The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1871-10-13
Chr Grue Nurtherner.
PAW PAW, MICHIGAN.
NEWS SUMMARY.
Tho East.

OVER 1000 were dlsbursed on the 9th
inst. TO the laborers on the Croton Works at
New York;. Deputy Comph oler Green re-
fuses to pay any more money to the DEPART
ment of Parks. He says S2,996,O0O has been
expended from Jan. to Aug. 30, 1871, and
that the department is not entitled to any
more...... The N. Y. Tribune has discovered
the existence of labor masters ring, who
have charge of the docks of the city, whom
4 accuses with Matchmaking shippers by the
wholesale. The harbor masters have ar
rengements with the tug owners to tow
boats, for which three or four prices for tow
ing are paid tn latter, to be shared with the
former, and for the privilege Of berthing
vessels. This injustice has been levied upon
every vessel entering the port. Several out
RACES of this kind are about to be proved in
court. One hundred and thirty thousand
tons Of Scranton coal were sold at auction
in New York, on the 9th inst, at $4l2l to
$6.l5. These prices are slightly in advance
of those realized at the August sale. Stove
coal sold at $6@6l5.".,O On Thursday after
noon the marines stationed at Fort Tomp-
kns, Staten Island, N. Y, while practcing,
sent a 30-pound Parrot shot through the jib
of the pilot boat Francis Perkins. No per-
son was injured, but bad the shot struck
few feet lower, or two seconds later, the
result would probably be the sinking of the
boat and loss of life Not long since the
steamer Plymouth Rock had shell ex-
ploded directly over her by this reckless
firing.
FROM September 10 to %, inclusive, 10
oases Of smallpox have been reported at
Lowell, Mass.....Judge Bedford, of New
York, on Saturday sentenced an emigrant
swindler named Oscar Davis to five years
imprisonment at hard labor. Davis, about a
month ago, swindled Charles Maillard, an
emigrant returning from Illinois to England,
out Of some money. He was the keeper of
q house where emigrants were taken in and
confdencei ..... George II. Mumford, a promi-
nent citizen of Rochester, N y, for several
years officially connected with the Western
Union Telegraph Company, died suddenly,
on Saturday, OF apoPlexy.
PRoF. PECK, Of West Point, states that the
report of Prof. Mahon's death by suicide is
untrue. He says Prof. Mahon fell over
board accidentally, in consequence Of the
carelessness Of the boat hands in leaving
the gangway rail pen......Tuesday after
noon. fifty convcts at Sing Sing prison took
the propeller Hugh Battan and tried TO es-
cape but were recaptured ...... The smallpox
is raging in Brooklyn, N The scuU
race Tuesday afternoon, for 81 900, over the
Monongahela course, between Joseph Kaye
and P. L. Outher, was won by Kaye.""..At
New Brighton, Pa, on Tuesday, fatal
shooting atiray took place, in which a man
named Grant received load Of shot in his
side and abdomen, from the effects of which
he died. HIS murderer was Joseph Heron,
who has been arrested. They quarreled
over q game Of cards ..... Mayor Hall, of New
York, has been notified to appear at the
Yorkvil Police Court, on the charge of Off
cal neglect in permitting the commission of
public frauds. the affidavit is signed by
Henry Copeland, formerly a clerk in the
Comptroller's office, who charges that the
Mayor signed warrants for Ingersoll, Miller,
Garvey and others, in tne absence of vouch
ers, knowing them to be not attached to the
warrants.
IN the Brooklyn courts, twenty suits are
pending against the Staten Island Ferry
Company for damages received in the West
field explosion.....Iti is reported that Mayor
Hall, of New York, has undertaken to sup
press Harpcr'S Weekly, as a iibelous and IN
decent publication.
The West.
TIE propeller Nebraska, the largest and
finest freight boat on the Western lakes, was
burned at the Galena elevator docks, in
Chicago, early on Thursday morning. Loss,
Sl25, Serious conhagratIons have been
raging in the woods in Northern Wisconsin
ior the past week. The losses in Kewaunee
county alone will reach $500 ,O00."..A des-
perato encounter took place, recently, in
Columbus, Cherokee county, Kan, between
Capt. James Dunlavy, County Clerk, John
DuIxavy, his brother, and Judd Douglas,
son of a County Commissioner. All three
were armed with revolvers, and emptied
them of their contents. James Duniavy was
MORALLY wounded, his brother seriously, and
Douglas slightly wounded Attorney Gen
eral Pond decides that inmates of the Sol
diers' Home, at Dayton, Ohio, who have
resided in the State one year, have no other
residence than at the asylum, and have the
legal right to vote at the poll of the town
ship in which the asylum is situated since
the passage of the act of Congress of Jan
uary, 1871.
SEVERAL workmen were seriously injured
in Chicago on Sa urday, the Goth ult., BY the
falling Of five large roof trusses which were
arranged for building the roof OF a church.
.... The track Of the Chicago Dubuque and
Minnesota Railroad is completed to Gutten-
berg, six miles north of Dubuque......A man
named Isaac Smith died of yellow fever in
Cincinnati, on Saturday, and was buried by
order of the Health Officer. The sanitary
police guarded the room to prevent persons
entering The clothing and bedding were
burned by the health police, and the room
disinfected. The deceased visited Natchez,
and went into vault, and saw the body of
his brother-in-law, who had just died of
yellow fever. There is not the least fear or
danger of the disease spreading in Cincin-
natl young man named John Heffner
was killed at Ft. Wayne, Ind, while coup
ling cars.....T The President still refuses TO
remove Gov. Solomon, of Washington Ter
ritorv, who was recently implicated in using
the money obtained by the defalcation OF
the receiver of public moneys there. The
delegate from the Territory has asked for his
removal, and Senator Nye now turns up
with a candidate for the place.. Bids for
building a bridge across the Mississippi
river at Atchison, Kan, were taken on Sat
urday. The successful bidder was Il. 3.
Boomer, of Chicago, his bid being Ss5O,OOO
for the bridge complete, including APP
proaches..... Reports from Forts Berthold
and Stevenson, Dakota Territory, indicate
warlike movements by the Sioux, and a
strong probability of their attacking, and if