The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1871-08-25
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PAW PAW. MICHIGAN.
NEWS SUMMARY.
The East.

THERE is again trouble brewing among the
Irish Catholics, owing to the Italian process
sion which is to take place on the 25th inst.
.....P. II. Barnum and Gen. Schofeld and
brother have purchased Ss, 200 acres of land
in Colorado. They will stock it with a
thousand head of fine blooded cattle, and if
these prove profitable will follow with
larger investments.."..W VIM. F. Lyons, the
well-known Irish patriot, died in New York
on the 10th inst. He had been, for some
years past, an editorial writer on the New
York Herdtd.....A railroad bridge near Ban
gor, Me-, gave way, with passenger train
upon it, on the 10th inst, causing a general
smash-up, killing one passenger outright
and njuring several others.....A boiler in
the Brooklyn navy yard exploded on Thurs
day, but luckily no body was near enough
to receive injury thereform ....J acob Eisin-
hardt, a German butcher on Christie street,
New York, attempted to punish his little
son for a tritling misdemeanor on Thursday,
and injured him so badly that he died in a
few hour The Hydraulic Company's
buildings at Rochester, n. Y, were destroy
ed by fire on Thursday. Loss, $l47 ,OO0.....
The soap works of John Huberte, and the
morocco dressing works of Mathew Hamlin,
and ten dwellings were destroyed by fire,
in Philadelphia, on Thursday afternoon.
Loss, $50 900.
COLLECTOR MURPHY of New York, has pur-
chased the Irish Republic newspaper, to run
it as a campaign newspaper in the interest
of the Republican party.....A notice has
been served upon the Captain of the Emmett
Guard, an Irish military organization in
Jersey City, that the permission accorded
them OF using the City Armory by the Com
mon Council last year has been revoked by
a committee of the present Common Coun-
Gill;. Great quantities of Bartlett pears are
now sold on the streets of New York. A
produce merchant arrived few days ago
from San Francisco with 500 baskets, which
he quickly disposed Of.....J oseph Messner
was executed at Rochester, n. Y, on Fri
day, Aug. II, at 1928 p. IN. He fully con-
fessed having murdered his wife in April,
1S6S.... Three infants, said to have been
farmed out to aE old woman named Julia
Callahan, in East Cambridge. Mass, died
recently. The woman is under arrest on
suspicion of having killed them with opium
.....At the races in Buffalo, on Friday, Aug.
II, the mare Goldsmith Maid made the
three fastest consecutive heats on record.
They were as follows: 2:l93, 2:l94, 2:l9. 1t
is a remarkable fact that at the races which
took place at the Buffalo Driving Park the
week ending August II, 2:27 was the slowest
winning time made
MAYOR HALL, of New York, saved the life
of little child on Saturday, at South Bay,
by leaping into the water, and rescu-
ing it as it was sinking for a third
time Depth of water, three feet......A. C.
Smith, of Brooklyn, n. Y, committed sui
eide on Saturday, because he bet on the
wrong horse at the Buffalo races, last week.
.....A man unknown TO the New York police
r ! ct haa q Eioht
avenue and Thirtieth streets on Saturday
night.....W. S. Olmstead, Vice-P President
and Treasurer of the Connecticut Mutual
Life Insurance Company, died at Hartford,
on the 18th Mrs. Catherine TOucey,
widow of the late Hon. Isaac Toucey, for
merly Secretary Of the Navy, died On sun
day, aged 90 years. She was taken III at
church, and died in her carriage on the way
home.
Two BALES of new cotton, of this years
crop, were sold by auction at New York on
Monday. The first bale, from Alabama, sold
for 25 cents, and the second, from Georgia,
for "a cents....An explosion occurred in
liquor store at Jersey City, on Monday night
which was followed by fire, in which the
lives of three persons were lost.....A fire.
damp explosion occurred on Monday morn
ing in the Eagle shaft, at Pittston, Pa, by
which BENJAMIN Davis was instantly killed
and twenty workmen imprisoned behind the
debris, with no means to escape until cleared
away. At five o'clock the same day the
bodies Of five of the victims had been recov-
cred, and twelve more were known to be
below The steamer Chautauqua exploded
her boiler on Monday afternoon at Whitney's
Landing, near Maysville, n. Y. Five per-
sons were killed and fourteen injured, some
of whom will die.
SINCE the outbreak of the horse plague, at
Brooklyn, $50 horses belonging to the City
Railroad Company have been attacked, and
30 Of them have died. There are at present
60 with the malady THE New York Po-
lice Board has resolved to place officers on
the street cars in citizens dress for the pro-
lection of passengers..,A man named
Hitherton was stabbed and instantly killed
by one Mcdonald, at Pittsburgh, Pa, on
Monday. More whisky ..... Dispatches from
all parts of the country announce that the
Scott centenary was celebrated on the 10Th
in all of the principal cities in the Union.
The West.
THE coroners jury in the Buffenburgh
poisoning case at Columbus, Ohio, returned
the following verdict on the 10th inst:
" After hearing the testimony, we, the jury,
do find and say that arsenic was admins
tered to the deceased, Peter Bufien burgh,
by some person or persons unknown" IA
man named John Murray, living at
Wheaton, Wis, killed a neighbor named
John O'Neill, on Thursday, by stabbing him
and afterwards setting savage dog on him,
who bit and tore his body until he died..
A girl named Eliza Harrington, and her
mother, were arrested at Persia, III, re,
Gently, charged with destroying a child of
the former. The body of the child was
found in a privy vault, with its skull bro
DIR. Farrell, of Annawan, H.,
prominent physician of the place, has been
arrested and lodged in Jail, charged with
bastardy.....R. A. Nickerson, wealthy far
mer, living near Geneseo, Ill, has been ar
rested and committed to jail, charged with
committing rape upon his step-daughter,
little girl ~ years old. 1t is thought he
will be convicted. .....A son of Casper
Slower, u years old, accidentally hung HIM