The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1885-07-23
WESTERN.

Gen. Howard, who has just returned
10 Fort Omaha from Salt Lake City, says the
situation of affairs at that place is very
threatening, and serious collision between
the Mormons and Gentes is liable 10 occur
at any moment.
Joseph Palmer, colored, was hanged
mt Cincinnati for the murder OF William III.
Kirk on December24, 1888. william Berner
his associate in the crime, is serving a twen-
ty-year sentence in the Ohio Penitentiary,
the verdict of manslaughter in his case hav
ing been the exciting cause of the great riot
OF March, 1884.
Seven hundred Polish and Bohemian
strikers attacked the plate-mill In Cleveland,
Ohio. They were met by fifty policemen,
and fight ensued, in which two policemen
were hit with stones and fifty strikers badly
dubbed, one perhaps fatally.
A. H. Rose, California farmer whose
liabilities are $500, 900, has filed petition in
insolvency at San Francisco. Napoleon Bar
saloux, furniture dealer at No. 21l State
street, Chicago, has failed, with debts of
$4,000 and assets Of $50, 900.
At Chicago, Judge Prendergast, after
hearing arguments OF counsel in the Mayor
atty contest, denied the motion for recount
of the ballots cast at the spring election.
The defense gave notice that IL would move
for the appointment OF a custodian for the
ballots
Jetfras q Thompson, jobbers in mil
linery and fancy dress goods at Cincinnati,
have assigned, with Liabilities OF about
$4,000.
A package of dynamite exploded in
the Denver ana Rio Grande yards at Dem
yer. wrecking an empty car and injuring
the switchman.
At Springfield, ILL.,, Judge Treat, Of
the United States Court, sentenced six of
the locked-out wabash employees 10 imprIs-
onmcnt in the county jail--four for thirty
days each and two for ten days each-for
contempt OF court in interfering with nom
union men when at work.
A tornado wrecked fifteen houses at
Highmore, ID. T., and completely destroyed
the town OF HoIabird. Property I'm the dis
trict suffered severely, and two or three
persons were killed. storm OF rain, hail,
and lightning visited watertown, Wis,
leveling trees and fences and inficting con-
siderable injury upon growing crops. Much
damage was done at Branerd, Mimi, and
along the line OF the Northern Pacific Rail-
road.
The victims of the Yachting disaster
ut Lake Minnetonka were buried at Mime
apolis Busincfs of all kinds was entirely
suspended, and flags were hung at half-m
The funeral procession was tho largest ever
seen I'm that city. being a mile aud half
long. The streets along the route were lined
with people, and fully e,000 were at the com.
etery. Tho bodies of ex-Mayor Rand, his
wife, daughter, son, and nephew were buried
I'm one grave, and those of Mr.. Coykendall.
his wife, and daughter in another.
George Johnson, farmer living
near Eldora, Iowa, murdered his sister-in-
law, Grace Rand, with n razor. johnson
and his wife had had quarrel, and IL is sup
posed that i'm the dark he mistook the un-
fortunate lady for his wife.
Cleveland dispatches state that the
iron mills in that city have shut down in-
definitely, and the strikers there are re-
ported az still showing signs OF an intention
90 make trouble. There are factions among
the strikers. however, and some OF them
are In favor of returning to work at once.