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The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1894-04-20

ripe for an epidemic. 1t had a popu-
lation OF nearly 500, 900, and the ma
jority of the people were badly
housed. The city was built mainly
of wood and plaster. The streets
were narrow, badly paved, worse
drained, and never cleaned. Under
the very windows Of the palaces the
streets reeked With unspeakable
abomination. In December, 1864,
the first case Of the epidemic oc-
Cured, but it was not until the fol-
lowing June that the people realized
their perilous position and the horri-
bic nature of the disease. In the
second week of June 120 deaths oc-
Cured. A sudden panic swept over
the city. The royal court fed to Ok
ford and thousands left the city as II
fleeing from charnal house.
BY August the city was at the
mercy OF the plague. Business was
at standstill. Streets once thronged
were as quiet and deserted as the
grave, and whole rows Of houses were
shut up, their occupants having fled.
AS soon as the disease was known to
be present in any dwelling the house
was shut up and marked in the mid
die OF the door with red cross a
foot long, an above it the printed
words, Lord have mercy upon us. :"
No one was suffered to leave the
smitten house unless it was TO go to
the pest house. The authorities en-
deavOred in every manner to isolate
the infected, and those who in any
way had come in contact with them
were required to carry red wand
before them while travelling the
streets. The dealers in the necessa-
ries Of life-all other traffic was sus-
pended-received the money from
their customers in disinfectants.
People were afraid to speak to their
best friends, and walked in the mid
die Of the streets lest they should
come in contact with Others leaving
their homes. All domestic animals
were banished from the city, beggars
were not allowed to frequent the
streets, and all games that might
draw crowd were forbidden.
Burylng the Dead.
AS the plague progressed burials
ceased to be performed with any re-
ligious ceremonies. The dead be-
came so numerous that it was impos-
sible any longer to preserve the
individuality OF corpse. Pits were
The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1894-04-20

On Friday last Councilman David
smith turned his little finger over his
thumb few times too often, became
uproariously drunk and was promptly
arrested by Marshal Davis and lodged
In the lookup to cool off. He was t. ken
before Judge Neal Monday and as
fined 81 and trimmings. We wish ia
say In this connection that we we're Inn,
portuned not to write this up, but will
say that 1t is news item and is mat
ter that the public have a r., ht
through their local paper to know
Notwithstanding Sun
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One hundred and eighty-six patients,
says dispatch, are In the pest house,
several are in the suspect" ward OF the
County Ho pital, and number are
quarantined In private houses because
there Is no room in the citys hospital.
No more women or childr, will be re-
moved from infected houses unless
some extra provision Is made for their
care.
The Department of Health, by its
officials and inspectors, declares itself
unable TO meet the emergency and
prevent the further spread of the dis
ease unless further facilit es are pro-
vided at once and the people of the
wards most affected cooperate in re-
port ng new ca es "a sCQn as they
arise.
The most serious condition of affairs
has been found in the southwest por-
tion of the city, especially in the Ninth
and Tenth Wards. DR.. M. Brand. the
INSPECTOR, found three persons dead in
their houses Sunday, and two similar
cases Oh saturday. The people living
in the houses had ooncea Q 4 the exist
ence of smallpox until death came and
they were compel ID to cali in the I'M
dertaker. He notified the Health De-
partment and DR.. Brand was sent to
investigate.
Went to- school and to Church.
1T would not be we'll to give the ad-
dresses" said the doctor wnen he was
asked about them, but they were in
families where the people had been
passing in and out, the chi dren going
to schooi, the family attending church
and going about as If smallpox were
an everyday affair. That seems to be
nothing extra ordinary, either. | have
had number of cases where the first
word we had OF them was from the un-
dertaker. Generally we find one or
two now cases in the house with the
dead body, but the isolation of such
cases 8 net enough TO stop the trouble,
because we are called in ter the harm
has been done.
Another thing, and the most serious
obstacle. is the opposition TO vaccina-
ton. The Poles especially seem to re-
gard incubation with fear as q thing
TO be dreaded. 1t is next to impossible
TO persuade the residents of the dis
trict to protect themselves and their
neighbor from contagion. As a re suit
the condition of things here is serious
and something ought to be done at
once If they are not to be worse.
Here is an example of the way the
disease is scattered: j was called in
to examine a patient in house. 1
found little girl already dead, anoth-
er sister in the first stages, and the
father, who was butcher, attending
to his shop every day. There had been
no attempt to isolate him. He sold
fresh meat to hundreds of people in
that neighborhood, and it will be-
strange il some of them do not come
down sick. To make matters worse,
the sanitary conditions in the district
are very bad. Not an alley in the
Ninth or Tenth Ward is paved, and al
most all of them are filled with trash. !"
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Jury strikes an Average.

