davidaulloa/AmericanStories huggingface dataset:
The true northerner., 1886-07-22
SOUTHERN.

At the coal mines in Georgia, owned
by Senator Brown and associates, $50 convicts
intrenched themselves for fight The Gov
ernor dispatched thither the Gate City Guards
and company of artillery from Rome.
The shipment of lumber in large
quantities from New Orleans for foreign ports
has begun The lumber is the product of
mills at Lake Charles, La, and the railroads
leading TO the lumber region of the State are
giving the project every encouragement
Steve Renfrew, q notorious despera-
do and an escaped convict was taken from
Jail at Livingston, Ala, and lynchel
A Chattanooga dispatch says the
trouble among the convlcts in the Dade coal
mines at Coal City, Ga, was ended by the sur
render of the mutineers and their return TO
work. Two days thirst and starvation brought
them around. This ends one of the most re-
markable strikes OH record, and what might
have been the cause of a serious difficulty and
loss of life
Advices from Western Texas repre-
sent great losses of cattle. The drought has
been unparalleled large section of country
Along the Pecos River there are unnumbered
carcasses Herds Of cattle driven from the
interior upon reaching the river plunge in and
drink until death ensues The loss will aggre-
gate hundreds of thousands of dollars, and
the prospect of stock living through the COM
ing winter in Western Texas is slight
Jake Braswell, colored, was lynched
near Flat Ford, Bullock County, Ga. Bras
well had horribly maltreated Dolly Woods, a
little 6-year-old girl, while on her way to
school. She identified him after his capture,
and he confessed, saying that he would have
killed the child, but thought her dead when
he left her A crowd of one hundred whites
and blacks held conference, and gave Bras
well the choice of being burned or hanging
himself. He chose hanging, climbed up a tree,
fastened rope around his own neck and a
limb of the tree, but then refused to jump off
A negro climbed up, tied Braswell's hands,
and the crowd pushed him off with pole.
His body was riddled with bullets
The true northerner., 1886-07-22

lenged by Mr. Foster for cause, but the
Court overruled the challenge, and the defend
ants noted an exception Captain Black said
the defendants attorneys wanted the rec
ord to show that they did not accept the juror
just before Capt Black said this he whispered
in Mr.. Fosters ear: Challenge for cause any
good man the State accepts. We want that for
point when We take the case to the Supreme
Court, for we can't show error in the record
unless we show also that we were run out Of
peremptories.' The opening argument by
States Attorney Grinnell was received with
sneers by Spies, Parsons, and Lingg, especially
when he stigmatized all the defendants save
Felden as rank towards"
Five business blocks at Bloomer,
Chippewa County, Wis, were burned, causing
loss of between SEC, 900 and $4,000
A proclamation has been issued by
Governor West of Utah, warning immigrants
or others from coming to the Territory TO
maintain any marriage relation other than that
sanctioned by law, and setting forth that vio-
lators of the statute will be subjected to con-
dign punishment
The true northerner., 1886-07-22
MISCELLANEOUS.

The first through train on the Ca
madam Pacific Road ran from Montreal to Port
Moody, 2,S75 miles, in 134 hours
The smallpox epidemic at Santiago
de Chill is growing worse, and fully 60 per
cent of the cases are proving fatal.
The Grand Master of Masons in
Quebec has issued an edict declaring a suspen-
sion of Masonic intercourse between the Que
bee lodges and the Grand Lodge Of England
and its dependencies.
In the Mexican Congressional cleo
tons the Government secured large ma
jority.
1t is proposed to use the American
gold dollar as the basis of monetary transac-
tons in Peru.
James Dacey, the murderer of Alder
man Gaynor, of Chicago, was hanged at Wood
stock Ill He regained his composure before
his death, and marched to the scaffold with
scarcely tremor. Samson Roland and George
Solomon, both colored, were hanged at DON
aldsonville, Ia. The condemned men were
baptized into the Baptist Church just before
execution, and seemed reconciled to their doom.
prayer with calm, firm voices They asked their
friends 10 meet them in heaven George Har-
rison was hanged at Shreveport, La, for the
murder of George Alien. Harrison was ex-
traordinarily cool throughout his imprison-
ment, and did not show the slightest weakness
on the scaffold. He refused TO make any state
ment on the gallows, but announced his faith
that he would at once enter heaven He was
baptized just before mounting the gallows.
Dick Townsend, triple murderer was swung
off at Valdosta, Ga. At Frisco, Kan, muir
derer was overtaken by.a pursuing party and
shot TO death.
The business failures throughout the
country during the week, as reported by tele-
graph, numbered for the United States 163,
and for Canada %, a total of lS3, as compared
with total of 40 the previous week. Tele-
grams TO B,ddStreefS, while repeating favor
able trade features noted week ago. report
quite general hardening of domestic money
markets and a widespread improvement in
mercantile collections
Charles Mitchell, the pugilist, left
New York for England with s25, 800 Three
years ago he landed on this side of the Atlantic
without dollar
The true northerner., 1886-07-22
EARTHQUAKES AND VOLCANOES.
Twenty Persons Killed and Numerous VIZ
lagos Ingulfed I'm New Zealand.
San Francisco telegram

