The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1871-07-28
NEWS SUMMARY.



den on the 18th, from the scandinavian
steamer Minnesota. The company is in
charge Of Elder VIM. II. Cluf, a Mormon
bishop, returning fro his mission TO Eu-
rope......The steamship City of Port au
Prince, from New York for Port au Prince,
was wrecked on the 2lst of June on May
aguan, Bahama islands..... Mrs. j. S. Viii
liams and Mrs. Henry Williams were
thrown from carriage, on the 18th inst, at
Boston. The latter was killed and the for
mer fatally injured..". There is much un-
derground feeling upon the Irish, and much
earnest Indignation among all classes against
the mob element but no serious disturbance
has taken place since Thursday, and the
row is for the present no doubt at an end.
1.-THE first narrow gauge passenger en-
CINE ever built in America was shipped TO
Pixies Peak on July Is, from Philadelphia.
......Dr. Stats, prominent physician, and
ex-Mayor of Albany, died on the 18th inst.
1.-THE Wapwolloper powder mills, at
Hicks Ferry, Pa, exploded on Friday after
noon. Michael O'Hara was killed, and
Peter Stout severely wounded. The cause
Of the explosion is un known.
The number Of emigrants who arrived at
Castle Garden, New York, for the week end
ing July 10th, was 1926, making a total of
,447 landed this year. The total number
for the corresponding period last year was
l3S,19S..... Dispatches from New York state
that it is now believed that Foster will es-
cape pital punishment.....Te kilograms from
New York, dated July 18th, say that never
during the last twenty years has New York
been more free from disorder of all kinds
than during the last two days The terrible
blast Wednesday has taught the mob les
son that does not seem likely to be soon for
gotten. ....At celebration at Loon Lake, in
the town of Wayland, on the l4th inst,
cannon was discharged prematurely, in
stantly killing Mr.. Re uders, fatally wound
ing I. Parkwell, prominent lawyer in that
place, and slightly injuring several ladies.
..."During the burning of building on
Sixth avenue, n. Y, on Saturday afternoon,
barrel eff benzine exploded, severely burn
ing Is men, several of whom will not sur
vive.".Page and Wyatt, members of the
9th regiment, who were killed at the New
York riot on the 18th inst, were buried with
military honors on the 10th inst.."..A young
man named Edward Jafiney committed sui
eide in New York on the 10th inst. He was
member of the 9th regiment and devoted
Catholic, and would not turn out with the
regiment on the day of the riot. The con-
fict in his mind between his duty to his
regiment and to his religion caused the rash
act.
FEARFUL tornado, accompanied by thun-
der, lightning, and heavy rain, struck Vine
land, n. j., on the 18th inst. The loss of
property of all kinds is very severe. Roofs
of houses, trees and fences were destroyed.
The most serious losses are the destruction
of the Episcopal church, two railway de-
pots, and two dwelling houses. .... Clinton
Gilbert, Gen. Jordan's assistant assessor, who
was shot by some unknown man during the
Fifth Ward whisky riot, in Brooklyn, on
Friday morning, died in the hospital of the
navy yard, on Sunday, after two days terri
BILE agony ......Cornelius V. S. Roosevelt, one
of the best known old merchrnts in New
York city, died at his summer residence at
Oyster Bay, L. l., on Monday, after an i'll
ness Of but two days...Miss Ada McEvoy,
of Lowell, and Miss Ann Cunningham, of
Portsmouth, y. H., were drowned, on the
17th in Charles river, by the capsizing of a
boat".."On Monday afternoon, three boys,
Cornelius Ryan, John Calvin, and Samuel
Gloss, were drowned while bathing in a
brick yard pond near Philadelphia.
tornado passed over New York city on Sun
day afternoon which done great damage to
the shipping in the harbor.
THOMAS McCLARRY died on the 18th inst,
from a wound received on the 18th inst, at
the New York riots. There are twenty-five
wounded still at the Bellevue and Mount
Sinai hospitals, five of whom cannot recover.
1.-The Brooklyn Board of Health, on the
18th, authorized the Health officer to isolate
at their own residences persons afflicted
with smallpox, if possible, instead of trans
ferring them to the hospital. The Health
Officer was also empowered to place a sign
announcing smallpox, on any building
where smallpox patient is known to re-
side.
The West.
a TERRIFIC hail-storm passed over all
of country near Big Springs, Kan, on Fri.
day night last. 1t destroyed all the corn
and other crops, and about 1000 bushels OF
peaches and a great quantity of grapes on
farms in the adjoining counties The long
expected opening of the Ilinos and Mich-
gan Canal took place at Chicago on the 18th
inst The canal and Chicago river are now
one continuous ditch, and at last accounts
there was as much water in Lake Michigan
as ever..".ThOmas Lincoln, youngest son of
the late President, better known as " Tad"
died at the Clifton House, on Wabash ave-
nue., in Chicago, on Friday morning, July
14th, of dropsy of the chest. He was Is
years of age, and resembled his father in
many of his mental traits and characters
s....The city police Of Des Moines, Iowa,
were recently in hot pursuit of a Gypsy man
and woman who were seen near there, and
had with them a child supposed to be the
one recently stolen from Quincy, Ill.,. Ban
nister's warehouse, the Lake House, and 90
otaer buildings were burned at Fond du Lac
on the 18th inst. Several firemen were more
or less injured, and one child is supposed to
have been burned to death. Loss, $50 900.
......0n Friday, the grass on 24O acres of pas
ture land belonging TO VIM. Yates, between
Bates and New Berlin, on the Toledo, Wa
bash and Western railroad, was set on fire
by sparks from an engine and entirely des-
oyed....Capt. D. C. Standard, proprietor
of the Center House, at Terre Haute, Ind
accidentally shot himself in the abdomen
on the 18th, with pistol, from the effects OF
which he died. He was prominent and
highly esteemed citzen.....A disgusting
stabbing ARRAY took place at Detroit on the
18th inst, in which a man named Dodleal
was killed He leaves q wife and eigh
children.....Fi barns were burned il
Jacksonville, H., on Saturday night. They
were all in different localities, and were un
doubtedy the acts of incendaries
Gov. PALMER has ordered that all of thos,
known to be connected with the hanging o