The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1871-03-03
NEWS OF THE WEEK.
The East.

the Blackstone Bank, died on the
18th.
Richard Adams Locke, well
known writer, died at his home on
Staten Itsand, on the 18th.
AT New York, recently, j. Stuart
Gwynne was sentenced to the Peniten-
tiary for five years, for bigamy.
A committee of the Irish citizens
of Boston have collected 81 800 for the
benefit or the released Fenians- Hal
pine is to be cared for on his arrival.
In the case of the New Hamburg
railroad disaster, the Coroner's jury
exonerated every one. The massacre
was purely accidental, and could not be
foreseen.
Three or four Germans who attemp-
ted to cross on the ice from Staten Island
to Elizabeth, on the 10th, are missing.
There is no doubt that they were
drowned.
The bodies of "Doc" Simmons and
the strange engineer who was on the
engine with him, both victims of the
late Hudson River railroad disaster,
have been recovered.
George II. Matthews, well known
Broadway bookseller, died on the 18th.
He was warm friend Of all philan
thropic movements, and q frequent con-
tributor to the press.
George Clark, employed as tele-
graph operator for the past eight years
by the Western Union Company, at No.
l45 Broadway, fell from train near
West Point, Ga, recently, and was
killed.
On the ODD, seven fremen on the
steamship Ismalia, at Pier 10, North
River, were sufiocated by burning char
coal in close room. Five are dead,
and the others were taken to the hospi-
tai. There is little hope of their recov
cry. All were natives OF Scotland.
A New York dispatch says that
after frequent consultations between the
Archbishop and Father Farrell, the
troubles growing out of the latter's let
ter with reference to Italian unity have
been adjusted, and he has been restored
Internationally to tire pastorship of 81.
Joseph's Church.
A frightful accident occurred on the
odd at the Brookfield coal bank in
Breokfeld township, o., owned by the
Westerman Iron Company and others.
Fifteen men were descending the slope
in two cars, and through the careless
ness of the man whose duty it was to
attach the chain, he failed to do so, and
the car with the men descended at a
fearful rate with nothing to check them.
A man named Redmond was killed, and
five others 50 badly injured that they
cannot recover. The rest, with the
exception Of one, were more or less in
jured.
The West.
Three hundred and twenty-three
thousand four hundred and eighty four
barrels of whisky were rectifed in the
First Ohio Dstrict in 1870.
"A woman about thirty years old
supposed to be Johanna Essert, was
found dead in the woods, near Clifton,
O., on the 18th. Her right wrist was ter.
ribly gashed.
Census returns from Michigan foot
up as follows Number of dwellings in
the State, 235,6S7; number of families,
2S4 725; number of voters, 26S,756 ;
number of inhabitants, |, lS4,63S.
James Sinclair, of Chippewa Falls,
Wis, jumped out of the second story of
clearinghouse at st. Paul, recently,
and, striking upon his head, was killed
instantly. He was in delirium, caused
by drink.
A San Francisco dispatch says it is
reported ua Sacramento, that Fred.
Coombs, the proprietor of the great
fruit farm in Napa Valley, shot his wife
and then himself, in consequence of
domestic difficulties, and that both are
dead.
, The River and Harbor Appropria-
ton bill, just reported, appropriates
$4,000 for Calumet The total for
Michigan is $542, 900, the principal item
of which is $780, 900 for st. Mary's Falls
canal and river improvements. The
f total for Wisconsin is S25l, 000 the
principal items in which are 100000 for
Superior City and $4,000 for Milwau-
kee harbor.
"A serious shooting affair occurred
,, recently, at the house of Mordecai
Kelly, about four miles west of Monroe,
Wis. A couple were married at Kel-
ly's house in the evening, and after they
had retired party of youngsters, mostly
relatives Of the bride, assembled to
chararari them. Mr.. Kelly, hearing the
) noise, arose, and taking an unused
gun, snapped it at the crowd, when it
, went off, instantly killing brother of
the bride, named Carton, and seriously
wounding two others. Mr.. Kelly did
not discover what he had done till next
, morning, as the boys carried away their
| comrades. lie came into town and
) surrendered himself to the Sheriff, and
claim. that he thought the gun was not
loaded, and only intended to brighten
the boys.
The South.
, Gen. Magruder died at Galveston,
| Texas, on Saturday, the 18th inst.
Gen. Arnold Elsey died at Balti-