The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1872-01-19
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PAW PAW. MICHIGAN.
NEWS SUMMARY.
The East.


In the case of Charles II. Calendar,
charged with receiving brides from the
Ocean National Bank to make false returns,
the President and Cashier of the bank have
testified that the accused made a thorough
and searching examination into its affairs ;
that his report was in accordance with that
examination, and that the $75 900 loan had
nothing whatever 10 do with either the ex-
animation or report. Calendars friends
fell confident of his acqulttal...... The frigate
Congress sailed from New York for Havana
on Wednesday, to remain until further or
ders. II is said that other vessels are to go
to the Cuban coast and their commanders
are ordered to give special protection to
such Americans as have incurred the dis
pleasure Of the Spanish volunteers......A
special from Wilkesbarre, Pa, states that
quicksand broke into a coal mine at New
port, few days ago, but the miners were
warned in season, and had Just time to save
themselves. mule team was buried, and
the slope of the mine is filed sixty feet in
width and depth 1.-THE Philadelphia Led
ger says that the Susquehanna Canal has
been leased by the Reading railroad for 500
years, with the intention Of making Havre
de Grace a large coal depot for Southern
shipping, and supplying Baltimore and
Washington with cheap anthracite.."..A
man named Billings, his wife and another
woman, whose name is unknown, were
found murdered at Windsor Locks, Conn,
on Tuesday night. There is no clue to the
perpetrators.
THE Clifton Springs IN. " Hotel was to-
tally destroyed by fire on Wednesday morn
ing. The fire is supposed to have been
caused by incendiarsm. Loss, $4,000;
insured ...... Howard the negro who outraged
the little girl, and about which such excite
ment has been caused in Rochester, n Y,
was secretly conveyed to a courtroom,
Thursday evening at halfpast nine o'clock.
He was arraigned on the indictment, and,
pleading guilty, was sentenced to twenty
years hard labor in the Auburn State
Prison. The prisoner was Immediately re-
moved and quietly taken from the city.
NEW YORK financial circles were excited
on Friday by private cable advices that the
Rothschilds had made proposals to this Gov
eminent to take O0,OOO,OOO of the new
loans on condition that an equal amount of
the 1862 bonds should be called in during
the year 1862 at such time MS the Roths-
childs may designate. 1t was Nlso said, in
the same dispatch, that a refusal for eigh-
teen months was required to be granted the
same house to accept $500 900 600 of Al per
cents.."..A messenger boy was robbed of
$11, 900 in checks and coupons while in the
Central National Bank, New York, on We'd
nesday The Russian frigate SHETLAND will
remain at New York for ssme time, the
Gar having ordered new boilers. This will
prolong the Grand Dukes stay, and he will
visit every part of the United States.
THE gas works connected with the Glas-
Cow Bingham mill, at South Hadley Falls,
Mass, exploded on Monday morning. Mr.
Nicholl and Charles Benway, employees,
were severely injured ...A man named
Boner was picked up by an enormous fly
wheel in the rolling mill Of Packer & Co., at
Pittsburgh, on Monday afternoon, and ia
ken out dreadfully manged corpse.
The West.
Mrs. LAURA FAIR, the murderess, lied in
prison at San Francisco on the 3Oth ultimo.
The event created considerable excitement,
and rumors were current that her death was
induced by barbarous treatment during her
incarceration ......A passenger on the North |
Missouri railroad jumped from the cars on |
Monday, near st. Charles, fell beneath the
wheels, and was instantly killed, his head |
being completely severed. Cash and notes
amounting to 81 900 are said to have been !
found on the person of the deceased, but the !
name could not be ascertained. Nv. @. |
Smith, an old and prominent citizen of In
dianapolis, committed suicide Wednesday |
afternoon on account .f business difficult |
ties. He hung h msef with bed cord, and |
to make sure the job, he soaked the cord |
before using it, He leaves a wife and one |
child. His property had been locked up by |
lawsuits so that he could derive no income |
from it.
PAT MCGEE, Chief of Police of Fort |
Wayne, Ind, was shot dead by DR.. J. N.
Thacker in that place on Thursday. Niece |
had assaulted the doctor with a heavy cane |
and knocked him down, when Thacker |
fired.....A young man named T. D. O'Connor |
was found on vacant lot in st. Louis on |
Tuesday, with pistol shot in his he'd. He |
was taken to the hospital but soon after died. |
He was a resident of Leavenworth, Kansas, |
but had been in st. Louis some time for |
medical treatment. Failing to obtain relief, |
he ended his troubles with revolver.
OK Thursday evening Robert Blair, of |
Kawkawlin, while attempting to get on the
cars while in motion, at the Jackson, Ian
sing and Saginaw railroad depot, at Detroit, |
fell under the wheels, receiving such inu-
ries that he died shortly after.....A man |
named Stephen Wilcox was fatally injured |
by an explosion of the boiler of the heating |
apparatus in the Detroit Car Works on Fri |
day afternoon. The explosion also demol-
lshed a moderate SlZed DrlcK Dulldlng......
The store and goods belonging to w. j. & r.
Dell, at Lakeport, Mich, were consumed by |
fire on Thursday morning. Loss, $4,000; |
partially insured.
A GERMAN named Peter Roeder was suffo-
Gated at Chicago on Sunday by the fumes of
coke was burning in braziers for the pur-
pose OF drying the newly plastercd walls of
his house.....Alexis and suite gazed upon the
display of legs by the Lydia Thompson
troupe at st. Louis on Saturday night, and
attended grand reception ball on Monday
evening at the Southern Hotel..... Great in
terest is felt at Salt Lake City in the new
mines recently opened in the southwest cor
ner of Idaho, one hundred miles from the
Central Pacific Railway. 1t reported that
veins of solid mineral, from ten to sixty feet
wide, and ranging between 500 to $3.50 per
ton, are developed Contracts have been
let for the construction of the Rock Island,
H., water works. Seven miles of pipes are
to be laid, the cost of which, with buildings,
etc, is estimated at$l15, 0O0.". Female COM
positors are considered a success in Des