The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1884-03-27

hands in the house. This is story
which Balzac could have worked up
with fine effect
KLEIN induced McCue to drink three
pints of whisky on a wager, at San An
tonic. Tex. The feat proved fatal.
McCue's widow sued Klein for dam
ages, and got verdict Of $4,000. On
appeal, the Supreme Court confirms
the jury's conclusion. The ruling was
that, as the drinker was so intoxicated
as to be incapable OF consent at the time
of swallowing the third and killing
pint, the man who made him do it was
responsible.
FRANK KENT, says Monticello (N.Y.)
correspondent of the New York Sun,
ives.in the Sackett's Pond neighbor-
hood, this county. The region Is q
wild one. Residents of the neighbor-
hood coming to town during the past
week have had much to relate about
recent hunting exploit, or series of ex-
PLOTS, of Frank Kent, who, they de-
clare, is no hunter at that. A few days
ago, while he was at work in his yard,
he saw his dog suddenly make for the
woods as fast as it could run. In few
minutes he heard the sounds of q strug-
gle between the dog and some other
animal. Kent got his gun and ran to
the spot. He found his dog and large
red fox fighting. The fox whipped the
dog, and the latter sneaked back home.
The fox ran into his burrow, at the
mouth of which the fight occurred.
Kent dug the fox out and started home
with it alive. He had taken few steps
only when q small animal flashed across
an opening in front of him, immedi-
ately followed by another. Close be-
hind the two bounded large animal
The first two were raccoons. They were
being pursued by wildcat. The coons
scrambled into hollow log. The wild
cat, seeing Kent, did not stop until it
had gone 100 yards further on. Then
it took position in chestnut tree.
Kent hastily took off one Of his sus-
penders and tethered the fox to a chest
nut sapling by both hind legs. He
then ran to the hollow log where the
coons had taken refuge, and closed up
both ends with chunks of wood. The
wildcat still remained in the chestnut
tree in plain sight. Kent walked to-
ward it, but it showed no inclination to
escape. Kent stood under the branch
on which the wildcat crouched, not
more than twenty-five feet above him.
The animal prepared itself to spring
upon him, but before it could do SO Kent
sent rifle ball into its heart, and it fell
to the ground and died almost instantly.
Before the report of the gun had died
away Kent heard noise of. to his
right in the underbrush, and he thought
it was q COW that had wandered into the
woods. He went into the brush toward
the spot where the noise came from,
and to his surprise discovered large
bear dragging itself along with both of
its hind feet in heavy steel trap, to
which was attached long chain. Kent
was obliged to shoot the bear twice be-
fore he killed it. After waiting q few
minutes to see whether he would be
called upon to kill or capture anything
more, Kent went back after his fox. He
got there just in time, for by its strug-
giles the fox had freed one of its legs,
and would soon have gained its liberty.
Kent carried the fox home and placed
it in his smoke house. Then he went
out and brought the wildcat in. He
next took bag and went to the hollow
log in which the coons were imprisoned.
He removed the pieces of wood from
one end and drew the mouth of the
bag over the hole. He showed stick
in at the other end of the log, and the
coons ran out and into the bag. Kent
drew the bag off of the log and carried
the coons home alive and turned them
into the woodshed He then went out
and dragged in the carcass of the bear
He has not found out yet where the
bear and the trap joined company.
Kent's exploit consumed fifteen minutes
only. But his neighbors insist that he
Is no hunter.
HE London Times prints letter
from its Russian correspondent giving
al extremely interesting sketch of
Nechayeff, the founder of Nihilism, or
rather of the revolutionary organiza-
ton which under that name has spread
terrorism oil over the empire. 1t has
generally been supposed that organized
revolutionary societies of this kind
date back nearly a hundred years, but
IL now appears that instructions pre-
vious to 1866 were only revengeful up
risings, without any real organization
or any fixed policy. 1t was not till
after Karakozoff attempt upon the life