Tho Polard-Bre clSlnridge trial in
Washington is endel at last and Made
line Pollard has verdict for $4,000
against the silver-tongued Congress-
man from the bluegrass region. The
jury rendered its verdict alter having
boon out little over an hour. The
jury took fifteen balloss before reach
ing a conclusion. The difference was
mainly over the amount of damages
to be granted, and there was but one
man on the jury who favored the
defendant. On the first ballot one
Juror voted for the defense and hung
for time, but his colleagues
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dug, at first so small as to contain
only so or 90 bodies each, but after
ward they nrached proportions suffi-
cient TO accommodate over LOCO
corpses each. The pits were gener-
ally dug down TO the water and into
these the rich and poor, the innocent
child and the hoary reprobate were
flung. There were no prayers, no
friends to weep last farewell; only
hired bearers attended each commit
ment TO earth. The dead carts went
their dreary rounds by night, accom-
panied by man ringing bell, who
called out as he passed the infected
houses, Bring out your dead" Then
the bodies were piled on the carts
and were taken to a common burial
ground.
And yet amid all this the deprav-
ity OF human nature blossomed. The
living were robbed by hreling nurses;
the dead were stripped OF the linen
enshrouding their bodies; nay, what
Is mere horrible by far, nurses after
robbing killed the unhappy creatures
committed to their care that they
might hasten elsewhere TO pillage
and to murder. From the middle of
August to the middle Of October the
plague was at its height. In these
two months there persisted OF the
plague as, 7O5. The most fatal week
was that between the 18th and 10Th
of September, when there died Of all
diseases s,297, OF whom 7,l65 were
killed by the plague. The entire
mortality during the prevalence of
the epidemic, which did not entirely
die out until winter, was nearly 100, :
900.
A violent fever, ending either In
death or In an eruption OF inflamma-
tory tumors, generally marked each
case OF the plague. If the tumors
broke the patient was considered
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coats and hats. The jury had been out
only one hour and twenty-eight min
utes. There was an intense silence.
Five minutes passed before Attorney
Carlisle, representing Miss Pollard,
entered. Judge Bradley eluested the
people to refrain from demonstrations.
Then the verdict Of $4,000 for the
plaintiff was announced. There wss
no expression of approval CT disap-
p!oval from the crowd. Col. Breckin-
ridge him elf rose to make a molten
for new trial and the court ad burned.
There was nothing but expressions
Of approval and regrets that the
amount was not larger among the few
Senators in the Senate chamber when
the bulletin was announced to them
and rapidly passed around the cham
Der.
Since the verdict was rendered the
theatrical managers have redoubled
their opportunities, AMI several tele-
grams came 10 Miss Pollard oSering
her astonishing sums to go upon the
stage at once. Her friends decline TO
give the names of the theatrical man.
ayers or to discuss their OF ers, say ing
that no attention will he paid to any of
them.
Ask Congress to T IKE Action.
Hardly had the verdict in the Pol
Understandings case been rendered
when a me citing of prominent Wash
ington women was called 10 take action
regarding the case of Col. Breckin-
ridge. Representatives OF several fem
mime organizations met at Willard s
Hotel, and, after an interesting con-
ference, adopted resolutions calling
uron Congress TO consider the qualif-
cations OF Representative Breckenridge
for membership in that body.
The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1894-04-20
vinette's Army Is Arrested.

