The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1871-09-01
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PAW PAW, MICHIGAN.
NEWS SUMMARY.
The East.

Tombs, the Coroner declining bail, though
subsequently taken before the Supreme
Court, on a writ of habeaS corpus, and the
President admitted to bail in the sum of
10000, and the Superintendent and en-
gineer $4,000 each....A. L. Hunt died at
Boston, recently, from over-exertion in a
jumping match ...... Rosie Ryder has been
missing from her home, sos Greenwich
street, New York, since July l2. She is Is
years of age. She went out TO see the
Orange procession, and has not since been
seen""" Twelve convicts escaped from Sing
Sing prison on Thursday by jumping into
passing canal boat, and from thence to
tug boat, where they seized the captain and
engineer, put on steam, and after proceeding
short distance from town, left the tug
boat, went ashore in q small row boat, and
took 10 the mountains. They were closely
pursued by the guard, and will probably all
be captured.
FIVE of the Sing Sing convicts who es-
capped Thursday have been caught..".John
Hoffman, prominent farmer of Cape Island,
N. j., was murdered near his house on Fri
day night Three persons were burned
to death at Pittsburgh, Pa, Saturday night,
by an explosion caused by filing lamp
with kerosene while burning 49,. The captain
and entire crew of the brig Victoria, which
arrived at New York from Ceinfuegas, Cuba,
Wednesday, were attacked by yellow fever
during the voyage. Sam Goady, second
mate, is now in West Bank Hospital The
rest Of the crew are recovering james
Seaman, colored man, was found dead, on
Saturday, on the grounds of the Methodist
camp meeting, near Pittsburgh, Pa. Some
attribute his death to a surfeit of religion,
white others blame it on apopexy.
Hon. PHINEAS BARNES, the leading lawyer
in Portland, Me-, died on Monday, aged 60.
..,." The horse disease is still prevalent in
Brooklyn, and there are about 200 horses be-
longing to the City Railroad Company laid
up with it,. The failure of the potato crop
IN Ireland, and the news in regard to the
grain crop of Europe, have produced an i'm
preston in Wall street that the foreign mar
kets will take all our surplus of wheat as
fast as it can come TO market.
a VERY disastrous fire occurred at Will
Transport, Pa, on Tuesday morning. A
large number of business buildings were
burned. The loss is estimated at 1925 900.
.".John Foley, in a state of somnambulism,
walked out Of his window in New York,
Tuesday night and was instantly killed .....
priated $4,000 for the erection Of an extra
building for the reception of ,OOO persons
coming from cholera ports.
The West.
The Daily Beacon office at Akron, Ohio,
was destroyed by fire on Friday night.
Fifty business houses and dwellings, at
Dalles, Oregon, were destroyed by fire on
Friday last. Loss, 100000 II. A. Berg
man, of Springfield, H., died, on the 18th,
of apoplexy .... Martin Hawley, an express
man, was run over by train of cars on the
Rock Island road on Friday, at the Twelfth
street crossing, in Chicago, and ne and his
horse instantly kiled..".A Swedish girl,
named Mary Lundberg, was arrested in
Chicago, recently, for numbering her child,
shortly after it was born, by throwing 1t into
a privy vault. She had been in this country
but three months 49, The schooner STEELE was
wrecked recently on Lake Michigan, and
her crew, consisting of three men, lost.
A SAN FRANCISCO dispatch of Aug. 90 says
the Mission Indians Of southern California
are fighting among themselves. Some lives
were lost 1t is feared that isolated white
settlers may be attacked....".0n Aug, 5
Sergt. Mag. Harrington, of the Sd cavalry,
Apaches near Camp Verdi, Arizona, and
horribly mutlated. The Indians, 200 strong,
raided within Is miles of Prescott, capturing
many cattle.....A German clgar-maker from
Buffalo, about % years of age, whose name
has not transpired, jumped overheard from
the propeller Idaho at Milwaukee, on the
night of the 10th inst, and was drowned.
He is supposed to have been laboring under
an attack of delerium tremens at the time.
.u. The mammoth buildings on Franklin
square, Buffalo, for the accommodation OF the
International Industrial exhibition are COM
peted and connected with the skatng-rink
by strong bridge spring over Franklin
street, The buildings will be open to receive
goods Sept. 4. Entries are coming in rapidly,
and a great success is anticipated ......On the
morning of the 10Th inst, at Red Oak sta
ton, on the Burlington and Missouri road,
so miles from Council Bluffs. Iowa. man
named Cowdry shot divorced wife of his
through the right lung, inaicting a mortal
wound. He then placed the pistol to his own
head, fired three times, each shot piercing
his skull. He did not live five minutes after
he was shot. The trouble that caused the
divorce led to the murder and subsequent
suicide, Cowdry formerly resided in Biggs-
vile, H., where he was married to Miss
Nellie Fuller, the woman shot by him.
A MAN named Thomas Simon was killed
by the damps at the coal mines four miles
east of Princeton, on Saturday afternoon.
Two men were killed at a railroad crossing,
near Columbus, Ind, on Monday. They
were crossing the track when their wagon
was struck by the locomotive, and they were
hurled into eternity.
A FATAL ARRAY occurred at Newton, Kan
sas, recentlv, in which, three persons were
shot dead. ....Jerome Brooks was sentenced
to be hung, at Delphi, Ind, recently, for
numbering man named Slater, at Logans-
port, Ind, three months ago.....A man and
boy were burned TO death at Muskegon,
Mich, in an old house, on Tuesday LAST.
Amos Skyles, Of st. Anthony, Mimi, and
Peter Anderson, Of Red Wing, Mimi, suic-
ided on the 22d inst. Cause-Whisky in too
large doses..... Eighty car loads, aggregat-
ing 10000 pounds, Of fresh teas have been
shipped overland from San Francisco within
week. A full cargo by special steamer is
due there next week, and will go overland
ia Salt Lake dispatch says: Grasshop-
pers in vast numbers are appearing in some
of the principal agricultural counties. The
deposit OF eggs threatens seriously the crops