The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1884-09-18
WESTERN.

Fifty thousand school-children at
the opening day.
In the Little Rocky Mountains, 100
miles from Benton, NJ. T., gold has been dis
covered, and people are focling to the new
diggings in great numbers. Three hundred
dollars has been taken from a pit twenty
feet square.
In the tobacco-growing belt of Wis
consin the crop has been harvested, and
a better quality of the tweed" was never
before raised.
The Chippewa River rose twenty feet
in few hours Five bridges and a number
of buildings at Chippewa Falls, Wis, were
swept away, causing a loss OF $4,000
BY the explosion of the cookers in
Doheny g. Spellman's distilery at Pekin, Ill,
the whole building was wrecked. Three men
were killed outright and fourth was fatally
injured.
The saloon-keepers of Youngstown,
Ohio, detailed one of their number to keep
open all night and submit to arrest. Money
has already been raised to carry the case to
the Supreme Court.
The proposition of the Chicago Live
Stock Exchange to practically demonstrate
whether pleuro-pneumonia is contagious or
not, by supplying ten head of healthy cattle
and guaranteeing the expense of exposing
them to the contagion said TO exist among
certain Illinois herds, was heartily Endorsed,
by the Omaha Live Stock Exchange.
Jacob Stein, Postmaster at Reno,
Iowa. shot and almost instantly killed his
wife and then fatally shot himself. He is
supposed to have been insane.
Near Delavan, Wis, Albert II. Tap
ping and winifred C. Dewey while out rid
ing, were instantly killed at railroad cross
ing. The young people were engaged to be
married.
Eau Claire (Wis.) dispatch: The
flood ravages at Eau Claire are over. The
highest mark registered was twenty-seven
feet, being four feet higher than the flood OF
1850. The current moved at the rate of eight
miles an hour. The da ms held out well except
the one in the north fork of the Eau Claire.
The Dells dam was crushed by the great
pressure of $4,000, 600 feet of logs. The loss
in the immediate vicinity OF Eau Claire is
estimated at 100000, and the entire loss
In the Chippewa Valley at $4,000, 900.
Half million feet of logs broke from the
boom near the Eddy mills and foated down
stream. The booms on Paint Creek, a tribu-
tary of the Chippewa River, went out late
last night, and the water in the Chippewa
River rose rapidly. This, with the floating
logs, carried away the upper bridge of the
Wisconsin Central at Chippewa Falls, and
also the lower bridge between there and this
city. The Milwaukee and st. Paul bridge
and all the city bridges here and the city
bridge at Chippewa Falls are all carried away.
Every bridge on the Chippewa has gone out
five railroad bridges and FIVE wagon
bridges. In this city the loss is appalling
No satisfactory estimate can be made at this
time. In and between Chippewa Falls and
Eau Claire the loss will not fail short of So
500, 900, and IL may greatly exceed that sum-
In this city over two hundred houses have
been swept away. Only one life lost so far
rs heard from.
The Michigan wheat crop yields
somewhat more than sixteen bushels per acre
on the average.
Oklahoma Payne and his confeder-
ates have been indicted by tho United States
Grand Jury at wichita, KAN, and will be
given hearing at Topeka, Nov. III.
At Pierre, ID. T., block of thirty
Ave buildings was destroyed by fire, the loss
being $780, 900.
It is estimated that the corn crop of
Iowa this year will be 800, coo, 900 bushels, the
largest ever known in the Hawkeye state.
Encouraging reports Of the corn and