The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1871-06-02
CURRENT NEWS ITEMS.
The East.

"A sea-seal, weighing 500 pounds,
was discovered in the Delaware River,
below Burlington, n. Y, and was
driven on the flats, and shot.
A commission, Of which A. r.
Stewart is chairman, is engaged in
making estimates and assessments for
the widening of Broadway, New York.
Forty Pittsburgh knights Temp.
lar have arranged for an extensive
European tour. Leaving Pittsburgh on
May 81, they expect to be absent four
months.
The mystery surrounding the sui
eide of the lady at the Stevens House.
New York, is cleared up. Miss Julia
Fitzgerald. employed in Broadway
store. saw the satchel of deceased.
marked X. f. Harrington. and re-
cognized it as belonging to her friend,
Mrs. X. f. Harrington, whose maiden
name was Eliza Il. Selden. She was
nece of Lieutenant Governor Selden
and General Cass. She went on the
stage when young, and married An
drew Harrington, who became gamb-
Ter, and deserted her three years ago.
and is thought to be in New Orleans.
A New York correspondent, writ
ing on the 18th. records the following
sad case: Emma Claus, aged Ii, died
from pistol shot wound inflicted bv
herself. Yesterday was to have been
her wedding day. Emma. her friends
and parents assembled in the Church of
the Redeemcr, waiting the arrival of
the expected bridegroom, George Reed.
He failed to come, and Emma, her rela-
lions and friends, returned home. The
girl, overcome with grief, admitted that
Reed had seduced her under promise of
marriage. She requested to be left
alone, and soon afterward the report of
pistol was heard. Her parents rushed
TO her room and found she had shot
herself in the breast. A warrant has
been issued for the arrest of Reed.
A terrible nitro-glycerine explosion
occurred last week near Titusville, Pa.
About 400 pounds of the compound
We're exploded while being transported
in a wagon, and the driver, as we'll as
the horse and vehicle, were blown to
atoms. and barn forty rods distant was
demolished. An excavation five feet
deep and twelve feet broad was made in
the roadway. The largest fragment of
the drivers body which has been found
is portion of his face. The horses
shoes were stripped off and broken, and
nothing was left of the wagon, but
splinters of wood and iron were scatter
ed broadcast for several hundred yards.
a woman was knocked down by mis-
sile of some kind, which entered the
window Of her dwelling, nearly quar-
ter of mile distant.
The West.
The Railway Hotel at Omaha, Neb.,
was destroyed 10y fire on the 18th. Loss,
$4,000.
The first spike Of the Northern
Pacific Railroad was driven at Kalama,
OREGON, on the 18th of May, with APP
prOpIiate ceremonies.
The preliminary examination of
DR.. Medlicott- charged with poisoning
Isaac NJ. Ruth, at Lawrence. Kan. some
time since, has resulted in the prisoner
being committed for trial before the
District Court.
detectives Dixon and Rehm have ar
rived in Chicago. having in charge Alfred
Ziecenmeyer. whom they arrested in
the Hartz Mountains. Germany, charged
Chicago, in November last.
Frederick Fellows. a farmer living
near GAINESVILLE. Wis. was found dead
in the woods near his house, short
time since with both legs badly burned.
He had been burning brush. and it is
supposed he fell into the fire in fit Of
apoplexy.
Miss Abby Cross. Of Meeker coun-
ty. Mimi. accidentally run a needle
into her knee. Her moGesty was so ex-
cessive, notwithstanding the pain, that
she made no mention of the circum-
stance until after modification had set
in. and it was too late to save her life.
She is now dead.
A baby show was held in st. Louis,
last week. in connection with the festi-
val for the benefit Of the Good Samari-
tan Hospital, and created an immense
sensation among ladies. The hall was
iammed, and there was great competi-
ton. Eighty sample babies, seven pair
Of twins. and one set of triplets, were
on exhibition, the first prize being
awarded TO John Walker, four months
old, weighing thrty-seven pounds. and
the second to John B. German, seven
months old, weighing twenty-six pounds.
The south.
The extensive chair factory of
Harig. Koop IL Co., at Louisville, KY,
was destroyed by fire on the 18th. Loss
about $4,000.
A water pipe running across the
top of one of the smelling furnaces of
the Kingsland Iron Works, south of st.
Louis. burst, last week, letting water
into the furnace, which exploded, scat
tering molten iron in all directions, and
badly burning four workmen.
In the United States Circuit Court.
at Richmond, Va, Henry j. Smith has
obtained a verdict against the city OF
Richmond for $1,000 damages, for
whisky destroyed by order of the City
Council, on the night before the evacua.
ton of the city by the Confederates.
: A violent tornado and hail storm