San Berpardino, Calm response TO
a call from Cotton for help Sheriff
Booth, with forth-eight deputies armed
with shot-guns, went to Cotton to ar
rest the second Los Angeles regiment
of the army of the unemployed. After
quietly leaving this city the army
under Captain Vinette marched to Col
ton and during the night took posses
sion of Southern Pacific freight
train. The engineer side-tracked mis-
train AMI refused TO haul the men.
Upon the arrival of Sheriff Booth and
posse, the army was ordered TO get Off
the cars, which command they refused
to obey. The town hose cart was then
drawn out and water from the city
waterworks was turned on the men.
They did not leave, however, until the
arm was placed under arrest to man.
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TO RESIST COxEYITES.
Iowa's Governor Orders state Militia I'm
der Arms


der Arms.
Nine companie, OF the Iowa National
Guard in the western part of the State
were under arms, ready TO go to Coun-
Gil Bluffs in case their presence was
needed, to prevent lawlessness and dis
order on the part Of Kelly's Western
industrial army. Governor Jackson,
according to a Des Moines dispatch,
received te egram from the Sheriff
Of Pottawattamie County, asking him
for troops to preserve the peace and
prote t prore ty. The Governor ut
once ordered Company l, of the Third
Regiment, Iowa National Guard, at
Council Bluffs, w. e. Atkinson COM
manding, to report to the sheriff for
duty. The company numbers forty
men, and is one of the best in the
State.
A short time afterward n. M. Hub
bard, Jr, of Cedar Rapids, attorney
for the Chicago and Northwestern
Railway, arrived in les Moines and
hurried to the Capitol. He rep e.
ented to the Governor that the trunk
lines of railroad which touch Council
bluffs would be unable to protect their
trains and other property from the in
vaders. He feared that the 1000 des-
pera o men in Kelly's army would cap
ture trains on some of the east-west
roads running into Council B uffs and
run them wild eastward, possibly Gus
ing wrecks and disaster.
Gov. Jackson announced his inten-
ton of preserving ,der and preventing
the capture OF any trains in Iowa, AID
in company with Mr.. Hubbard started
for Council Bluffs in special train
over the Chicago and Northwestern.
Before leaving Gov. Jackson tele-
graphed to Adjutant General Firm.
who is in Cherokee, TO report for
immediate duty and through Maj J. r.
Prim issued orders to the following
companies TO assemble at their armcries
and await marching orders:
Company G., Third Regiment, Creston, 40
men, Capt. w. ]. Fuggan; Company l, Third
Regiment, Bedford, SIS men, Capt. NJ. Miller;
Company X Third Regiment Corning, so men,
Capt. A. B. shaw; Company b, Third Regi-
ment, Villisca, 45 men. Capt 5. y. Moore:
Company NJ, Third Regiment, Red Oak, AZ men,
Capt. j. w. Clark; Company 4, Third Rsei-
ment, Shenandoah. 40 men, Capt. o. l.. Sbaffer;
Company l., Third Regiment, Council Bluffs,
40 men, Capt. w. Il. Atchison; Company L.,
Fourth Regiment, Sioux City, so men, Capt.
w a. Kirk; Company Ii, Sioux City. 90 men.
Capt. j. A. Haley.
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How He Got In.

In l777, while HarrOdsburg, KY,
was so beset with Indians that the
inhabitants were in straits for daily
bread, young man only 16 years old
made himself extremely useful by
venturing out Of the fort before day
break, and returning with load OF
game after nightfall. This intrepid
youth was James Ray, afterward Gen.
Ray.
One day in the year just mentioned
Ray and another young man were
shooting at mark near the fort
when the second man was suddenly
shot down by the Indians. Ray
lookel in the direction whence the
shot had come, and seeing the enemy,
was on the point Of raising his rifle,
when he was set upon by another
gang who had crept near him unseen
He took TO his heels. and being a
quick runner, reached the fort amid
a shower OF bullets. But the gates
were shut, and The men inside were
so frightened that they dared not
open them. Finding himself shut
out, Ray threw himself flat on the
ground in the rear of stump, and
here, perhaps seven steps from the
fort and within sight OF his mother
he lay for four hours, while the bull
lets of the Indians tore up the ground
on either side Of him.
At last be grew impatient and
called out to the garrison:
"For heavens sake. dig hole I'M
de. the cabin wall, and take me in. I"
The men inside set to work imme-
diately, and the brave young hunter
was speedily safe inside the fort
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CURRENT COMMENT.
Col. Breckinrldge.

