The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1886-05-20
WESTERN.

Francis t. Hord, Attorney General
of Indiana, having developed an insane
jealousy of his wife, has been sent to the
asylum. He recently threatened to kill DIR. l.
A Comstock, who thereupon caused an in
quiry into Mr.. Hord's mental condition.
The deputies who did the shooting at
East st Louis, in April, have been removed
from East st Louis to the Belleville I'LL Jail.
The transfer was quietly effected.
An Indiana, Bloomington and West
ern passenger train dashed into washed-out
culvert near Newcastle, Ind The engineer,
fireman, and passenger were killed. and all
the other passengers and train employees more
or less bruised
Western railway managers seem to
agree that the success of the interstate com
merce bill in its present shape would be ca
lamity, for the reason that the interests of the
West have been sacrificed TO those of the East
The police of Chicago are confident
that at last the man who threw the dyna-
mite bomb into the ranks of the police on
the night of May 4 is under arrest His
name is Louis Lingg, he is German,
carpenter by trade, and has been in this
country only eight months When arrested
he made desperate resistance. The
detective who made the arrest went
alone to the house, a squad of Of
ficers remaining some distance away.
The young anarchist was sitting at the table
writing. He seemed TO have instantly recog-
nized his abrupt visitor as an officer and
grabbed a large Remington revolver which
lay upon the table. The officer sprang upon
him before Lingg could shoot The
men grappled in a struggle for life,
which was so desperate that neither could use
his revolver. They rolled on the floor first
one on top and then the other Lingg got
the officers thumb in his mouth and bit it
almost off, The women began to scream At
this instant the policemen on the outside
burst open the door and rushed in. Lngg
was instantly overpowered and handcufred.
In Lngg's trunk were found two pistols, two
long dynamite bombs, large lot of shells and
cartridges, and quantity of anarchist pamph-
lets and newspapers. In the trunk were
a large number of letters and pieces of
writing in German, which showed that
Ling had been one of the most rabid
anarchists in the city, and that he was
in correspondence with the leading agitators in
this and other cities. The police claim to have
sufficient evidence to convict him.
The coroner's inquest at Chicago on
the bodies of Policemen Sheehan and Flavin
resulted in holding Adolph Fischer and Anton
Hirchberger as accessories to the murder of
the latter named officer by means Of bomb
The country about Forest, Hardin
County, Ohio, was swept by cyclone at an
early hour Saturday morning. 1t created
havoc at Dunkirk, wrecling houses, killing
four people and injuring fifteen or twenty.
The East-bound express on the Fort Wayne
Road ran into a clump of fallen trees, the
branches of which, crashing through the car
windows, seriously injured twelve passengers.
fierce storm ragged Friday night in Wa
bash County, Ind. The Wabash River is out
of its banks and flooding the county. Timber
was leveled and wheat fields were destroyed.
The Mayor of Attica Ind, reports that the
storm deprived fifty families of their homes
The Indianapolis Board of Trade sent car
load of provisions and bedding