The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1872-04-19
PAW PAW. MICHIGAN.
NEWS SUMMARY.
The East.

The election in Connecticut on Monday
resulted as follaws: For Governor, lowell
(Rep.), 1886; Hubbard (Dem.) A, 446 Gil
lette (Temperance), 1923; Harrison (Labor
Reiorm), Ss4. JEWELS majority over all, so.
The Republicans have a majority of 80 on
joint ballot in the Legislature, being a gain
of over last year.....John Kemp, who
was stabbed last Sunday night by John
Nicolaus, died at Pittsburgh on Tuesday
morning. This is one of the most singular
murders ever committed. The men on the
day mentioned quarrelled, when Nicoiaus
made a lunge at Kemp with an umbrella /,
the point OF which penetrated his eye and
entered the brain, causing his DEATH Pro-
fessor s. +. b. Morse, inventor of the electro
magnetic telegraph, died at his residence in
New York on Tuesday evening, aged ST..
Over 1000, 900 bushels of coal have been
shipped South during the present rise in the
Allegheny river....Joseph Whittle was
badly torn by lions at Frankfort, Pa, on
Tuesday, during a circus performance. He
cannot recover.
The dwelling of Charles W. Felt, in Cam
bridgeport, Mass, was burned on Wednesday
night, and his three year-Cld son was suffo-
Gated. Mrs. Felt was Frustrated by her
child's death, and her life is despaired off,.
The railroad bridge at Topsham, Me-, was
burned on Wednesday morning. II cost
about $50 ,O00....Sy lvander Johnson's cot
ton mill at North Adams, Mass, was de-
stroyed by fire on Wednesday night. Loss
estimated at $l50,000 insured for $50 900.
1.-THE Northern Central railroad bridge,
which spans the Susquehanna at Dauphin,
Pa, was burned on Wednesday evening.
Loss $4,000 insurance $4,000. The
Western Union Telegraph Company Direct
ors have voted To issue Sl,500,OO0 in bonds
for the erection of the new buildings on the
corner of Broadway and Dey streets, New
York .... The Office of the Lycoming Fire
Insurance Company at Munice, Pa. was en-
tered by burglars on Tuesday night, and
one Of the safes blown open. Over $4,000
of registered railroad bonds and stocks were
distracted, $4,000 Of which belonged to the
company and the balance to private indi-
viduals.
CREDroRs of the New York and Boston
Express Company have accepted the offer of
the company to pay IS cents on the dollar.
......John F. Whitaker, . New York Jour
nalist, died on Thursday from injuries sus-
tanned by being run over by a street-car......
Joseph white, who was almost torn 10
pieces on Tuesday by q lion at O'Brien'5
circus and menagere died on Thurs
day .....M aria Van Mort, of Paterson, n. j.,
on Wednesday evening surpassed all her
playmates IN jumping the rope 400 times in
succession without stopping tor breath. She
scored the 400 jumps, but died the next day.
.....John GiveDen's house in RockawaY,
Morris county, n. j., was burned on Sunday
morning, and his wife and three children
persisted in the flames. Tho father only
escaped by jumping from second-story
window.
FULL returns Of the State election in
Rhode Island show q majority of l,l76 for
Padelford, Republican candidate for Cover
nor, and 40 majority for Cutler, Democratic,
for Lieutenant Governor. Some scattering
votes, not returned, may possibly throw tho
election OF Lieutenant Governor into the
Republican Legislature. The remainder of
the Republican State ticket has about 2,lOs
ma jority Stewart Barnes, watchman At
the Kuickefbocker Company's ice stables,
in Philadelphia, was burned to death on
Thursday. He went into his burning dwell
ing to save his boots, and was burned.
A SCRANTON, Pa, dispatch states that Ed
ward Sullivan was fatally and three others
seriously burned by an explosion of fire
damp in the Pine Brook coal mine on Fri
day ......Some 900 French immigrants from
Alssce and Lorraine have arrived within
week, all destined West, and ali in apparently
good circumstances Daniel D. Hunt, q
lumber merchant, committed suicide by
hanging, in Newark, n. j. on Sunday.