The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1871-12-22
Chr Grue 8urthrrner.
PAW PAW. MICHIGAN.


FIRE IN brooklyn, N. 1 ., on wednesday
morning, rendered II families homeless and
caused a damage of about $4,000.
the miners wages have been reduced eight
cents per ton, and that steps are going on for
a strike.
Four HUNDRED AND FIFTY canal boats are
still frozen in on the Hudson river and the
Erie canal. Some few boats, it is thought,
may be able to ford their way through, but
by far the greater number, with cargoes val
ued at 81 900, 900, will have to remain ice
bound during the entire winter. From
Investigations into the Brooklyn election
frauds, il appears that five hundred Votes
were inserted in the returns of one district
before the polls were really opened.
THE Bible war at Hunters Point has ended
in a compromise between the Catholic COM
mittee and the commissioners. All expelled
are to be taken back the Catholics will not
oppose the reading of the Scriptures, and
Catholic children will be allowed to remain
in the classroom during religious exercises.
......T The number Of deaths by smallpox in
Philadelphia last week was 1913, a decrease
OF "a from the previous week....One of the
suits against the Erie Railway Company, in
the New Jersey courts, for over-charges, has
been decided against the company. One
hundred and fifty-nine additional suits are
to be commenced at the next session Of the
Criminal Court...... William Z. Titcemb,
Teller Of the Boston Five Cent Savings Bank,
and his wife, were thrown from a carriage
on Wednesday, Mr.. Titcomb being instantly
killed, and Mrs. Titcomb fatally injured.
The West.
The building of the London Wooden Com
pany, at Cincinnati, was totally destroyed
by fire on Wednesday. Loss, $4,000; in
surance, $4,000.
THERE were two severe shocks by an earth
quake on the night of the 5th at Cedar City,
Utah Territory. On the morning of the 9Th
another shock occurred
The brass foundry Of Ben. F. Simon at
New Albany, Ind, was destroyed by fire on
Thursday. Loss, $500; no insurmce.."..
On Friday the lower house of the Illinois
Legislature passed, by a decided vote, Mr..
Phelps bill giving the General Government
power to purchase and condemn lands. 1t
will undoubtedly pass the Senate.....The
temporary winter bridge across the Missouri
at Omaha is now completed.
The first pier of the railroad and wagon
bridge over the Missouri river at st. Joseph
was successfully landed on the bed rock on
Thursday morning, and the sinking of the !
second pier will be commenced at once 1t
is expected that pier will be sunk each
month until the entire four piers are based
on the solid rock.....The motion for the new
trial in the Meddlicott case, at Lawrence,
Kan, has been denied, and the prisoner SEN
fenced to be hung on the Goth of January.
A bill of exceptions was filed by the prison
er's counsel, and the case will 60 to the SUI
preme Court, which meets in Topeka early
in January. The general impression among
lawyers is that the Supreme Court will grant
a new trial......The winter railroad bridge at
La Crosse, Wis, was completed on Friday.
MISS AIDA NJ. BALLoU sues the Terre
Haute Gazette for $4,000 worth of lost
character. 1t is also stated that she will
enter suit against the indianapolis Journal,
that paper having alluded to the free-love
party as " Woodhullites and Ballouna-
tics ".. Gen. Rosser, engineer in charge of
the Northern Pacific, represents that mex
haustible beds Of coal of an excellent quail
ty have been found, and that when the road
reaches the Missouri river it can be deliv-
cred in ST. Paul at from SO to s. per TOM.
A fire at Hannibal, Mo-, on Monday night,
destroyed property to the amount of $50 900.
Insurance $40 ,000....At the session of the
National Board of Trade at st. Louis, on
Monday, Mr. Stranahan, of New York, re-
called his resolutions for the encouragement
of iron ship-building, previously laid on the
table. The first, placing a bounty on ship
building, was lost. The second, removing
all duty on ship-building material, etc, was
carried on the yeas and nays, but owing to
the maneuvering of the Philadelphia dele
CATION, who refused to answer TO their
names, it was found that quorum had not
voted. There was violent recriminaton and
explanation growing out of this action of
from the chairman and different members,
the recalcitrants were shamed into voting.
The vote was recorded in the affirmative......
Nine dead bodies were taken from a well at
Peshtigo few days since. The victims had
taken refuge in the we'll on the night of the
fire, during which il caved in upon them,
burying them alive......San Diego, Call, re-
ports the thermometer at so degrees in the
shade...... Central City and Summit county,
Colorado, shipped 100 ounces of gold during
the past season.
The South.
Col. JOHN d. AsHMoRE, a former member
Of Congress from the Abbevile district of
South Carolina, blew out his brains with
pistol, at hotel in Sards, Miss, on Wednes-
day morning. He had been planting here
since the war. Pecunary troubles were the
cause..... The spotted fever has appeared at
Nashville and other noints in the South