The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1871-02-10
NEWS OF THE WEEK.
The East.

"A bill has been introduced in the
New Jersey Legislature to make free all
the public schools.
The New Jersey Senate has passed
bill to permit interdicted persons to ties.
tity when on trial.
-"Village Girl" the trotter was &C.
cidentally killed recently, at New
York. She was valued at $1,000.
Thomas Harrington killed John
Duffy, in Wheeling, West Virginia. on
Monday night, with coal-digger's pick.
They were drunk.
Hon. David Lyman, whose death
occurred recently at Middletown,
Conn.,, was insured in different life in
surance companies to the amount of
$4,000.
The New York Democrat, official
organ of the city government, has been
changed from an evening to q two-cent
morning paper. 1t is now edited by j.
II. Lambert.
The deaths of nine persons were
recorded in New York on the 25th,
whose average age was 81. Seven were
over so, and two nearly 100.
james F. Randolph, father of Gov.
Randolph, of New Jersey, died on the
25th. He was 80 years of age, and was
for many years the leading editor of
New Jersey.
Fairly on Wednesday, three men,
evidently laborers, were found frozen to
death on Hampstead Plain, Long Island.
They had been together on spree, and
were overtaken by the snow-storm.
Two children were poisoned in Bos-
ton by tasting the contents of a vial
they picked up among the ruins of a
drug store destroyed by fire. Death en-
sued in few hours.
Ole Bull, the famous violinist, has
bought Mr.. George II. Shapleigh's resi-
dence and farm, situated in Lebanon,
Me. He has gang of workmen re-
modelling the house, and as soon as ar
rangements are completed will occupy
the premises.
john Irving, the notorious burglsr
who was supposed to have been mortal
ly wounded on New Years night by
policeman while attempting, with five
companions, to rob a safe in n Brook
lyn store, cut his way out OF his cell n
the Raymond street Jail, in that city,
and escaped.
-Rudolphe has been challenged by
Joseph Dion, now in San Francisco, to
play series of match games for 81 200
each, the first French caroms, the Sec
ond American caroms, and the third
the pocket game. The money has been
lodged, and Rudolphe received his
travelling expenses recently.
As County Auditor Watson was
driving down Harlem Lane, New York,
Wednesday evening, with a friend, i'll a
sleigh he was run into by another
sleigh, driven by an intoxicated man.
Watson's horse, valued at SIC. 1000, was
killed. and Watson's skull was frac-
tured. He was taken to a club house,
where he now lies in a precarious condi.
ton.
"A boy named John Matthias met
with a horrible death at the starch fac
tory at Ottawa, H., recently. He was
alone in a room shoveling corn into the
conductor, machine which carries
corn from the shelter to the elevator in
the basement of the factory. The con
ductor is armed with flanges, arranged
in a spiral row he fell upon this, and
his face, breast, and ribs were torn to
pieces by it. No one knows how long
he had been lying upon the fatal instru-
ment of death, as he was not found UNI
til several minutes after the corn had
ceased to come from the elevator at the
top, and the investigation of this caused
him to be found where he was. He was
quite dead, and his body was mangled
in the most horrible manner.
On Monday, near Sharon, in the
Western Pennsylvania coal region, at a
coal bank of J. NJ. Ormbys d Co.. four
men were instantly killed The shaft
that leads to the pit is ITO feet deep,
and has the usual machinery for lower
ing and raising weights. William Craw-
ford, John Sheldon, Frank Watkins,
NJ. Mcdonald, and William Moltisher,
got within the cage, preparatory to de
scending to work. Before they had
gone a great distance, the wire rope
which suspended them parted, and the
unfortunate men were precipitated q
distance of 10 feet to the pit below.
Four Of the party were killed almost
instantly, and the survivor, German
miner named Moltisher, received serious
injuries.
The West.
Double the usual amount Of wheat
is being sowed in California this season.
Alexander Caldwell, of Leaven-
worth, was elected United States Sena-
tor by the Kansas Legislature Wednes-
day.
Col. G. j. Young, member of the
Ohio House of Representatives from
Columbiana county, and editor of the
Buckeye State, died suddenly on the Goth,
at Columbus.
Mayor Robert Hardness, of Delavan,
Walworth county, has been appointed
Judge of the Circuit Court of the First
Wisconsin Judicial Circuit, in place of
Judge Lyon promoted to the Wisconsin
Supreme Court Bench.
"A horrible affair occurred on the
ODD inst at peOSta n Mace about ton