The steamer Alameda, which has arrived
from Australia, brings particulars of fear
full volcanic eruptions in New Zealand last
month. Natives of Taranga, in the Auck-
land lake district, were awakened by ter
rife lightning flashes, which continued for
two hours, when tremendous earthquake
occurred. People fled from their houses
in their night-clothes. The earthquakes
continued to follow in quick succession up
to a. m, when leaden -colored cloud was
observed advancing from the south, spread
ing out until it covered the sky. While
still moving it burst with the sound Of
thunder, and shortly after showers of fine
dust having sulphurous smell began fall
ing.
Accounts from other points state that
Mount Tarewera was the trst to break out,
followed shortly by the entire Paeroa range,
hurling flame. burning lava, and stones
over the surrounding country. For the first
time in tradition the extinct volcano of Ru-
apeha was awakened into activity. The
entire country, over an extent of 120 miles
long by 20 in breadth, was nothing but a
mass of flame, and hot, crumbling soil.
Numerous small native villages were to-
tally destroyed. Wairoa was covered to a
depth of ten feet with dust and ashes. Rah-
tomahana was completely ingulfed. Twen-
" persons, among them several English
residents, are known to have, lost their lives.
One old Maori chief, at Rotoura, was dug
ont alive after having been buried i'll ashes
104 hours.
At the date of the departure of the steam
er the volcanoes were still very active, and
the temperature of the hot lakes was in
creasinp.
The true northerner., 1886-07-22

The Hampden Watch Company, of
Springfield, Ill, and the Deneber Watch Case
Company of Newport, Ky, will move to Can
ton, Ohio, which city has donated to the con-
Germs sl0o 600, twenty acres of land, and ex-
empton from taxation for ten years
The lockout in the fifty-four tan
neries and currying-shops of Peabody and
Salem, Mass, was begun last week, rendering
over 5000 men idle
Eighty plantation negroes imported
to Grape Creek, H., to work in the coal mines,
have been sent back South by the labor unions
at Danville. Under a decision of the Yermilion
County Court as TO the coal company's leases,
all the white strikers and their families have
been evicted, and are improvisng shanties and
sod houses in the woods.
t. V. Powderly addressed the East
ern association of green bottle-glass blowers
at Atlantic City, and they voted by AZ TO 20 to
Join the knights Of Labor.
The true northerner., 1886-07-22

President Grevy, at Paris, congratu-
lated General Boulanger, Minister of War,
upon the successful appearance OF 100000
troops, which passed in review in the Champs
de Mars.
The draft of an extradition treaty
sent from London to Washington includes
dynamiters, defaulters, and embezzlers among
offenders subject to surrender
Much damage to property and crops
in the province of Ellis, Greece, has been
caused by terrific storms, and the people are
in great distress.
The true northerner., 1886-07-22
FOREIGN.

