The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1872-02-23
NEWS SUMMARY.
The East.

Pa, on Monday morning. Three men were
killed and fifteen suffocated, but alive as
ar as can be learned.o.A ere occurred on
Monday morning in the passenger depot OF
the Ogdensburg and Lower Canada railroad,
at Ogdensburg, destroying the entire build
ing, the freight depot, two cars and consid-
cradle freight. Loss $50 900; insurance not
known.....Judge Blatchford has decided
that Mrs. Fisk can succeed her
late husband as plaintiff in the
suits against the Union Pacific railroad,
Credit Mobilier and others, by simply filing
the proper petition......G George Van Neck,
formerly Lieutenant in the British army,
and lately on the New York Herald, COM
mitted suicide at the Hoffman House, New
York, on Tuesday morning......A fire at OH
City, Pa, on Monday destroyed the Nation
al Hotel, the Taylor House, the Oil Ex-
change, branch Office of the Western
Union telegraph G Company, the Office of the
Pacific and Atlantic Telegraph Company,
and two or three saloons. Loss estimated at
$4,000.
ONE Of Kidder & Atkins hosiery mills at
Troy, N. Y, was destroyed by fire on
Wednesday morning. Loss $4,000.
AT Hunters Point, L. l., on Wednesday,
three men were fatally burned by the ex-
plosion Of an oil-tank, while they were
making repairs in the furnace......An Italian,
aged 60 years, died Of starvation in New
York on Monday, he being unable to obtain
aid from the authorities, to whom ha had
applied .....H. w. Tener, a Philadelphia
lawyer, has disappeared leaving liabilities
to the amount Of S75,000.....In the budget
presented to the Ontario Legislature by the
Government are $4,000 reward for the ar
rest of the murderer of Mr.. Scott, and
$4,000 to promote immigration. The Leg
islature has voted to adopt the use of the
English Emigration Society as part of the
colonial emigration system.
The son and daughter of Mrs. Thomas,
aged 81 and IL, persisted in fire in scran-
ton, N. j., on Saturday Porter and Thos.
Brixley, fashionable burglars, were arrested
in New York on Saturday with the imple-
ments Of their profession. They offered
$4,000 each to the officer to be released
They have heretofore moved in aristocratic
society .....A clerk in the Paymaster's Office
of the Delaware, Lackawanna and Western
Railroad Company, in Scranton, Pa, alb
seconded on Saturday night with $4,000 of
the company's funds......John Henry, bar
tender, was fatally shot on Saturday night
in lager beer saloon in New York, by
Charles Garvin. who was arrested
TIE oil-cloth factory Of Potter, Son & Co.,
at Philadelphia, was totally destroyed by
FIRE on Sunday night. Loss 500, oOO..A
Scranton dispatch says that the Coroner's
Jury in the recent explosion in the Henry
mine, gave a verdict that the explosion re-
suited from O want of care in ventilation.
THE City Council of Springfield, Mass,
has elected Miss S. J. Williams City Ply
stefan.
The West
Two laborers named John Kearns and
Patrick Grady were almost instantly killed
in St. Joseph. Mo-, on Monday. They were
engaged in excavating earth, and the bank
fell upon them crushing their lower extrem-
tiles almost to jelly.
FIVE persons were killed and eight severe
ly injured by collision between apassenger
and freight train on the Rockford, Rock
Island and st. Louis railroad, near Upper
Alton, on Wednesday 1.-THE store of Small
ley * Co., at Cambridge City, Ind, was
burned on Wednesday morning. Loss
$4,000; insurance 81 ,000.....A fire at Port
Huron, Mich, on Wednesday, entirely de-
stroyed the buildings and stocks of D. Ora
ham, hats and furs; D. Guerin, boots aud
shoes; F. A. Meyers, groceries; j. B. Far
rand, dry goods. Loss 500 900 insurance
will be carried by rail within eighty miles
of the valley by either the Mariposa or the
Coulterville route. The horseback ride is
reduced to two and half miles. The fare
from San Francisco will be $22; time, one
day and o half......The Kansas Senate on
Wednesday passed the House memorial to
Congress to admit Canadian lumber Free
....A colored cook named Charles Moore, re-
Gently employed at the Commercial House
in Gardner, ILL.,, eloped on Tuesday with a
white girl named Susan Bridlestine.
TIE celebrated old Methodist divine, Rev.
Peter Cartwright, was stricken down with
paralysis on Monday last, at his home in
Pleasant Plains, Sangamon county, ILL.,, and
is now speechless and helpless. The attend
ing physicians say his death may occur at
any moment. This venerable man is 81
years old, and has been in the ministry 6S
years......The Coroner's jury sitting on the
bodies Of the persons killed by the railroad
accident near Alton on Wednesday, returned
q verdict that death was caused by the
criminal negligence of Frederick Baker,
conductor of the freight train, as the princi-
pal, and Patrick Halpin, engineer, as access
sorry Quite a shock Of earthquake was
felt at Cairo, ILL.,, on Wednesday morning
about five o'clock.....Jesse Zimmerman, the
aged wife murderer, Of Rockford, H.. has
been sentenced by the Court to life imprison-
ment in the Penitentiary. 1t will be re-
membered that he killed his wife with a
scratch-awl, several months ago.
TIE Diamond FIGURING Mill, at Youngs-
town, Ohio, owned by Noel Brown & Co., was
burned on Thursday morning. Loss $45, 900 ;
insured for $40, OOO.... The stage between
Mineral Hill and Eureka, New, was robbed
on Thursday by two highwaymen.....A
locomotive attached to the Winneconne,
Wis, freight train burst its boiler near
Schwarzburg on Thursday morning, killing
VIM. Tiel, brakeman, and Ransom, fireman,
was fatally scalded.....A memorial to Con-
gress has passed the Kansas Legislature
asking money to build q Court House at
Topeka, and Post Office and Custom House
at Leavenworth.
The Rockford, Rock Island and st. Louis
Railroad Company have offered reward of
$500 for the apprehension of Frederick Ba-
ker and Patrick Halpin, the conductor and
engineer of the freight train, near Alton, on
Wednesday last.."..A lad named Earnest
Priest, IA years Of age, broke through the
ice en- the lake at Milwaukee on Sunday
morning, and was drowned.
TIE tnow blockade on the Union Pacific