The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1871-05-19
CURRENT NEWS ITEMS.


counsel will make the stereotyped plea
of temporary insanity.
The receipts of the American Tract
Society last year were S492,lS2, Of
which 1870, l6 were from salaries. The
expenditures were S49l 1856, of which
1927 ,62S were appropriated for the
manufacture of books and tracts. Three
new periodicals have been established
and forty-fve new volumes issued by
the society during the year.
"A New Haven, Conn.,, dispatch of
the 9th says The Legislative Commit.
tee, who are examining the vote of the
Fourth Ward, have spent the day in
taking affidavits of men who voted for
Jewell. At 9 o'clock this evening, the
time of adjournment, the number of
these affdavits reached $50, wanting
only nineteen of the number claimed
for Jewell in that ward. 1t is generally
conceded that this practically settles the
dispute, and that the Legislature will
find on the report of the Committee that
Jewell has been legally elected Cover
nor.
A dispatch from Scranton, Pa, on
the 9th, says I" A riot occurred at Hyde
Park to-day. Laborers and miners who
desired to resume work were holding
meeting near the Hampton mines, when
they were assaulted with stones by the
wives of miners who resist resumption.
crowd of those miners were little
way off, urging on the women, believing
that the labores would not return the
assault on the females. The laborers
then moved further off toward a strip
of woods, but were followed up by the
hn in ho1 haa
greatly reinforced. Men and women
then unitedly assaulted the laborers,
and stones were freely used on both
sides. Two men were shot, and about
ten or twelve others most brutally bea-
ten, some of whom will probably die.
The military was ordered to the scene
of disturbance, but arrived too late to
do any good. What the end will be no
one can tell A large body of troops will
arrive to- morrow, but as most of them
will be from the coal regions, not much
confidence is felt in them"
The West.
The population of San Francisco is
149, 453, OF whom 1874 are natives and
1919 foreigners.
The saloons of Chicago were to be
closed on Sunday, May eth so the
Mayor said; but they didn't close.
Strawberries were selling at Chi
cago on Saturday, at thirty cents per
box, or at the rate Of four for a cent, ac
tual count.
A man is on trial in Chicago for ac-
cusing another Of robbing the poor
box in one of the Lutheran churches,
in that city.
A company has been organized at
Fort Madison. Iowa, for the purpose of
building a suspension bridge over the
Mississippi at that point; capital stock,
Sl,200,000.
The town of Monmouth, ILL.,, was
visited by destructive conhagration on
the morning of the 9th inst, destroying
about forty stores and shops, and in
volving loss of upward of $4,000.
Two nieces of the late David c.
Broderick, from Australia, have begun
a suit in San Francisco, to have the
alleged fictitious will, under which the
estate of the deceased Senator was sold,
set aside. They are said to have indis-
put able evidence of the validity Of their
claim.
E. A. Andrews, formerly of the
La Crosse Republican, and for several
years connected with the Peoria DatL5
transcript, died in the latter city, on the
7th. Mr.. Andrews was well known in
Chicago business and newspaper cir
cles. He was about 80 years of age
His disease was caused by Justification O.
the heart.
"A son, aged - years, of Samuel
Winslow, near Brooklyn, Iowa, ate
quantity of slippery.em bark, a day oil
two afterward was taken violently ill
and, four days from the time of eating
the bark, died On a post norton ex
animation his stomach was found full o.
the bark twisted into balls, the organs
being too weak to digest it.
A young lady of one of the most re
spectable families of Cincinnati, Will,
on her way home from the public schoo
on Thursday, claims to have been kid
Mapped by a man who threw a handker
chief over her face, forced ner into
carriage, and then drove to house o
prostitution, where she was detained til
Friday night, when she was returned t
her friends.
The Superintendent of the Censu
has lust returned to Washington from
a tour of the Western States, where h
has been for the purpose Of arrangin
for the more complete returns of tn
manufactures and manufacturing capa
CITY of the different Western cities. II
reports that he succeeded beyond eH
pectatlon. and will soon have full re
ports, as desired.
Mr.. L. II. Rindge, of Chicago, ship
ped recently from the Union Stool
Yards in one of the new palace stool
cars to New York, sixteen fine bloodec
horses valued at $4,000; each horse be
ing placed in separate and adjustabl
stall with ample arrangements for feed
ing and watering while in transit, with
out unloading; the car will run throug
without any detention or moving tn
stock.
"A very sad case has just transpire