The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1872-08-16
NEWS SUMMARY.
The East.

canal boats and the Standard Oil Works were
destroyed. The total loss will reach hall
million dollars.
Burkardt Hetzler, of Rochester, N. Y, i'm
PEELED by the green-eyed monster, shot
Jacob Goetzman dead, and then committed
suicide.
Gen. Fitzpatrick has sued the New York
Times for libel for reporting that he (Kil-
patrick, when acting as Minister to Chill,
+" tried to force an abandoned woman on
Chilian society and was recalled"
The Mayor of Yeddo, Japan, and a number
of Japanese ambassadors, attended the
launching of the steamboat Keiveda, which
has been built for the japanese Government,
at New York. last week.
Henri Drayton died in New York on the
31st ult BY the death of this eminent artist
the dramatic profession is deprived of it's
finest singer and the operatice stage of its
best actor.
A general meeting of the Roman Catholic
clergy and laity is to be held in New York city,
the object being to protest against the en-
fosement Of the British law of 1929 expel-
ing Jesuits from that Kingdom.
The Dean Academy, at Franklin, Mass. has
been destroyed by fire. Loss, 1000; in
surance, 100000.
Gen. Fitzpatrick is on the war path. After
instituting his libel suit against the New York
Times he forthwith went for the Bangor Wing
to the tune of $4,000. The chiefs of both
journals have been held in bonds to appear
and answer
The city of Titusville, Pa has been lighted
with gas from the Newton oil well, located five
miles from the town.
j. NJ. Majorga, General Agent Of the Cubans
in New York, has advised the Governor of the
Republic of Cuba to remove Gen. Ryan.
John Gaffney has been sentenced to be
hung, at Buffalo, for the murder of Patrick
Fahey
Charles NARROW was hung at Mllville n. Y,
on the I'd inst, for the murder of VIM. Bach
man, in August, 1872.
Eight stores were burned in Elmira, n. Y,
on the I'd ult. Loss, $4,000.
A gang Of river pirates recently forced an
entrance to the Hamburg dock, at Hoboken,
n. Y, and stole $50, 900 worth of watches.
The Cuban privateer Pioneer, lying in the
harbor Of Newport, has been seized by the
Government. Her commander, after protest.
ing against the seizure with true Spanish
bravado, fred off one of the privateers guns,
nailed the Cuban flag 10 the mast, threw his
sword overheard and with his crew, left the
vessel in high dudgeon.
Gerit Smith is using his personal influence
toward the release of some of the Ku- Klux
confined in the Albany (N. y Penitentiary,
who are evidently victims of circumstances.
Horace Greeley is rurAlizing in his native
heath, in New Hampshire.
5. l.. NJ Barlow has been elected Grand Sa-
chem of the Tammany Society.
Gen. Grant and Phil Sheridan have been in
dulging in a little piscatorial sport on the St.
Lawrence. The pair are reported as having
whipped out a canoe load of bass and plckerel
II one day.
Two boxes of diamonds, rubes and sap
phires from the Arizona diamond fields have
been on exhibition in New York. S. L. NJ.
Barlow, one Of the trustees Of the recently
formed Diamond Mining Company, states that
they have pre-enpted 5000 acres, and have so
men at work. He states, also, that the dis
covery was made eighteen months ago. and
that as far back as year ago 100000 worth
OF Arizona diamonds were received in New
York.
Forty thousand dollars worth of struggled
silks we're seized in New York the other day.
A new oil well took fire at Titusvlle. PA.
recently, and fatally burned four men.
Simeon Leland one Of the well-known Lee
land brothers, hotel proprietors, died at New
Rochelle, N. Y, last week.
The West.
Another raft-tug explosion has occurred on
the Mississippi river near McGregor, Iowa,
involving the destruction of six lives and the
manning of some dozen more.
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