The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1885-12-31

have occurred would require half a dozen issues
OF this paper. We note only few of the most
sensational events Of this character;
JANUARY.
Geo Travis hanged Mt wellsboro, Pa for the
murder OF Martha Sylvia; Travis cremated the
corpse to conceal the crime. Wright Leroy
swung off at San Francisco for the murder OF
like manner at Alton, ILL.,, for the murder Of w o
coored friends. Thomas j. Chapm an, farm
hand. hanged at Charleston, H., for the murder
Il Nicholas Habhart, II farmer, in September,
1884. Chas. J. Rogers, Ienitentiary warden,
hanged at Portland, Oregon, for the murder of
another prison Official. Lafayette Melton, who
four years before was captain Of a band Of Ku
Klux that murdered Franklin Hale for betray-
ing their secrets, paid the penalty on the gall
lows at Corning, Ark.
FEBRUARY.
Elijah Wease aged rs, arrested in Hardy
County West Virginia, confessed that he muir
defed twelve persC rs prior TO or during the war
he was the leader OF a band OF robbers who
ravaged that section. John j. Jack arh narter
B. Page loysskt duol IN Street ut Portsmouth,
Va. nine shots exchanged, Page being mortally
wounded and jack escaping injury meeting oc-
easioned by alleged breach of social courtesy
Three men confined in the Jail at Audubon
Iowa, charged with numbering an old man
ramed Hiram Jefferson, were lynched by
mob; two Of the men were shot
in their cells, and the remaining one,
who was Son OF the murdered man.
WIS langcu. Zen HlWklnS, n cOlOleu muir
derer taken from Jail and riddled with bull
lets by a mob at Franklin, Texas. Wayne
Powers and George Gibson, who killed William
Gibson for SD and suit Of clothes, hanged at
Estillville. Va. butcher at Gibraltar Spain,
believed to be insane, murders the Vicar Cen
ersl OF the oce in the cathedral. Thon as
Morris, N gro, charged with assaulting little
girl Of IL, was left dangling 10 tree at Sohuen-
berg, Tex. A Georgia negro attomptt 10 poison
an entire family. giving as an excuse that "dere
was too many whits folks in dc world, and dat
tor kc1, ~ af ,fY
dorf and Kuecher, anarc hiss, who attempted
the life of the Ge rman Emperor and ott or royal
Per onages at h Niederwald celebration, be-
he adel at Halle. Lge Parker and Rush John
son, negroes, wero hanged at Little Rock for the
murder If john G. Wall, hite man. Richard
Trenke ne Philadelphia, for tho murder Of
Augusta XiTam his parnmoIr DIR. l.. n. Beach
HANGED a. Hollilaysburg Pa; uxoricide. James
w. Murray suit, rcd death ut Portland, ore for
tn, mui der of Alfred Yenke. George Schneider
Cony ictCd Of murder n the first degree Mt Ham
itoa. O.. for killing ard roll b.ng his own mother.
Sanford Jackson nged at Selma, Ala, for the
murier o. Rufus Gill both negroes franklin
j. Moses. Cf South Carolina On being sentenced
TO the Boston House of Correction, argued that
the petty lture Of his crime showed his mind
had given way under his troubles. Bob Johnson,
negro boy, assassiuat ID n citizen a. Princeton,
w. Va. and was tied 10 u tree ana r.dGled with
bullets. Babe Ellison, colored, was hanged by
mob at Shelbyyille, Tenn, for assaulting n
white lady Mrs. Mack, who was once sentenced
to the Wisconsin State Prison for life for MUIR
dering her husband in Rock County, in whose
case the Jury disagreed on u second trial, check
mated the prosecution by marrying its chief
witness and was released on her own bond. In
the District Court, Chicago, after trial lasting
fifteen days, j. G. Mackin, w. J. Gallagher. ard
Arthur Gleason were convicted for perpetrating
election frauds and Henry Biehl was acquitted
motions for new trials were entered, and the
first-named two were held in $4,000 each
Gleason in $4,000. Three unsuccessful attempts
were made at Exeter, England. 10 hang John
Lee, who killed n woman near Torquay because
she refused To marry him the machinery of
the galows was swollen from moisture, and the
trap refused TO work the execution was post
pOnCd. The cases against Frank James, the
Missouri bandit, were dismissed at Bonneville,
ON motion of the Prosecuting Attorney Min
nesota adopted new penal code restoring the
death penalty for murder in the first degree.
MARCH.
