The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1871-04-28
CURRENT NEWS ITEMS.
The East.

mains OF nine newly born infants were
found in New York.
-Johnson's organ factory. at West
field, Mass, was DESTROYED by fire ON the
18th. Loss, $4,000; insured for $24,.
0S0
Pearl Dawes wooden factory, at
Bennington, VT, was DESTROYED by fire
on the 18th inst. Loss, SIS, 900; Insured
for 81, 800.
Intelligence was received at Boston,
ON the 18th, of the death of Charles w.
Dabney, United States Consul at Fayal,
South Africa.
Mile Nilsson has signed a contract
TO sing one hundred nights in opera,
next winter, in New York, Boston and
Philadelphia. She will soon leave for
California.
Baron Schlozer, Minister Plenipo.
Tertiary of the North German Confed-
Grafton, has arrived at Washin gton from
Mexico, where he has been the Prussian
Minister for several years. lie succeeds
Baron Gerolt at Washington.
1t pays to meet with an accident on
the street cars. A Boston Jury has
awarded Edmund Casey $4,000 dam
ages against the Metropolitan Horse
Railroad, in compensation for injuries
received in being thrown from his wagon
when run into by one of the cars.
Richard Van Wyck Thorne, aged
90, who was an influential New York
politician shortly after the close of the
RnUnlntin and
shoot woodcocks where the Toombs
now stands, died in Brooklyn, on We'd
nesday.
The third-class steamers Iroquois,
Wyoming and Wachusetts are now fit
ting out to join our squadron abroad,
and will sail about the lst of June. The
Powhattan, at Philadelphia, and Canaan
daigua, at New York, are also being
prepared for sea, and will go out shortly
after the three vessels above named.
Some time since, w. l.. White
more, banker, No. 50 Pine street, n. Y,
was robbed of S3j0000 in Government
bonds and securities by q thief who
adroitly distracted tin box, contain
ing valuables from the safe. The thief
returned them all through the Post
office. None of the bonds were nogo-
table.
A New York dispatch of the l4th
inst. says 1.-The story started in an
American journal, and copied into some
English newspapers, as to the matrimo
NAL infelicities of Madame Goldsmith,
better known as Jenny Lind, has led to
several libel suits in England, and the
mulcting of copyists to the amount Of
about $4,000, besides damages as much
more. The subject-matter was adjudged
a clear libel by the Court, as abundant
proof was adduced Of the entirely happy
nature Of the life of Mr. and Mrs. Gold
smidt."
One of the most destructive fires
that has ever occurred in New Jersey,
broke out on Saturday night in Atlantic
county, near Newtield. 1t swept over
a large district during forty eight hours.
The flames started opposite Newfield,
and, driven by strong wind, swept
rapidly toward Great Egg Harbor river.
Barns, dwelling-houses and fences were
burned. Nothing remained but the
blackened trunks of trees. The
area thus desolated is about twelve
miles long and four wide. The river
broke the progress Of the flames a few
miles north Of Weymouth. The loss is
from $4,000 to 100000.
The West.
Louis Compau. the first white set
tier at Grand Rapids, Mich, died on the
18th inst.
Gen. E. Dumont, recently appointed
Governor of Idaho Territory, died al
his residence, near Indianapolis, Ind,
on Saturday.
Five men engaged in log-driving
on the Chippewa river, in Wisconsin,
have been drowned during the past
week.
A man named Heinrich Berg, from
Buffalo county, Wis, committed sui
eide at Minneapolis, by hanging, on
Sunday morning.
"A fire occurred in Galesburg. ILL.,.
recently, destroying the Union Hotel
and other property to the amount OF
100000. Two persons were burned tC
death in the building.
The residence of Matthias Kerle, al
Germantown, Wis, was burned down
recently, and himself and wife, both Of
them over 60 years old, persisted in the
flames.
On Friday night, all the barns be
longing to NJ. & X. q. Stevens, Of Bea
yer Dam, Wis, were burned, together
with "a cows, valued at 81 200, 600 bush
els of oats, 20 tons of hay, and guam
tity of wheat, corn, &c.
Fears are entertained in Minnesota
of another Indian raid at Leech Lake
by the Pillage Indians. after sugar max
ing is over. Every precaution is being
taken to avert the impending danger.
An insane woman, named Mrs
Lardner, was killed by an eastern bouno
freight train on the Milwaukee and st
Paul Railroad, near Ossian Station
about midnight on Monday. She haC
previously murdered her child, 81,
months old, in bed.
Mr.. ID. w. Church, City Marshal o
Newton, Jasper county, Iowa, attempt