The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1886-09-30
WESTERN.

The case of The United Statesvs. The
Bell Telephone Company was begun Sept 20
at Cincinnati, Circuit Judge Jackson and Dis
trict Judges Sage and Walker occupying the
bench. Argument was begun against the
jurisdiction of the court Ex-senator Thur
man and ex-senator Joseph T. Mcdonald are
opposing counsel in the case. Mr.. Thurman
was serenaded at Columbus, and in a speech
said: Il shall never again hold office-never
be able to reward friends or punish foes"
Martin Irons, the leader of the late
strike on the Missouri Pacific Road will be
tried at St Louis on charge of completely in
tapping the telegraph wires running to the
residence of Vice President Hoxie
Over 5000 cattle have been quar-
antined in the vicinity of Chicago on account
of the existence of pleuro-pneumonia A
dozen or more head have been slaughtered
Editor G. S. Hayes, of the Traver
(Cal) Iidtngs, was shot dead by some person
unknown as he was chatting with his betrothed
in a residence at Lemoore, Cal A man who
was known to be jealous of Hayes has been
arrested
A mob broke into the County Jail
at Montrose, Col, and took out l. F. Symmes,
charged with murder. The Sheriff mustered
posse, and battle with the lynchers fol-
lowed, but no lives were lost The mob fled
TO the mountains and separated, one party
taking the doomed Symmes, whom, it is sup
posed, they hanged and then buried
Umpire Powers was mobbed in De-
troit because of his decisions in the Chicago
Detroit baseball game. After the game, which
was lost by Detroit, stone was thrown into
one Of the carriages containing the Chicago
players, one of whom was injured by the mis-
sle. Two of the Chicago men attempted to
capture the offender, but were beset by crowd
and menaced with sticks and umbrellas, Tom
my Burns being struck on the head The other
players soon forced their way through the
mob, and the incident was brought TO an end
The investigations by the Livestock
Commissioners clearly establish that the dis
ease among the distillery cattle in Chicago,
which has resulted in the quarantine of sew
eral thousand, is the deadly pleuro-pneu-
monia.
In Crawford County, Missouri, Nal
colin Logan, his wife, three children, and
adopted child were murdered, it is supposed,
by person who sought to rob Mr.. Logan of
81, 800 he had recently received.
The date of the execution of Brooks,
who murdered Preller in st Louis hotel, has
been postponed for sixty days, to permit of an
appeal to the Supreme Court
Hailstones five inches in circumfer-
ence fell at Madison, Wis Several thousand
panes of glass were broken, and hundreds of
birds were killed.
The Governor, Attorney General,
and Live Stock Commission of Illinois, accom-
panied by DR.. Salmon of Washington, and
veterinarians from several States, spent a
couple of days in Chicago investigating cases
of pleuro-pneumonia in the distlllery yards
and witnessed the slaughter of some infected
COWS. 1t was decided that all the cattle in the
infected stables, some 3, 600 in number, should
be slaughtered and the sheds burned
Texas fever has appeared among sew
era herds of cattle in Saline County, Mis-
souri,
A. G. Strong, Knight Templar of
Naperville, Ill, was killed by train at Chel-
tenham, near s. Louis, No.
Charles Doll and Major James Nor
gan, members of the late Board of Public
Works, of Cincinnati, and Charles T. Black
burn, its clerk, we're arrested in that city
charged with embezzling large amounts Of the
city funds.
The Northern Sioux have decided to
establish mail and transportation routes
throughout the frontier region on the Co
operative principle, the work to be done by the
young men of the nation. As all the labor
will be performed on foot young warriors are
now in training for their part in the enterprise.
Each runner is TO make seventy-five miles per
week.
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