The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1871-07-14
NEWS SUMMARY.
The East.

Augusta, Me-, by which two men lost their
lives and several were severely injured
Rev. DR.. Charles ID. Jackson, rector of St.
Peters Church, Westchester, and John r.
Hurd, formerly President of the Marine In
surance Company, of New York died on the
25th inst.-The village of Fitchville, in
Connecticut, with mills, water power, etc.,
was sold on the 2sth inst, TO Henry Water
man, of Providence, r. l., for sos, 900. A new
manufacturing enterprise is to be established
there
MICHAEL MCLAUGHLIN, of Philadelphia
who shot James MCGEE in that city about
one year ago, gave himself up TO Officer
Frazer, of the Broadway, N. Y, squad, on
the Goth ult., stating that the case had SO
preyed upon his mind that he could not rest
He was taken TO the Central office and
locked up.-Mrs. Eliza L. Constants suit
against ST. Adams Church, n. Y, TO recover
money advanced in aid of the Church fair
resulted in verdict in favor of Mrs. Con-
slant for S4,4SO.-Jacob Manchester, of the
firm of Manchester, Hopkins Il Co., of
Providence, r. l., prominent business man,
died suddenly on the goth ult.
AT the meeting of the Episcopal General
Theological Seminary, held in New York on
Friday, during an exciting discussion, ex-
Judge Bell, one of the Trustees, who was
speaking, fell dead with heart disease. This,
of course, brought the meeting to close at
once. Judge Bell occupied a seat on the
bench in New York abont thirty years ago,
and was in the 10th year of his age at the
time of his death. He was very prominent
in all matters affecting the Episcopal Church.
Walter B. Hartman, well-known and
wealthy citizen of New York, formerly con-
nected with different insurance companies,
died on Friday, in his 73d year.-Ex- Judge
Stuart on Friday applied for writ of error
and stay of the proceedings in the case of
Foster, to Judge Ingraham, but the latter, in
view of the fact that Judge Barnard and
himself constitute the court before whom
the case must first come on the appeal,
thought it improper TO hear any discussion,
and declined to interfere.-Horace Greeley
has an article in the Tribune on Lies that
are Mountainous" respecting falsehoods cir
culated about him by the newspapers, thus
concluding: " 1t does seem to us that a
journal that can find no better topic for a
leader than some editors boots or personal
appearance should be kicked out of every
decent family as too empty and shallow to
Justify federation"
THE beer question was decided at Boston,
on the 1st inst, by a majority of 1925 in the
affirmative. This was very light vote, and
very little interest was manifested. The
The West.
THE Indian raid on Warren's wagon team
near Fort Richardson, some time since, in
which seven men were killed, and forty
mules captured, was designed for the cap
ture of Gen. Sherman, of whose coming the
Indians had knowledge. When the attack
was made, one of the chiefs was heard to
give an order 10 take Captain Sherman alive
Hon. II. c. Bulls, the recently nominated
Republican candidate for Lieutenant Gov
ernor of Iowa, was thrown from his carriage
on Monday, and sustained such injuries as
will probably cause his death.-Morris
knight, well-known real estate and insur-
ance agent, while bathing in the Ohio river,
below Cincinnati, on the 9th inst, under
took to swim to the Kentucky shore, and in
the effort was drowned He cried for help,
but too late. He had thirty thousand dol
lars insurance on his life.-A little girl was
suffocated in barn at Detroit, on Wednes-
day morning, at an early hour The barn
was on fre-Two young men were arrested
in Cincinnati, at q restaurant, on a charge
of having swindled Winslow & Co.'S bank
ing house, of Chicago, out of 81 900 in money.
Part of the money was recovered.-Judge
Morton, in the District Court of Kansas at
Topeka, on Wednesday, sentenced Lewis
Ford and Mary Jane Scales to be hanged on
the 18th of August, for numbering the hus-
band of the latter last November. Ford
confessed that he killed Scales, and that
Mrs. Scales was present, but did not assist.
He also says he has cohabited with her since
he was 10 years old, and she often had asked
him TO kill her husband. Ford is about %
years old and Mrs. Scales 40. The muir
dered man was quite old.-A German Ia
borer, of East Hamilton, Ohio, dangerously
shot himself recently, with pistol, while
endeavoring TO show by-standers how Mr..
Vallandigham killed himself.
HORACE GREELEY and Colonel Taggart
have been invited by the Oregon Agricul-
tural Society to tell the vsitors at the agri-
cultural fair in the autumn what they know
about farming.-Captain George S. Porter,
formerly Post Warden, and one of the oldest
residents of San Francisco, died on the 29th
ult.-The building in GAINESVILLE, Wis,
known as the "Big Mik," was destroyed by
fire on the Goth ult.-Burglars have been
numerous in Duluth, H., of late, and have
taken a number of :" tricks" in that village.
John Palmer, resident of Detroit for 50
wears, and for 35 years agent of the 1Ftna
Insurance Company, died late on the goth
ult, aged "a years.--The Pacific Hotel, now
building in Chicago covers an area of an
acre and a half of ground. 1t will cost
about $500 ,OOO--A terrible tragedy took
place at Black Earth, Mimi, on the Goth ult.
A worthless fellow, named sanders, coming
home drunk, shot his wife, a millner, three
times, so that she cannot live. He fred at
his mother-n law, Mrs. Fisher, who saved
herself with a chair. Then the neighbors
were attracted by the noise, came ir, and
were about to lynch him, when he shot him
self dead
CnrcAGo's pet base ball club, the White
Stockings, NOW known as the timids,0
was again defeated, on Friday last, by the
Olympics from Washington Committees
are visiting the different Western cities So
Letting aid for the destitute people of Edo
RADIO, Kan, which, it will be remembered,
was almost totally destroyed by a tornado a
short time since.-Chief Justice Chase passed
through East Saginaw on Friday on his way
to the st. Louis Mich magnetic springs,
where he expects to spend part of the sum
mer.-A quarrel having its origin in bad
whisky and gambling, occurred at place
oa1lad Six Mile House, in Madison county