The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1872-04-05
NEWS SUMMARY.
The East.

WILLIAM TREvERr accidentally shot his
wife at New York on Tuesday, killing her
instantly, and ho became raving maniac
when he discovered what he had done.....A
New York immigrant swindler was on Tues.
day sentenced to five years Imprisonment.
MRs. f. SHAUsHANK died in dentists
chair at New York on Wednesday, from the
administration of laughing gas......The
Plsttskill Falls Hotel, the New Mountain
House, near Saugcrties, y. Y, burned on
Tuesday. The building was owned by X. h.
Pomeroy. Loss S25 900; Insurance $4,000.
The house Of a farmer named Robert Bowles,
near Theresa, n. Y, was burned on Monday
night. The family were obliged to leave
the house in their night clothes, and sew
eral Of them had their limbs badly frozen.
Bowles was so badly burned while attempt
ing to save his children that he died next
day..,.A Fonda, y. Y, dispatch of Wednes
day evening says: "The train which left
here this morning, on the Fonda, Johns
town Gloversyille railroad, with three en-
gnes, is fast in a snow bank mile long and
six to ten feet deep, near Gloversville AL
trains between st. Lawrence and Prescott,
Ont, were snow-b bound on Wednesday 800.
General Sickles states that he has negotiated
loan Of -, 900 600 at per cent. for the new
Erie Board on securities rating as high rs
seventy. The new loan can readily be paid
off with the earnings in very short time,
and is only needed TO tide the company
over the rugged places left by five years of
Jay Gould.
JAMES BURNS and John McAvoy, of Fough-
keepsie, n. Y, found guilty of highway
robbery, have been sentenced to fifteen
years imprisonment...."A Watertown, n.
y, dispatch of Thursday says: " A severe
storm has prevailed in this region since
Tuesday last. Trains are all snow bound.
No mails for two days. The weather is in
tensely cold with piercing winds. The city
Water Works are nearly all frozen up"
ABOUT forty minor Tammany exiles, who
fed from New York to avoid arrest or the
witness stand, are congregated at st. John,
n. B., where they have formed club and
are having a quiet luxurious time. They
are well supplied with money, and have at
least half a million in United States bonds
deposited in 81. John banks. Petcr b.
Sweeney recently paid them visit, and at
last advices they were expecting Tweed ......
One Of the mills Of the North Andover, Mass, !
Mill Company was totally destroyed by FIRE, |
together with its machinery, Thursday Mrs. |
Keep, widow Of the late Henry Keep, has |
given Sl000 600 to the New York Homeopathic |
Institution for the Blind.....H. Marten, a |
wealthy local agent of Holloway's medicines
IN New York, has been sued for breach of |
promise in $4,000 damages by Miss Marga- |
ret Boutigny, who alleges that he visited |
her as an accepted sutton from 1868 TO
$50. Two years ago he went TO Europe and |
ret rred with a French mistress.
ON Saturday a man named Clark, in Cold |
Spring, near Otis, Mass, by the most foolish
carelcssness, with loaded gun shot and |
killed his sister, aged % years, and wounded |
her daughter, 6 years old, so that amputa-
tion Of her arm was necessary ......A boiler |
IN the Trenton Rolling Mills in Jersey City, |
exploded on Saturday, destroying the |
blacksmith shop and a portion OF the rear
building. Five men were injured, and one |
Hughes, a boiler tender, is missing. Loss
$4,000.