The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1871-02-17

-odIlluei l. itDOf, prominent ne
publican and IA man of large personal
influence, died in Brooklyn on the 9th.
On Saturday afternoon the messen.
ger the Chatham n. Y. Bank had sto-
zen from his pocket wallet containing
notes and drafts to the amount of over
$4,000. Pay was Immediately stopped.
The recall Of Gen. Sickles from
Madrid, for the purpose of placing him
N charge Of the New York Custom
House, creates a good deal of interest
among politicians. The idea of the
President is to get a man in the Custom
House who will have some influence
with the Republican party of New York,
and can unite its various factions.
On Sunday afternoon the house of
Dahlias Miller, at Wells, Pa, was de-
stroyed by fire, together with all the
contents. A little girl four years of
age, was burned to death. Mrs. Miller
eft home some Is or 20 minutes before
the fire was discovered, leaving two
children, two and one years old, in the
house alone. AS soon as the fire was
discovered some near by ran and burst
open the door, but the flames and
after the door was opened the youngest
child came out of its own accord, and
was but little burned. After the build
ing was destroyed the body of the old
est child was found in corner where
the bed stood.
The West.
On Saturday morning Martha
Kreingeuhoper, II years old, employed
IN Beckett a. Lauri's paper mill, at
Hamilton, Ohio, fell througd trap
door in the third floor, into the hopper
used for grinding rags, and before the
mill could be stopped was literally torn
TO pieces.
The body of an unknown man was
found early Monday morning on one of
The railroad tracks near the depot at
Toledo. In his pocket was drover's
pass, made out in the name of Kelly,
and dated at Chicago, Feb. 3. He was
seen on Saturday evening in a state of
;ntoxication. He is supposed to have
been run over by an engine while in
that condition.
"A boy named Dennis Broaden, 10
years of age, while playing near the
crossing of the Chicago. Burlington and
Quincy road, Twenty-second and Jefier-
son streets, Chicago, attempted to run
across the track, and was crushed to
death between car attached to engine
No. %, of Chicago Burlington and
Quincy railroad, and another car that
was standing on side track. The
body was taken to the residence of his
mother, No. sol South Jefferson street,
where an inquest will be held.
"A Manchester, Mich, special says
. Last evening two men, named George
Wood and George Coleman, in the EN-.
ploy of w. Cowan, had an alteration,
during which the former struck the lat
ter with a cane in the temple, killing
MIN instantly. Wood is GO years old,
and has borne good reputation hith-
erto. He claims that Coleman attacked
MIN with an axe, and that the blow was
given in self-defense. The deceased was
about forty wears old. An inquest was
held, and Wood is in custody on
charge Of murder"
The south.
Mrs. Edwin Spotswood dropped
dead at Memphis, on Sunday, from
heart disease. At the time, she was
singing in one of the church choirs.
Should the Senate put an amend
ment to the bill repeating the Charpen-
ming swindle, which will necessitate its
being sent back to the House, Mr..
Dawes will make some further disclos-
ures, which he held back in his former
,peech, and which will be very damag-
ing to certain high officials.
The dead body Of week old infant
was recently found in cistern in the
rear of yard on Jefferson street, be-
tween Ford and Preston streets, Louis
Vile, Ky. Elizabeth Wilson, colored,
was arrested, and confessed she was the
mother, and had thrown it into els.
tern and pushed it under the water with
pole so as to drown its cries as quickly
rs possible.
Secretary Boutwell, has written a
letter to the Chairman of the Commit
tee of Ways and Means, in which he
says that he cannot shrink from his
duty in advising continuance of the
present system of taxation until the
meeting of Congress in December next.
We are now, he says, hardly better
qualified to judge of the effect of the
recent changes than we were when those
changes were made.
"A special correspondent telegraphs
that it is understood at Washington,
and stated as explanatory of Minister
Schenck's delay in leaving for England,
that British diplomatic agent is on his
way to Washington, with authority to
settle the points in dispute between
England and America, relative not only
TO the Alabama claims, but to the fishery
question. If this proposition is accept
ed by our Government it is believed
Gen. Schenck will remain in Washing
ton and conduct the negotiations on the
part of the United States.
In Cheatham county, Tenn, some
nights ago, band of masked men took
Lewis Hanna, colored, from his cabin
and whipped him; then went to the
house of John Davis, near Kingston
Springs, and gained admittance by
promising to harm no one. Samuel
E;oIo, on ay Federal Soldior Jobp