The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1872-05-31
NEWS SUMMARY.
The East.


THE New York Tribune of Wednesday
morning publishes the following card from
Horace Greeley: "The Tribune has ceased
to be party organ, but the unexpected
nomination of its editor at Cincinn att seems
TO involve it ina new embarrassment. All
must be aware that the position of jour
nalist, who is at the same time a candidate,
is, at best, irksome and difficult; that he is
fettered in action and restrained in criticism
by the knowledge that whatever no may
say or do Is closely scanned by thousands
eager to find in il what may be so inter
preted as to annoy or perpleX those who are
supporting him as a candidate, and to whom
his shackled condition will not permit him
TO be serviceable. The undersigned, there
fore, wthdraws absolutely from the conduct
of the Tribune, and will hencefcrth, until
further notice, exercise no control or super
vision over its columns" The editorial
management of the Tribune falls on White
law Reid ..... officer John Leslie had his
head split open with a cleaver, in New
York, Tuesday, by German rag-picker,
who was prevented by tn officer from muir
dering his wife.....The fire in the Shawan-
gunk mountains, New York, has burned
over a space of two miles in width, destroy
ing 500 cords of wood and an immense
quantity of TIMBER. The fires in the woods
in the vicinity of Scranton, Pa, are still
raging in many quarters, destroying vast
amounts of lumber and timber number
of barns and small houses have been
DESTROYED in the vicinity Of Moscow and
Lehigh Falls......At New York, Monday
night, John McMara, sixteen years old, shot
and fata lily wounded his father......At Pitts
burg, Pa, on Tuesday, Eliza NJ. Cartney,
while in spasms, fell upon red-hot stove.
When assistance reached her it was found
that her head, face, arms, breast and limbs
were burned TO crisp......O. G.. Ferry, of
Connecticut, was reelected United States
Senator on Tuesday.
THE New YORK Cham Der of Commerce, on
Wednesday, with but one dissenting voice,
adopted a resolution approving the supple
mentary article to the Treaty of Washing
TONI. Mr.. Bonner's stallion " Startle ,"only
FIVE years old on the 18th, driven by Geo.
Hopkins, rotted half mile on Fleetwood
Park, Wednesday, in the marvellous time of
l:04!. This is the fastest half mile by two
seconds ever made in harness on Fleetwood
by any horse of any age. Indeed, it is the
fastest half mile by two seconds ever made
anywhere by any horse except Dexter, who
once trotted half mile in exactly the same
time.....A private dispatch from Scranton,
Pa, reports that another fire damp explosion
occurred at an early hour on Wednesday
~
three men instantly, and wounding many
others.
DISPATCH from Scranton, Pa, May l6,
says: Persons just returned from the scene
of the terrific mountain FIRE in the neigh borss
hood of Tobyhanna report that the village
was entirely surrounded by fire on Wednes-
day. The villagers mustered all their force,
and beat back the FIRE until they got it
baan for la
swamp intervening between the town and
the fire, there is no doubt but the whole of
Tobyhanna would have been destroyed.
The inhabitants and those who have been
there assisting them have had a terrible
week of it, some of the men not having slept
for four nights."...An extensive fire is re-
ported as having occurred in Nestford,
Mass, Wednesday afternoon, destroying a
large quantity Of cord-wood, and Overrun-
ming a large wooded territory, preventing
travel on the highways.
Mrs. BARBARA SMITH, rendered insane by
the loss of her child, leaped from the roof Of
four-story house in Williamsburg, n. Y,
Thursday, and was instantly killed.
AT Paterson, n. j., Saturday, Libbie Gar
rabrant, the girl murderess, was sentenced
to be hanged on the 10Th of July......The !
u
lander was found in the East river, New
York, Saturday, with his throat cut. 1t is |
unknown whether the case is suicide or |
murder ..."At New York, on Saturday, a /
messenger of the Gallatin National Bank, |
while on a collecting route, was robbed of |,
pouch containing $4,000 in gold certificates |
and checks and 800 in cash......A Port Jer- !
Wis n. y special of the 18th says; In |
Pike county, Pa, fire covering territory /
n pyt IL
of the best land in this section. At Wagon
torsts, Galatians, and Dowling's settle
ments, nothing is left but charred and |
smoking ruins. Dozens of families have |
been compelled to flee for their lives. A |
quarter of a million of dollars will not pay
the losses in this section. The land of the .
Blooming Grove Park Association has been
swept over, and large numbers of wild game
destroyed" In Wayneburg, Pa, the fire !
compelled a suspension of coal transporta-
ton over the Delaware and Hudson Canal .
Company's railroad, leading from the mines |
TO Honesdale. The lumber villages OF Car
ter and Gould, Pa, have been almost totally |
destroyed, only three houses remaining in |
the two places. Sussex county, New Jer- !
sey, and Sullivan and Delaware counties,
New York, and Monroe county are still |
being swept over by the forest fires, and the |
losses are estimated as footing up to the mil |
lions ....A fire in Philadel phia, Sunday |
night, destroyed property to the amount Of
100000.
On Monday the double-scull race of FIVE
miles between Coulter and Cavitt, of Pitts.
burg, and the Biglin brothers, of New York,
took place on the schuylkill river at Phila-
delphia. The Biglins won. Time 32:Ol.
The West.
A MAN named Samuel Williams, who lived |
near Sellersburg, Ind, was found by train
on the Jacksonville, Madison and Indian
apolis railroad, on Monday, lying beside |
the track, about a mile and a half back of |
with his head and face fear
fully gashed, and in dying condition. lie
had evidently been attacked by assassins,
and left for dead on the track for the train
to run over him and hide the evidence of
foul play ......A dispatch from Helena, Mon
tana, dated May l2, says " Fort Benton
authorities report that Simmons, Hard, and
five others have been killed by Indians
while descending the river. Friends have
been sent TO ascertain if the report is true"
...... The body Of a man named John Sarlak
was found floating in the river at Chicago on
Tuesday morning. A bullet wound was
discovered in the left breast short distance
a