The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1888-02-08
THE WESTERN STATES.

HUGH M. BROOKS, allaS MaXWell, Tue slayer
of G. Arthur Preller at st. Louis, has written
an appeal to the American people calling for
fair play and justice. He re-echoes the ring
ing cry Of his sturdy old father and says that
the law is cruel, that justice should be tenn
pered with mercy and that he is a fit subject
for cemency. He asks: @Were my rights
respected? Did l have fair and impartial
trial?" And answers himself by saying that
the jurors had formed an opinion, that his
attorneys were not allowed to define the terms
of the law, while the prosecuting attorney
was permitted to do go
A LONG consultation between President
Spalding, of the Chicago Base ball Club, and
Fred Pfeffer, the second-b aseman of the
team last year, says a Chicago dispatch, was
brought to close by Pfeffer signing a con-
tract to play at Chicago in 1888
A LIBEL suit for 100000 was instituted
against the Detroit Evening NecS by Maxwell
M Fisher, prominent and wealthy business
, man Of that city,
WINTHROP GOLIATH, brother Of the late
Vicc-rrosident Henry Wilson, died at East
Saginaw, Mich, few days ago.
The Michigan Temperance Alliance, in
annual convention at Jackson, abandoned its
non-partisan position and aligned itself with
the Prohibition party.
BELIEVING a collision imminent at junction,
Ill, the engineer, Fireman Daniel Donovan,
of Marquette, Mich, and Edward Kelley, a
stockman at Gadbrook, Iowa, jumped from
the cab of freight engine, rolled under the
wheels, and were killed.
The Supreme Court Of Michigan has rem
dered decision in the contest on the will of
the late Francis Palms, the millionaire lum-
herman, document affecting property to the
extent of some s17,OOOOoo. The will consti-
tuted the son and daughter Of the decedent
and Michael w. O'Brien, a leading banker,
| trustees, to hold the property until the end of
the minority of the youngest living grand
child, and provided that if his daughter, Clo-
tilde-who has been given considerable noto-
riety by Senator Jones' infatuation with
her-did not marry and have heirs, his entire
estate should descend to the children of his
son, Francis f. Palms. The appeal was taken
to the Circuit Court in the form Of petition
to interpret the will-the provisions of which
cut off either party making q contest The
Circuit Court declared the will invalid, and
J
/ That court decides that the will was valid ex
cept in so far as it destroyed the power of
alienation in the trustees during two lives,
that clause being declared illegal The trust
constituted by the will, therefore, continues.
Two MEN were killed and four injured by
the bursting of boiler at GAINESVILLE, Ohio.
FIVE years ago the 5-year-old son of Capt
W. T. Dickinson, of Commonwealth, Wis,
mysteriously disappeared 1t is now re-
ported that negotiations for the return of the
boy for ransom are pending and that sl0,-
600 has been demanded by the kidnapers
A SAN FRANCISCO dispatch Gays the MERGED
Canal, built to convey water from the foo
J hills of the Sierra mountains at San Joaquin,
has been formally opened. The reservoir il
which tho water is stored contains GAO acres.
Tho canal is twenty-seven miles long, and has
been five years in building. 1t will irrigate
over quarter Of million acres.
AN Indianapolis dispatch says that Judge
Judge Woods in the Federal Court overrulec
the motions for a new trial in the cases Of
Coy and Bernhamer, the convicted tally -shee
conspirators. Coy was then sentenced to the
penitentiary for eighteen months and to pay
a fine of 800; Bernhamer TO go year ant
pay a fine of $1,000. They were remauded t.
the county Jail, where they will remain pend
ing the appeal to Judge Gresham"