The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1872-01-12
Chr Grue Nurtherner.
PAW PAW, MICHIGAN.
NEWS SUMMARY.
Tho East.

IHE Now ioIh LFfONHt says tndt IWeeu
mas either fed the country, or skulks some
where, concealed from the Sherif's officers
until new bondsmen come forward to save
him from imprisonment.....Th The property OF
the New York Printing Company, recently
seized by the Sheriff on a suit brought by
the Ocean Bank on protested note, will soon
be sold at public auction. The jury in the
Minor countereting case at New York have
brought IN verdict of not guilty......A fire
occurred on Wednesday evening in the Har-
ward Sugar Refinery, at East Cambridge,
Mass, owned by Nash. Spaulding Co.
Loss, S3O,00o......The residence of C. A.
Woods, at Wheatland, Pa, burned on Christ
mas. Two servant girls were burned TO
death. Loss $4,000; insurance. $4,000.
The Connecticut Democratic State Conven-
ton will convene at Hartford on Tuesday,
Feb g.
JAMES r. HACKETT, the veteran actor, died
at his residence at Jamaica, Long Island, on
Wednesday night, aged The steam
frigate Chattanooga, lying in the channel at
League Island, Philadelphia, sprung a leak
and sunk. 1t is supposed she ives cut
through by the ice..... Charles r. Burroughs
was found dead by the Sheriff, who went to
serve an attachment on him, sitting in two
chairs, in his house, at Patterson, n. j. He
committed suicide by taking poison on the
10th of December, the body remaining
frozen stiff till found in his room on Wednes
day.
THERE are ten more indictments against
J. D. Minor, who has just been acquitted of
counterfeting, and it is the intention of the
Government to try him upon one of these at
an early day......An explosion in the law
Office of James Nickerson, Saturday morn
ing, at Boston, damaged the building to the
extent of $751; 00.....An elevator gave way
at the Fifth Avenue hotel, New York, on
Saturday, and four servants were seriously
injured. 1.-THE oil refinery Of Lambert,
Ayers a. Co., New York, was burned on Fri
day night; loss $4,000 The building oc
cupied by VIM. Ester, fur inspector, was also
damaged by fire to the extent of SlS,000....
VIM. NJ. Tweed sent in on Thursday last his
resignation as member of the Board of Di-
rectors of the Erie Railroad. 1t was accept
ed, and Henry Sherwood, of Corning N. Y,
has been elected in his stead......Fisk is re-
ported to have secured the suppression of
his correspondence with Helen Josephine
Mansfield, and the discontinuance of the
suits, by the payment of $50, 000..... The
new Hudson River bridge at Albany is COM
pleted, and trains pass over it.
VIM. BRIeGs, a newsboy, was killed at
Lynn, Mass, Saturday morning, while at
tempting to get on a train in motion.....
Benz Kusea, Mormon elder, is now in
eastern Long Island arranging for re-
vival. The people say they will appeal to
the authorities to prevent the meetings.
Lively times are anticipated.
The West.
On Sunday evening, at Vinton, Iowa, Wat
sons Block, containing three stores and
fine public hall, was destroyed by fire. Loss
heavy.....The residence of c. Ward, a Madi-
sonville, o., was entered on Wednesday by
burglars, who distracted from trunk $780,
600 in bonds and notes..... Mrs. Emma
Schmidt, on trial at Racine, Wis, for the
murder of her husband has been acquitted
49,. Edward Wright, of Beloit, Wis.,, jumped
or fell from the cars while in motion, near
Clinton, on Monday. He fell under the
wheels and was killed. He leaves a wife and
three children LAS the express was passing
through Manteno, H., on Monday, Clement
Jarvis, of Kankakee, attempted to jump
from the train, fell, and was mangled under
the wheels. He leaves o wife and seven
children in poverty MIR. Runners furni-
ture store, at Peoria, H., was burned on
Monday afternoon. Loss on building, Sc 200;
on stock, SO ,000....Dr. D. j. X. Rine, alias
Charles Oliver jackson, minister, lawyer,
ETC., was arrested at Chicago, on Wednesday,
charged with the theft of $4,000 from Mr..
Seaver, of Quincy, III. The property was
recovered. IAN entire family, consisting of
a man and his wife and four children, lately
persisted at Floris, Iowa, by the burning of
their dwelling at nght.... Wahl's brewery,
at Monroe, Ind, was burned on Thursday
night. Loss, $1,000.
TIE trial of 1O7 citizens and Indians for
killing Apaches at Camp Grant developed
the fact that the Indians were not upon their
reservation, and, although fed by the Gov
eminent, were engaged in direct hostlites
against settlers. A verdict of acquittal is
fully expected ......San Francisco was visited
by dreadful storm on Sunday night. All
the roads between San Francisco, San Jose,
and Sacramento are washed away in various
places. The town Of Gilroy is flooded. !
Overflows are apprehended at San Jose and
Stockton. Steamboats, are the only means
of conveyance. There has not been a storm |
of similar violence in ten years.....T Three |
car loads of Japanese and Chinese silks
valued at two million of dollars, and one |
hundred and eighty tons of Chinese and |
Japanese silks were lately forwarded over |
land from San Francisco TO New York
WEIsBAD brewery, near Sugar Loaf, Mimi. |
was consumed by fire on Friday night Four |
workmen, who were sleeping in the brewery,
were obliged to Jump for their lives, losing |
all their clothing, and getting severely in
jured. Loss $4,000; not insured ...... The |
extensive planning mill of Evers & Co., at ST. |
Louis, was almost entirely destroyed by fire
on Saturday. Loss, $4,000; insurance,
0,000.."..Another tremendous storm has
occurred in the mining districts Of Little
and Big Cottonwood Utah. A whole settle
ment is buried in the snow, and many lives
are lost The snow is from ten to fifty feet
deep.
OK Saturday afternoon, at Detroit, Mich,
the drug establishment of Mr.. stearns was
totally destroyed by fire. Four persons were
burned to death. Loss, SOS 900; insurance,
$40,000.....A young man, name unknown,
was struck by a locomotive at Cleves, Ohio,
on Friday, and died at Cincinnati that night
of his injuries Martin O'Bryan, a laborer,
was run over by train and killed two
miles above Hamilton, o., on Saturday. .....
The galvanized iron establishment of Bow
man & Co., at Milwaukee,, Wis, was destroy
ed by fire on Sunday morning, together with
tools and considerable finished cornice
work. Loss, $4,000.
The South.