The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1886-04-01
WESTERN.

A signal service station has been per-
manently located at Centralia, Ill, which, it is
stated, will result in much benefit to fruit
growers and others
Phil Kumler, District Attorney at
Cincinnati, acting under orders of Solicitor
General Goode, on the 23d of March filed in
the Federal Court at Columbus, a suit to test
the validity of the Bell telephone patents cit
ing the defendants to enter appearance by
May /.
The body of Florence Ruger, the
daughter of ex-senator Ruger, of Chicago,
who disappeared some months ago, was found
in the Chicago River the other day.
Insurance agents claim that the losses
by fire in Chicago last year consumed more
money than was paid in premiums.
Should the citizens of st. Joseph,
Mo-, subscribe 100000 toward the stock of
the Chicago, Kansas and Nebraska Road, the
Rock Island Company will at once commence
the building of four hundred miles of track on
It's Kansas extension.
Harvey Whitehead, q youth of 16,
whose parents reside at Bethel, Conn, drowned
himself at Durand Ill
No indictment was found against
Henry T. Wright, formerly Assistant Post
master at Racine, who was sentenced to five
years Imprisonment in the pemtentiary at
Chester, Illinois, tor embezzling $1,000 of
Government funds. Since the decision in the
Mackin case by the Federal Supreme Court,
steps have been taken TO secure Wrights re-
lease
A. M. Billings, of Chicago, is said to
have secured absolute control of the St Louis,
Kansas City and Colorado Railroad Company,
in the interest Of the Atchison and Topeka,
which will soon commence work on a northern
extension to St Louis.
The flour output at Minneapolis last
week reached $4,000 barrels, against 81, GOO
barrels the preceding week. The decline in
wheat has stopped the free movement of -four.
Near Walker, Iowa, man FAMED
Armstrong rushed in front of train, placed
his head on the rails, and was beheaded by the
wheels
Van Northwick's paper-bag factory
at Batavia, ILL.,, was destroyed by fire, prop
erty being destroyed to the amount of $4,000
The Windsor Hotel, a bank, and
twenty-seven frame business structures at
Salida, Col, We're destroyed by fire. The total
loss is placed at $4,000 with insurance of
$4,000
William M. Smith, of Lexington,
Ill, formerly Speaker of the lower house of
the Illinois Legislature, and for some time a
member of the Railroad and Warehouse Com
mission, committed suicide by shooting him
self through the head He had been III bad
health for several years.
The incorporation articles of the
Minnesota h Northwestern Railway were
placed on file last week in the Circuit Court at
Freeport, Ill The company proposes to build
line from Chicago to East Dubuque, Ill, but
viii probably continue the line to St Paul
The capital stock is s5,c0,0C0.
The Office of the argus, at Fargo,
Dakota, said to have been worth s35, 600, was
totally extinguished by flames
The skeleton of mastodon has been
discovered on farm near Nation, Ill, and
scientists from the University of Illinois are
expected to superintend the work of exhum-
ing the remains Teeth four inches square on
the face have been taken up
Mr.. Robert l.. Downing, an actor of
great promise, appears the present week ut
Mcvicker's Theater, Chicago, in new play en-
titled ~yautour, the Exile" The Eastern press
speaks highly of the play, and of the stars
rendition of the chief role.