Col. Breckenridge will like the latest
English novels. York World.
Col. Breckinridge should have gone
West In early life and grown up with
Utah. st. Louis Globe Democrat.
There Is reason to believe that one OF
Col. Breckinridge's favorite books Is
How to Pc Happy Though Married. :
New York World.
Any man who dictate his love letters
80 a stonographer is an lS-karat
chump, whether he has silver tongue
r. not.--Chicago Dispatch.
Col. Breckenridge and Madeline Pol
lard are probably better acquainted
with each other now than they were
when they were more iriendly.-Atchi-
son Globe.
Breckenridge, by his own confession,
10 bad man, but some OF his loudest
oritics are g ing TO have mighty hard
time squeezing past old ST. Peter
Daily Amer Ca.
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Do Flyipg Fish Fly?

A very common error made in nat
ural histories where this fish Is men,
toned Is that it does not fly. ats
supposed flight is nothing more than
a prolonged leap; ii cannot deviate
from stright line, and cannot rise
second time without entering the
water" This, briefly, is the sort of
thing one meets with in textbooks
where reference is made to this fish.
The simplest way OF dealing with
it is the professors method of an
sweling the query OF the French
Academy whether their definition OF
a crab was correct The story is so
well known that it does not need
repetition AS the result of personal
observation extending over a good
many years, i assert that the exocetus
does fly.
i have often seen a flying fish rise
200 yards off, describe semi-circle,
and, meeting the ship, rise twenty
feet in the air perpendicularly, at the
same time darting of at right angles
10 its previous course. Then, alter
another long flight, when just about
TO enter the water, the gaping jaws
Of dolphin emerging from the sea
gave it pause and 1t rose again, re-
turning almost directly upon its
former course. This proce lure is so
common that IL is a marvel it is not
more widely known.
A flying fish OF mature size can fly
1000 yards. 1t does not flap its fins
as bird, but they vibrate, like the
wings OF an insect, with distinct
hum. The only thing which termin-
ates flight In voluntarily IL the drying
of it's din membranes and their conse-
0uent stiffeninx.
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Freak Of n Fish.

In the window of a cigar store on
Columbus avenue, New York, is to be
seen a freak OF nature that attracts
much attention. 1t is goldfish with
put any fin on its b ok. Otherwise 1t Is
perfectly developed, and seems TO suf-
fer no Inconvenience from the absence
of this part of its anatomy There Is
said to he but one ether such specimen
In the country. and it is a stuffed one in
the Smithsonian Institution at Wash
inptOn
The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1894-04-20
Peru and Her Affections

Peru has two presidents, one dicta.
tor and a revolution. Ard still Peru,
for some reason, is not happy.-Kansas
City Journal.
And new it Is unhappy Peru which
Is rent with civil strife and afflicted
with a surplusage of presidents. Pc.
RODS of peace in South America are
few and soon broken.-Boston Journal.
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free from danger. In other cases tho
invasion Of the disease was sudden,
and many thus attacked fell down
and died In the streets, in the mar
ket houses and In their homes.
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Coxey.

Congre IS may not be able to secure a
quorum to receive Coxey.-St. Louis
Star-Sayings.
Coxey can plead time-honored prec.
edent. A goose once saved Rome. -
Chicago Tribune.
The only terrifying weapon possessed
by Coxey army /, Carl Brownies vo-
cabulary. York Void.
1t will lie to Mr.. Coxey's interest to
SEQ that his moving army does not
come in contact with Uncle Sans
standing army.-Chicago Tribune.
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Coxrvtt Ms,siilor.

J. S. Coxey, the leader of the COM
monweal of Christ, who Sd suddenly
disappeared from the ranks OF the
army at Addison, Pa, on Thursday,
made his appearance in the streets OF
Massillon Saturday morning. Mr..
Coxey arrived there Friday night, and
was driven directly to his home. When
questioned about his ommcnweal, he
answered that 1t was a glorious sue
cess, and that Washington would be
reached without trouble of any kind.
The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1894-04-20

ALEX. s. PARIS, Is years old, who
forged the name OF Agent G. Bryan, OF
the Chesapeake and Ohio Railroad, at
Cincinnati. and secured 1915, was
brought back from San Francisco.
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Fate or the kearsnrgc.

