venetian mosaic, and covers circumference
Of 500 feet of the dome.
A London Times dispatch from Foo Chow
says: China has refused the indemnity de.
manded by France. A secret edict has beer
issued ordering the Chinese not to molest for.
elgnere. Frencn CIVILIANS anu maQal1nS, now
ever, assert that the lives of foreigners are moi
safe. Tho English flagship is landing sailors
to act in defense of Foreigners in Foo Chow.
China's merchant feet has been sold to an
American firm for $50 600 taels, nearly 81, ,30O
600. War to all appearances is imminent.
The report of Col. Majendie, c. E., and Col
A. Ford on the recent explosions in Scotland
Yard, ETC., London, has just been published
The inanectora rive IL as their deIiharata ron.
viction that the dynamite used was not of French
manufacture, but was from the Repauno chemi-
cal factory, Philadelphia, an article manufac-
tured for commercial purposes, and sold by
authorized agents of the manufacturers in all
parts of the United States. They are further
Of opinion that the late explosions were q
continuation or repetition on more timid
and less effective scale of the railway station
outrages of February last and carried out
doubtless under the same direction.