The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1886-07-29
WESTERN.

The Nottingham block, on Euclid
avenue, Cleveland, occupied mainly by art
dealers, was damaged by fire 10 the amount of
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A dispatch from Grafton, Wis, says
that large meteor fell recently on farm
near that place. The meteor entered the
ground for some distance, and it is proposed
to dig to it and secure it
Dispatches from numerous points in
Southern and Eastern Iowa say that only about
half crop of wheat and oats is being harvest
ed Corn is IN good condition, but needs rain,
none having fallen for six weeks Hay is
very light
Green's Opera House, at Cedar
Rapids, Iowa, was burned, entailng a loss of
$4,000
Complaints are still coming in from
points throughout the Northwest of the injury
10 grain by the >lon6 continued dry weather.
Corn is suffering most.
In the anarchist trial at Chicago, the
prosecution placed ON the stand a German car
penter named William Seliger, who gave start
ling details as TO the manufacture of bombs in
his dwelling, and plainly unfolded TO the pub
lie the plot to murder policemen at the Hay
market The witness described the making of
the bombs by Lingg lone of the defendants)
and others. The work was crushed" the day
after the Mccormick factory riot and the day
of the Haymarket explosion. Half dozen
persons assisted. There was no conceal
ment among the workmen as to the use
to which the explosives were TO be put
They were to be thrown at the police.
In the language of the witness, they were
"the best fodder for persons marked for
murder by the Socialists. Lingg, though he
had been resident Of America only nine
months, was the most violent advocate of
Socialistic reform" by massacre in tins coun-
try. He devoted all his spare time to the
manufacture OF bombs, specimens of which
were dlsplayedin court TO the CONSERVATION
of nervous auditors. Some loaded bombs
were exhibited in the courtroom, but an
agreement was reached that they should be
taken to the lake shore and emptied At his
own request, Seliger has of late been locked
up in the police station, to escape assassina-
ton
Watermelons have been shipped TO
Chicago III such quantities that commission
dealers can not realize enough on consign-
ments from Florida to pay freight charges.
A large grain elevator at East Du-
buque, Ill, owned by the Illinois Central, and
used by the Diamond 10 Steamboat Line, was
destroyed by fire. The loss is about s45,O
Frank Molloy, son of Mrs. Emma
Molloy, the temperance evangelist, and Mrs.
Rose Stern, daughter of Jacob Vile, of La
porte, Ind, were drowned in Pine Lake, near
Laporte, by the capsizing of boat.
Joseph Henderson, clothing mer-
chant at Butte, Montana, was killed with
shotgun by a Nevada miner, who at once
committed suicide The murderer claimed
that Henderson owed him $4,000.
The financial troubles of Snider &
Hoole, of Chicago, led them to make an as
signment TO Warren O. Tyler. An insider as
serts that the assets will not bring over sl75-
COO, and that the firm owes about $3.50, 600
Foote's Minstrel Carnival Concert
Company, which enjoys the reputation of be
ing the best burnt-cork opera combination in
the country, opens season at McVicker's
Theater, Chicago, this week. II includes
among others Schoolcraft and Goes, Hugh
Dougherty, Sam Devere, William Arlington.
Welch and Rice, Howe and Doyle, Seamon and
Girard, Fox and Van Auken, Duncan, tie ven
triloquist, and Thomas Dixon. The orchestra
comprises thirty instruments, and the chorus
numbers xty voicee.