President Grevy has signed the de-
cree for the expulsion of the Duke dAumale
from France
A London dispatch of the 10Th inst.
says the total votes polled in the Parliamentary
elections, up to that date, were: Unionsts,
!, l,S99, 6S3; Gladstonians, 1,320,64S. The total
number returned were: Conservatives and
unionists, $50; Gladstonians, 252 The conserv-
atlves and unionists estimate the final result
as follows: Conservatives, 323 Liberal Union
lists, 73; Gladstonians 1885, Parnellites, 81. T.
p. Gill, Home-Rule NJ p, tel lCgraphs from
Dublin "The situation looks first-rate. The
Tories will not have majority, and no CO.
alition will hold together If our people in
Ireland and America can maintain their splen-
did calm, nothing can stop the advance Of
home rule"
The riot between Orangemen and
Catholics at Belfast resulted in the death of
two civilians and the fatal wounding Of po-
liceman Fifteen persons were sent TO the
hospital, and four taverns were wrecked. An
Orangeman at Waterford killed the head con-
stable and a soldier
The Austrian villages about Trieste
and Fiume have been surrounded by cordons
on account of the spread of cholera In the
vicinity of Rome the epidemic is marked by
severe cramps IN the stomach and the rapidity
with which death follows the attack.
A decree nisi of divorce has been
granted to Baron II. de Worms against his
wife Frances, nee Won Todesco, the plaintiffs
allegations concerning the lady's criminal re-
lations with Baron Meron in the Tyrol being
! fully proven.
A negro who attacked the italian
Minister at Tangiers was stripped, tied to a
donkey's tail, and led through the town, while
two soldiers gave him 2, 900 lashes with knotted
ropes.
An interlocutory judgment in favor
of the plaintiff in the suit of Cyrus W. Field
against James Gordon Bennett for libel was
given in the Queens Bench Divisional Court
in London As Mr.. Bennett could not be
reached by order of the court the writs we're
served upon A. Oakley Hall, the Herald repre-
sentative in London, who sent them back. The
| court considered this proper service.
While an iron-dealer at st. Peters
burg was unloading a wagon filled with old
artlllery material, Whlch mad been purchased
| from the Government, a nne-inch shell ex-
ploded among group of workmen and others.
Sixteen persons, including four children, wero
killed and several more injured.
French dispatches show that Gen.
Boulanger, the French War Minister is ap-
parently determined to convert the French
army into a radical body, and is also working
up feeling against rmany.
Mr.. Goschen and the Duke of Ar
gyll will enter Cabinet formed by Lord Sal
isbury, provided the moderate Liberals are
given fair share of the offices.
Chinese astronomers have been told
TO select an auspicious day in the first month
Of the next Chinese year for the assumption
of the Government Of China by the young
Emperor.
The true northerner., 1886-07-22

Chicago elevators contain 1850, SCI
bushels of wheat 2,l76,C50 bushels OF corn,
263, 934 bushels Of oats, Il, 42S bushels of rye,
and 23,504 bushels of barley; total, 10, 22G, 413
bushels of all kinds of grain, against l5 $780,
7S6 bushels year ago.
At Pequaming, Mich, Gov. Swine
ford, of Alaska, and Mrs Minnie T. Smith
were united in marriage Gov. Swineford left
for Sitka, and will return in November for his
bride
The trial of ex-Auditor of State
Brown, of Iowa, on his Impeachment for
corruption and malfeasance in Office has re-
suited in his acquittal Upon several of the
charges the vote of "not guilty" was unani-
nous, and the largest number of votes re-
corded against him upon any charge was ten.
Eight thousand delegates attended
the National Educational Associations Conven-
ton at Topeka, Kan. 1t was found necessary
to erect two hundred tents in Capitol square,
il being impossible TO lodge all the visitors in
hotels and private houses. A reception was
. tendertd the delegates in the Opera House,
Gov. Martin delivering the address Of welcome.
G. II. Hoffman's warehouse, con-
tanning 1900 tons of wheat, was burned at
Merced, Cal also five cars laden with wheat
The total loss is over $4,000
Throughout Southern Wisconsin,
and in Jo Daviess County, Illinois, the tobac-
co plants are dying of drought and unless
heavy rains speedily fall less than one-third
of a crop will be raised
The Provident Savings Bank, of st.
Louis, has clo- ed it's doors the cashier A. b.
Thomson, having absconded. The depositors
were principally clerks, and poor men and
women
Engineer Herring, the Philadelphian
who has been studying the sewage problem
for Chicago, has decided upon three methods
Of disposing of il He favors the irrigation
process in use at Pullman.
At st. Louis, Brooks, alias Maxwell,
convicted Of the murder of G. A. Preller, was
sentenced to be hanged August 81 An appeal
was granted and stay of execution ordered
until October 2.
The report of the Illinois Board of
Agriculture shows the corn crop to be nearly
an average in area and condition.
"The anarchists trial is now fairly
under way the jury having been completed, .
says Chicago special "During the forenoon
session the defense exhausted its remaining
eighteen peremptory challenges, and eighteen
men were challenged for cause. The 9S2d
man examined was accepted by the State as
the twelfth juror His namc is Howard
Taylor Sanford Mr.. Sanford vac cEal-
The true northerner., 1886-07-22

