The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1888-12-26
The Past Twelve Months.


messed tine imposing ceremonies.
9-Coldest day ever known i'm California
mercury in many pla ,es fell 10 fleeEing point.
13-At Brainsrd, Mimi, the mercury regis
tered 90 degrees below ths zero mark. At
Chiplewa ais, Wis, spirit thermometers
recorded rs degrees below zero.
15-Grcat suffering among people ana whole
eale destruction catte in Northern IoNns,
caused by severe cold weather; Colorado River
trozen over-frst time on record.
determination appointed by Now York Leg
fsiature TO report on most humane method OF
executing condemned criminals recommended
abolition OF hanging and substitution OF e.e,-
tricity
26-EIrs. Clarissa Jackson tcolorsdl, OF Han
cock County, ohio, became grandmother ut
Che age Of % years.
FEBRUARY
10-Patrick J. Hart who was hanged for muir
dor at He.ena Montana claimed 10 have made n
discovery fof prolongins human life, one OF the
Ingredients being asnes. Ho was unable 10
demonstrate its value, because tho officials re-
FUSED TO delay the execu ion Of his death SON
4ence
lI-Albert, tho pedes rian james Albert
Cathc lrtl. beat tho record in n walking match
at New York. covering 81 u miles In six days
27-Inauguration at Chicago of IL remarkable
strike OF tho brotherhood OF Locomotive En-
gineors aga nst the c., D. & Q. H. II. the cor.
poration is one of the greatest in mileago and
wealth in tho country, and the B. L. h. mum
pers about -, zoo members
29-John a. Beal, aged 10. began his torn q
imprisonment for lie at the Columbus ohio
Penitentiary, his crime being the brutal muir
der OF his mother.
For the third time IN her married life OF
three years, the wife OF James McElnore OF
Vexarkana, TeNal, gave birth TO triplots-Line
children, all living and doing well.
l2-Great storm along the Atlantic coast (;
telegraph lines CRIPPLE, trains blocked, and
business generally paralyzed Now YORK was
buried in snow, and Washington, Baltimore and
PHI ladel ha almost completely isolated. The
financial loss to the states involved exceeded
2o10o,0Qo, New York's share OF this sum bsng
H7,000,UOJ. The metropolis had gone back o
years in it's history, so far rs travel was con-
cerned ami the strange spectacle WAS presented
of young men starting rom the City Hall on
snow shoes TO Joints within ten and twenty
miles OF the city.
27-Gen. Boulanger disturbing element in
French political anu army circles, placed on re-
tired list.
16-Elizabeth Arnold (coored) died at Pitts
burgh at the Oge OF 1lS years.
1S-New York Assembly passed bill substitut-
sng electricity for the halter of criminals
Sentenced TO death.
2l-Ihe famous trotting horse Dexter died OF
old age and exhaustion at the stable of his own
or, Mr.. Robert Bonner, New York. Dexter was
foaled in April ls5s, and in August, 1867, a Buff
Halo, covered mile in 2:l1l4-the fastest mile
ever trotted at that time-when he was pur-
chased by Mr.. Bonner for $500, and withdrawn
2e-General Joseph f.. Johnston. highest OF
rank OF living officers OF the Confederate army,
'elected an honorary member OF Grand Army
post in Philadelphia.
25-Lack Of support compelled the suspension
of the Harm, the anarchis6ic sheet formerly ed
2ted by Albert H. Parsons, OF Chicago.
30-Presdent Cleveland sent o the Senate the
nomination of Hon. Melville Weston Fuller. Of
Illinois, TO be Chief Justice OF tho United States
Supreme Court.
J-Dwyer Brothers, Of Brooklyn, n. V, paid
Is. 200 for yearing colt at sale of thorough
breds near Paris, y.-highest-priced yearIing
ever sold ut auction IN tie United States. 1ho
new purchase is full brother 10 the famous
Hanover, u horse that won Slc,DJO in cups and
etakes for the Dwyer stable during 1887.