DIR. Albert g. +. Goerson, who poisoned his
wife five years before, was hanged at Philadel-
phia. Lee Slater colored) was taken from Jail
at Monroe, n. c. by mob and hanged. Fifty
citizens of Fairfield, Neb., captured and hanged
Mrs. Taylor and her brother TO a bridge on sus-
picion of completely in the murder Of n farmer
named Roberts. VIM. Neal, the third and last
of the gang who murdered two girls and n boy
and burned their bodies ut Ashland Ky., in
1881, was hanged at Grayson, XIV. George Rouse,
n negro, outraged farmers wife near Vienna,
Ga, and then cut her throat no was captured,
mutilated by a mob, and hanged naked to a
tree.
Nelson Edwards a New York dentist spent
two days in killing himself with razor; his
throat md body were horribly gashed. Richard
Fraser was hanged at Charleston, S. c., for tho
murder of Jack Gethers and Columbus Gran
ford swung off ut Yorkville, in the same
State for taking the life Of Ellison Sanders all
four were people OF color. Geo. A. Mills, wife,
murderer, expiated bis crime in the jail yard at
Brooklyn, n Y. An extremely sensational muir
der excited St Louis crowded into a trunk in
the Southern Hotel was found the partially de-
composed corpse of q man knewn as Arthur
Preller, OF London. Eng, with n note placed on
the body reading: $50 perish all traitors to the
great cause :" on the breast OF the dend man was
n cross cut with knife Preller was believed to
have boon chloroformed and murdered by n
companion named H. Lenox Maxwell, NJ ID.
both parties were dandified Englishmen The
people Of Union City Tenn, took from the Sher-
in and hanged n negro boy named Pierson, and
Ward, n white man, members of n desperate
band Of robbers. At a farmhouse in Holt Coun-
ty Missouri VIM. Clark shot Mrs. Harding and
her son and daughter on account of a bastardy
suit, and then killed himself A party Of lynch
ers from Blunt and Harold, Dakota forced the
Jail Mt Pierre, and hanged James II. Bell, the
murderer of Forest G.. Small, TO the flagstaff of
the Court House Bell and Small were rival law
yers. Thos. Samon, who two years previously
murdered Mrs. Ford, his landlady and u man
and child, was hanged at Laconia, N III. Near
Lewiston, Idaho, the bodies of Peter Brazil and
James Flynn, stock ranchers, were found near
each other, with pistols and clubs by their sides.
The Able Gannahut was guillotined at Paris
for the murder Of Mime. Bafierich. A shocking
tragedy was reported from Concordia, o. n Ger
man named Adolph Hess beheaded his child
with an AK, Deut MS wife 10 Qedtn Win the same
weapon, and then hanged himself.
MAY.
George Mack, colored murderer, was taken
from officers near South Bend, Kan, and with a
rope about his neck, was dragged by gallop-
ing horse into town, where he was suspended TO
an awning i'm front of n billiard saloon, the
scene of the murder A passenger train on the
L., ". A. d G. II. r. stopped for water at Har-
rodsburg, Ind, where il was boarded by an I'M
known man, armed with q hickory club; no en-
tered the baggage-oar, fractured the skull OF the
express messenger, snatched n revolver from
him, and then compelled the bagcageman to
open the SAFE from which he took about So 900 !;
then he shot the baggageman in the head, and
escaped from the train as it Stacked up at
Bloomington. w. II. l.. Maxwell, the murderer
of c. A. Preller at the Southern Hotel. ST.
Louis, was arrested at Auckland, New Zealand
on landing at that port. At Benito, New Mexico
Martin Nelson, an insane man, killed DIR. VIM
II. Flynn and then shot dead M. s. Mayburry
his wife and three children, and also n neighbor I;
n guard Of citizens surrounded the house, but
were surprised by Nelson, who shot one of the
party ana then himself dispatched. Six
Thousand people fiocked to Morganfeld, Ky, 20
witness the execution OF Moses Cation, who had
beaten his wife numerically and then banged
her: Cations crime, for inhuman aud diabolical
cruelty, surpassed anything ever heard Of in the
criminal history Of Kentucky In n dispute
over cards ut Wnlthourville, Ga, five negroes
were killed and four wounded n fat-car stand
ing on n side-track was the scene OF tho tragedy :
d. d on Mrs. Pfrat, of Lefits, Pa, OK her
nve -ildren TO p !, and after kiss ng them
throw them INTO n water: Their screams
brOught helm and three OF them were reasoned