The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1872-02-09
NEWS SUMMARY.
The East.

borers engaged In making an excavation Tor
the bed of new boiler at the back part of a
house on North Third street. Some of the
coins are very ancient. 1.-THE jury in the
suit for SIS 900 damages brought by the widow
Margaret Sanders, in the City Court OF
Brooklyn, against the Staten Island Ferry
Company, for the loss of her husband, who
was killed in the Westfield explosion, after
half hours deliberaton, returned ver-
dict for the plaintiff in the full amount
claimed. The jurors expressed their regret
at not being legally empowered to award a
larger amount. This is the first of 100 cases
which are pending against the company
growing out of the explosion.
In New York on Wednesday Judge Bar
rett granted an attachment on the property
of Henry r. Conklin, Secretary of the Mar
ket Savings Bank, on application of the re-
ceiver, who deposes that Conklin distracted
$l25000, and has ACKNOWLEDGMENT verdict
has been rendered against the Knickerbocker
Life Insurance Company of New York in
the case of a policy of $1,000 upon the life
of a suicide..... Gen. Cadwallader's summer
residence at Fenton, New York, burned on
Wednesday morning. Loss $4,000; in
sured ION Saturday morning the United
States Quartermaster's Department and com
mssary store, at Madison barracks, Sackett's
Harbor, N. Y, were destroyed. Loss
$lOO,G
THE Staten Island Ferry Company are
going to bring before the Court of Appeals
the claim Of S., 900 recovered against them
by ore Of the victims of the explosion Of the
Westfeld, still contending that no liability
accrued against them for ferrage on the Sab
BATH. Tweed still remains in New York
city despite the summons of the Legislative
Committee On Elections to appear in refer
erence to the contest of his Senatorial seat
by O'DonOvan Rossa...... Mrs. Henry Ward
Beecher, Whitelaw Reid, VIM. C. Bryant
Bayard Taylor, Bret Harte and others have
gone to Havana, on the steamer Moro Castle
by invitation Of the Atlantic Mail Com
pany.
GEORGE Boris, the murderer of Pet Hal
stead, was hung at Newark, n. j., on Friday
......All the property of the New York Print
ing Company is now sold, aggregatipg $780,
600. This, with the sums due the company
will be sufficient to satisfy the Ocean Banks
judgment of 500, O0O...... George w. Watson
a Williamsburg hair-dresser, was shot dead
at his own establishment in New York on
Thursday by Mrs. Fanny Hyde, aged Is
who says he has been in the habit of insult
ing and accusing her of uniathfulness to
her husband.
BRICK PoMERoY has been sued for $25 ,OOC
damages for breach of promise of mar
riage, by Sadie Wilkinson, of New Haven
Conn.,, she charging that he promised to
marry her in 1866.
AN infant son of Henry T. Clarke, OF
Troy, N. Y, was killed on Sunday by his
brother, aged years, who threw a piece OF
slate at him. The child killed was months
old....A fire occurred at Belleville, Ont.
early on Sunday morning, in the Bows
Home. The building was totally DESTROYED
and one boy was burned to death. The night
was intensely cold, and the inmates barely
escaped in their night clothes. Loss, IS 600
.."..David Barry was killed by locomotive
at crossing at Kingston, near Scranton, on
Saturday Joseph Is. Lyman,
agricultural editor Of the New York Tribune
died on Sunday.
The West.
THE Rough and Ready Touring mill at
Littleton, near Denver, was burned on Tues
day. Loss over $50 ,O00....Julius Frisko
while at work in the saw-mill Of Mowrv,
Clinton & Co., at Menasha, Wis, on Wednes-
day, fell upon q circular saw which was in
motion. and had his right leg cut off, He
died the same night. Near Golden City,
Col, on Wednesday, a number of laborers
were engaged in attempting to dry box of
Hercules powder at a camp fire, when the
powder exploded, killing two men, John
Hughes and Barney Bloom, and seriously
wounding several othors......At East Sagi-
nav, Mich, on Tuesday, Mrs. Witt having
occasion to make a visit about a SQUARE off.
cd har hill
years old, in the house. Soon after she left,
the house took fire, and two of the children
were burned to death. The eldest ESCAPED
by jumping through a window ...A promi-
nent manufacturer of woodworking ma.
chimes at Cincinnati has received orders
from the japanese Government for single
and lath machines, turning lathes, and
other machines for wood working, with all
the gea ring necessary to run the same, all to
be shipped Immediately ola San Francisco
......John A. Hancock, aged ffty-fve years,
residing with his son in the town of Pelt,
Wabash county, Mimi, while the son and
his wife were absent, burned the house and
barn, and hung himself in the woods, in
I'll Of insanity.
BAKER, one of the witnesses for the prose-
cution in the Robinson murder case, at Salt
Lake City, has made an affidavit that mis-
testimony before Judge Mexican in the pri
mary examination was wholly untrue and
false. On this affidavit Baker was arrested
for perjury, and is now confined at Camp
Douglass.
The Supreme Court of Kansas has sus-
pended the execution Of DIR. Medlicott. who
was to have been hanged for poisoning Mr..
Ruth, until the 22d of March......Six per-
sons, confined two in cell, escaped from
the Jail at Cadiz, Ohio, on Thursday, by dig
ging from one cell to another with iron rods
from the masonry of the Jail, then making
their way to the upper story, escaped by
means of bed cord from a window ...... Mrs.
Reynolds, wife Of Ex-Governor REYNOLDS. of
Missouri, was most shockingly burned on
Thursday evening by her clothes taking fire
from an open CRATE. She was in feeble
health, and when discovered had all her
clothes burned off except a small portion
about her neck and breast. Her Injuries
were so severe that, after lingering in an in
sensible condition until o'clock the follow
ing Tuesday morning, when she died.
THE business part of Abbeville, Mo-, was
destroyed by fire on Friday. Loss $500
insurance 5,0O0.....The body of an un-
known German, about 35 years of age, was
on Saturday found suspended from q tree, at
Kenosha, Wis. Deceased is supposed to be
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