The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1872-03-08
NEWS SUMMARY.
The East.


against the ringites of that city and county
for peculation of the public funds...... United
States Attorney Davis has not yet taken any
action upon the orders of the Attorney Cen
eral to prosecute the New York Custom
House officials who are guilty of bribery,
but states that at the next term of the
courts he will take steps to have the culprits
indicted.
A PASSENGER car on the Delaware and
Lackawanna road, near Binghampton, N. Y,
was thrown down an embankment rs feet
high on Tuesday morning, by reason of a
broken rail. Several passengers were seri-
ously injured.....The Coroner's jury at
Hempsted, Long Island, on Tuesday rem
dered q verdict charging Hannah M. Fowler
and Geo. Fowler, a younger brother OF her
husband, with causing the death OF the lat
ter by arsenic, large quantities of which 1T
is said were found in the liver and kidneys
of the deceased. .... Foster, the car-hook
murderer of New York, has been sentenced
to be hanged March 22.....The oil manufac-
tory of d. c. Beggs, in New York, was
burned on Tuesday morning. Loss $4,000.
..... On Friday morning, at Brownsville, Pa,
a fire destroyed Wilgers's shoe and hat store,
Devere and Co.'s clothing store and build
ing, Gummert's building, Duncan's furniture
store, Story's saloon, and barber shop.
Loss S5Z,UOVj insurance @%oIVVV'
In New York city on Wednesday an octo-
genaran named Margaret Watson, while
indulging in her habit of smoking in bed,
get the bed on fire, and was burned to death.
1.-The indicted Ringites of Jersey City,
comprising three Police Commi ssioners,
three Fire Commissioners, and the Chlef OF
Police. were Wednesday arrested and
held 70 bail, some in $4,000, and somo in
s4OOO"...R. A. Streets cotton knitting
mill and Coffin & Simpsons flour mill, at
Kenwood, near Albany, N. Y, was burned
on Thursday afternoon. Total loss about
$4,000; partially insured......A fire at Selin's
Grove, Pa, Thursday night, destroyed
twelve dwellings, five stores, a Baptist
church, and twelve stables and barns Loss
100000.
Henry QuAcKENBUsH, lately on the staff of
the New York Evening NetoS, committed sui
eide at Central Park on Thursday during
mental alteration ..... 1t is stated that Col
lector Arthur, of New York, has rendered
his resignation, and that the place has been
offered to Treasurer Spinner, who defined it.
1.-THE Republican printing Office, three law
offices, drug store, and other buildings, at
Monticello, n. Y, were burned on Friday
morning. Loss $4,000.
OK Saturday night, the American Iron
Works, Pittsburgh, Pa, owned by Jones Il
Laughlin, were partially burned. The
upper rolling mill, with six trains of rolls,
the spike, bolt, and nut factory, pattern
shops, pattern storehouse, and foundry were
entirely destroyed. The loss will be from
100000 to 100000. The works were the
most extensive in America, affording en-
ployment to $500 hands,. Bellefont mills,
Cranston, r. l., were burned on Saturday.
Loss $4,000; insurance $4,000.
THE house of Henry Spinney, Yarmouth
county, N. S., was burned on the 9TH inst,
and his five children persisted in the flames.
Mr.. and Mrs. Spinuey were absent on a visit.
1.-THE large sugar refinery of 'Bartol ~
Barker, at Marcus Hook Pa, was entirely
destroyed by fire on Sunday morning: Loss
$3.50 900; insurance $l05,O0O......On Sunday
night last a farmer named Daniel Kramer,
residing about nine miles west of Auburn,
Schuylkill county, Pa, was brutally muir
dered and his wife left for dead. Mr. kra-
mer's son, on entering his fathers house on
Monday morning, found his mother in bed
with her skull fearfully fractured, and still
living, but unable to speak. The father
was found about one hundred yards from
the house with his brains beaten out and
frozen to the ground. No trace of the MUIR
derers has yet been discovered. The mur-
derer robbed the house. Mrs. Kramer can
not recover.
Tho West.
THE eleventh and last span of the Union
Pacific bridge at Council Bluffs, Iowa, was
completed on Tuesday.
THE National Labor Reform Convention
met at Columbus, Ohio, on Wednesday. One
hundred and fifty delegates were present,
representing seventeen States. Arkansas
and Mississippi were the only Southern
States which sent delegates.... The bodies of
Michael McCaigue and a man named Cavan-
augh, inmates Of the National Military
Asylum at Milwaukee, Wis, were found In
ravine near that institution on Wednesday
afternoon. The unfortunate men had been
missing about fortnight. They were in
toxicated when last seen, and, both being
partially blind, it is supposed they lost their
way while returning to the asylum and per-
ished from cold.....Mrs. CARLY and child OF
Mechanicsburg, o., were burned to death on
Wednesday, in attempting to start fire
with ACKNOWLEDGEMENT Hotel, at Grand
Rapids, the largest hotel in Western Michi
gan, was partially destroyed by fire on
Tuesday night. The loss is estimated at
nearly 100000.
TIE decision of the Supreme Court of
Nebraska is that the present extra session of
the Nebraska State Legislature is illegal, the
Court holding that the proclamation of Act
ing-Goyernor James, revoking the call of
the President Of the Senate was authorized.
The spoke factory of Birnell & Co., and
an adjoining dwelling at st. Mary's, Ohio,
was burned on Wednesday morning. Loss
$50 900, with no insurance on the factory. |
IA fire at Leavenworth, Kansas, on |
wednesday night, destroyed the Brevoort
House and several tenements. Insurance.
Tght...... The National Labor Reform Con
vention, in session at Columbus, o., closed |
its labors on Wednesday. Judge David
Davis, of Illinois, was nominated for Presi
dent, and Gov. Joel Parker, of New Jersey,
for Vice-P President" The National Prohi-
bition Mass Convention met at Columbus,
Ohio, on the 2Sd. One hundred and nine
ty-four delegates were present from tie
states. James Black, of Pennsylvania, and
John Russell, of Michigan, were nominated
for President and Vice President, after
which the Convention adjourned Sne die......
Chas. ID. Smith, one Of the managers of the
~xonal Engineers Association Gift Enter
De, was arrested at Milwaukee, on Thurs |