The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1885-09-24
WESTERN.

John l.. Sullivan, the pugilist, plead
ed guilty at Cleveland to the charge of Sun
day ba!-playing, and was fined 81 and costs
"a total of SIG.
Miss Arvilla M. Bogart, aged %, liv-
ing near Oconomowoc, Wis, was stung on
the head by a bee, and died in twenty min
utes from the effects OF the sting.
A female horse-thief, giving the name
of Mary L. Sheppard, aged II years, of Web
ster City, Iowa, was captured at Dodgeville,
Wis, while attempting to sell n stolen team.
The corn crop of Missouri will be
somewhat below the average for the PAST
five years, which has been ISL, 600, 600 bushels.
The bodies of three hundred China
men, supposed to have been gathered from
cemeteries in all parts of California, were
discovered in San Francisco cellar, where
they. were being prepared by fellow-country-
men for shipment to the Flowery Kingdom.
Several Chinese were engaged in packing
into tea-boxes the bones Of thirty five or
forty Of their countrymen for shipment to
China, where they must be buried in order
to insure their presence at the Celestial
taken secretly at night from the cemeteries
and carried to this cellar or central depot.
Here the bones are boiled down so as to strip
them of the putrid flesh. They are then
placed In boxes lined with lime and hermet-
ically sealed, to be shipped to the Flowery
Land. The Coroner confscated the remains
and removed them to the morgue.
Careful estimate of the corn crop in
Nebraska show it to be the biggest ever
raised in the State. The State Board of
Agriculture estimates total yield of over
$50, 000,0 900 bushels. A dispatch from Des
Moines says that from carefully prepared
estimates the Iowa wheat yield will exceed
that OF last year about $4,000, 900 bushels, or
q total yield this year of 265, 900 bushels.
Miss Dean, daughter of q wealthy
lumber dealer of Chicago, began working in
aspinning mill at Rockford last week for 60
cents per day. Her father, however, gives
her dollar for each cent earned.
c. E. Cook, proprietor of the Jen-
nihgs County Bank, at North Vernon, Ind,
has made an assignment, having become in
volved by dealings in the warrants overis-
sued by various township trustees IN In
diana.
Five indictments for illegal cohabita-
ton were returned by the Federal Grand
Jury at Salt Lake City, and two women who
refused to testify were sent to the peni
Tertiary for contempt.
The Chinese consuls located at San
Francisco have gone to Rock Springs, wyom-
S,n 10 fuu ha Of
their countrymen at that place.
The Lumber Manufacturers Associa-
ton Of the Northwest met in Chicago last
week. The delegates present seemed gener-
ally to favor decreased outputs to relieve
the market.
The cage in the shaft of the Mantle
mine, near Decatur, ILL.,, while descending
with Ave men, Suddenly dashed 200 feet to
the bottom, the shock rendering all tho oc-
cupauts unconscious. Two OF the men will
not recover.
Santa Fe New Mexico) special:
"During the last ten days, Apaches have
murdered six citizens in Grant County-a
rancher named Brady Pollock, near Ell
Mancho; Evaristo Abeytia, a Mexican near
San Lorenzo: two sons OF John McKenn on
his ranch near Gallino Creek; George Horn,
q wood-chopper, near Georgetown, and a
Mexican sheep-herder, near Lake Valley,
name unknown. The savages also destroyed
Mcknight & Keith's ranch-houses, near Lake
valley"
A compromise has been effected be-
tween coal miners and operators in the