The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1886-12-09
NEWS CONDENSED.
Concise Record of the Week.


Fifty-seven head of fancy stock were
burned to death in the barns of j. W. Allen
at East Syracuse, n Y. Farming implements
and a large amount of grain and hay were also
destroyed The total loss is $4,000
"Doc" Wilson now declares himself
q son of the barb-wire millionaire Moen,
which fact the latter concealed until 1870, when
he experienced religion and made the confess
sion Since then "Doc" has received some
money from Moen, but the Wilson family got
more for keeping silence. Wilson's story was
told in the presence of four reputable citizens
of Providence, r. l.:
His story, saws n Providence dispatch, is that
he is the son of Moen's first wife, and that he
was born few months after the marriage.
Moen being q deacon and n professedly high
toned Christian. did not wish TO face the scandal
of such an early birth for his trst-born, SO n
bargain made with Jonas Wilson, OF Dan
ielsonville, Ct, II stage driver, by which the
babe was transferred to the latters care and
brought up as n Wilson. The boy lived ana
toiled in the humble sphere to which
he says Moen consigned him, and IT was
not until he a young man grown
that he learned the secret of his
birth For that secret he was indebted TO re-
lgous rernorse OF his supposed father Jonas
Wilson, who. being on his death-bed and not
caring 20 pass the portals with n burden on his
soul, drew the lad toward him and told him who
off for Worcester To meet his father face 70
face. Their first meeting Wilson SAYS: was eX-
actly has been described He did meet
Moen that morning, and after observing the
signs of wealth and luxury that abounded, ne
demanded of Moen some reparation for
the wrong done one who should enla be e,rt the
to acknowledge the lad, and would
have driven him forth, but the boy faced his
for the wrong done his mother and himself.
He said Il will force you to acknowledge me.
and the world shall know you for what you are. ="
According to Wilson's story, the Wilson's, who
knew the secret of his parentage, seeing Doc
had money and knowing it came from Moen,
began to urge their claims upon him. Their
demands increased and TO satisfy them he had
to apply to Moen for money; and in that way
much Of the sum received from the banker was
spent Wilson says these demands upon him
grew exorbitant that he became almost i'm
poverished by them.
Regarding doc" Wilson's story that
he is the son of p. l. Moen, the records at
Oxford, Mass, show that he was born there
Dec /, 1853, eleven months after the death of
Mrs Moen
The glue factory of William Raeder
& Co. at Aver, Mass, valued at $50, 900, was
burned
At Hartford, CT, the proprietors of
eight sccond-rate hotels and restaurants have
been arrested for putting oleomargarine on
their tables without displaying the tag that it
was not butter.
A jury at Boston gave the Managers
of tho National Soldiers Home verdict for
SIG, 537. 80 against General b. +. Butler
Jennie Smith, residing at Mount
Vernon, N. j., whe for five years has suffered
from spinal disease, reports that she has been
INTERNATIONALLY cured by faith and prayer.
Herman Falkenberg, charged with
trying to FIX" the jury in the trial of the
Doodle Alderman, McQuads in Now York City,
has been held in 81 900 for trial
Mrs. Lyman Porter, aged 6S, mother
of sDoc' Wlson. says that she is Wilson's
mother, that jonas Wilson was his father, and
that she never saw or heard of Philip L. Moen
until recently