The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1872-11-15
NEWS SUMMARY.
The East.

weeks prior to the sad event her death was
daily looked for. Notwithstanding the partl-
san feeling of which the bereayed husband
has been one of the principal objects, he has
the sincere sympathy of the public in his sad
affection. He was a constant and untiring at
tendant at his wife's bedside up to the last
moment. Mrs. Greeley leaves three daugh-
tiers.
Judge Ingraham, OF New York, has granted
the application on behalf OF George 5. Scott
for an injunction to restrain the Chicago
and Northwestern Railroad Company from
issuing any stock until such issue is author
lied by two-thirds Of the owners of the capi-
tai stock.
The bankers in the oil regions of Pennsyl-
vania have been holding meetings with view
of forming a combination to control the crude
oil market. The plan is to organize an agency
with a capital stock of $1,000,00O through
which the entire production is to be bought
and sold. BY this means it is believed the
price can be maintained at IS per barrel.
The jury in the case Of Chief of Police Nc
Williams, of Jersey City, failed to agree, and
he was bailed in $21, 600.
Colyer was drowned recently, near Darien,
CT, while attempting to drive across swollen
stream.
The trial of Mayor Hall, of New York, has
resulted in disagreement of the jury. 1t Is
said they stood seven for conviction and five
for acqulttal.
Chief Justice Chase's health will probably
compel him to leave his seat on the Supreme
Bench for a time.
The notorious Mrs. Woodruff and Mrs
Clafin were arrested in New York recently
on the charge of circulating obscene htera-
ture, and locked op in Ludlow Street Jail
George Francis Train offered to 80 bail for
them, but they refused to accept bail. The
charge was based on a scandalous and libel
Gus article published in Woodruff ClGtd'S
Weekly, rejecting on the characters of Rev.
Henry Ward Beecher and Theodore Tilton,
the editor of the Independent. Proceedings
against the twain had been expected for
several days, and their arrest created no sur
prise. The New York papers say that
nothing more obscene in the way of words or
atrocious charges has ever obtained currency
in any community than the attacks Of these
women on Mr.. Beecher. Their office was also
seized, together with the books, furniture,
and entire edition of the paper. There Is
much indignation among the yrtuous New
Workers at the audacity of the publication
complained of, and general satisfaction is ex-
pressed at the arrest of the authors and the
prospect Of their prosecution and conviction.
At Rochester, n. Y, the other day, three
men were suffocated to death in a new min
eral WE'LL!
The United States Grand Jury at New York
has indicted Mesdames Woodruff and Clahin
for circulating obscene literature. Bail was
fixed in the sum of sS,000 In default of
which they wese remanded to Jail to await
trial. Stephen Pearl Andrews, the great
head-center Of the free-lovers, has also been
arrested on the charge Of being implicated
with the danes.
Some excitement has been caused in West
chester county, n Y, by the reported dis
coveries of gold quartz there.
The West.
Three blocks of business houses were de-
stroyed by the fire at Grand Rapids, Mich,
last week. The loss will reach over 5000. coo.
The st. Louis National Stock Yards Com
pany, capital stock $1,000 coo, has just COM
pleted its organization by the election Of
Board Of Directors comprising representatives
of the various railroads centering there.
They viii Immediately proceed to the erection
of mammoth stock yards and pens in East St.
Louis.
The work on { he Northern Pacific railroad
is progressing at marvellous rate Of speed.
The rails are LAID 175 miles west Of Red river.
and the road is now open to the Missouri
river, 4j5 miles west of Lake Superior Gen.
Cass, the new President of the road, has
lately returned from a tour of inspection
along the line of the road. A ST. Paul CORE
spondent of Chicago PAPER, announcing his
return, says: 1t is understood that while
they found the road we'll constructed. they
were met at all points and in nearly every de-
partment with evidences OF the most reckless
and extravagant management. the full dis
closure of which would astonish the country.
This will undoubtedly be shown in the official
report to be made by these gentlemen. but
how much Of it will be given to the public
time alone will tell 1t is also asserted with a
directness that leaves little doubt Of it's cor
rectness, that with the completion of the
road to the Missouri river, all building opera
tions on this end Of the line will be suspended
for at least one, and probably two years"
In reference to the reported suspension of
work on the st. Paul and Pacific road. the
officers say that their road is being built indie
pendently of the Porthern Pacific road. the
latter company having no financial response
bility for its affairs, and that the temporary
suspension q work on tho ST. Vincent extern
sion of the st. Paul line was caused by mis-
understanding with the company's financial
agents in Amsterdam, from whom all funds
for its construction are forwarded.
The South.
The st. Louis Republican publishes the par
ticuars of an Indian raid into Hook and
Parker counties, Texas, on the Brazos river
The citizens were organizing for the purpose
of driving them out.
dispatch from Little Rock, Ark, an
nounces that "peace once more reigns in