The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1884-10-09
WESTERN.

Leave to file petition in error In the
Scott liquortax law was granted last week
by the Ohio Supreme Court. They were ad-
vanced on the docket and will be heard
Oct. %.
George A. Wilt, of Philadelphia, en-
route to Mpskegou, Mich, where he expected
TO engage in the newspaper business, cut his
throat on passenger train near Lima, Ohio.
Seventeen cars of Lancaster County
tobacco, en- route for San Francisco. passed
west the other day. The value of the ship
ment is $4,000.
Wheat to the amount of 1000 tons
was last week shipped from San Francisco to
New Orleans over the Southern Pacific route,
destined to Liverpool.
Near Denver an express and pas
senger train dashed into each other, thirty
passengers being injured, none fatally. A
locomotive and a sleeping-car were demo-
ished.
Another set of questions for Mr..
Blaine to answer has been filed at Indianap-
oils by the Sentinel in the libel suC. The
queries hinge upon the plaintiffs marriage,
where 1t occurred, the minister or magis-
trate Officiating, the witnesses, and the
movements of Mr.. Blaine after the ceremo-
ny.-The deposition of Hon. John V. lie
Moyne, ex-Congressman from Chicago, was
taken in that city last week. He swore that
he witnessed tho marriage in Pittsburgh in
March, 1851, of Mr.. Blaine and closely
yelled lady whose name was given as Miss
Harriet Stanwood. Nothing was said about
prior marriage, but Mr.. Blaine requested
that nothing be said about the union for six
months.
Near Ashland, Wis, q construction
train struck washout, and plunged in. All
the men we're riding in the tender or cab of
the engine, and as 1t dashed downward, a rail
pierced the boiler, letting the steam and wa
ter out. Two persons were instantly killed,
and a number of others fatally scalded. The
scene at the wreck is described as shocking
In the extreme.
Jersey cattle from any State are pro-
hibited from entering Kansas, and cattle
from Kentucky, Iowa, Nebraska, and Mis-
souri, must undergo a sixtyday quarantine
and be perfect y healthy before entrance to
the State will be allowed.
In hundred-mile riding contest at
st. Louis, Charles NJ. Anderson defeated the
three men matched against him, they giving
up the race on the eighty.ffth mile. Ander-
son covered the eighty-ive miles in three
hours and forty-six minutes.
Near Sullivan, Ind, a shot was.fired
into the railway car occupied by Gov. John
p. ST. John, the Prohibition candidate, the
missile lodging I'm the woodwork inmedi-
ately I'm front of him. The ex Governor took
the matter coelly.
As result of the railroad disaster
near Ashland, Wis, seven men are dead,
three are dying, and two are missing, and it
is supposed are under the wreck. Four
others who had been scalded or manned will
probably recover.
The dead bodies of Harry Percival,
wife, and child, and Hugh MAR, an employee,
were found the other moring on their farm
near Fullerton, Neb., the premises having
been despoiled of valuabes. Who the plum
derers are is unknown. Percival's remains
were found outside the house, and had been
mutilated by hogs.
In the case of James Dacey, the
Chicago murderer, jury at Woodstock, ILL.,,
agreed on the death penalty Dacey, last
April murdered Alderman Gaynor in Chi
cago saloon.
. The hottest night on record for that
section was experienced on the Sd inst at
st. Paul, Mimi, the thermometer registering
so at midnight. The air was sitting. and the
people feared that disaster of some kind
was imminent.