The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1885-11-05
WESTERN.

The rear car of Wabash passenger
train left tho track near Laporte, Ind,
tumbling over several times and rolling in
to the ditch. Thirteen persons were serious
ly injured.
Eighty lodges, representing several
States, celebrated at Cleveland, Ohio, the
seventeenth anniversary of the organization
of the A. o. L. w.
Chicago elevators contain II, 953, 663
bushels of wheat, /, Je1. 459 bushels of corn.
2l2,4l3 bushels of oats, go, 42s bushels of
rye, aud l2O,6t3 bushels of barley, total,
IA, 527, 900 bushels of all kinds of grain,
against 9, III, O33 bushels year ago
AT Chicago A. p. Burrus shot and
fatally wounded Miss Lillian Walter and Mrs.
Ray Good while the young ladies were leav-
ing the Office of X. G. Dun & Co.'S mercan-
tile agency, at No. l44 Monroe street The
day before Burrus had been dismissed from
that Office because he gave utterance to SLAM
derous remarks about the character of his
victims, and the shooting was done in aspirit
of revenge. Burrus fed after the shooting,
and was chased by great crowd of people
who wanted to lynch him, even after police
officers had taken him ip custody.
A frightful accident is reported from
East Saginaw, Mich, the particulars of
which are contained in the following dis
patch from that city: Fire broke out on the
tug c. c. Mcdonald, lying at the dock about
two hundred feet south of Genesee avenue
bridge, and q large number OF persons rushed
upon the bridge to witness the fire. The draw
was open to let the fire tugs through, and
moment later a portion of the foot-walk
of the bridge gave away with crash, pre-
cipitating forty to sixty people into the
swift current of the river, which is fifteen
feet deep. The night was dark and no
lights near, while people struggling and
shouting in the water amid the troken debris
of the bridge made UP scene that battles
description. AS quickly AS possible
help was obtained, row-boats manned,
boards and planks thrown out, and
the work of picking up commenced,
Only one graapling-iron was on the
bridge, but supply sent down from the
Tittabawasse booms was put into use as soon
as possible. The current is very strong. and
many of those picked up had drifted some
distance down stream. A number of those
rescued were more or less injured. Two
bodies have been recovered, and half dozen
others are still missing. One person, who
was rescued at the time of the mishap, will
die from injuries sustained"
Mormon missionaries continue to
make their appearance in Central Illinois
They travel in pairs and appeal to the char
table for subsistence.
A dispatch from Wellington. Kan,
says: The "boomers" have begun oper
ations with even more determination and
vigor than were manifested year ago
Yesterday morning, the day announced FOL
the beginning of the campaign, which prom
ises so much in the near future, covered
wagons and covered buggies, carriages, and
"schooners," filed with the families of the
eager yet itinerant boomers, could be seer
in droves and numbered by the score
To-day tho crowd has been supplement-
cd by hundreds more, all with sails set 70,
the happy, cherished spot called Oklahoma
From the earnestness of the boomers and
their equipments one would imagine they ar,
determined to eight 1t out on this line IL 4
takes HI sumnof. LUIS, IN snOrt, IL tn'
spirit displayed by several men who were in
terviewed while passing through the city.
Treasurer Abbott, of the Wisconsin
Central Road, announces that the Grea
Western terminal scheme at Chicago will b,
carried out, Mt an expense of about SO,
100000.
A Chicago drummer named Max
well, while eating oysters at Lafayette, Ind