The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1885-05-07
WESTERN.

A recent dispatch from st. Louis
states that John Mccullough, the actor, ''has
wandered about the city for several days,
imagining himself in Chicago and Cincinnati.
and inquirng constantly for streets and
places in those cities
Near Eldorado, No., Russell p. Gar
ris shot and killed his father, co years OF age.
Recently the murdered man brought home as
bride widow or 40, and discussions In the
family occurred. The younger Garris pro-
posed to move to another house. and the re-
moval OF a trunk which the old man claimed
as his led to dispute, the parent aiming a
rifle ut his son. Tho latter then fred with
his revolver, with deadly effect.
Mrs. Granger, q Milwaukee woman,
committed suicide by holding her head in q
bucket of water; and j. S. wisner, a patent
medicine venier of Quincy, H., shot him.
self, first arranging a rope about his neck SO
that he should be hanged after he fell.
Gov. Carpenter, of Montana, has is
sued proclamation against cattle entering
into the Territory
Another California millionaire has
been sued for breach of promise of marriage,
the defendant being f. j. Baldwin and the
plaintiff the daughter of one OF his former
tenants. She claims to have his promise in
writing.
The hall of the new Chicago Board
of Trade Building was formally dedicated to
the purposes of Commerce on the Goth ult.
Emery A. Storrs was the orator of the day.
but addresses were delivered by representa-.
tives of the Produce Exchanges of Liverpool,
New York, Baltimore, Boston, Philadelphia,
Montreal, st. Louis, Louisville, Cincinnati.
Minneapolis, and San Francisco. The dedi-
catory programme closed with a banquet at
the Grand Pacific Hotel, which was attended
by 500 guests The new structure is said to
be the finest OF its kind on the continent.
AS a north-bound passenger train on
the Louisville, New Albany and Chicago Rail-
road stopped for water at Harrodsburg, Ind.
about midnight, masked man, armed only
with a green hickory club, entered the bag
gage car. Instantly he fractured the skull OF
the express messenger, George X. Davis, and
followed the act by shooting him I'm the head
with revolver snatched from his
hand. The baggage-man, Peter Web
Der, was forced to open the safe,
from which about $4,000 was taken, and was
then given a bullet in the left side OF the
head. The robber pulled the bell-cord and
made his escape as the train Stacked I'D Mt
Bloomington. The frst information of the
crime was given to the passengers by the
wounded baggageman. Davis was MORALLY
wounded. Weber will recover.
The North Chicago Rolling Mil, To-
Gated at South Chicago, has been compelled
to close on account OF strike for higher
wages by 200 pitmcn. Twelve hundred work
mon arc thrown out of employment
At Naperville, H., Mrs. Harriet
Jenkins sent word to a neighbor that she de-
sired to see her, and then lay down on the
noor and shot herself through the mouth.
When the other woman arrived Mrs. jenkins
was dead.
Gov. Marmaduke entertains the
opinion that pleuro-pneumonia is practically
extinct I'm Missouri.
Domestic unhappiness led locomo-
tive engineer ut Macon. Ca, named w. II.
Jones, TO fatally shoot his wife and then Kill
himself.
Frank +. Hardy, q Chicago drum
mer, killed himself at a hotel I'm Galesburs,
H., leaving letters stating that whisky was
the cause OF his suicide.
George Mack, colored murderer,
was taken from the officers near South BEND,
Kan. and, with a rope about his neck, was
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