The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1872-03-15
NEWS SUMMARY.
Tho East.


has filed an answer denying that he ever
solicited plaintiff in marriage; that she is
unchaste, habitually incorporate and of
violent disposition; that she repeatedly
threatened his life with deadly weapons,
and that she was an unfit person to marry
anybody. Fisk's horses and carriages were
sold at auction in New York on Wednesday.
A large crowd was present. The chestnut
horse Butcher, rode by the Colonel on
parade, brought only $3.50, less than one
eighth his cost. His favorite carriage team
of blacks brought 81 900. clarence that
cost $4,000 brought 81 600. The total re-
ceipts of the sale were about $50, 900 49,.
Statements are published in the New York
papers showing that the officers Of the Guer-
riere, while bringing the remains of General
Anderson to America, INDUCED in general
carousal, lasting for weeks......In the first of
the fifteen suits against the Atlantic Mail
Company, for aggregate penalties amounting
to $4,000, on allegations that cigars have
been landed from its vessels without paw
ment of duty, Judge Woodruff, Of New York
has given decision in favor of the United
States...... Ex-Judge Troy, of Brooklyn, has
sued the Brooklyn Eagle for $40, 900, for al
legged libel...... Eight roughs, of the Nine
teenth street gang, who nearly murdered
Officer Tully at New York on Sunday, have
been held for trial. One of them, named
Clemens, is heir to $4,000 worth of real
estate in the city, but his mother declined to
go bail for him. Officer Tally is still in
dangerous condition....At meeting of the
depositors of the Bowling Green Savings
Bank, New York, on Tuesday evening, a
proposition from President Smith, to pay
$50 900 as a compromise with the depositors,
was accepted. The amount of the deficiency
in the bank is $4,000.
Mrs. RsMsES sues the Brooklyn Board of
Health, claiming $4,000 damages for losses
of the services of her son, who was removed
from her house in January, 1871, to the
smallpox hospital, where he died ...... Brad
ley Grant, the Binghamton, n. Y, farmer,
who had resolved to starve himself to death
died on Wednesday, having eaten less than
three ounces of food in six weeks. The man
had overworked himself TO the point of
insanity.
On Thursday morning Mrs. Welsh, living
near Scranton, Pa, went to neighbours,
leaving two children, aged two and four,
asleep in the house. During her absence
the building caught fire, and the children
were burned to death.
JOHN VALENTINE, an eccentric bachelor and
miser, of East Meadow, L. l., was missed
few days age, and his neghbors bursting in
his door found his remains lying in the
fireplace terribly burned. The head was a
crisp, and the hands entirely consumed. On
turning the body over bloody axe was
found beneath. A tin box kept on a shelf,
supposed to contain about two thousand dol
lars, was gone. The perpetrators are un-
known.....The SigOurney House, a large
family boarding house in Hartford, Conn,
was found to be on fire about 3 o'clock on
Sunday morning. When the flames were
extinguished it was found that the house
had been set on fire in five different rooms
and on three different floors. The author of
the fire has not yet been discovered. The
lessee is said TO have an insurance on the
furniture much in excess Of its value. Over
forty persons were sleeping in different
parts of the building.
The West.
JOACHIM GEIsT, of Chicago, for causing his
wifes death by pouring boiling hot coffee
down her throat and otherwise maltreating
her, was on Tuesday sentenced to sixteen
years imprisonment..... Bernhard Lasler, a
saloon-keeper at Hamilton, o., on Wednes-
day shot and killed q negro named Ed.
Miller, in tho act of tapping his till.....A
bill has passed both houses of the Ohio Leg
islature fxingupon $1,000 as the maximum
of damages that may be recovered from rail-
road companies as compensation for causing
death by wrongful act neglect, or default
1.-THE Lower House of the Kansas Legs-
lature has parsed bill abolishing capital
punishment..""James Hallen, life convict
in the Michigan State Prison, committed
suicide on Wednesday by hanging himself
in his cell by cord taken from a tobacco
packa e.....The iewelry store of Henry G..
Piper & Co., at Romeo, Mich, was entered
on Sunday night by burglars, the safe blown
open with gunpowder, and about $4,000 in
nd toll
joces in southwark current of seven
eighths Of an inch per hour in its sweet
smelling river..".The kellogg Touring mill,
at Battle Creek, Mich, was destroyed on
Tuesday morning by fire. Loss 10000;
partially insured.
A FARMER named Wills Williamson, living
near Muncie, Ind, followed his daughter to
Dalesville, where she had gone to marry one
Laundry. He found the daughter in the
house of relative, and cut her throat,
killing her instantly. He then shot him
self twice in the mouth with revolver
He is not expected TO survive. Williamson
has q large family..... Two inches Of snow
fell at st. Louis on Thursday night.
Frederick Scaddin, boy of l6, living in
Eagle, Iona county, Mich, shot himself with
pistol, few days since, as a consequence
of remorse at having stolen some things
from his stepfather Sunday night a
block of frame buildings, five in all, were
destroyed in Atchison, Kan. Among them
was the Nelson House. A German musician
persisted in one of the buildings.....T The libel
suit of Spencer Ball against the EUening
Dispatch, of st. Louis, for $40 900, on account
of the publication Of police item, was de-
cided on Thursday, with a verdict of one
cent damages for the plaintiff.
A DISPATCH from Wyckenbourg, Arizona,
says the Apaches attacked two trains be-
tween that place and Ph@nix, and murdered
Samuel Cullember and Thomas Harris. At
Martinez Rancho they ran off the stock and
plundered the station Of all movables. Gull
lember and Harris were employees of the
stage company. The station is but four
miles south of Camp Date Creek, where are
posted three companies of regulars, two of
/ infantry and one of cavalry. The rancho is
distant about twenty miles from the
] Scene Of the Wyckenbourg stage massacre,
Where Loring was killed.
- b. CoRDER, agent of Wells, Fargo Co.,
lrgeville, Cal, blew his brains out with
a. gun on Saturday. He was insane from
gia.....The ice commenced moving /
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