The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1871-12-01
NEWS SUMMARY.
The East.

has been sentenced TO five years imprison-
'ment.....It is officially announced that the
German steamer Franklin, in quarantine al
New York, has 10 cases of cholera on board.
There were % deaths on the voyage. Nearly
everybody aboard was more or less affected
in most cases seriously. Further deaths are
probable. A rigid quarantine is enforced
Every effort is made to alleviate the suffer
ings, but care is taken to prevent the spread
of the contagion......On Sunday, at New
York, cripple named Mary Sullivan was
burned to death in a fire which broke out in
tenement house in Cherry street, The
Canadian schooner Juliette sunk off Madi-
son, o., on Friday night. All on board
were lost, except the cook, William III.
Thayer.
Four hundred Chinese have been engaged
to work in the Raritan wooden mills, in
Somerville, N. J....An unknown man was
found dead at the New Haven depot New
York, on Tuesday morning, with $4,000 in
his professionalism Dock7rell, a poor woman,
was recently found dead in New Brunswick,
n. j., with her head nearly eaten off by rats.
A HORSE CAR was demolished at Newton,
L. l., on Thursday, by n railroad train.
Fourteen passengers jumped off in time to
save their lives......On Wednesday, evenin g
locomotive engine on the Boonton railroad
jumped the track near Montville, n. j., and
turned over, killing Christopher Hendricks,
the engineer.
THE Custom House officers last week seized
$4,000 worth of diamonds that gang of
European gamblers endeavored to smuggle
into that port.
The Russian frigate SHETLAND, with the
long-looked- for Grand Duke Alexis on board,
arrived at New York early on Sunday
morning. The Russian Minister, M. Cata-
cazy, paid an official visit in the afternoon,
and was received in the most cordial manner
by the Grand Duke and the Russian Adj
miral....A special detective of the United
States Sub-Treasury left New York on Sat
urday for Europe to secure the arrest of
Andrew j. Garvey....A man named John
g. Clinton, barber, was arrested at Lynn,
Mass, on Saturday, charged with beating
his wife in a brutal manner, then pouring
kerosene over her and setting her on fire.
She was literally roasted to death.
The West.
John r. MoRLAY, a farmer at Pleasant
Hill, Miami county, Ohio, was murdered, on
Saturday night, by John Cecil Cause
whisky .....B. f. Morris, an old resident of
Kenosha, Wis, on Tuesday afternoon shot his
wife in the left side, killing her instantly.
He then placed the muzze of the gun in his
mouth and blew off the left side of his head.
No cause is assigned for the terrible deed.
THE Illinois Legislature opened its session
at Springfield on Wednesday. The necessi-
ties of Chicago was the principal subject of
discussion ...The Diamond Mills at Peoria,
I NJ ~
burned at o'clock on Tuesday morning
Loss, 100000; insurance, $2l ,OOO...... The
Northwestern Womens Suffrage Association
commenced its second annual meeting at
Indianapolis on Wednesday afternoon.
Many prominent advocates of the cause are
present.
SQUIRE TAYLOR, Charles Davis aud George
Johnson, the negroes charged with the muir
der of the Park family, were taken out of
Jail at Charlestown, Ind, about o'clock
Friday morning by a mob of about forty
persons masked and disguised thrty-three
of whom entered the Jail and the rest stood
guard in the street. The negroes were hung
in the woods, about three miles from Charles
town.
Col. j. W. HOWARD, a wellknown news
paper man, formerly connected with the
Chicago Erening journal, the Peoria Tran
script, and other papers in the Northwest,
has been arrested at Peoria, H., on the
charge of bigamy. lie takes the matter
coolly, and declares he can prove his inno-
cence.
The schooner Twilight struck rock near
Point an Barqucs, on Lake Huron, on the
18th inst, and sunk. Six lives were lost.
The South.
LAST Saturday, two negroes, while going
home from Grenada, Miss, was shot by
Jack Treble, worthless fellow. One was
killed and the other MORALLY wounded.
Treble has been arrested.
The sub Ku-Klux Committee at Jackson
Vile, Fla, after a session of five days. con-
cluded their labors Wednesday night, hav-
ing taken a large amount of evidence in
Florida.
THE planning mill of j. S. Thomas, in the
western suburbs of st. Louis, was burned
about l o'clock on Thursday morning In
sured for So 900, which wiz probably cover
the loss.
Washington.
THE Angio-American commission is now
n session, all the members having arrived.
The Spanish Claims Commission will soon
reassemble, while the Mexican Claims Com
mission remains in session. THE distillers
and tobacco manufacturers laid their grew
ances before the Senate Finance Committee,
in the hope that they will take the shape of
legislation and Tighten their present burden
of taxes.
The American and British Claims Com
mission rejected memorial from the wo-
men, on account Of the disrespectful lam
guage therein. Negotiations are now
nnndi rn TOR q reduction of the rnte Of 1nst-