The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1871-05-05
CURRENT NEWS ITEMS.
The East.

-Otu lllSi., Oh
WIN. p. Emerson, the well. known
piano manufacturer died in Boston, on
Thursday.
John Consider was killed on Thurs.
day, at Petroleum Center, Pa. by the
explosion of a boiler on the McCrav
Hill.
Rev. George w. Stewart, rector of
the Episcopal Church of our Lord in
New York city, died on Thursday.
A fire on the lumber wharves of
South Boston, on Thursday morning.
destroyed Whitaker IL Co.'S kindljng
wood factory, the lumber-yard of Jonas
Fitch, and the saw-mill and lumber.vard
OF Rogers Brothers, and five small
dwellings. The loss is estimated at
$4,000.
A man giving the name of Berrien
Gay, claiming to be a merchant from
Archer, Fla, has been arrested in New
York on the charge Of passing a forged
check for $4,000 on Samuel Roosevelt
& Co. Since his arrest several other
merchants have entered similar charges
against him.
A quantity of wreck stuff has been
found in Boston bay. which renders it
almost certain that the bark Merrimac.
Of Boston, from Montevideo TO this
port, has been lost and probably with
all on board. 1t is likely that she was
run down and sunk by an outward
bound vessel.
When the n. y. Tribune reporters,
some weeks ago, investigated the panel
house business, they found some OF the
thieves chuckling over recent robbery
of $4,000 in United States bonds from
wealthy citizen of Ohio. 1t has since
been discovered that. soon after his re-
turn home. receivers, who had, as usual,
come into possession of the bonds,
caused letters TO be written to their vic
tim, offering to return them for q certain
price. He answered that as he had
caveated the bonds at Washington as
soon as they were lost, he would only
give $50 for their return. 1t appears,
however that he did not caveat them, a
fact which the holders of the bonds had
no difficulty in ascertaining, and they
renewed their proposals for the return
OF the stolen property. There the mat
ter rests. The loser Of the bonds was
once prominent State officer in Ohio,
and is a man of wealth and high stand
ing.
-Focklor's extensive brewery, situat-
ed in West Dubuque, Iowa, was burned
on the 20th.
w. III. Cunning was stabbed by
Albert johnson, at Piqua, Ohio, Satur-
day evening. Cunning has since died.
Cunning was cjecting Johnson from his
saloon.
In Cleveland, O., on Tuesday, an
old building that was being removed
was blown down, and two children were
crushed to death, and two others seri-
ously injured.
A wealthy young farmer, named
George Dewey. living few miles north
of Ottawa, H., WAS kicked by horse,
on Friday, and fatally injured. He died
on the following day.
The Ohio Legislature, on Thursday,
passed bill making penalty of $500
fine and imprisonment for any person
who shall solemnize a marriage without
being legally authorized to do so.
J. C. Campbell. contractor on the
Southern Normal University, at Car
bondale, Ill.,, was killed. on Tuesday, at
that place by beam falling upon him,
which almost instantly crushed him.
On Thursday, five boys. aged from
six to ten years, while playing around
sand-bank, in Grand Rapids, Mich, were
aged to get out and give the alarm. The
Il IL. i
Judge Epson, in criminal suit for
adultery, at Coldwater, Mich, has ruled
that an Indiana divorce procured in the
ordinary way, and without the knewl-
edge of one of the parties to it, is valid.
This is the first decision of the kind in
the State.
An insane woman, named Mrs.
Lardner, was killed by an eastern bound
freight train on the Milwaukee and st.
Paul Railroad, near Ossian Station,
about midnight on Monday. She had
previously murdered her child, six
months old, in bed.
John Whitby, an employee on the
Chicago, Burlington and Quincy Rail
road, was killed at Peoria, H., on the
Goth, while coupling cars. He was
caught between them and crushed so
badly that he only lived few hours.
He was aged twenty.nine, and leaves
wife.
John q. Reutshler, saloon-keeper
of Grass Valley, California, and his wife
were both found dead in room adioin-
ing the saloon on Tuesday morning.
The woman had shot him dead. then
cut both of her own arms with knife,
ran into an adjoining room, and bed to
death. They had not lived happily
together.
The South.
--Congress passed forty bills alto
gether the late session.
The Blooded- Horse ASSOCIATION races
come off next month at Nashville.
They are making preparations for a
grand season.
A boy named Peters aged IA, ONLY