The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1872-05-03
Chr Grue Nurtherner,
PAW PAW, MICHIGAN.
NEWS SUMMARY.
Tho Fast.

THE school building and boarding house
of B. F. Mills, at South Williamstown
Mass, was burned on Sunday afternoon
Loss SIS, 900 insurance $4,000. Leonard
+. Fowler, a well-known Western counter
feter, was arrested in New York on Tues.
day while engaged in negotiating quantity
of $40 and $50 bills on the Poughkeepsie
National bank. He was held in $4,000
bail.
HENRY KsIcKERBocKER's scythe works, at
Ballston Spa, were burned on Tuesday
morning. Loss $4,000; partly insured.
Supposed TO be the work of an incendiary.
"A verdict has been rendered against ex-
Sheriff O'Brien, of New York, for 1891
damages, for suffering the escape of bank
rupt debtor from the Ludlow street Jail in
1867.
THE German bark Lutchen, loaded with
lumber for Matanzas, took fire at a pier in
the East river, New York, on Thursday,
is about $25 ,000...... Charles Avery, of
Pleasantville, on the Harlem railroad, fatal
" shot his wife on Monday night. The
cause was jealousy .....Snyder's flour and
saw mills, at Phelps, Ontario county, N. Y,
are burned, with loss of $4,000.
AN order giving steamship companies the
privilege of receiving general order goods
into their own bonded warehouses has been
signed by Collector Arthur, of New York,
and sent to Washington for Secretary Bout
wells Endorsement.
The jury in the case of Fanny Hyde,
tried in Brooklyn for the murder of Watson
were discharged on Saturday morning, being
unable to agree Ten were for acquitta =,
and two for verdict of manslaughter in
the fourth degree. The receipts at the Ho-
m9opathic Hospital Fair in Boston for the
first week exceeded $4,000.
A WOMAN named Maher, residing at Green
bush, n. Y, was struck down and had her
neck broken on Sunday evening in attempt
ing to stop a fight between her two sons.
Joseph, the alleged matricide, has hed...".
On Sunday waterspout deluged the coun-
try around Timber Creek, Pa. The spout
lasted but two minutes ...,.. Charlton I. Lewis
has retired from the management of the
New York Evening Post, and is succeeded
by Parke Godwin.."..Faulkner's brick-dry-
ing shed in Allegheny City, Pa, was burned
on Monday, with a loss of 100000, and no
insurance. 1t was caused by an incendiary.
Tho West.
TIE Farwcll block, Chicago, occupied by
J. V. Farwell & Co. and Henry W. King &
Co., wholesale dry goods, was damaged by
fire on Tuesday night to the extent of
$40 900. Loss 10 stocks by fire and water
probably Sl0000....At Cleveland, Ohio, on
Tuesday evening, the livery stable OF Wall
& Co., the -four and feed store of Low & Gale
nj tyuO DESTROYED
Seven horses, two mules, and five buggies
were burned. Loss $4,000. No insurance.
w The trial of Chas. Wallor, for the muir
der of Henry Taylor, both colored men, in
Cairo, H., last October, resulted in the con-
viction and sentence of Wallor to ninety
nine years in the Penitentary Jeremiah
Collier, an old man who was convicted at ST.
Louis two weeks ago for killing his wife last
November is to be han ed .....A glycerine
still in the establishment of Schneider &
Co., Chicago, exploded on Monday night,
killing Henry Hanfed, who was in charge.
Bob McCAULLY, who shot and killed man
named Anderson at Fort Dodge, Iowa, last
fall, and sentenced to three years imprisonss
ment, escaped from the Sheriff at Sioux
City on Tuesday The hotel of Pierce
Bros, at River Falls, Wis, was burned 10
tie ground at o'clock on Wednesday morn
ing. Loss heavy Mexican Buchanan
died in Denver, Col, on Wednesday after
noon, of apoplexy.
THE house-furnishing establishment of j.
II. Daggett, at Springfield, H., was
burned early on Thursday morning. Loss
1925 900 insurance SOCIOLOGICAL Chenoa,
H., John Tullberg, Swede employed as
brakeman on the Toledo, Peoria and War
saw railroad, was caught between two cars
while coupling them, and crushed to death.
...A fire at Mortified, Mimi, on Thurs
day night, burned Falk & Finkelson's drug
store. Loss $6,600.....0n Saturday last, the
thriving town of Coffeyvile was swept by a
hurricane, which demolished the greater
part OF the town. Chief among the sufferers
was ex-senator Ross, whose valuable news
paper establishment was destroyed 1.-THE !
entire business portion of the town of Yer
non, Mich, was destroyed by FIRE on Wed
mes day night. Aggregate loss $4,000. The
principal sufferers are W. d. & A. Garrison,
dry goods, ST. 600 ; Bell & Ives, s. 600; J. !
Yerkes, general store, 1920; T. Winans,
50 900 Clark Bros, 81 200; J. Lang, 81 600
James Turk, 81 500; W. D. Livermore, fur
niture, 81 800; Larry Benjamin, hard
ware, $1,000. There were twelve or fifteen
other losses of 81 900 or less. There is about
1900 insurance.
ELIZA CoULDocK, the actress, died at Salt
Lake City on Thursday evening......on
" Arbor- Day." April 10, J. D. Smith, of Lin
coin, Nebraska, planted $3.50 forest trees.
IL Chicago, on Saturday afternoon,
Thomas Dolan fell from his dray and was
killed. One of the wheels of the
vehicle passed over his chest, crushing it
in $3.50. william Hindell, banker of Girard,
III. who is alleged to have absconded last
September with $l7, 900 belonging to deposi
tors, was brought back from California by
Deputy Sheriff Cook, of San Diego county,
Cal.
ADAM DESTzLER, who was sentenced to two
years Imprisonment in the Milwaukee
House of Correction for stsbbing his reputed |
wife, Matilda Dentzler, committed suicide |
in that institution on Sunday night by hang |
ing himself.
The South.
THE bark Monita, with 500 bales of cot
ton on board, loading for Cronstadt, was |
burned at New Orleans on Friday.
AT Wheeling, W. Va, on Thursday,
stratter Taylor, a colored carpenter, in a Fl
of jealousy split his wife's head entirely