The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1888-03-07
THE WESTERN STATES.

A CHICAGO telegram gives the following
particulars OF horrible murder in that city:
shoe king tragedy took place in the dingy
two-story frame building ut No. 1919 State
street. When pretty 15-year-old Maggie
Gaughan went to work early In the morning she
was admitted to the shop by the negro fore
man, young mulatto named Zeph Davis.
There was no one else in the place at the time.
ging her to the roar OF the building attempted
to assault her. She resisted and he
dragged her into a little closet under the
stairway, and choking her to the floor in the
corner completed his british work. She still
struggled and the fiend seized q small hatchet
and chopped her about the face and head.
hacked away at the writhing and dying girl.
After crushing her skull the murderer went
on with his butchery. He slashed away at the
cheeks he tried to cut out the staring eyes.
The features were not recognizable when the
body was discovered hours later. The negro
crowded the dead form into the furthest corner
of the closet and piled sack after sack OF
leather findings upon it. The closet door was
closed and his crime hidden for while. 1t
was evidently his intention to wait till night
and then devise some means for carrying
away and burying the body. During the day
the black fend disappeared, but the following
morning was arrested at Forreston, I'LL, sixty
miles south of Chicago. He confessed to the
awful crime. Some hours after he had fled the
dead body OF the little girl was discovered in
the closet. Her parents were almost crazed
with grief when appraised OF the terrible fate
that had befallen their child.
A WOMAN who had subsisted on charity for
years, Mrs. Elizabeth Whitney, of Cedar
Rapids, Iowa, was found in her howell dying,
with 81, 900 on her person and memoranda Of
other property.
On the application for q writ OF error and
motion for new trial in the Coy-Bernhamer
election conspiracy cases Justice Harlan, at
Indianapolis on Tuesday, delivered an op,n-
ion affirming the judgment of the District
Court in every particular
A DETROIT telegram says @the Manistee Salt
and Lumber Company has made an assign
ment to L. Golden Filler for the benefit of
creditors. The assets are 81, COO and the
liabilities 1854, 600. The liabilities are COM
posed mostly of floating indebtedness to banks.
The company is very large concern, with a
valuable plant, consisting Of pine lands.
lumber railroads, saw-mills, and salt blocks,
with very complete paraphernalia- There
does not seem to be any danger of loss to any
of the creditors, but if the concern is pushed
into immediate liquidation and a forced sale,
it will involve large sacrifices to the stock
holders, and over six hundred workmen will
be deprived of employment
In the United States Court at Chicago, on
Thursday, Judge Gresham denied the appli-
cation of Coy and Bernhamer, of Indian
apolis, for release on q writ of habeas
corpus. This compels them to remain in con-
fnement pending hearing by the United
States Supreme Court
A TExARKANA (Texas) dispatch says: @The
wife of James McElmore. living at this place,
has gwen birth to triplets, two boys and q
girl The couple have been married only
three years. and this is the third set of triplets
that have been born during that time, and all
alive"
SIX years after the crime, and after having
been sentenced to death six times, Oscar +.
Beckwith has finally been hanged at Hudson,
New York, for the murder of Simon Wander
cook.
THE paper stock Of Barnes Brothers. De-
troit was destroyed by fire. Loss $150,000
DURING 1887 railroads in Michigan earned
$50, Sl9,6C9, an increase over 1856 Of $685.