The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1885-02-19
WESTERN.

John Edmunds, editor of the Lin
coin Qll) Daily Journal, was assaulted by
William c. Dustin With horsewhip. The
trouble was brought about by the publication
of an article concerning the reopening of a
divorce suit between William Dustin, a
wealthy banker, and his divorced wife. The
young man who assaulted the editor is the
son Of the parties. He was at once arrested
under the city ordinance and paid his fine.
James w. Peters, of Shreye, Ohio,
shot Miss Laura Chester In the head and back
for rejecting his addresses, and then lodged
a bullet Mt the base of his own brain. Neither
Is likely to survive.
In a quarrel about loading revolver
at Danvers, H., Dug Ennis shot and fatal
ly wounded John Parr and his son Richard.
The elder Parr and the murderer had been
drinking together before the shooting took
place.
Mrs. Hiram Atkins eloped from Nor
witch, Ohio. with Emanuel Porter, an en-
ploye. The residence was found blazing a
little later, and in the ruins were found the
remains of Mr.. Atkins and his two children
by former wife. Current belief is that the
fugitives set FIRE to the structure before their
departure.
A small house on the county-poor
farm near Cerro Gordo. H., occupied for
some years by three demented women, was
burned by the upsetting of a lamp, and its
tenants persisted in the flames.
s. l.. Frazer & Co., wholesale canned
goods, fruit, and oysters, at Toledo, Ohio,
made an assignment
A portion of Fish Bros. & Co.'s
wagon-works at Racine, Wis, were destroyed
by Ere, the loss being placed at $40, 900.
BY an explosion in the Central Iron
and Steel Works at Brazil, Ind, seven men
were killed and number wounded, many
of them dangerously. The engineer, finding
the water low in. the boiler turned on the
faucet, and fed from the building. barely
reaching the open air when the explosion
occurred.
At Shelbyville, H., and other places,
the other morning, three moons were seen in
the sky, old Luna appearing with a counter
felt presentment on either side of it. and
alarming few superstit.ous persons
A cremation society, with a capital of
$4,000, has been organized ut Davenport, Ia.
Civil service examinations for the
Washington departments will be held In
Chicago Feb. "a. ut Springfield, H., Feb. 20,
and nc Indianapolis. Ind, Feb. %.
The shooting of wolf at Delavan.
Wis.,, brought $50 bounty TO David Markar.
A defective switch on the Louisville,
New Albany & Chicago Railroad, near Bloom
ington. Ind, caused a passenger-train TO run
into some loaded freight-cars. A number OF
the passengers were seriously hurt, and the
baggage-car with its contents, including sew
cral thousand dollars In money and much
valuable property, was destroyed.
Springfield Qll.) Dispatch State
Veterinarian Paaren reports to the State
Board of Health another case of CHAMBERS in
the person of Frank A. Curtis, living near
Bcividere, in Boone County. With the case
recently reported at Elmorc, Peoria Co unity
this makes three cases OF CHAMBERS In the h.,-
man subject at present under treatment In
the State-the third case being that of a
woman mt Batavia, in Kane County.
Chicago Tribune: A fresh compli-
cation in the Storey will case has arrived I'm
this country from Europe in the shape Of the