The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1884-09-04
WESTERN.

Oklahoma Payne and seven of his
followers, captured in Indian Territory by
Gen. Hatch, have been taken 10 Fort Scott
and banded over to the civil authorities.
Michael Griffin, of Des Moines, Iowa,
who was fined S100 and costs for selling whis-
sy, to be committed to jail until paid was
brought into court on a writ OF habeas cor
pus, claiming that the Justice could not inn
prison beyond thirty days, and that he had
no Jurisdiction. Judge Given decided that
the Justice had jurisdiction, and that the
costs were no part of the penalty. An appeal
will be taken to the Supreme Court.
In bail game at st. Paul, Elmer
Foster broke his arm in making the first
pitch. The sympathy of the spectators took
the form of a heavy purse.
The Second National Bank of Xenia,
Ohio. has suspended. J. s. Ankeney, its
cashier, has been specializing heavily in
grain, and his resignation was demanded.
The capital OF the institution was $50, 600,
and it reported a surplus of 100000.
The Peoples Bank, st. Paul, was
robbed of $4,000. The money was taken
from the safe by some person who must have
known the combination.
DIR. Salmon has submitted his report
concerning the pleuro-pneumonia IN Illinois
to the Bureau of Animal Industry. If the
infection shall be traced to the herd of Mr..
Dye, an extensive Ohio Spectator in Jersey
cattle, he says it is probable the disease has
been sown among animals of nearly every
State in the Union. The malady is unques-
tionably plcuro- pneumonia.
AT O'Fallon, ILL.,, after quarrel
about a dress, Mrs. Crowdber killed Mrs.
Cormack with n steel fle and then so
seriously injured herself with knife that
she died in few hours.
A jury in the Cook County Probate
Court at Chicago, after listening to the medi.
cal and other testimony produced regarding
Mr.. Wilbur f. Storey, proprietor of the Chi
cago Times, pronounced that gentleman in
sane The court appointed Mr.. Austin l..
Patterson, the present. business manager of
the Times, CONSERVATION of Mr.. Storeys prop
erty.
Wesley A. Lumm, while City En-
gineer at Sandusky, was indicted for accept
ing brides. He soon entered on a career of
dissipation, which caused his wife to commit
suicide, and he finished the sad chapter by
ending his own days with morphine.
Gov. Crosby, of Montana, SAYS that
the special agent sent by him 10 inquire into
the condition of the Piegan Indians has rust
returned, and that he found they were dying
OF gradual starvation at the rate of one a
day. The appropriations for this year only
"a m txun dc Of
beef and three pounds of bad -four per week
The Governor calls upon the Secretary of
the Interior to assume the responsibility of
issuing full rations until Congress meets in
December.
A Deputy Marshal in Kansas re-
ceived information which lee 20 the seizure
of an Illicit still near the village of Maxson.
and the arrest of three men who had operated
II for two years.
Those sterling actors, Mr.. and Mrs.
w. J. Florence, make their temperance
this week at Mcvickers Theater, producing
Jessup and Gilrs Facts" and their old
favorite comedy mighty Dollar" They
are supported by an excellent company.
A railroad car attached to circus
train caught fire near Greeley, Colo. Seventy
five men were sleeping in the car at the
time. Ten men persisted, and several others
were badly scorched. A dispatch from Den
yer gives the following particulars of the
accident: AT III o'clock last night the
train belonging 10 the Anglo American cir
Gus, Mr.. orion proprietor, left Fort Collins
for Golden via the Greeley, Salt Lake and
Pacific Road. Forty minutes later, when
near Greeley, the sleeping-car, I'm which
seventy-hve men, employed as roustabouts
in the circus, were asleep. caught fire and