The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1872-05-24
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PAW PAW, MICHIGAN.
NEWS SUMMARY.
Elie East.

the Easton (Pa.) Penitentiary, Tuesday
morning killed his room-m mate, Michael
Trim our, by striking him on the head with
an iron plate.
The Democratic National Executive Com
noon, at the residence of August Belmont
Eight States were represented :: California,
Connecticut, Florioa, Georgia, Louisiana,
North Caroline, Oregon, and Wisconsin.
Baltimore was selected as the place, and
the 9th of July as the time, for holding the
National Democratic Convention .....Judge
Pierrepont declines TO undertake the de-
tense of Stokes in place of Crab am...J as.
Smith shot Eliza Brown fatally in Green
street New York; bagnio Wednesday, and
was arrested.
The warehouse of Samuel l.. Tompkins,
No. % West street, New York, filled with
cotton, was destroyed by fire on Thursday.
About $50 bales of cotton were burned.
Loss on building and contents $780,, OOO......
William Taggart, of Paterson, n. j., COM
mitted suicide Wednesday, by leaping into
the Passac Falls. He is supposed TO have
been insane. Fires in Ocean county, y,
j., last week, burned over $4,000 acres of
timber. The loss is estimated in Egg Harbor
township at $500, 900. Several farm houses,
barns, and sawmills were destroyed ......
Thursday morning at Verona, Pa, on the
Allegheny Valley railroad, eleven cars
loaded with oil took fire and were entirely
destroyed .....W While the buildings on the
corner Of Wall and Broad streets, New York,
were in course of demolition Thursday even
ing, work being done by night to hasten it,
a portion of the wall gave way, burying
Thomas Johnson, Martin Cox, and Daniel
Leary in the ruins. All were badly in
jured. Johnson will probably die.
TIE body of man was found in the
East river, New York, Friday, with his
hands and feet strapped together. 1t is
supposed that the man was murdered. His
remains were unrecognized.....M Mrs. Abbie
Christian was thrown from car and in
stantly killed, Friday afternoon, while on
her way to Calvary Cemetery, New York, to
visit her husbands grave..".. Engineer Jas.
Wood ran a special train from Roc hester to
Syracuse, n. Y, on Friday, distance of
eighty-one miles, in eighty-two minutes......
Emma Couch has been held to bail in the
sum of $1,000 for blackmaling Rev. DR..
Carter, at New York.
SATURDAY morning while party of engi-
neers were examining the disused gantw way
of Pine Ridge colliery, two miles from
Wilkesbarre, Pa, an explosion of fire damp
took place. Thomas Morgan, David Morgan
and Evan Davis were killed, and another
badly hurt, but will recover.....The Equal
Rights Convention, at New York, after vol
umes of persifage, on Saturday voted to
enter the canvass with the goddess of liberty
on their banner, and authorize $4,000 in
bonds to elect Victoria Woodruff TO the |
Presidency. The lead works of Fahne-
stock, Hazlett & Swartz, on Liberty street
Pitts burg, Pa, took fire at o'clock, Sunday
afternoon, and were entirely destroyed, to- /
gether with a dwelling adjoining Fahne-
stocks loss is very large, and will probably |
reach $500 900 insurance $50 900 IT. |
Buchanan Reid, the poet, died at the Astor
House, New York, on Saturday,. Reports |
from Chester, Ulster county, n. Y, say that !
the mountain fires there are three miles in |
length. The united efforts Of so mon alone |
saved the village of Chichester.
A FIRE at Williamsburg, n. Y, Monday
evening, destroyed sixteen houses, and rem
dered 1872 families homeless. No lives were
lost. The dwellings were worth 500, 000......
The Grand Trunk railway bridge, at South
Paris, Me, burned Monday morning, having
caught fire from embers dropped by the en-
Richard Keefe, Dennis Shea, Geo.
Briggs and Thomas Franklin were capsized
in a sail-boat off Erie, Pa, on Sunday
night. Franklin got an oar and
padded the boat ashore with one of
the others on it, who died soon after.
The others drifted off and their bodies have
not been recovered .....T The propeller Chi
cago, of Chicago laden with flour and gem
eral merchandise, sunk about twenty miles
from Buffalo, n. Y, on Monday. The crew
were saved .... The body of a man named
who disappeared on March /, has been
found in North river. Ward had evidently
been murdered and robbed.
The West.
OK Tuesday, about two miles east of Ross
Station, Mich, a man named p. Reynolds
his wife and tried to kill his step
son. The boy was cut and bruised badly,
and is not expected to live. Reynolds after
ward committed suicide with razor.......
Arizona dispatches say the Apaches are
swarmng about Prescott. B. White was
in Willamson's valley. The In
dams ATTACHED Aqua Fria Station, and
killed G. w. Smith and Joseph Alderman,
both well known citizens of Prescott, and
captured all the stock. The bodies Of the
N ordered men were stripped and dis6gured.
The station has been abandoned. The body
Of Osborne p. Clarke, from Texas, was
found one mile north of Mint valley, shot
In the head and breast. j. Gallagher was
seriously WOUNDED Dy the lndlanB az
Beaver creek.....The Marvin House and
a large livery stable at Sedalia, Mo, were
burned yesterday. Loss from $4,000 to
go 900.
GEORGE TATEHAH, a one-armed gambler,
vas shot in the body by Charles Chamber
ain, fellow of the same kidney, at about
. O'Clock on Wednesday afternoon, on State
treet Chicago.."A fire at Grand Rapids,
Mich, Wednesday morning, destroyed
;quire's Opera House building and an adj
dining mill, with their contents. The to-
al loss is about $4,000.
IRA REED, Of Salt Lake, Utah, was struck
" lightning on Thursday evening while
landing in the door of his dwelling, and
instantly killed ION Thursday morning,
young man about twenty-one, named
lewis NJ. Leyden, an employe in the wooden
Mills at New Albany, Ind, got his left arm
sught between loose belt and a revolving
haft, and his arm was torn from the shout
Ter, making sickening spectacle. He will
probably not recover.
A FIRE at Chicago on Friday evening de-
troyed the three-story frame planning mill
nd sash and door factory of F. j. Rowell & {