The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1872-03-22

The East.

leaves several small children ...... Hon. Thos.
M. Brown, distinguished attorney of New
Albany, Ind, while returning home from
his Office in that city, on Monday evening,
suddenly fell on the pavement and expired
almost Immediately MA freight train on
the Lake Shore and Michigan Southern
railroad was thrown from the track by a
broken rail near Clyde, Ohio, on Monday
morning, and twenty cars were wrecked. A
section man, standing near the track, was
struck by the cars as they left the track, and
killed.....L. Carper, Esq, Division Superin-
tendent of the Chicago, Burlington and
Quincy railway, was killed in a railway ac-
cident near Burlington, Iowa, on Tuesday
afternoon. No others injured. The acct
dent was caused by the engine of the freight
train running off bridge on account of the
rails being taken up for repairs. The en-
gineer and fireman saved their lives by
jumping of.
In the New York Legislature on Wednes-
day a statement was made by two speakers
that members from the rural districts were
selling their votes at $40 per head. No ac-
ton was taken...... Patrick J. Bannon has
been sentenced to pay fine O. $500 and one
years Imprisonment for sending obscene
matter through the New York Postoflice......
The carpet-yarn mill Of the Wilton Manu-
featuring Company, of Wilton, n. H., was
burned on Wednesday. Loss, $500; partly
insured.
AN Eastern-bo bound express train on the
New York Central railroad was thrownfr from
the track on Wednesday, about six miles
east of Buffalo, and fourteen persons were
injured, but none seriously ...On Thursday
Michael Mccoy, conductor on the Con-
nelsville rsilooad, Pa, while attempting TO
Jump from one car TO another, missed his
footing, was precipitated to the track and
cut in two pieces ..... The wooden mill of j.
d. Nichols q Son, in Burrillville, /. l., was
burned on Wednesday. Loss 100000.
John Harrison, Jersey City carpenter, un-
able to obtain employment in Chicago, ar
rived home on Wednesday, nearly frozen to
death, having concealed himself in q grain
car and having been six days and nights
without food or drink.."..Andrew j. Carney,
the ring" plasterer, of New York, who has
been missing for some months, appeared on
Thursday as a witness in tho trial of Mayor
Hall Startling development IS are ex-
pected.
In the trial Of Mayor Hall at New York
on Friday, Garvey testified that Of fraudu-
lent bill of $966,OOO he only received thirty
five per cent. The remainder was distribu-
ted as follows To Tweed, $50, 600; to the
Americas Club, $50 200 to Woodward, clerk
of the Board of Supervisors, $4,000; and
smaller amounts TO several other parties.
His turning States evidence so endangers
the safety of Tweed, Connolly, Sweeney and
the rest, it is believed they will all flee from
the city,. George 4. Purdy, at Newburg, on
Thursday, during fit of insanity, attempt
ed TO kill his mother and two sisters, MAIN
ing them with hre-shovel and cutting
them with razor. He was finally secured
by the nighbo and sent to the hospital ..,...
The house Of Captain Bryant, at Machias-
port, Me-, was burned on Thursday morning.
Captain Bryant, together with his wife and
two grand daughters, persisted in the fire.
Mrs. JANE MADDEN at New York on satur-
day recovered $4,000 against the Staten
Island Ferry Company for the death of her
husband by the Westfeld explosion....I In
the harbormaster's investigation at New
York on Saturday one Of the witnesses stated
that he would give $25, 600 for the privileges
enjoyed by one of the harbormasters, Of
whom there are eleven in the city.
The West.
THE steamers Altoona, Kate Robinson, St.
Charles, Argosy, MAJ. Anderson, and Cham
pion were burned at Cincinnati early on
Thursday morning. Loss, $3.50, OOO......
Johnny Devino, alias " the Chicken" has
been convicted Of murder and sentenced to
be hanged at San Francisco on April 26....
At Detroit, Mich, colored man named
Ferguson his son, and Mary Morvan were
so badly burned they cannot live. They
started the fire with kerosene The North
Pacific railway was on Wednesday opened
TO Red River for busness...." fisticuf fight
occurred on the floor of tho House of the
Missouri Legislature on Tuesday, between
H. J. Latschaw, member from Kansas City,
q
party was hurt..".Part Of the La Grange
County Infrmary, at La Grange, Ind, was
burnt on Wednesday. One Of the inmates,
whom it was necessary to keep in close con
fnement, was burned to a crisp. He was a
middle aged man, named Abraham Ma
gundy.
THE saw and Touring mills of Ralph Wad
hams, on Black river, near Port Huron,
Mich, were entirely destroyed by fire on
Wednesday. Loss $4,000; insured for
$4,000. The Calumet feeder dam has been
for many years a bone Of contention be-
tween the States of Indiana and Illinois.
The turning of Lake Michigan into the
Chicago river makes the dam unnecessary
as a feeder for the Illinois canal, and Gov.
Baker, of Indiana, has appointed Commits
sioners to call the attention Of the Legsla-
ture of Illinois to the matter. The interests
will be subserved by the removal of the
dam, and it will facilitate the draining of a
large body Of now wet lands that would be
the most salable in the State if they were
drained.
CAPTAIN BRENNAN and four sailors, of the
schooner Minnie Bell, were drowned lately
in attempting to land freight at Point Sol,
California.
FIRE at Lincoln, H., on Thursday night,
destr ,yed Thubey's jewelry store; Brewers
Hall, occupied on the lower floor by stores,
and Houster's Block. Loss estimated at
$500 to SIS ,O00.... Twenty mules were
burned to death on Saturday in freight car
on the Toledo, Wabash and Western rail
road, by the straw on the floor taking fire
by spark from the locomotive.....On Sat
urday a stage driver between Stockton and
Jenny Lind, Cal, saw a man in the chap
arral, and recognized him as one Of the
recent stage robbers. An armed party pur-
sued him, when desperate fight ensued.
The robber was SHOT three times, MORALLY
wounded, and taken prisoner. He admits
that he was engaged in two recent stage
robDeries, but refuses to give his name.
The South.