THE Committee on Indian Affairs made n re-
port to the Senate, the 18th inst, recon-
mendng the passage over the Presidents veto OF
the bill granting railroads right-of-way through
the Indian reservation in Northern Montana.
Mr.. Blair from the Committee on Pensions,
submitted report adopting the report of the
majority Of the committee the report before
submitted on the message OF the President
vetoing the bill granting Il pension
recommitted by the Senate. The re-
port was adopted by a strictly party vote Sem
ators Whitthorne, Camden, ana Wilson OF Ma
the Presidents action in the matter. The Sen
ate decided 10 consider the oleomargarine BILL
and then refused TO refer il TO the Finance Com
mttee. The House of Representatives, in con-
sidering the fortifcation Appropriation bill, re-
jected an amendment to increase the item for
sea-coast armament to s3500,000.
The true northerner., 1886-07-22
A MISER'S HARD LUCK.
He Is Robbed of Seven Thousand Five
Hundred Dollars.
lPennsboro Cw. va.) special

lfennsDorO w. Nh.l special.
For years past Frank Moore, who lives
on Stewards Run, this county, has been
known as a miser, keeping large sums of
money secreted about the old log hut in
which he lived, and in hooks and cram
nies in the rocks outside. Fully $4,000
in cash, mostly specie, was popularly sup
posed to be thus concealed, by the
neighbors. At irregular intervals
Moore would examine and count
his hoard, and at such times his
friends say gold and silver would lie in
great piles about the table in Moores sleep
ing room. Two weeks ago he made an ex-
animation of three lots of specie, and last
night he concluded TO look at it again. An
overhauling of the bags and old stockings
in which the cash was kept showed that
So, 500 in gold, and $4,000 in bills had
been stolen by some one who had watched
a previous examination, and noted where
the money was concealed. There is not
the slightest clew to the thief.
The true northerner., 1886-07-22

THE Chinese must find il extremely
hard TO secure wives. for We are told
that in China marriage between all per-
SONS of the same surname is unlawful,
and that there are only about hun
dred different surnames altogether
throughout the empire"
The true northerner., 1886-07-22

Nineteen men Of the British war
ship Goshawk went ashore at Port Royal,
Jamaica, and while there a storm arose. They
attempted to return TO the ship in the storm,
and on nearing the vessel their boat capsized
The next morning three OF the sailors were
found on tho bottom of the boat drifting
toward Port Henderson, and two on one of the
royal naval buoys in Port Royal harbor, to
which they had swan. The other fourteen
were drowned
Sheriff Parr, of Paulding, Ohio, says
a Toledo dispatch, was aroused at o'clock in
the morning by over one hundred masked and
armed men, who surrounded the Jail and de-
manded the keys They said they had sworn
TO hang Bill Haley, who was inside on charge
of murder, and the jailer would save trouble
by giving them peaceable possession. The
sheriff tried to parley with them while a
deputy was trying to conduct the prisoner out
by side door, but the crowd saw the move
ment and seized Haley. They took the wretch
mile out of town and hanged him TO n tree.
The Supreme Lodge of the World,
Knights of Pythias, at their session just held
at Toronto, elected the following officers:
Supreme Chancellor, Howard Douglass, Gin
cinnati; Supreme Vice Chancellor, William
Ward, New Jersey; Supreme Prelate, Dr. King,
Toronto; Supreme Keeper of the Records and
Seals, II. T. Cowan, st Louis; Supreme Master
of the Exchequer, ]. Wiley, Wilmington
Del; Supreme Secretary of the Endowment
Rank, H. Nelson, Washington, d. c. Supreme
Master-at-Arms, Charles +. Bragge, Maine;
Supreme ner-Guard, Robert Newall, Arkan-
sas; Supreme Outer r-Guard, John w. Thomp-
son, Washington, d. c.
The citizens of London, Ontario,
have arranged with the directors of the Cana
dian Pacific Road for an extension to that city
A revolution has broken out in the
Mexican States of Tamaulpas and Nuevo Leon,
and armed supporters are crossing from the
American side of the Rio Grande to participate
in hostlities. The Federal Government of
Mexico has sent Colonel Parras to New Laredo
with 80 men,
James Julior, of London, has been
placed in a lunatic asylum for writing an offer
of marriage TO Queen Victoria and calling at
Windsor Castle for an answer
General Boulanger, the French War
near Paris The Baron fired at the General
without hitting him Boulanger then fired into
air. Thus wounded honor was avenged
The convention between the steel
rail manufacturers of England, Belgium, and
Germany, formed for the purpose of prevent
ing runous competition, has expired 1t
is stated that the convention will not be re-
newed
A London dispatch of the 10th inst.
sums up the result of the Parliamentary cleo
tions as follows, with seven constituencies re-
manning to be heard from: Conservatives, 3lS;
unionist liberals, "A; Gadstonians, lS7; na-
tionalists, 50, unionist muster of 392 ranked
against 270 home-rulers Thus far there is a
majority of 122 against Mr. Gladstone on his
Irish policy. The conservatives have plu-
rality of SO over the liberals of all kinds, but
they fall % below the united vote of the liber-
ais and nationalist
The true northerner., 1886-07-22

