The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1872-03-01
Chr Grue Nurthrrner,
PAW PAW, MICHIGAN.
NEWS SUMMARY.
The East.


Tuesday by breaking through the ice......
Governmentlhas commenced an action to
recover $4,000 deficit in the accounts of A.
M. Wood, late Internal Revenue Collector of
Brooklyn Judge Bedford, of New York,
has sentenced garroter named McLsugh-
lin TO twenty years hard labor in the
State Prison ...... Charles Gleason and Daniel
Dougherty, the Grafton, Mass, bank rob-
bers, have been sentenced respectively to
fourteen and thirteen years confinement in
the State Prison ..... Last Friday evening, at
Puce River, in the township of Madison, Is
miles from Windsor, Ontario, Wyett Stuart
killed Samuel Hamilton by striking him on
the shoulder with an axe, and cleaving him
entirely through the body. He afterward
smashed two ribs in with the axe. The
murderer and his brother, Green Stuart, are
in Sandwich jail, and will be tried in April
for murder.
ELIPHALEr A. BULKLEY, President of the
Etna Life Insurance Company, died at
Hartford, Conn, on the 18th inst......A ship
canal between Newark, N. j., and New
York costing $4,000 900, is projected......
The City Sanitary Inspector of New York
reports the death of five members of the
Brown family occasioned by the occupation
of rooms entirely closed at night, ventilation
bong entirely DISTRACTED, the inhalation of
poisonous sewer gas, from the use of defec-
tive earthenware Pipe, and want OF proper
nourishment.
JUDGE WooDRoFP, of the United States
Court at New York, has sustained the de-
csion of the United States Court in Connec-
ticut, adjudicating the Boston, Hartford and
Erie railroad bankrupt......On the night of
the 18th, locomotive boiler exploded at
the Susquehanna depot, on the Erie road,
instantly killing Patrick Mccoy, and Sc
verely scalding or injuring six other per-
sons.....A fire at Toronto, Ont, on Thursday
night, burned nine out of eleven wholesale
stores in the "Iron Block" one of the finest
in the city. Loss estimated at $500 600
insured for $3.50, OO......The dry goods house
of Byers & Burnett, at Middlesex, Pa, was
entirely destroyed by fire on Thursday
night W. A. Henderson, clerk, barely
escaped with his life, he being very badly
burned.
BUcKHoUT, the murderer, was executed at
White Plains, n. Y, on Friday. He be-
trayed no fear of death, and said he was
content to die.....A woollen mill at Peter
boro, N. H., caught fire by spontaneous
combustion on Thursday, and was wholly
destroyed. An operative named Mrs. Ellen
Upton was burned to death. The mill and
stock were insured for $20,00O......In New
York on Tuesday w. J. Pollock was arrested
and held to bail in the sum of $40, 900 for al
legged smuggling operations in linen and
jute goods. .... Richard OGorman has been
reelected President of the New York Board
of Commissioners of immigration. col
lision occurred on the Connellsville rail
road, at Laytons Station, Pa, on Thursday,
by which two freight trains were telescoped,
j. Nurtenny, the engineer, was fatally in
jured and four carloads of live stock were
killed.
CAPT. LEONARD HENNING, of Elizabeth, N.
j., was accidentally shot, on Friday, by his
con, IL years old, probably fatally...".The
challenge of the Atlanta for four-oared
shell race on the Thames is accepted by
the London Rowing Club. Six men will be
taken to England by the New Workers..
Henry Hepner, of New York, who recently
shot his son and then attempted to kill him
self, died of his injuries on Saturday ......A.
B. Bartholomew killed Charles F. Storer, of
Chelsea, Mass, on Sunday, by stabbing him
twice in the breast with a large knife. Jeal-
ousy was the cause.
AUTHORITY has been received from the
Treasury Department for an investigation
into the affairs of the exploded Eighth Ma
tional bank of New York.....In the Pitts
burgh breach of promise case, Mrs. Vankirk
as. johnson, the jury has given verdict for
$4,000. Both parties appear to be sat SIZED
1.-THE receiver of the Lorillard Fire In
surance company of New York, has declared
first dividend Of 60 cents on the dollar,
payable on demand. The Pennsylvania
Democratic State Convention will be held at
Reading on May 30.
The West.
THE residence and barn of Mr.. Julius
Hand, near Winona, Mimi, were burned
about o'clock on Tuesday morning. Three
young children lost their lives in the flames.
1.-THE steamer Nashville sunk at Cincin-
natti on Tuesday, injured by the ice.
She was heavily loaded with grocer
les and furniture, valued at $4,000.
.....Ryan's marine elevator, at Milwau-
kee, Wis, was burned on Tuesday. Loss
$4,000. Partially insured .... Thos. Cornell,
who was to have been hung at Jefferson City,
Mo-, on the 18th, has been reprieved by
Gov. Brown until April Is, to afford an OPP
portunity to examine his mental condition,
it having been asserted that he was insane.
MCDONALD CHEEK, recently found guilty of
the murder of Harris, at Brookville, Ind,
has been granted a new trial on the ground
of the incompetency of two Jurors .... Both
passed bill providing for the appointment
of guardians for habitual drunkards.... On
Wednesday the lower house of the Wiscon-
sin Legislature adopted a memorial to Con-
gress for the repeal of the Bankrupt law by
q vote Of 70 to 6.
ONE span of the iron bridge over the Big
Muddy, on the Illinois Central railroad,
near Carbonate, gave way on Thursday,
and four cars of wrecking train fell
through. Three men were injured, none
tally."..The will of General II. W. Hal
leck has been probated in San Francisco.
His wife is appointed the sole executrix and
guardian TO tier son. The pr operty is
shared between them, except $1,000 to be
paid to his mother, and the use of the home
stead in Oneida county during her life.....
A young man named Good, while adjusting
the belt on the hy-wheel of a saw-mill at
Willow Station, on the indianapolis and St.
Louis railroad on Thursday morning, was
caught by the arm, and revolved about the
wheel at rapid rate until he was literally
torn to pieces.
The California Assembly Republican, by
a vote of "a to II, has passed a resolution