The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1871-07-21

struck by lightning and the inmates all
killed. On the Fremont and Blair railroad
train was blown from the track and child
two years old instantly killed. An entire
train, excepting the engine, on the Sioux
City and Pacific railroad, was blown from
the track and all of the passengers more or
less injured. The mail ear was blown dis
lance of 200 fcet.....Another break took
place at the st. Anthony Mimi tunnel on
Tuesday, which promised at one time to be
serious. By herculean efforts, however, a
dam was built cutting off all water from the
st. Anthony channel in which the orlice
existed, and il is hoped the present danger
is at least averted. The mills in st. An
thony are compelled to stop running by the
water being withdrawn....Judg Pope, of
the arren Common Pleas, has granted the
motion entered for a change of venue to
Montgomery county, Ohio, in the case of
Thomas Mcclellan, recently tried at Lebanon
for the murder of Thomas Myers, at Hamil-
Three more counterfeiters were ar
rested near GAINESVILLE, Wis, on the 5th inst.
That seems to have been the headquarters OF
an extensive gang, most of whom are now in
limbo.
ACCOUNTS from the Western Michigan
fruit region give fattering prospects of a
large yield of fruit of all kinds this fall.....
New wheat is being brought into market in
several towns in Illinois. The quality is
said to be very fine.....A fire occurred in
Des Moines, Iowa, early on the morning of
the 4th, DESTROYING property To the amount
of $50 ,000..",One case OF sunstroke IN Mil
waukee on the eth inst.."".The charrcd re-
mains of man and wife, names unknown,
were found in the burned ruins of their
house in Clay county, Mimi, few days
ago. Nothing is known of the origin of
either. Reports from all parts of Calfor-
MIA show that the wheat CROP much better
than anticipated. The total product will be
little short Of last season. Cal fornia pota-
toes of this years crop are being shipped to
Denver Col, and are paying $3.50 per car
load of 10 tons.
Two thousand dollars worth Of silks were
stolen from the store of a. G. Downs & Co.,
on State street, Chicago, on Friday night.
......John Reed, who murdered Miss McCor-
mick, near Shabbona, H., on the Sd inst,
was captured and locked mp on the Sth
.....On the Goth ult., two little daugh-
ters of DR.. William A. Downey, of Patoka,
Wis, were sent 10 kindle a fire IN the
kitchen stove. After the fire had been
started, he girls desiring to hurry it up,
poured on coal oil from can, as they had
seen the hired girl do. The fluid exploded,
throwing the flames and oil over the girls,
burning them so badly that both girls died
in few hours. Their ages were nine and
eleven vears.....On Sunday afternoon, a
furious storm of wind. accompanied by
heavy rain, uprooted forest and shade trees
in Dayton, Ohio, and vicinity, and demol-
ished the German Lutheran Church in Day
ton, killing four persons md wounding
al Il 1oct N-.J
Washington street bridge over the Miami,
killing two boys and dangerously wounding
another 1t unroofed the Southern Ohio Lu-
matte Asylum, severely wounding two con
valescent female patients, unrooied st.
Mary's Catholic Church and schoolhouse,
and one United Brethren Church, demol-
ished the Little Miami railroad depot, and
unroofed or otherwise damaged about fifty
other houses. The loss is over $4,000.
THERE were three suicides in Chicago on
Sunday, the 9th inst.....A carpenter fell
from the spire of church in Indianapolis,
seventy-five feet, on Saturday. His friends
were surprised to see him at work, all right
on Mondav......A house at Geneseo, H., was
struck by lightning early on Monday morn
ing, and completely shattered to pieces
The family escaped uninjured, although the
bed in which the children slept was set on
fire."...A Sunday school picnic at Berlin
Ont, tax NC refuge from the rain in tan
merry, the floor gave way, precipitatinG
about 100 scholars into the watts beneath
The scene is represented as fearful. Fortu-
natelv, all were rescued with the exception
of one little boy, who was drowned. "A
young lady, named Clara Bertram, was
killed al Milwaukee, Wis, on Saturday
evening, in attempting Ia Jump from the
buggy while her horse was running away
IA child Of Mr.. Happen, of Des Moines
Iowa, aged about four years, on Monday
swallowed screw with which it had beer
playing, and died in few minutes .....FivC
persons escaped from the Dayton, Ohio, Jail
Monday. Two of the prisoners, including
Thomas Mcclellan, refused to avail them
selves of the opportunity to depart.
LIGHTNING struck the gas pipes in a church
at Iowa City, recently, and exploded the
street mains all over the city..".A mar
named stephen Tobin, an Irishman, who
was sent to the insane asylum at Madison
Wis, recently, jumped from fourth-story
window OF the institution, and broke one
arm and both legs on Tuesday 1.-The Com
missioner of Indian Affairs, on the 18th, re-
ceived a telegram from the Indian agent al
Fort Laramie, stating that he had just ISSUED
rations to Red Clouds tribe of Sioux In
dams on the north side of the North Platt,
river, and that they seemed to be satisfied
and that if no mistakes are made there vii
be perman ent peace with them.
The south.
Two passenger cars, and a sleeping ear
on the Nashville and Northwestern Rail
road, broke through a bridge over Harpetl
river, eighteen miles from Nashville, Tenn.
on Monday night, and were precipitated int
the bed of the stream. Fifteen persons wer,
! killed, and twenty more or less injured.
! Early Eveson, who killed Edward Lyle
last week, and Mike Maloney, who killed {
negro two years since, surrendered them
selves at Memphis on the 9th inst.....Sena
tor Spencer has received telegram from
certain Republicans of Mobile, denouncin.
the appointment of Warner as Collector o
that port The resolutions adopted by tn,
meeting will be forwarded to the President
....A detailed statement Of the spirits il
and out of bond in the United States, oil
May l, 1871, exhibits the fact that out o
10000 gallons of brandy in the country, bu
100000 gallons is the genuine product o
fruits, the remainder being compounds from
distilled spirits.
a DISPATCH from CRANKY, Mo-, states tina
a saloon keeper named Scott Dunlap wa
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