The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1885-10-29
WESTERN.

In the criminal court at Indianapolis,
q colored man named Harrison Tasker was
arraigned for criminal assault upon Ger
man domestic named Helen Huendling. AS
the prisoner was being led out in irons, he
was fatally shot by young brother of the
wronged girl.
At Fourth and Olive streets, st.
Louis, Mr.. A. ]. Cooper, of Chicago, and
certain other gentlemen propose TO erect a
ten-story structure that will surpass any
building west of the Alleghenies. Mr.
Stephen Hatch, the New York architect, has
been Entrusted with the plans. When con-
structed, the building will be occupied by
bank, Western Union Telegraph Company,
safety deposit vaults, and the Jaccard jew
elry Company.
At Youngstown, Ohio, Mrs. Mary
Muldoon reported to the police that she had
been robbed of over $4,000, and that her
fourteen-year-old son, Tom, was missing.
Before midnight Tom was found in a shed
asleep. His pockets were weighted down with
silver, and g., 200 in bills found on his per-
son. He was near the railroad, and II is sup
posed he was intending to leave the city.
The money was restored to his mother and
the boy locked up.
A dispatch from Winchester, ILL.,,
says that erred Homer who was shot by
mob, has died of his wounds. When he was
dressed for burial four shot wounds were
found in his back. These wounds were not
discovered by the physicians who attended
him. He died protesting his innocence of
the crime for which the mob killed him.
A man named Rhine, who was killed
by the caving i'm of sewer at Massillon,
Ohio, left thirteen children in destitute cir
cumstances.
The Mormon missionaries operating
in the vicinity OF Tolono, Illinois, learning
that a shower of eggs had been arranged by
the citizens, took their departure across the
line into Indiana.
That highly amusing comedy, "The
Private Secretary will be given at Nc
vicker's Theater this week, by the Madison
Square Company, Mr.. W. II. Gillette appear
ing in his inimitable role of the Rev. Robert
spalding. The company is a very capable
one.
A dastardly deed was committed near
Waco, Neb., by man named Brandt, who
was running threshing machine. 1t ap-
pears that boy aged thirteen years, while
cutting bands, accidentally cut Brandt's
hand. Brandt became enraged, and told the
boy that IL he cut his hand again he would
run him through the machine. The boy be-
came excited, and In few minutes did again
slightly cut Brandt's hand. Brandt there
upon seized the boy and showed him into the
cylinder head first. He was instantly killed,
his head being almost completely torn from
his body. Brandt fed, but was captured
and taken to Waco, where he narrowly es-
capped lynching.
The rate Of taxation in Illinois for
1885 has been fixed at AZ cents on the 500 of
taxable property-2s cents for general
revenue and IA cents for school purposes.
One man was killed and seven seri-
ously injured by the giving way of an arch
I'm the Illinois Capitol at Springfield, burying
the victims under mass Of brick.
Jacob Kaufman, well-known mu-
stefan, committed suicide at Denver. Colo,
by divesting himself OF his clothing and
crawling several times back and forward
through barbed-wire fence. When discov-