The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1872-03-08

CATION from st. Louis south, the ice-gorges
broke up and ran out on Friday, and the
river is now open TO all Southern points......
The famous Flagstaff mine, at Little Cotton
wood, Utah, has been sold, with the Buel
furnaces, for 81 500, 00o......The brig Lawler
has sailed from San Francisco for the Cocos
Islands with pirate treasure seeking expe-
dition. ..... Extensive mines OF copper, coal,
and marble are reported to have been dis
covered rear Los Angeles, Cal......A gambler
named Bob Smith assaulted j. Nichols, city
editor of the Indianapolis Evening journal,
on Friday afternoon, for noticing his arrest
in gambling den. Smith shot at Nichols,
the ball passing througl his coat, where
upon Nichols knocked him down, and was
giving him a sound thrashing, when the po-
lice interfered and lodged Smith in Jail, his
bail being placed at a heavy amount. The
gambler says he intended TO kill the report
er...... On Friday, passenger train on the
Central road, when near Cedar Falls, Iowa,
struck and instantly killed q man named
Jno. O'Brien, who was lying on the track
intoxicated. He was about so years OF age,
and unmarried.
EIGHT freight cars, belonging to the In
dianapolis railroad, with their contents,
principally dry goods, were burned on the
track at East st. Louis early Saturday morn
ing. Loss about $25, O0O.....The covered
bridge on the Pittsburgh, Cincinnati and st.
Louis railroad, near Cambridge, Ind, was
DESTROYED by fire on Saturday night. The
bridge was about 800 feet long......The ice in
the Missouri river has broken up at Fort
Benton, and the water is rapidly rising......
At Fort Madison, Iowa, on Friday, Frank,
son of James Layton, a well-known citizen,
hanged himself in his fathers barn, with the
reins of bride. He was bright and in
tellectual boy, and highly esteemed by all
of his associates. No cause can be given for
the sudden attack of insanity.
THE Japanese Embassy arrived at Chicago
on Monday, and left for Washington on
Tuesday evening ...... The body of Mr.. Charles
A. Badger, for many years the clerk of the
| fremont House, Chicago, was found hoatin G
in the river in that city on Monday. Mr..
| Badger had been missing for about six
weeks. 1t is supposed that he committed
! suicide...... The steamers j. r. Lockwood and
| Silver Bow, lying at the Red River wharf
boat at ST. Louis, were crushed and totally
wrecked on Monday night by an Immense
field Of ice from the gorge in the Missouri
| river. The wharf-boat and the steamer
Minnie were also somewhat damaged. Loss
| $l2O 200; insurance SAC. 000......T The men ar
rested recently at Van Vert, o., have been
| fully identified as Scott and Charest, the
| WlnusOr LOCKS (COnn.) inuTuererb......A odlI
Lake dispatch of Monday says: Snow fell
yesterday again and blockaded the Union
Pacific railroad. Western bound trains were
seventeen hours late. The storm is likely
to close communication for some time as the
cuts are walled with drifts of the last snow,
and must be removed by hand" man
shot himself at the National Hotel, Wauke-
sha, Wis, on Sunday night. A letter found
on his person, signed "0skar Hamlet" gives
as the reason for taking his life disappoint-
ment in lovc.....At McInt0sh's Camp. on
the st. Joe and Denver railroad, near Far
bury, Kansas, two or three days ago., des,
perado called Kentucky Jack shot and Killed
two men, one of them McIn tosh's clerk, the
other his cook. The inmates OF the camp
tied the murderer To stake, and were about
burning him alive, when he was rescued by
the authorities.