The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1886-11-18
WESTERN.

Evangelist Moody's church, OH the
corner of LaSale and Chicago avenues Chi
cago, has been partially destroyed by FIRE The
damage is estimated at $4,000 The fire is
believed to have been of incendary origin
Colonel r. G. Ingersoll has agreed
n argue The case of the COW. voted anarchists
of Chicago before the Illinois Supreme Court
LEONARD SWEET has also boon retained
The evidence in the great express
robbary case, as made public, goes 30 prove
that the messenger, David T. Fotheringham,
was an accessory, or at least willing v.eim,
in the affair, says St Louis special Dis
crepanc ~ i'll his statements 10 the detectives
indicate that he knows more of the
manner in which the robbery was planned
and executed than he would like TO have them
know, and an expert penman, who wac before
the grand jury, states that the three letters
signed Jim Cummings were written by one
and the same man, and expresses his belief
that the man was Fotheringham, and that he
wrote them before the commission OF the rob
berry. 1t now transpires that the mes enger's
trunk was searched soon after the robbery,
and q I lumber of sheets OF paper were found
covered with cop;e' of the signature OF w. ].
Barrett, manager of the express company.
The First National Bank of Indian
apois 8 voted to g. INTO liquidation
The knights of Labor propose to
publish daily paper at Milwaukee in the in
terest of the order.
Natural gas was struck at Muncie,
Ind, last week, and the people greatly
cted over the discovery.
Simeon Gerard, who for fifteen years
had beel desperate il Warren County, Ind.
was shot dead by four viGilantes Oh the blum
nsrh of Atlca last week
A verdict for 1864 was rendered at
Detroit il the suit of the Indianapol Base
Ball Association against the Detroit Associa-
ton TO recover So, 600 alleged to be due on a
contract un Ter which all but two of the In
dianapolis players were sold TO the Detrots in
1897
In the United States Court at Gin
cinnati Ju ge Sage rendered decision on the
suit OF the Government against the American
Bell Telephone Company, fading for the lat-
Ter and dismissing the bill for want of juris-
diction, but without prejudice to the Govern
met institutng suit elsewhere
William S. Wilson was hanged at
JonesbJro, IT., on FRIDAY, the 18th ms. He
made g. eseh from the scaffold i'll which he
quotel husbands be true to your wives
wives be trae 10 your Lusl ands, " and asking
the people 10 DO cha citabe 10 his seven chill
dren Wilson's crime was committed
on Jan z near Jouesboro. He came
home after n protractel absence TO the
vito who had been the victim of his
neglect AMI abuse for twenty years, and in a
quarrel drew a revolver and shot and almost
Instantly killed her. HIS defense was in
sanity. After his conviction lac was b ptzed
into the Methodist Church. Wilson had served
III the One Hundred and Invent eth Illinois
Regiment and, though descrter, he re-
oeive a pension.
Albert G.. Boynton, who shot and
killed his wife and J. B. kipp on sept Il, was
hanged at Los Angeles, Cal. Boynton pur-
sued his wife 10 Kipp's house, where she had
fled to escape q beating, aud shot her, and
then shot X PIP for attempting to defend her.
A mob of 10000 stormed the Jail at
San Francisco, Cal, with tho determination OF
Iynchirg young Goldenson, who murdered
little Mame Kelley The prison was strongly
guarded, however, and each assault was re-
pulsed by the police.
1t is reported as definitely settled
that tn Ba umore and Ohio hai way will es-
tablish a lino OF steimsrs between Fairport,
OHIO, and Duluth, obviating the necessity OF a
route to the Northwest VIA Chicago. Tbs fin
ost ,ssels W II b, bu Il
The theory of the prosecution in the
St Louis expross-robbery case that Messenger
Fotherngham wrote the Jim Cummings letters
scems 10 be overthrow by the fac, that since
tho Incarceration Of Fotheringham the ST
LOUIS Republican has rece vel letter from
Topeka, Kan. signed Jim Cummings ant
writton in the same hand as ths others The
letter asserts the messengers Innocence and
slys that the bank notes sent to Frank Jane.
were sent as joke, and with no intention oi
doing him an injury
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