The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1885-09-03
WESTERN.

Frank p. Cass and A. p. Goody-
kountz wealthy white citizens of the Chero-
kee Nation, were murdered while asleep IN
camp near the Sac and Fox agency, in Indian
Territory. Plumber was the incentive to the
crime.
Minnesota's population, according to
the census just completed, is l, lis, 456, an in.
crease of 81, 713 in Ave years.
A Nebraska man claims to have dis
covered a process by means of which the
human soul can be made visible ut the mo-
ment when the body which it has inhabited
dies.
Many depredations have recently
been committed by Apache Indians in Arl-
IONA and Sonora. At Bassachuca three
Americans and eight Mexicans have been
mu rdered. A party OF armed citizens mas
left Tombstone for the Mexican border to
attack the hosties.
The Appraisers Office in San Fran
cisco is to be investigated, as it has been dis
covered, as alleged, that under its former
administration large quantities of opium
and other valuable merchandise have been
stolen from the stores by officials. A special
investigation of the customs and Chinese
certificate business will also be made.
Freeman S. Cargan and wife were,
nine years ago, in Saginaw County. Michi-
gan. sentenced to life terms in the Jack
con and Ionia Prisons respectively, for the
murder of Charles Smith. They were con-
victed on the testimony of Smiths widow,
who was herself condemned to ten
years imprisonment as an accessory. Just
before her death, which occurred recently
in the Detroit House OF Correction, Mrs
Smith confessed that her testimony against
the Cargans was a pure invention. Mrs.
Cargan's sentence was committed and 1t is
expected that her husband will soon receive
pardon.
Policeman Fred Gall, of Springfield,
H.. is dead, making the third victim of the
recent tragedy in that city.
Lucien White was arrested in St.
Louis for counterfeitny Brazilian bank
notes, partly finished bills aggregating $780,
900 having been discovered. August Cast &
Co. were doing the printing, the paper pre-
sumably to be used as cigar-box labels but
becoming suspicious, informed the United
States detectives. New York and Chicago
lithographng firms refused to undertake the
Job. White, who lived in Brazil for a num-
Der of years, states that a Texan named
Lane is the originator of the scheme.
Missouri coal miners met in secret
session Mt Sedalia for the purpose OF forming
a State organization to be under tho juris-
diction OF the Knights OF Labor. The West
ern Nail Association, IN session at Pitts
burgh, resolved TO make no change In the
present card Of prices, and to continue feed
ers In the nailers' r !.
At Sturgis, ID. L., Corporal Ross
Hollis, of the Twenty-fith Infantry, who as
sassinated DIR. II. 7. Lynch, was hanged by
the citizens.
Justice Kersten, OF the Chicago Po-
lice Court, fined several members of the Sal
walton Army for making n disturbance on
necessary cash, and were sent to the Bride
well.
The Marquis de Mores, who shot and
killed a man named Luffcy at Medora, Dab,
I'm June, 1883, has just been indicted for the
homicide.
Telegraphic dispatches from various
portions OF tho Northwest indicate that the
crops suffered little or no damage from the
frosts-
The dead bodies of Poundmaster
McNutt and City Marshal Evans, Of Geneva,