The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1871-11-24
The Vest.


AT Chicago, on Wednesday, while a pas
senger train of the Northwestern railroad
was crossing the river, tug boat ran into
the bridge, forcing it open, and throwing the
locomotive and tender into the river. A
young man named VIM. Lee, who was riding
on the locomotive, was drowned. By the
fortunate breaking of coupling, the pas
senger cars, eight in number, were left on
solid ground, thereby preventing great loss
of life. The captain of the boat was arrest
ed, and a thorough investigation will be
had......A letter from Knobnoster, Mo-, men,
tons singular physical phenomenon oc-
curing there. 1t says continual rain has
descended for two weeks from cloudless
sky, and confined to q space of only twenty
miles in diameter. This phenomenon has
been observed by many persons, and the
writer asks for a scientific explanation ......
Gen. Schofeld will be placed by the Indian
Bureau in control of the Indians of Arizona
He is instructed to bring them all in upon
reservations, and keep them there. They
will be fully protected in all their rights
while on the reservation. If they leave to
go upon the war-path they will be punished
mfr. n. Molter, Of Adoline, Ogle county,
H., blew out the gas in his room at the
Southern Hotel, on Tuesday night, and as
consequence was found dead in his bed the
next day......P Philip and Daniel Jones, and
man named Wright, have been arrested by
United States Marshal Patrick, for the muir
der of Bennett, whose body was recently
found near Salt Lake City, and who was re-
ported to have been killed while in the act
of stealing horses. 1t is said now, and gem
orally believed, that Bennett was shot in
cold blood, on account of o woman ..... The
weather is reported extremely severe in some
of the mining districts of Utah In the Big
Cottonwood, on Wednesday, the snow was
two feet deep on level, with fearful drifts
As high 40 $50 was offered to carry sixty
pounds of provisions up the canyon, but no
teamsters could be found to attempt the
passage. 1t is feared the miners will suffer
for want of food..... Gov. Farchild, of Wis
consin, announces that the sufferers by the
fires in that State have been abundantly
supplied, and that no further contributions
are needed.
On the morning of the 9th, the Bank of
Geneva, at Geneva Lake, Wis, was entered
by burglars, and robbed of about twenty
five thousand dollars. 1t is supposed that
two men were engaged in the robbery, but
they escaped......Th Government proposes
to purchase the entire block upon which the
Post Office at Chicago was located, and erect
building large enough for all the Govern
menu OlHCeS. Inc COSJ, lncluQl01 the
ground, will be from 81, 900 900 to So, 900 900.
AS THE passenger train on the North Mis-
souri, and Pacific railroad, which left St.
Louis Saturday morning, having two cars
attached containing ninety-fve recruits
from New Albany, was approaching Wells
vile, rail broke, and the two rear
cars, containing the recruits flew the
track, and rolled down the embankment,
turning two or three times. At the latest
accounts sixteen soldiers had been killed
outright or died of their wounds. Edward
Colvin, brakeman, was also killed.
The South.
The steamboat Wade Hampton sprunp a
leak ard sunk in the Mississippi river, near
Donaldsonville, Wednesday morning. The
steamer was valued at $50 ,OO0......A party of
coon hunters near Inwood, Md, on Satur-
day night, sat down on a railroad track and
fell asleep. An express train rushed by,
killing John Green, throwing him distance
Of sixty feet. Two of his companione were
badly injured.
LAST Saturday, two negroes, while going
home from Grenada, Miss, was shot by
Jack Treble, a worthless fellow. One was
killed aud the other MORALLY wounded.
Treble has been arrested.
Washington.
AT the next session of Congress ten or
twelve bills will be introduced for the re-
vival OF American bodybuilding, which
propose to grant subsidies, to take off the
duty on all articles that enter into ship
building, to construct vessels that will suit
the merchant service in time of t,eoce aud
the naval service in war, etc. It is stated
unat the President and Secretary of the
treasury In their annual messages will
make an earnest arrnnl 10 -. =