The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1871-12-29
Ghs Grue gurthrrner,
PAW PAW. MICHIGAN.
NEWS SUMMARY.
The East.

COMPTROLLER CONNOLLY still remains in
Ludlow Street Jail, New York, unable to
procure bail ......At a recent meeting of the
Atlantic and Great Western Railroad Com
pany, railroads in New York, Ohio, and
Pennsylvania We're consolidated the organi-
cation hereafter to be known as the Atlantic
and Great Western Railroad Company.
Gen. George B. Mcclellan was chosen Presi-
dent......G George Bolts, sentenced to be
hanged at Newark on the 2lst inst, for the
murder of Pet Halsted, has been reprieved
by the Governor of New Jersey, and his ex-
ecution postponed till Friday, the Goth of
January.
EDWIN FOSTER, an inmate of the Insane
Institute at Hartford, Conn, escaped on
Tuesday evening, and was run over by the
cars and instantly killed. He was from
Grand Rapids, Mich....Another "ring"
bank at New York, the Eighth National,
failed on Wednesday assets, 800 900; liza
bilities, $5S4,O0O. The Clearing House Asso-
citation passed resolutions, denouncing the
Government Examiner of Banks, and re-
questing the Comptroller of the Currency at
Washington to remove him. ..... The build
ings of the Franklin Manufacturing Com
pany, on Mill street, in Paterson, n. J.,were
bnrned on Wednesday morning. Loss,
$150,000; largely insured in New York city
and Hartford companies.
A Mrs. CANsoN's residence, in Buffalo, was
entered while the family were at dinner on
Thursday, and $500 in 500 bonds of 1860
stolen......T The Deputy Sheriff seized the New
York Printing Company's offices on Thurs
day to satisfy $780, 900 in protested notes in
the Ocean Bank.....M Mr.. Hulburd, Comp
trollor Of the CurrencV. has euspan6ad Cal
lender, the Bank Examiner for New York
city,. The amount realized by the sale in
New York Of Alexander Whites collection
of paintings, from Chicago, was $9l 900.
Mrs. ANDREW j. CARNEY arrived at New
York on Thursday, from Switzerland, and
is instructed by her husband to say that on
condition of his not being prosecuted he will
disclose all that he knows concerning the
ring frauds. Mrs. Garvey intimates that
her husbands revelations will implcateHall,
Sweeney, and Henry Smith,. Waldron, a
wealthy Californian, who attempted suicide
about ten days since, died in hospital at New
York on Thursday ..."At the American
House, Boston, on Thursday morning, Col.
B. F. Lawrence, a gentleman aged 90, from
Elgin, Ill, in a temporary fit of insanity,
leaped from the third story window, and
falling upon the iron pickets, sustained in
juries which will probably prove fatal One
of his legs was terribly shattered, neccssi-
tating amputation....." Boss" Tweed was ar
rested at New York on Friday, on an indict-
ment for felony, and imprisoned" at the
Metropolitan Hote......A fire in Paterson,
n. j., on the night of the 14th, DESTROYED
the Reform church, Buckley's stationery
store, Paget's jewelry store, Haddon's shoe
store, and four dwelling houses. Loss over
800 ,000."u.The execution of John Ware, for
the murder of his father, took place at Cam
den, n. j., on Friday. Ware maintained a
stolid demeanor, and exhibited no agitation.
He wrote a long confession, which he gave
to his counsel, and in which he saws he
killed his father because he ill-treated his
(John's) mother.
TWEED was released on bail of SIS 900 bv
Judge Barnard, in New York, on Saturday.
There was great excitement over the course
taken by Barnard in fixing upon such an in
significant sum for bail, and fears were en-
tertained by his friends that he would be
lynched ...,"Auburn, N. Y. papers state that
Hon. VIM. II. Seward is very low from par
alysis......Col. Lawrence. Of Egin, Ill, who
jumped from window of the American
House, Boston, in a fit of INSANITY on Friday.
died on Saturday morning. .... The residence
of John Edsoll. at Ridgefeld, n. j., was
robbed on Thursday night last of bonds,
money, notes, etc, valued at Sl00,000....
Levi Gassell. from Monticello, Iowa, shot
himself in the cars near CobourC, On. on
Friday night, and has since died Consider
able money was found on his person,