The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1872-01-05
NEWS SUMMARY.
The East.

and bound him; then attempted to gain the
interior of the Jail, but the assistant jailer
fired on them and called the police the ruff
fans fleeing. 1t is suspected that they de-
sired to release bank robber incarcerated
there....The Brooklyn Aldermen have
have voted so 900 for the use of the Board
of Health against the smallpox. The dis
ease has spread TO East New York;. Henry
Il. Tuckerman, the well-known scholar,
poet and essayist, died in New York on Sun
dav ..... Four men. while walking on rail
road track near Miburn, n. j., on Saturday,
were struck by q locomotive and three Of
of them instantly killed.....Two hundred
feet of the roof of the iron depot of the
Rensselaer, railroad, at Saratoga, n. Y, was
crushed by the weight Of snow on Monday
afternoon Nobody hurt......A Port Jervis,
N. Y, dispatch states that there are 20
miles of freight cars blocked at that place
for want of motive power, owing to the mis-
management of the Erie railway.
AT Liberty, N. j., VIM. Beust was burned
to death while attempting to rescue his child
from burning house...."olive Logan was
married in New York, on Tuesday, to Writ
Sykes, by Rev. Robert Collyer.
THE New York Times says that the Grand
Jury will indict leading Judge of that city
for fraudulently receiving money.....Hon.
Samuel II. Dale. Mayor of the city of Ban
gor, Me-, died suddenly on Sunday of apo
plexy...... The promised Congressional inves-
tigation into the general order of business
in New York city excites much interest
among importers. Startling exhibits of
fraud and eXtortion are expected. 1.-The
mail train going East, on the Pittsburgh
and Connellsville road, ran on broken rail,
one mile east of West Newton, on Wednes-
day. The train was thrown from the track,
pitching the express car into the river, and
injuring the messenger seriously ; fifteen
others were wounded, two seriousl y..".A
dispatch from Hazleton, Penn, says the
Board Of Arbitration of the Lehgh region
have unanimously agreed to continue the
rate of miners wages as paid in the year
1871 for the year 1872.
A DESTRUCTIVE fire occurred at Pleasant
vile, Pa, on Thursday. All the hotels and
the greater portion of the business part of
the town was destroyed. About forty fami-
lies are houseess.. $50. Frederick Snedecker
has been arrested at New York for placing
on the market about $4,000 in counterfeit
bonds of Allantown, Pa..... The Engine and
Machine Works Of Hugh II. Bole & Co., at
Pittsburgh, Pa, were totally burned on
Thursday evening. Loss estimated at
$4,000.
Circuit Court, at New York on Friday, de-
livered decision in favor of the executors
of d. w. Goodman, of Alabama, against the
New York Life Insurance Company. The
company refused to pay policy of $4,000,
on the ground that several payments of
premium were due. The claimants contend
ed that the company, by withdrawing agen-
cies from Alabama during the war, prevent
ed Goodman paying the premiums. Judge
Blatchford decreed for the claimants with
costs, the company to be credited for the UNI
paid annual payments.....Fires on the 22d
Whiting works of John Petit IL Co., Phila-
delphia; loss, $25, 900. Residence of Henry
B. Kirk, of Morrisiana, N Y. loss, $S2 900
insured for $2l 800 Squire Sedam's house
near Cincinnati, Ohio loss, $7,0OO....J. n.
Heine & Co.'s and B. F. Sisson & Co.'s dry
goods stores at Binghampton, n. Y; dam
age, $4000......Two a en- were picked up on
Friday night in small boat, between Wash-
ington and Alexandria, one frozen to death
and the other badly frozen, but alive.
The West.
AT meeting of the Chicago Common
Council! on Monday, a committee of five was
appointed to investigate numerous charges
against Aldermen and city officials of bargain
and sale in the matter of appointments to
office, the award for city printing, etc.,.
The Swansea Smelling and Refining Works
at Chicago were destroyed by fire on Mon
day night. Loss, $4,000 insurance, S12 600.
......Michael Garvey, farmer living near
Bloomington, H., was run over and killed
at the depot of the Chicago and Alton road,
in that city, on Saturday night.
THE smallpox is raging fearfully at
Georgetown, o. Business of every descrip-
ton is almost entirely suspended. Schools
in and around town have closed, and people
from the country will not venture inside the
corporation......G regori Peri has been sem
fenced to imprisonment for life for the muir
der of Michael Ready at Chicago.....A
colored boy named Frank Roberts was ar
rested in indianapolis on Saturday night
while attempting to set fire to the Metro
politan Theater.....A young lady of Mon
roeville, Ind, who knows how to gauge the
means of newspaper men, has brought a
breach of promise suit against one of the
editors of Fort Wayne journal for $ll.75.
49,. Fernando Styre, farmer of Blue
Mounds, Wis, committed suicide on Monday
last by hanging himself in his barn. Tenn
porary insanity was the cause of the act......
The peat marsh near 0watonna, Mimi,
which took fire Oct. 8, is still burning.
T. VAN VIE, young man IS years old,
committed suicide near Madison, Wis, on
Wednesday, by taking ratsbane.....The
Board of Trade and City Council of La
Crosse, Wis, have raised $2OO,OOO for bo-
nus for the location of the Chicago and
Northwestern railroad depot in that city,.
A train on the Cleveland and Columbus road
ran into wagon containing ten persons, at
crossing in Cincinnati on Wednesday
night, instantly killing Miss Bradley, and
severely lnluring two others.....The open
ing of the Toledo and Saginaw railway was
celebrated at Toledo, Ohio, on Tuesday 49,.
One hundred mechanics were thrown out OF
employment by the burning of Comstock e.
Co.'s foundry, at Quincy, H., on Wednes-
day.
AT Chicago, on Thursday, Andrew J. Per-
teet was adjudged guilty and sentenced to
be hanged for the murder of his wife in Sep
TENDER last......Joseph Derry, while digging
well at Hamilton, Ohio, on Wednesday,
was killed by bucket of earth falling on
him.. VIM. Mclaughlin and man named
FitzMorris were frozen to death in an unfin-