The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1886-07-15
WESTERN.


A Justice in Cincinnati exacted bonds
of $1,000 each from seven journeymen bakers
who have been boycotting Charles Binnie.
The charge was attempt to blackmail
1t is understood that Judge Samue
H. Treat of the Southern District Of Illinois,
intends to retire from the bench next fall
Among those named for the position are
George W. Wall, W. II. Barnes William j.
Allen, and Jesse j. Phillips.
The Criminal Court of st. Louis has
overruled the motion for new trial for Max
well, the murderer of Preller. An appeal will
be taken.
Cattle from Southern California to
the amount of twenty-three carloads were
recently marketed at Kansas City.
The numbering hamlet of Romeo,
Wisconsin, was destroyed by fire, Vie loss be-
ing $4,000.
Chicago newspapers print crop re-
ports from every section of the Northwest In
nearly every instance il is shown that drought
prevails and that wheat in the milky state is
drying up Corn is not seriously affected as
yet The Kansas State Board of Agriculture,
in its monthly report, estimates the win
ter wheat yield at IA, 200, 600 bushels, or one
half the usual average. A Chicago dispatch
reports: "The drought scare in the grain trade
continues, and all the leading cereals sold on
the Chicago Board of Trade at further ma
terial advance. Since the opening of the
present month, or in five business days, No.
. wheat for August delivery has advanced
seven cents corn three cents, and oats four
and one-half cents. Wheat closed yesterday
at So cents, the highest price of the day being
S3sl cents"
In three-mile boat race at Ocono-
mowoc, Wis, Gaudaur defeated Hamm by two
lengths in l90614
Mrs. Theresa Turpin, who lived near
Princeton, Ind, cut the throat of her 7-year-
old daughter, hanged her baby daughter, and
then went TO the barn and hanged herself
The youngest child is still living. The wo-
man left note stating that the devil had
been after her, and she couldn't get away
from him
The Republican State Convention Of
Kansas assembled at Topeka and nominated
the following ticket: For Governor, John A.
Martin; acknowledgements, A. =. Reddle;
Secretary of State, f. b. Allen Judge of the
Eleventh District d. NJ Valentine; Treasurer
J. H. Hamilton; Auditor, Timothy Mccarthy !;
Attorney General, f. b. Bradford Superin-
tendent of Schools, j. H. Lowhead The
platform charges the Democratic party
with displacing veteran Union soldiers and
rewarding ex-Confederates with office; with
holding just pensions from disabled soldiers
rewarding Fitz-John Porter for insubordna-
ton and treachery; and annoying settlers in
the West by vexatious rulings and ill-consd-
cred orders 1t demands a continuance of the
protective tariff, the enforcement of the State
prohibitory law, and expresses sympathy with
Gladstone in his efforts to secure Justice for
the Irish people.
Seventy-five Republican editors of
Ohio met at Columbus and passed resolutions
earnestly requesting the United States Senate
TO investigate the charges of bribery in con-
nection with the election of Senator Payne
The Chief of the Fire Department
at Evansville, Ind, cut all the telephone wires
in that city because the company failed TO
comply with a recent ordinance.
One hundred and four saloon-keepers
of st Joseph, Mo-, have been indicted for
violating the Sunday law
Robbers invaded the postoffice at
Minneapolis, Mimi. the other night, and car
ried off $4,000 in money and stamps.
Miss Eva Johnston, aged II, living
near Patricksburg, Ind, hanged herself in the
woods near her fathers dwelling.
Milton Evans, farm laborer from
Southern Missouri, died IN great agony from
hydrophobia at the police station in Kansas
City. A maidstone was applied without effect
Wind and nail storms at Benson and
Sleepy Eye, MINI, wrecked buildings and de-
stroyed crops. Freight cars were blown from
the tracks, and thousands of acres of grain