TOMMY was a little rogue, when his
mother had hard work to manage. Their
house in the country was raised few feet
from the ground, and Tommy, 10 escape a
we'll deserved whipping, ran from his
mother and crept under the house. Present.
ly the father came home, and hearing where
bring him out. As he approached on his
hands and knees, Tommy said, ash! Is
she after YOU, too?"
The true northerner., 1886-07-22

The thickness of the earth's crust is
believed by Monsieur Faye, the French
geologist, to be greater under oceans
than beneath continents, because the
earth's heat has always radiated more
freely there.
The true northerner., 1886-07-22

A LITTLE girl being asked on the first
day Of school how she liked her new
teacher. replied: II do not like her; she is
inst as saucy to me as my mother"
The true northerner., 1886-07-22

1t is probable that the chief political
parties in Tennessee will pit the Taylor broth
ers against each other for the Goyernorship.
Eureka daily sentinel. [volume] (Eureka, Nev.) 1871-1887, 1886-07-16
A Land Contest Decided.

There has been a land case before the
District Court OF Churchill county. the
points involved in which are stated,
though not very clearly, by the Reveille as
follows: "In 1882, under the laws then in
force, several parties made application for
the same tracts of land in Churchill
county. and deposited the money for the
payment of the same in accordance with
the statute then in force relative to State
lands. and afterwards conveyed their In
terests to Charles Kaiser and William II.
Bailey, who now severally claim the land
thus applied for. To settle this question
as to which Of these men are entitled to
the land, Surveyor General Preble,
under q section of the Act OF 1885, certi-
fed the application to the District Court
OF Churchill county, and last week the
matter came up before Judge D. G. Nc
Kenney, r.. a.. Lindsay representing
Kaiser and A. G. Ellis Bailey. Kaiser,
through his attorney. moved TO dismiss
the proceedings upon the ground that the
law OF 1885 did not apply; that IL was
not retroactive, which motion was resisted
by the other claimant to the land. Judge
| McKenny sustained the motion and the
case was dismissed"
Eureka daily sentinel. [volume] (Eureka, Nev.) 1871-1887, 1886-07-16
Fairs Oakland Depot.

San Francisco Examiner Of the 9th:
Work was resumed yesterday morning on
the turntable at Seventh street and Broad
way, Oakland, for the San Pablo Avenue
cable cars. 1t was interrupted and delayed
by the injunction Of Mr.. Delger, and will
now be pushed forward rapidly. The OBJ
struction caused by tearing up Broadway
will be repaired as soon as possible and the
work carried to completion. The contract
with the Pacific Rolling Mills calls for the
completion of the road by the LIST OF Sep
TENDER, but an extension will be granted.
owing to the delay caused by the injunc.
ton Of Mr.. Delger. Plans are being pre-
pared for a new central depot, for the mar.
~row.guage. at the northeast corner OF
Fourteenth street and Broadway. Senator
Fair also contemplates the erection OF q
fine business block at the southeast corner
OF Fourteenth street and Broadway. II ID
possible that q portion of the building
will be occupied by the Athenian Club,
Two new locomotives from the Baldwi
Locomotive Works at Philadelphia have
arrived. to be used upon the narrow.guage
local track.
Eureka daily sentinel. [volume] (Eureka, Nev.) 1871-1887, 1886-07-16
supreme Court CaIendar.

Following is the list OF causes set TO,
trial during the July term Of the Su'
preme Court. at Carson, as given in the
Index:
The State ex rel. O. E. Laughton vs.. j.
+. Hallock, Controller: Set for Septem.
Der 6. This is q suit TO compel the Con.
troller to draw his warrant In favor Of the
relator for salary alleged to be due on 40
count Of services as Lieutenant Governor.
The State Of Nevada vs.. Edward Crutch.
ley, appealed: Set for September 6. De.
PENDANT has been sentenced to death for
murder in White Pine county.
Louis Godchaux, petitioner, vs. L. N.
Carpenter ct al, County Commissioners
Of Humboldt county, respondents: Ar
gued and submitted July 10.
E. M. Lafferty, respondent. vs. G.. W.
Peltier ct al, appellants: Set for Septem-
Der g..
The State OK rel. O. E. Laughton vs.. ].
W. Adams, Governor: Set for Septem-
Der 16.
Thomas Dixon, respondent, vs. Jerry
Abern, appellant: Set for September 8.
John Rosins, respondent, Va. N. s.. Trow-
bridge, appellant: Set for September 16.
John Hoye, appellant, vs.. Sydney Sweet
man, respondent: Set for September Z.
John a.. Kinkead ct al. appellants, vs.
J. NJ. Benton ct al, respondents: Set for
September 16.
Recess till September 6.