The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1886-04-15
WESTERN.

The contract for building the Colo
RADIO Capitol building has been let TO VIM. ID.
Richardson, of Chicago, for s950,4S5.
Two Western railroads report the
following earnings for the month of March:
Chicago & Northwestern, 81, 9SS, 900, an in
crease over the same month last year of
$1,000; Chicago, St Paul, Minneapolis q
Omaha, s5l7, 200, an increase of s57, 800
The labor troubles in the Southwest
have had depressing effect on the lumber
trade, and mill-owners in Wisconsin are re-
ported to be undecided in regard to setting the
mill machinery in motion.
Flint and DAILY. who engaged in a
prize-fght in room at St Louis, were ar
rested under the State law making the prin-
cipals and abettors guilty of felony. A
prominent newspaper man held the stakes
A fire which broke out at La Crosse,
Wisconsin, in the mill of John Paul extended to
the yards of c. /. Colman, and thence TO the
soap factory, until the entire city was threat
ened Assistance was sent from St Paul, Mil
waukee, Sparta and Winona. The losses are
estimated at 100000.
Mrs. Grindal, residing on farm near
Eau Claire, Wisconsin, gave birth to four
healthy male babes.
At Charlton, Iowa, an old man named
Charles Archibald was beaten to death with a
soldering iron. Thomas Kelley and wife were
arrested for the crime, on overwhelming evil
dence. In tin can in Kelley's coal-shed was
found 81 ,230, which is believed to have been
the object of the murder.
After listening to number of
speeches at meeting in front of the City Hall,
a large body of East ST. Louis strikers marched
to the railway yards with the avowed de-
termination of making every man on duty quit
work. Most of the engineers, iremen, and
freight handlers obeyed without opposition.
Sheriff's deputies, with drawn revolvers, were
hooted at, pushed aside and in some cases dis
armed Finally q few determined men with
leveled Winchesters overawed the strikers, and
they withdrew.
The steam-yacht Welcome arrived in
Chicago the other day with clearance papers
direct from Mobile, the trip having been made
via the Gulf of Mexico and the Mississippi and
Illinois Rivers.
The Gem City FIGURING Mills at
quincy, Ill, were burned, the loss reaching
100000 Fire also swept away the iron works
at Florence Wis. entailing a loss of $780, CO.,
Robert J. Phillips, colored, who a
year ago killed his wife, to whom he had been
married three months, was hanged at Indian
apolis, Ind, on the Sth inst The murder was
the result of jealousy.
A postal car on the Lake Shore Road
was burned at Oak Harbor, Ohio 1t contained
Western mail matter for all points east of To-
ledo. The body Of young married woman,
which was being taken to New York State for
interment, was crematod in the blazing car.
Ihe Court House at Carroll, Iowa,
was destroyed by fire, but the records were
saved
Charles Pennor, foreman of the hook
and ladder company at Battle Creek, Mich,
was arrested for incendiarism, and confessed
to an attempt to fire the shops of Nichols,
Shepard 4 Co.
The Federal officials at San Fran
cisco unite in telegram to the Secretary of
the Treasury, stating that unusual indulgence
was extended TO the Chinese Embassy, which
landed at that port; that no discourtesy was
shown, and that no complaints were made by
the envoy