The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1871-12-15
NEWS SUMMARY.
The East.

The smallpox is spreading in New York
city, and the Sanitary Inspector thinks it
likely to become epidemic.....A party of
young Japanese have arrived at New York,
from San Francisco. They will leave soon
for England, having been sent out by their
Government to receive an English educa-
tion...... Twenty election fraud cases are
before the Brooklyn Grand Jury......It is
said that forgeries on the New York city
banks amounting to 100000 have been dis
covered and traced to one Saroni, who fled
to Cuba. Forged papers are said to have
been passed to a considerable extent in
Western cities.""An expedition of Catholics
has left New York to teach the natives of
Ecuador tie mechanic arts and farming
Investigations show that $4,000 of the
money furnished to the Brooklyn Water
Board the present year has not been ac-
counted for....P Petitions for a communication
Of the sentence of Bolts, the murderer of
Pet Halstead, will be presented to the New
Jersey Court of Pardons Judgment has
been entered in the sequestration case against
eX-City Treasurer Marar, of PHILADELPHIA,
tor S47S,OOO, the amount of his defalcation.
......Charles II. Wallace, clerk of Tifiany's
jewelry store, has been committed for trial
at the Jefferson Market Police Court in New
York on charge of stealing $4,000 in
jewelrp.....The ice is two inches thick
throughout the whole section of the Erie
canal, at Boonville. The canal is frozen
tight east of Utica. No boats are moving,
and the weather is cold and freezing.
A HURRICANE visited the northern side of
the island of Cape Breton on the night of the
Goth ult., doing immense damage to houses,
barns, trees, and shipping. The gale began
at o'clock, and lasted until o'clock the
next morning. The tide was four feet higher
than ever known before. The pulic wharf at
Port Hood was swept away, and in the village
several houses were blown down. Anumber
of vessels anchored at Port Mulgrave dragged
their anchors and passed out Of the strait to
sea. The Bermudean brig Jabez, from Char
lottetown, was wrecked on Fox Island, and
only one man saved. Ten schooners were
wrecked in the Strait of Canso. 1t is feared
that there has been considerable loss of life
by the gale...... Water has been introduced
into Providence, r. l., from the Pawtuxet
River....The Greystone Mill, in North
Providence, was burned Friday morning..
The ice is about three inches thick in the
Welland Canal. Eight of the Northern
Transportation propellers and other vessels
are in the canal tug is trying TO break
the ice, but the prospects are doubtful.
A COMMON kitchen boiler, in a dwelling in
Paterson, N. j., exploded on Thursday night,
demolishing the kitchen and basement, and
partially demolishing the walls on one side
of the house. No lives were lost.. Owing
to the prevalence of the small pox in Easton
Pa, the students of Lafayette College gave
themselves a vacation for three months quite
regardless of the protests of the faculty ......
Five hundred more vessels passed through
the Welland Canal this season than during
any previous one......At New York, on Satur-
day, Henry Beckett, in a quarrel with Baker,
conductor, was flung from a street car, and
had his leg broken by another car coming in
an OPP osite direction. Both conductors were
arrested