The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1872-04-26

the olcIIh NcNauosJ VI OUT Oh luyo couhtys
Mr.. JoHs suuFF, an old and wealthy citi-
zen of Morgan county, H., fell dead in his
house on Thursday morning while convers-
ing with some friends. Supposed cause of
death is apoplexy...... Mr.. John Paradise,
one of the propretors of the Sentinel, Jack
sonville, H., had an arm badly broken on
! Friday by being caught in the machinery
Of job printing press..... Professor Faber,
with his wonderful Talking Machine"
has arrived in Chicago..".JGhn O. Lang,
while assisting in the erection of the tower
of the new Sangerfest building in st. Louis
on Friday afternoon, fell a distance of Ga
feet and was killed. John +. Carr was also
severely injured.....0n Thursday afternoon
Isaac Price and Milton II. Seward were
drowned four miles below St. Joseph, Mo-,
by the upsetting of their boat while
crossing the Missouri river",..Ihere
were two terrific snow slides at Little Cot
tonwood Mine, Utah, on Friday. Eight
men were carried away in the avalanche.
One was lost, and the others We're rescued
after almost incredible exertiOns. There Is
great fear of further slides.
GEORGE d. oRNER, Revenue Collector of
the Fifth District of Missouri, is accused OF
defalcation, and a suit has been commenced
against him and his securities for 100000
ne hauIOTu Ilouht anu tltNdlbI ~
Warrensburg, Mo-, was burned on Saturday.
The elevator contained fifty thousand BUSH
els Of grain. Loss, 500, 000.....John Lay, a
brakeman, on the Missouri Pacific Railroad,
was crushed to death at Laclede on Saturday
between two construction trains.....Dr
VIM. Hewer, an English miser, aged 81
years, long noted character of San Fran
cisco, was lately found dead in his room on
a pile Of rags. Evidence of his owning
w. thoneapd IN liSl
funds was found in the room.
WHILE chopping wood near Napoleon, o.,
on Monday, Thomas Palmer was struck by
falling tree and instantly killed. He was
single man about 81 years old .."..A man
by the name of Marcus Combs, at Exeter,
H., on Sunday stabbed Nicholas Heigh,
saloon keeper, inficting n CHASTITY but not
fatal wound. Combs thinking he had killed
Nicholas, and fearing the retaliation of the
law, repaired to his room and suicided 10y
taking morphine.....On Sunday, at Red
Bluff, Cal, one Pearce shot through the
window OF house Of ill-fame, and killed
Nellie Brooks, and wounded the man with
her, named Perkins, who in turn shot Pearoe
dead and was arrested lin Chicago on
Monday morning j. +. Johnson, workman
in Richards planning mill, was instantly
killed by being caught by belt and drawn
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arms were torn from the body and he was
otherwise horribly mutilated
The South.
WILLIAM MARDIs, a farmer, aged 70, nsar
Saloma, Taylor county, KY, was killed by
lightning or Monday. The bolt came
through the roof and passed down his body
from head to i0ot......At Frankfort, KY, on
Monday, during the storm, lightning struck
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his child, and seriously injuring his wife.
Much damage was done in that vicinity by
the great rise in the streams, washing away
saw mills and bridges.
AT Wilmington, N. c., Calvin Oxendine,
the last of the Lowery gang in custody, was
acquitted on Friday Of the murder of Sheriff
Kinghe, by proving an abb, but the testi-
mony was believed to be perjured.
J. D. LIckERD, proprietor of the large saw
mill on the river above Columbus, Ky, was
drowned on Monday morning by the over
turning Of a canoe in the breakwater near
the mill......A desperate attempt was made
by mob of twenty-seven disguised men on
Thursday morning, 10 capture the Jail az
Clinton, Hickman county, KY. The jailor
resisted, and the citizens gathering drove
the mob off, A murderer, named Cunning
ham, is confined there, and two men charged
with rape. The mob asserted that they
wanted to lynch the latter, but the citizens
believe they were confederates Of Cunning
ham seeking to release him.
Washington.
THE President has appointed Samuel A.
Irwin Collector Of Internal Revenue for Chi
cage, rice Raster resigned. Irwin was First
Deputy, and is appointed under the civil
service rule for promotion, though Congress
man Farwell first approved Of the same.
THE Secretary Of the Treasury transmitted
a bill TO the House on Wednesday with rec
concentrations that il pass, providing for'the
appropriation Of SCI ,l6i to reimburse Treas
urer Spinner for losses incurred by embezzle-
ment, etc.
THE President has signed the act granting
right of way through the public lands for
the construction of railroad from Great
Salt Lake to Portland, Oregon 1.-THE
House Judiciary Committee is engaged upon
a bill providing for tho election Of postmas-
ters.....The first Of the new Civil Service
rules, which are now being prepared by the
Commissioners, will provide that, hereafter
fidelity TO the Union shall be prerequisite
TO any appointment TO office.
Foreign.
A LONDON letter says that the object of the
visit Of the Queen of Germany, though os-
tensibly to see her half-sister, the Princess
Hohenhohe Langeberg, is really to hush up
scandal which threatens the royal family.
The story is that Prince Teck, son of Prince
Alexander, of Wurtcmburg, has been &C
companied in his late travels by a we'll
known London actress, and that the Princess
Teck, the Princess Mary of Cambridge, who
was born in 1s43, and who is four years the
senior Of her husband, was so enraged
thereby that she was about TO apply for a
divorce, TO prevent which her Majesty went
TO Baden.....The Pope has refused TO receive
a sum of money offered him by the Italian
Government. In declining the gift, he de-
clared that when it became necessary for
him to accept aims as means Of subsist-
ence, he would only receive them from the
Catholic world ..... Mount Vesuvus is again
in state of violent eruption. A column of
flame shoots several hundred feet above the
crater, and stones, ashes and cinders fall in
dense showers around the summit. Tourists
are Fastening to Naples to witness the spec
tacle. .....Additional particulars Of the re-
cent dreadful earthquakes at Antioch repre-
sent that the River Orontos rose and swept