The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1885-04-02
WESTERN.


Paul Road has been handed over to the
representatives of the frstmortgage bond.
holders. in consequence of default on
81, 0o0, 900 of bonds.
A cartman In Detroit, named Thomas
Burke, persisted in shoveling iron ore from
the base of huge pie, and was instantly
killed by its collapse.
Joel Anderson and Laurel Baugh,
on trial at Carrollton, NO., for killing John
Rea on the sth Of April. 1884, were found
guilty, and their punishment assessed at
ninety-n'ne years each in the penitentiary.
A disease identical with that affect
ing Gen. Grant, carried of pioneer Of Mon
tague, Mich, named James Dalton, after
several operations had been performed.
Ex-Mayor Thomas j. Navin. of
Adrian. Mich, was sentenced, Mt Detroit, to
ten years in the State Prison for forging
signatures to city bonds.
An incendiary fire destroyed stable
and two other buildings at Urbana, Ohio,
thirty seven horses, some OF them Kentucky
thoroughbrcds, perishing In the flames.
The remains of Charles Luedeking, a
German Revolutionist of lsis, have been
shipped from St. Louis to the crematory at
Lancaster, Pa.
The Attorney General of Iowa has
decided that Mr.. Cattell is State Auditor and
that the State Treasurer must pay warrants
drawn by him.
Mdlle Nevada was rendered an ova-
ton at San Francisco the other night. Be
sides numerous floral gifts OF a costly charac-
ter, her old schoolmates presented her with
q purse Of 81, 600 in five-dollar god pieces.
She attempted to sing 'Home, Sweet Home"
but tears welled into her eyes, and che fed
from the stage.
Miss May Simons, of Buffalo, who was
visiting friends In Chicago, was arrested at
the demand Of State street shopkeeper for
attempting to steal jersey, and was locked
up In a police station with two dsreputable
females. The mistake was speedily made ap-
parent In the courtroom.
j. II. McVicker secured q permit to
place two additional stories on his tbeater, at
. cost of 500, 600.
John Neil, burglar lying in Cleve-
land jail awaiting sentence to the peniten-
tiary, was married to a servant who desired
something TO worry about
At Muncie, Ind, late at night, Olney
Scott and william Haines went TO the hen
house of Bishop Scott TO play joke by max
ing the chickens cackle. The owner Of the
poultry had been forewarned, and endeav-
ored to reciprocate good-naturedly by firing
an old horse pistol Mt the invaders. He blazed
away into the air, and is now bowed down by
grief at having killed his friend Haines.
A Green Bay dispatch records the
death of Mrs. Frink, widow of the first Bap-
fist missionary in the Fox River valley.
Orville Cronkhite, veteran in the
insurance business in Chicago, and General
Arson Stager, formerly one of the General
Superintendents of tho Western Union Tele-
graph Company are chronicled among the
recent deaths.
Lake men do not expect the resump-
ton OF navigation between the upper and
the lower lakes much before the 1st OF June
The ice in the straits of Mackinac is over
thirty feet in thickness.
A fire in the cooper-shop of the Ohio
Penitentiary ut Columbus caused a loss of
about $4,000.
Five oil wells have this week been
completed at Macksburg, Ohio two OF which
yield $50 barrels per day. The fourth iron
tank will be finished this week.
An inquest was held ut Chicago over
the remains of the Langham Hotel victims.
The testimony was such that the deaths could
not be attributed to criminal carelessness,
and averdict was rendered accordingly.
Eight deaths from smallpox are said
to have occurred this week among the col
ored people at Mound City, Ill.
I. s. Hyatt, one of the inventors OF
ccllulcid, formerly Sheriff OF Henry County,
Illinois, recently died In Florida.
The, wheat acreage in the southern
half OF Illinois Is said not TO be half what IL
was in 1880, and the plant has suffered
seriously from frost.
Fourteen business buildings at Oak
land, Ind, valued at seo.0O0, and the Miller
block at Valparaiso. worth about the same
sum, were destroyed by fire.
SOUTHERN.