The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1871-05-05
NEWS OF THE WEEK.
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III OCVOOcI HCAt.
A DISPATCH from Alexandria, Va,
9th, says James Nj. Mason, of Virgin
in, ex-Confederate minister to England,
is not expected to live.
Miss LINDA GILBERT, one of the man
ayers OF the proposed lottery for the
benefit of abandoned women, has sued
the Chicago Post for libel, laying dam
ages at S25, 200.
a LETTER is being circulated in Wash
'ingtOn, written by one of the Presl-
dents latest Chicago appointees,
wherein the latter refers to Grant In
not only uncomplimentary, but also in
positively indecent, terms. This letter
was written about year ago, and has
been dug up by the person to whom 1T
was addressed.
The West.
The hospitable California people are
putting themselves to great outlay III
order to give handsome reception and
entertainment to the Eastern doctors
who are on their way to attend the Ma
tional Medical convention there. The
programme includes steamboat ex-
cursion outside the GOldrn Gate.
ANOTHER great industrial exposition
is to be held at Cincinnati next fall
One of the contractors for laying the
pipes for the new st. Louis water works
has sued the city for $57, 900 damages
ON account of failure TO carry out the
contract.
The order of Sons of Temperance i'll
Ohio embraces ~, 600 members.
IT is again rumored that the Pacific
Mail Steamship Go. has sold out it's
franchises to the Mexico and North Pa
ciiic Transportation Co., and will soon
withdraw the Panama line.
DEssIc,rING winds continue to pre-
vail in Central and Northern California.
The crops are certainly damaged very
extensively.
A GENERAL order has been issued,
transferring the military post at Jeffer-
son barracks, Mo-, together with the
lands appcrtaining thereto, to the Ord
nance Department.
The peach orchard ut Benton Harbor,
Mich, formerly belonging to Martin
Green, now of Chicago, was girdled the
other night, for the fifth time.
Grimes aNd Casualties.
A GERMAN named William Smith, as
saultcd and ravished girl named Anna
Dick, fourteen years old, in the town
of Dale, Outagamie county, on the Odd.
The girl was on her way to Sunday
School when assaulted. Smith has been
arrested.
EDMUND CANFIELD, formerly n lum-
Der merchant of Chicago, died in the
streets of that city, on the Doth, under
mysterious circumstances. Three
years ago deceased separated from his
wife and left Chicago. 1t was but re-
Gently that he had returned to the city.
JEROME BROOKS, Charley Carr, Ben
Buckley, and J. A. West were arrested
ut Fort Wayne, on the Goth, on the
charge of numbering A. w. Slater, at
Logansport, Oh tue night of the 21st
inst.
: CHARLES WANGEN, farmer, of the
township of Eden, ILL.,, committed sui
eide by swallowing stryrhnine, on the
Odd.
THE body of an unknown man was
found i'll creek near Delpha, Ohio, on
the Doth.
In the New York COur. of General
Sessions, on the Goth, Patrick Foley was
sentenced to seventeen years in the
State Prison Tor burglariously entering
house, though caught in the act, and
the tileft of goods frustrated.
A MINER named August Hartman was
} killed on the Goth, mt the mines of Kill
: rain, Blair & Co., near McKeesport,
{ Pa, by the explosion of foul air in the
: pit. The deceased was blown 80 yards
and picked up dead.
A MAN died ut the Meinzer House,
Ccntralia, ILL.,, from the effect of NOR
phc taken on the Goth for the purpose
of suicide. His name appears on the
hotel register us Thomas WEIGH, al
though he afterwards wrote a letter to
the landlord in which he said that his
real name was Horace or Harris Henry
IT is reported that the murderer of
Mrs. Peters, near Centreville, ILL.,, has
been arrested at Dayton, in that state.
The wife of Rev. Thos. Pill, of South
Dcdham, Mass, drowned herself in a
: pond in that town on the Goth, while
temporarily dcranged.
4 Nj. Nj. KENNEDY, u farmer 60 years
! old, residing in Scion township, Ohio,
+ was killed by his son on the 9th.
f A LAMP explosion set fire to the Essex
g House, near Montelair, N. j., which
! was totally destroyed. Loss, $50, 900.
: Mis-. FAIR, the California murderess,
will not be sentenced until the both of
May.
JAMES y. DRoNILLARD, an elderly
0 man, committed suicide In Detroit, on
j the 10Th, while intoxicated, 10y strang-
ling himself with bed cord.
Foreign.
n Ir is now admitted that the French
: Government is unable to pay to the
n Germans the first installment of the
indemnity long since due.
i .rHE Kreutz Hctung announces that
X Prince Bismarck has instructed Gen.
! Fabrice to represent to the Paris Com
: mune that in case of any mishap to
g the Archbishop of Paris, the Prussians
might interfere i'm the affairs of the