The true northerner., 1872-01-26
Ghr Grue Nurthrrner,
PAW PAW, MICHIGAN.
NEWS SUMMARY.
The East.

The Coroner's jury in the Fisk homicide
returned a verdict that Fisk came to his
death in consequence of wound or wounds,
inflicted by ball, or balls, from a pistol in
the hands of Edward S. Stokes, discharged
by him in deliberate manner at the person
OF said Fisk, at the Grand Central Hotel"
......A railroad war has broken out in Hemp
stead, l.. l. The Brooklyn Trust Company
foreclosed the mortgage on the Hampstead
Branch railroad, in behalf of the bond
holders, who had not received overdue cou-
pons. Disputes as to who should have pos
session Of the trains resulted in the wound
ing of several persons..". VIM. lotion. IL
years of age, was accidentally killed, at New
York on Tuesday, by a barber named Wal
den...... Charles j. Perry, eX-Mayor of
Hoboken, shot himself in the head on Mon
day afternoon, inhicting mortal wound
Dependency is supposed to DE the cause.
A BILL has passed both Houses of the New
York Legislature providing for the payment
of the Indebtedness of the city of New York
falling due this month. 1t authorizes the
raising of $500 ,000......It is rumored that
Gen. Mcclellan will be the successor of Fisk
as Vice President of the Erie Company.....
The father of James Fisk has gone crazy
from the assassination of his son.
The Nail Manufacturing Convention, at
Philadelphia, has advanced rates to $4.75
per keg for ten-penny nails..".. The brigatine
Phoebe Ellen was capsized and dismasted off
the coast of Nova Scotia on the 9th inst.
The cook was lost. The others lashed them
selves to the wreck, which on Monday struck
ledge. Captain Dill was drowned in the
surf while attempting to get ashore. Three
of the crew when taken from the wreck
b
men were rescued ..... Stokes was visited in
prison on Thursday by his father. The in
terview lasted two hours, and was very
affecting ......An Albany letter states that
Tweed has notified his friends that he is not
going TO claim his seat in the New York
Senate.....The New York Yacht Club is
making preparations for a cruise to Russia
next summer, by invitation of the Grand
Duke.
THE Delaware and Lackawanna railway has
been indicted by the Grand Jury at Pater-
son, n. j., for killing a fireman and engi-
neer by collision of trains. Also for OBJ
structlng the highways by allowing trains to
remain at railroad crossings.....Jas. Hunter,
liquor dealer, fatally shot Mary Brown, his
mistress, at his store on Fulton street, Brook
lyn, on Friday. Hunter was arrested ..... The
grand jury has found an indictment against
Stokes for wilful murder" Alexander Del
mars paper, The city Of Brooklyn, brings to
light an alleged extraordinary financial
transaction affecting the Liverpool, London,
and Globe Insurance Company. 1t charges
that through financial manipulation the
managers have pledged $5,000,000 of assets
in trust to secure to themselves $500 900 per
annum forever inviolate, and that the for
mer immense sum is falsely advertised
among the company's assets. The article
l.
cles.
TAYLoR's oil refinery at Wyoming, n. Y,
was destroyed by fire on Sunday morning.
Loss, $20000 no insurance.....An unsuc-
cessiul attempt was made on Friday night
to rob the Great Falls National Bank at Bos-
ton......The amount of defalcation in the
Rhode Island National Bank is about
$220,O0O. The amount recoverable may per-
haps reach 500, ,000.....A tenement house
was partially burned in Boston on Sunday,
and Mrs. Neelan, one of the occupants,
smothered to death. Nine others were rem
dered insensible by smoke, but recovered.
.....A fire at New York on Sunday morning
destroyed two saw and planning mills, var
nish factory, and an immense quantity of
lumber The principal losers are: Phyph
Il Artly, $4,000; Patterson & Coz $25 900 !;
VIM. +. Blodgctt, $4,000 w. Il. Sage &
Co, $780, O,O0O....The ol-cloth factory of c.
M. Baiiy, at Winthrop, Mass, burned on
Sunday. Loss, $4,000.
POSTMASTER SMITH n. JAMES, of Long Island,
set trap on Wednesday night for burglars,
but forgetting the gun, went to the Office for
a package, and was shot, dying the next
morning ng.....Joseph l.. Steele, a negro, has
been arrested at Jamaica, L. l., for partially
roasting his wife on red hot stove..... BY
the burning Of q dwelling at Bradford, Ont,
on Monday, five lives were lost,-a woman
named Tenier, her two children, niece, and
a man who boarded in the house,. Mrs.
Wood, wife of the manager of the Museum,
but better known as Eliza Logan, once a
famous actress, died suddenly in New York
on Monday morning Of congestion of the
heart.
The West.
The semi-annual report of the Illinois
Central Railroad Company, just issued
shows the gross earnings of that road, for
the six months ending October 31st, 1871. to
have been $3,595,54O, seven per cent of
which, or $251 ,6S7.S0, has been paid into the
State Treasury in pursuance of law...... Ex-
Governor Matteson, Of Illinois, who had
three ribs broken, few days ago. by being
thrown from cutter, is improving rapidly.
side, just outside of the Cincinnati CITY
limits, burned on Tuesday evening. Loss,
100000; insurance, $50, 0,0OO......On Tuesday
morning Delos Burtch, employed in saving
wood for the Sheboygan railroad at Fond dI
Lac, Wis, fell againsta circular saw, cutting
his right leg off in two places, and splitting
his right arm from the wrist to the shoulder.
He was taken home and died in two hours
after his wounds were dressed. The dwell
ing and tannery of M. D. Gardner, of Mohi-
canville, Ohio, valued at $4,000, was en-
tirely destroyed by fire on Tuesday night;
supposed to be the work Of an incendiary
insured for $9,OOO......A joint Republican
caucus of the Iowa Legislature on Wedoes-
day evening nominated Hon. VIM. B. Allison
for United States Senator, by a majority of
twenty-threc votes over Harlan.
THE Pacific House at Council Bluffs, Iowa,
was partially destroyed by fire on Thursday
night. Loss $25,OOO covered by insurance.
A well executed counterfeit 500 bill Oh the
Ohio National Bank of Cincinnati is circu-
latino in Cincinnati Thraa biobwav rok