The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1872-09-06
NEWS SUMMARY.
The East.

DIR. John @. Houard, who has lately beer
suffering the horrors of a Spanish dungeon
has arrived in this country. He fully com
firms the story of his sufferings, as published
trough the American press. Ii is the inten
ion of DR.. Houard to prove his citizenship
nd then compel such reparation from Span
e is due an American citizen so long and bar
barously outraged.
Prof. Charles ID. Balch a prominent New
Yorker, has just died from he effects of al
overdose of morphine, taken to relieve neu-
ralgia.
Some time ago the plates from which the
ills of the Spanish Bank OF Havana are pro-
duced were sent to New York city, with or
ders to print So, 600, 900 worth of bills, in lier
of 80, 000. 900 that had been destroyed. 1t hai
just transpired that over $4,000, 900 have beer
printed, the Spanish officials in Havana anC
their alies in New York sharing equally il
the surreptitiously issued $4,000, 900, and it /,
said the clandestine issue of the notes still
continues.
The bruisers Mace and O'Baldwin had an
other meeting on the 2lst, in West Virginia,
just across the Pennsylvania line. Being UNI
able to agree upon a referee, the mauling
match was again postponed.
Tennie G. Claflin and Victoria Woudhull are
after the Springfield Mass Republican with
a libel suit
George Kingsland, paying teller of the Hud-
son County National Bank, of Jersey City.
who absent in Europe, has been found to
be defaulter to the amount of $50 900. Wine
and women were the impelling causes.
Mark TWAIN, the humorist, has sailed fer
Europe.
The New York Stadt Theater has been sold
for 1922 900.
Alarge meeting of oil producers and refners,
comprising representatives from all districts
III the oil regions, convened at Parkers Land
ne. Pa, last week. The object was to devise
measures to curtail the production of oil so
as to enhance prices, as it is claimed that pres
ent rates are too low to allow any profit to
producers, and to this end resolution was
adopted binding operators to suspend work
for six months, which, 1t is believed, Will be
generally acquiesced in.
The Spanish frigate Numancia which re-
emily arrived at New York with yellow fever
on board, has been condemned by the Health
Officer az plague ship. Fumigation is use
less, and new cases of fever break out daily.
Applications of her commander for coal and
divers to clean her bottom have been refused.
Comptroller Connolly, of the New York
thieving Tammany ring, has disappeared, and
it is believed he has fled the country, and left
his friends to pay his forfeited bond, amount
ing to over half million dollars.
pleasure barge on the Connecticut river
was recently struck by lightning and two per-
sons killed
The Executive Committee of the Boston
Jubilee set forth their liza at 5000 900.
and receipts at S44O, 900 leaving deficit of
$4,000. 1t is proposed, as means of meet
ing this deficit, to give a monster concert and
ball, with 100000 50 tickets, six of which,
drawn by lot, will draw the Coliseum.
The most determined and desperate case of
self-murder on record was that of Thos. II.
Dunger, an English lace importer, at New
York, last week, while laboring under an at
tack of delirium tremens. His first attempt
was with large needle. A few hours after
ward he went to drug store in a state of
deshabille, seized a bottle of poison, and at
tempted to swallow it. Three hours later he
made an Intellectual attempt on his life bv
stabbing himself in the breast with a carving
knife and shortly after this he drove a cooks
knife into his side to the depth of four inches
The desperate man was then taken to Bellvue
Hospital, and about o'clock on the same
evening he jumped from fourth story win
dow of that building, and by the fall both
legs were driven into his abdomen, producing
instant death
Of the forty members of the Irish band
which visited the great Boston Jubilee. only
eight returned home, all the others having
obtained employment in New York and Bos-
ton.
Prof. Peters, Of the Litchfeld Observatory
(Hamilton College, IN. y, announces the
discovery of another new planet-the 124th
of the group Of asteroids which he describes
as bright, shining as a star of the tenth
magnitude.
Hon. A. G.. Curtin, our Minister to Rus
STA, has arrived at his home in Pennsyl-
vania.
The bonded warehouse Of Charles Zust was
burned in New York, the other day. entailing
a loss of $3.50, 900.
Hon. r. j. Ingersoll, Minister to Russia un-
der President Polk, died at New Haven, Ct,
last week, aged "a.
Another bloody tragedy, growing out Of the
Philadelphia volunteer fire company troubles,
has been enacted in that city. James Dough-
erty and James Kane, members respectively
Of the old rival Moyamensing and Hope Com
panies, got into an alteration about some
question connected with the organizations,
which terminated in Kane dsemboweling the
unfortunate Dougherty with bowie-knife.
Both were hard characters.
The West.
There were 924 deaths in Chicago for the
week ending Aug. H.
Jefferson White recently shot and killed
Henry Houltz, near Olney, III. Both we're
farmers, and near neighbCrs. Subsequently
White was taken from Jail by an Infatuated
mob and hung to the limb of a tree, in the
courthouse yard, at Olney.
Rockford, Iowa, has had horse-whIpping
sensation. Rev. W. C. Archer, Baptist min
lister, was the victim, and Mrs. Hill ard. a