The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1871-06-23
NEWS SUMMARY.
The East.

on the 9th INST, DJ staoolhS her ioui WINES
in the abdomen with pocket knife.-Three
miners got into difficulty at Flttsourgh on
the 9tk inst, and before il was ended man
named ellsworth shot and instantly killed
a miner. named McLaughlin.-A New York
brokers' son has been arrested for swindling
the Aston House, by representing that he
was an attache of the Joint High Commits
sion. and playing the same game at the st.
James, by representing that he was Motley's
Private Secretary. He ran up large bills at
both houses.-The smallpox continues to
increase in New York and in nearly all the
adjacent towns. The number of deaths from
the scourge have never been reported.
WIN. II. MAGEE and John Nicely, who
pleaded guilty to the charge of bribery, at
Pittsburgh on the 10th inst, and were sem
fenced TO the county work-house for year,
and to pay a fine of $4,000 each.-Dr. o. W.
Reid. an abortionist, was sentenced, at Phil
delphia, on the 10th inst, to SIX years and
five months imprisonment in the peniten-
tiary.-Anne Toeten, of Brooklyn, obtained
a verdict for 800 900 in the city court. New
York, on the 10th inst, against Phipp,
Evans & Co., brewers, of New York, for the
loss of her husband, who was killed in the
brewery of the defendants, by falling
through hatchway.-The event of the day
at New York on the 10th inst, was the un-
yelling of the statue of Prof Morse, in Cen
trail Park. 1t is estimated that 30 900 people
were within twenty rods of the speakers
stand.-Seven members of the New Haven
Typographical Union were arrested on the
10th inst, tor conspiring against the Office
of the Journal and Courier, under statute
law of the State. The parties arrested OBJ
tanned bonds. Both parties are determined
to take the matter to the highest courts
Hon j. s. C. Knowlton, editor of the Wor-
cester (Mass.) Palladium, and Sheriff of the
county, died Saturday morning.
FEARS are entertained of pestilence in
New York city owing to the filthy condition
of the thorough fares.-Ten thousand salmon
trout have been given away by the New
York Fish Commissioners for breeding pur-
poses.-The Cold Spring iron works and the
entire village of Cold Spring, in the town of
Otis, Berkshire county, Mass, was destroyed
by fire on Thursday night-The entire bust
ness portion of the village of Petsdorn June
ton, N. Y, was destroyed by fire Mon
day. The loss will reach nearly 100000.
J. NJ. FRANCIS, United States Minister to
Greece, left New York, on the 18th, with his
family in the steamer Holsatia for the scene
of his labors.-An immense oyster bed, said
to be the richest known for years, was dis
covered on the 18th at Eaton's Neck, Hunt
ington, l.. l., by fishermen, who brought $50
bushels oysters to New York, and received
$500 for disclosing TO others the place in
which they found them.-The Hartford,
Conn, City Council recently appropriated
$4,000 for the monument to the late DR..
Horace Wells, the discover of an@sthesia.
The West.
ALBERT KELLEY, a lad of about p years,
died in Chicago on the 9th inst, from the
effects of pistol shot, received from one
Robert Douglas, q colored boy. Douglas is
in jail.-There is already great demand for
harvest hands in Illinos.-P. II. Randall,
young unmarried man, suicided at Appleton,
Wis, on the 10th inst.-Wm. Fores, lad of
IS, was shot and instantly killed by his
cousin, at Geneseo, H., on the 10th inst.
Playing with a loaded gun caused the acct
dent.-A train loaded with live hogs recent
" arrived in San Francisco from Iowa.
They were sold for 7l@Sc per pound, live
weight.-The Buckeye Club have determined
TO sell their race grounds to the Hamilton
County, Ohio, Agricultural Society for $685.
900, on the condition that the same may be
used for racing.-A Bohemian named Wat
rooski, suicided in Chicago, Sunday after
noon, on account of press of business.-A
man named Freeman Reyes, of Newbury,
VT, died at the Adams House, in Chicago,
Oh ouHudyJ ol paralysis
TEN car loads Of strawberries arrived in
Chicago on the Illinois Central r. r. on
Monday.-Honora Ryan fell in a fit on one
of the principal streets of Chicago, and while
some kind hearted gentlemen were trying to
resusctate her they were relieved of their
watches, pocket books, and whatever loose
change they had by some of Honora's
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at the Police Court.-Tea is arriving at San
Francisco in large quantities for Chicago
The boiler of the saw-mill of Jesse Jones, of
Pottersville, Mich, exploded recently, kill
ing Jones instantly and severely wounding
two other men.--Mr. r. T. Kniseley and
Miss Carry McCloud, members of the Law
renee University at Appleton, Wis, were ac-
cidentally drowned on Saturday, June 10TH
The steamship China, which recently ar
rived at San Francisco, reports that on the
Odd ut. she found, in latitude 81. "a and long
itude 1892, japanese junk flying signal
of distress. She ran alongside, bio wing her
whistle, and finally saw hands waving from
the cabin She was unable to board the
Junk, the sea rolling heavily, but rescued
five of the crew, who reported being driven
off the Japanese coast in terrible storm,
eleven of the crew having died of starvation.
One of the survivors died on board the
steamer, but the other four recovered.
A YOUNG LADY fell from the seventh story
Of the Newhall House, at Milwaukee, Wis,
on the 18th inst, and was instantly killed.
Her name was Kate White.-A disastrous
confagration took place at McGregor, Iowa
on the evening of the 18th inst. A planning
mill and three million feet of lumber were
burned, entailing, loss of 500, O00.-The
bridge across the Mississippi at Keokuk
Iowa, is now open to the public.
The south.
DURING difficulty at Bledsoe's Landing
Ark, on the 9th inst, man named John
Dunn shot and killed Jas. Collins. Dunn
escaped.-Dr. Hall, Mississippi planter
living near Grenada, was murdered recently
at his home. The deed is supposed to have
been committed by negroes.-Two murder
ers, John Roseborough and VIM. Harrison
both negroes, were hung at Marion, Critten-
den county, Ark, on the 9th. Both strug.
gled violently, and had to be carried to the
scafInld. Tho colored strike at Washin ntnr