The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1885-02-12
WESTERN.

The District Court at Cincinnati
found Il. c. Campbell, the well-known crini-
nal attorney, guilty of only one of the seven
charges brought against him by the Ear As
ISOLATION. He was suspended from practice
for ten days and ordered to pay the costs.
Cicero Jefferson, Joel j. Wilson, and
John A. Smythe, the murderers of Hiram
Jefferson father of the frst-named), were
lynched by a mob at Audubon, Iowa. smythe
and Wilson made a desperate resistance, and
were killed In their cells in the jail and after
ward strung up, but Jefferson was removed
10 the public park and there hanged. The
Sheriff fired a few shots at the invading force,
but without effect.
M. w. Ryan, Clerk of Cook County,
ILL.,, received a summons from Speaker
Haines to appear before the Illinois House
of Representatives with the ballots cast for
Representatives in the Sixth Senatorial Dis
trict last November. The Clerk notified the
United States District Attorney, and was
subpu nacd to appear. before Judge Blodgett,
who promptly issued an order that all returns
from the Seconl Election District of the
Eighteenth Ward be deposited with the Clerk
Of the Federal Court. by advice OF counsel,
hr. Ryan obeyed the Judges order.
Battle Lake, Minnesota village, was
almost swept away by fire.
A train on the Colorado Central Road
was blown from the track, near Georgetown,
into ditch, causing injuries to eighteen
persons, among them State Auditor Spencer,
of Denver. =
The unlicensed association of barb
wire manufacturers met last week at St.
Louis, and agreed to advance prices Il cent
per pound. Fifty delegates OF the equitable,
or unlicensed association, were present.
President }. w. Gates, OF the former society,
believes that syndicate will be perfected
which will rebound to the benefit of all the
manufacturers.
Ashland (Oregon) dispatch: Alex
arder Jones, mailcarrier from Grants
Pass to wilderville, Mrs. George Gibson and
her two children, and Mr.. McClung were
drowned while attempting to ford Applegate
Creek, which was swollen by the recent
rains.
On Shaw's Island, Washington Ter
ritory. q lunatic, who lived in a lonely spot,
killed a hunter. and, later, shot and killed
one OF sheriff's posse. The latter then
burned the cabin. the murdetous lunatic per-
ishing in the flames.
The Kelly barb-wire patent, owned
by washburn & Moen, expired, and It's re-
issue is controlled In Joliet The Giidden re-
issue. also owned by washburn, has been
declared void at st. Louis, and is being con-
tested at Leavenworth, which leads a 1moon-
shine manufacturer at Joliet TO believe that
a crisis In the barb-wire industry is at hand.
Matte Reed shot and fatally wounded,
at Youngstown, Ohio, Edward Shell. who had
seduced her and refused to right the wrong.
Independence (Kansas) dispatch: A
horrible murder ar the village OF Radical
City, I'm tn county, was discovered by Frank
Bonham, the eldest son of a widow living on
n farm near that place. On HIS return home
after three days absence. he found his
mother, brother. and sister murdered. To
all appearance they had been dead day or
two.
At Muskegon, Mich, Philip Ivet Sc
riously wounded his wife with a revolver and
then killed himself. For years he had done