Thi, ing lorious end of the doughty
corvette was not entirely unexpected.
-Philadelp hia Record.
Much as tho patriotic people of the
United States will regret the total loss
Of the stout old ship, it is just as well
that the destruction of the Kearsarge
il c. .olete ard final. It's career was
over.-l hiladelphia Time.
A COOL my persons will think that
the fate Cf the kearsarge has its con.
soations. u fall in5o de ay tied to
tae end of a wharf is not dignifed
enl. 1t is better, a, DIR. Holmes said
Of Old Irons des, TO be given to the god
If storm, the lightning and the gale.
Providence Journal.
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DIED BY THOUSANDS.
AWFUL RAvAGES OF THE PLAGUE
IN LONDON IN 1866.
Men Fell Like Autumn Leaves and Were
Thrown Into Nameless Graves without
Burial Rltes-Murdering the Living, Rob-
bling the Dead.
A Tale OF Horror.

The great epidemic that visited
London In 1865, wiping out nearly
100, 900 lives, must be reckoned one
OF the most disastrous visitations in
history. London at that time was
The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1894-04-20
AN ILLINOIS MIRACLE
A CASE OF DEEP INTEREST TO
WOMEN EVERYWHERE.

Saved Through Casual Glance at a News
paper-wsaS, Pale and in Depiorabis
Condition When Relief Came-A Re-
markabls Narrative Carefully Investi-
gated by n Dubuque Times Reporter.
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Gov. Tillman.

Perhaps Gov. Tillman may effect a
compromise by selling better qua ity
of whisky.-Chicago Tribune.
The chief trouble with Gov. Tillman
is that he views the world with his
blind eye.-New York AID 'ertiser
In attempting to regulate the tcle-
graph, Gov. Tillman put his fingers on
the wrong key.-New York Recorder
The South Carolina "Dispcnsary law
las o he good feature. 1t disc ourages
emu alton in othec States. -Baltimor
Herald.
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ROmhs In Paris.

No menu in Paris restaurant nova.
d Us is cory lete without few dyna-
mite bombs on toa-t.-Boston Herald.
When you enter Paris cafe you
should ha your mind made up as to
how you will have your dynamite
served. New York Advertiser.
The latest Paris bomb injured most
seyio lsly the an :rchist orator who de.
claie Ell tlat the victims of an explosion
were of little conse luence 50 long as
the anarchist idea pre- ailed.-Kansas
City Star
A French anarchist who was injured
by the explosion of bomb intended
for other people has chan yed his views.
This is one g Cd effect from bomb
Fittsburg Chronicle Telegraph.
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PEST HOUSE CROWDED.
A Most Serious Condition of Affairs Exists
In Chicago.

One hundred and twenty-six new
cases was the smallpox record in Chi
cago for the last week as shown by the
books in the Health Department.
Twenty-Five OF these were reported on
Friday, twenty-three on Saturday.
Eleven had cen discovered up to 4
o'clock Sunday, AMI the department
declares the disease is still spreading.
The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1894-04-20
MADELINE rs WINNER.
JURY GIVES HER A VERDICT
FOR $4,000.

Notorious Pollard Breckenridge Breach of
Promise Case Is Ended at Last-smali-
Pox Epidemic Is Not Abating In Chicago
Post House Overcrowded.
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feet away. Then Jacks work was
done-the dog was dead and his
friends life was saved.
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Mary Ellen Lease.

Mr.. Lease is still wondering why
total strangers will pay big money to
be scolded by Mrs. Lease.-New York
Word.
The gentlemen Ma ons, having heard
xhat Mrs. Lease knows about their
order, are too gallant to display much
annoyance over her determination to
establish one FOR ladies.-Exchange.
If Mrs. Leases scheme to organize a
Masonic order for women proves sue
cessful the dry-goods market will TN
,loubtedly be affected. White aprons
will be all the rage, and a slump in
ginghams must necessarily follow
Baltimore American.
Now that Mrs. Lease Is making
money, )es she 60 home Saturday
night and put h III OF it in her hus-
bands lap? Does she put her money
in the sugar-bowl and let her husband
help himself? That's what the women
say the men should do?-Atchison
v,lOhe
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springtime in Georgia.

Spring threatens to come from be-
hind the stove and do some m )re
capering on the lawn.-Atlanta G nsti
tuition.
Peach trees are now in full bloom.
a great many old people say that
reaches in bloom are rarely ever killed
IN light night. SentiLel
This beautiful weather, with its bal
samic breezes, falls like velvet ham.
mer upon the emaciated Const tuition
OF the average northern visitor.
5any Herald.
The chirp OF the early chicken, to-
,,ether with the recent May-like wealth
er, is reminder, however faint, that
pic Tics will be in order in few weeks.
Wa ton News.