@-Rev. DIR. Lyman Abbott called 10 the pulpit
of Plymouth Church, Brooklyn, us the successor
of Henry Ward Beocher.
l9-Judge Speer, in the United States District
Court at Atlanta Ga, ruled that when u dis
honest postal clerK opens decoy letter he
breaks no law and is not amenabe TO punish
ment
29-The Supreme Court OF North Carolina de-
cided that woman who had murdered her hus-
band was entitled 10 widow ) share OF his
property.
3-S;eamshp Etruria made the trip from
Queenstown TO Now York in less than six days
two hours-fastest trip across the rec
ord Average speed, about twenty-five statute
miles per hour.
5-AiriNnl NJ San Francisco, from oudon of
the British bark BalaiIlava, her voyage lasting
ono year and seventy-four days. There was not
q sailor aboard VINO shipped on her in England !;
ten wsro washed overbo ard in n storm of Cupe
Horn, and the repainder deserted while at
Valparaiso for repairs two more lost in u storm
after leaving the latter port.
19-At the Pennsylvania Railroad locomotive
works. Altoona, locomotive weighing 1000
pounds was built in Il hours 50 minutes
ELECTORS from London England were de-
uVered At Vancouver. Is. c., within twelve days
2t-Leke Benton Mimi, had severe frost
which badly injured small fruits and grain fields
JULY
I-Dispatches from Eufaula Indian Territory
announced the murder by hOrso-t hieves OF
Deputy Marshal Phillips and posse, making u
record of seventeen shorfs Kill 81 in that vicinity
within two years.
6-Tho financial exhibit of the c., b. & O.
Road for the first five months of 1888, compared
wit m a inc tod If Cha ura1a
1oss OF - 1914 ,lf2-caused by short crops last
year, reduced ratios, and the great engineers
strike
l1-After drawing pay and emolum snts OF his
various grades in tho army for thirty years
Jieuten mt Colonel Leslie Smith. commanding
the po a. Fort Mag nnis, Montana, made mp
plcation TO become citizen he had never been
entitled to the right of suffrage.
14-Plant City, Fla, was ordered 20 be torn
fever.
IA huge waterspout passed over st. Angus
cine Fla, upsetting boats in tho river, and tear
Eng out the streets several drayloads OF fish
were secured on the streets after 1t had passed.
AUGUST.
1-Dr. Ernest Weissonberger. Of Heidelberg
University, who had been observing the gas
wells at Findlay. Ohio. predicted volcanic erup-
tons for that vicinity i'm the near future.
6-Prospectors brought in rich specimens Of
gold from the Boulder country, Mon ana.
10-Goyernor Hill, OF New York dsapproves
OF the custom so long in vogue OF having crimi-
mails executed ON Friday, and designates Tues
day IN stead
14-By order OF tho President, Major General
John NJ. Schofeld was placel in command of the
army, with headquarters Mt Washington.
1O-President CleyelHnd.s letter accepting a
denomination made public
1.-two named steele and Mockabee
were put of train at Stepstone, Ky. they
were drunk and had boon fighting; when the
Grain was stol ped iho duel was resumed, and
Mr.. Mockabee was killed by the fifth bullet from
Dr. Stoeles pistol. after which tho latter
boarded the train and proceeded homeward
22-The celebrated calf case Jones County,
IOWA terminated by jury at Waterloo finding q
verdict for plaintiff Robert Johnson, for 3 900
che case hal been pending in various courts for
more than fourteen years and several we'll TODD
persons bankrupted in paying costs the
calf was worth about S45.
29-London Eng, startled by a series OF some
half dozen mysterious murders in White
chapel oil the victims we're dissoute
women of the poorest class, and the un-
fortunate wretchos wore found with their throats
severed and their bodies disc hboweled and
mutatod in a brutal manner; tho detectives
were completely at the identity OF tho
unknown murderer, who was thought to be an
tnsane man, as no attempt was made to despoil
the bodies.
9O-Number OF immigrants arrived at ports OF
the United states from principal foreign coun-
tries, except Dominion of Canada and Mexico.
during first nine months OF lSSs AZ, 49,, against
Al. 2Gz during same period last year.
OCTOBER.
S-'Tho Hon. George Bancroft American his
aorian reached his eighty-eighth birthday.
S-Chief Justice Melville Weston Fuller u. S.
Supreme Court. took the oath OF Office.