The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1871-08-11
NEWS SUMMARY.
The East.


cipitated 200 people into the water. All
were rescued ...... The hail storm which
passed over Sullivan county, n. Y, and
Wayne and Pike counties, Pa, last week,
ala an immense amount of damage. Some
farmers lost their entire crop of wheat corn
oats and hay, lightning having struck their
barns and destroyed what was not DESTROYED
by hail and snow...At Washington, Pa, on
Wednesday night, during severe storm,
Mrs John Allen was instantly killed by
lightning. Her youngest child, and also a
neighbor, Mrs Wolf, were so severely
stunned that 1T was hours before they re-
covered ...... Curtis F. Gebbert, for some years
connected with the New York Tribune, died
ON the 27th. He had been suffering for a
long while from disease contracted in the
army, while a member of Col. Wells bat
terry, raised at Ottawa, H., and from that
cause he met his death
NINETY THOUSAND baskets of peaches ar
rived in New York from Delaware on the
2Sth inst.....A story is out that $50 900 in
fected buffalo robes are on the way to New
York from Buenos Ayres and Montevideo,
where the smallpox has been raging.
= Chas. Miller, young German, was found
dead, on the 2Sth inst, near Dixmont Sta
ton, having en- struck by lightning dur
the storm on that day......A frightful acct
dent occurred on Thursday afternoon at
Cement Hill, near Rondout, n. Y. A small
house occupied by Mr.. Fitzgerald, who was
employed in the cement works, took fire
while he was absent and was totally des-
troyed, consuming his wife in the flames
Nothing of the body was left but charred
bones....The schooner reported by the
schooner Burdett Hart as off Barnegat on
the 25th capsized was the schooner Isaac
Hinckley, Capt. John Randolph, from James
River, Va, with a cargo of pine wood. The
schooner Roxana Johnson was in company
4 with her on Monday, the 2ith inst. AS no
word has been received from her since, it is
supposed that her captain and crew were
lost.
THE alleged Tammany frauds are creating
great edciteme in political circles in New
York at present.. The steamer Ferit, sail
ing on Sunday, took Sl5O,OOO to pay Presi-
dent Baez, of San Domingo, the second
moiety of the lease of SANTANA 1t also took
arms for the Dominican Government."..O One
hundred bales of Japanese silks, received
overland from California, were shipped on
Saturday AZ days from Observation-Disclosures
Lovelot, a French Canadian, residing with
his family on Navy Island, and Edward
Bogardus, of Chippewa, il attempting to
cross to Navy Island, on Wednesday night,
were carried over Niagara Falls. On Friday
the remnants of their boat were found below
the falls. LovelOt leaves a wife and three
children....Andrew and Crawford Barnes,
brothers, of Marion, R. l., were drowned off
Bullock's Point on Saturday afternoon by
capsizng of their boat Their families were
IN company on shore, IN full view of the
accident.
CATHARINE RIDER, of South Brooklyn, New
York, was beaten to death by her husband
on Monday morning .....In Temperanceville,
Pa, revolving and horribly unnatural case
has been brought to light. Miss Parker, a
young woman, figures prosecutor, and her
her own father in the role of defendant. The
wife of the accused died some ten years ago,
and since her death it is alleged that the
prosecutriX has become the mother of two
children, and is soon 10 become the mother
of third, as the result of her fathers and
her own horrible crime.
The West.
THREE carloads of silk from Yokohama,
China, to Louisville, passed through Fort
Wayne, on the 2Sth inst, on the Fort Wayne
road, 81 days out.....M Mrs. Rowe. living in
the township of Ppestone, in Berrien coun-
w, Mich, was killed day two since by
falling in front of moving machine.."..
The Oshkosh Northwestern says that in Win
nebago county, Wis, spring wheat is almost
total failure, and good Judges assert that
the yield will not be more than one-fifth the
usual amount. Harvesting hands are scarce
at $3.50 and 81 per day.. None of the bids
thus far opened for the Kansas Indian lands
are above 50 per acre. They range from
$50 to So Many of the 400 bidders are
here in person
THE Mutual Base Ball Club of New York,
was defeated in game by the White Stock
ings, of Chicago, at Chicago, Friday
afternoon, July %. The score was II to 6.
Chicago reioiceth.... destructive fire took
place in Kansas City on the 9th inst. A
whole block was destroyed.....M cMahon's
elevator at Jacksonville, Wis, was destroyed
by fire on the 9th inst....A serious accident
occurred at Rock Falls, ILL.,, on the 2Sth, re-
sulting in the instant death of three chill
dren two sons of Mr.. Athorpe, a Congrega-
tional minister visiting there, and Mr..
Airy, resident Of the place. The accident
was caused b the caving in of a sandbank,
under which the children were playng.....
The fruit crop in the vicinity of Cincinnati
is coming out beyond expectation. Peaches
are more abundant than last year. They are
above the average In quantity, and the fruit
is of a better quality. Apples have not
been Of so good quality for ten years, and
crop of plums within decade. The entire
season is three weeks earlier than common.
ANOTHER terrible storm occurred at Omaha
and vicinity on Friday night. Much dam
age was done to roads and crops......George
Lefever, a resident of Chicago and agent for
Mcbride Co.'s tobacco house of Monroe,
Mich, died suddenly at the fremont House
in Quincy, H., on Sunday .... Thomas Wal
lace was shot and killed, on Saturday, at
Blaine Falls, Ohio, on the Big fork of the
Big Sandy, by his partner, named
DeIar with whom he had dispute
about some machinery .".At an early hour
Saturday evening, Alice, four-year-old
daughter of B. F. Cook, residing at the
corner of Clybourne and Fifth streets, Mil
waukee, Wis, fell into the vault of prvy
and was suffocated ...... The trial of John II.
Hunter, of Akron, o., for the murder of Mrs.
Garcett, at Ri ,hfeld, in June, terminated on
Saturday. The jury brought in verdict
of murder in the first degree. He was SEN
fenced to be hanged on Nov. 81.
Mss LIZZIE SMITH, of London, Shelby