The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1872-06-21
NEWS SUMMARY.
The East.

nj toChestrJ ~ =, on june D. moor OF
brewery gave way, with large quantity
of grain, and an immense mash-tub filed
with boiling liquor. Five men were fatally
injured, two of them being scalded TO death.
.....On Monday night, June 3, Mrs. Jane
Farley, in fit of jealous dependency, cut
her throat at friends house, in New York,
dying in few moments..... The German
Brewers Association met at New York, on
Wednesday, June 5. Brewers were present
from every State in the Union. They repre-
sent capital of $500 900 200. ..... Herr Franz
Abt, the great German composer, is on a
tour out West, where he is being feted like
prince.
ELEVEN thousand dollars in United States
bonds was burned in the house of Frederick
Douglass, at Rochester, on June 2."".The
workingmen OF Boston are about to inaugu-
rate movement looking to the establish
ment of the eight-hour system. The Phila-
delphia mechanics are also beginning TO
agitate The matter....~Alfred Eugene La
Grave, a Broome street New York; mer-
chant, has left for parts unknown, leaving
unpaid debts amounting to $300,000 A. T.
Stewart, II. b. Clahin Co.. and other large
dealers, ere sufrerers..~.A Bridgeport Conn.,
dispatch states that Capt. Colvocoresses, of
the United States Naval Retiring Board, who
was murdered on the night of June 3, was
robbed of his watch and about $4,000.
Capt. Colvocoresses had insurance on his
life amounting to over 100000.
THE famous La Garde Republicaine Band,
of Paris, arrived at New York on the 9th
inst, en- route for the great Boston Jubilee.
The band numbers fifty-ive pieces, and is
esteemed the finest musical organization in
Paris.....Mr. and Mrs. Boucicault will open
at Booths New York Theater in September.
..""A daring attempt 10 rob the First
National Bank of Jersey City, on the night
of June 6, was discovered and frustrated by
the vigilance and sagacity of a woman ......
A New York dispatch announces that Just
before the landing of the French hand,
about seventy-fve French Communists made
hostile demonstrations against them at the
pier, but the police dispersed the Commu-
nsts and furnished the band with an escort
to the Boston boat......The Philadelphia gas
works stokers are on a strike, and fears are
entertained that the city will soon be in
utter darkness..."The vicinity OF Boston
was visited by severe storm on the night
of the 5th inst. Several vessels are reported
wrecked, and many lives The eight
hour strike in New York still progresses.
Over 10000 men have taken part in the
strike since the middle of May, and from
$4,000 to 10000 still remain Idle.
A CONFLICT Of authority occurred in New
York, on the 9TH inst, between the United
States Marshaps forces and the sherifPs o.
fcers, relative to some goods held by the
former, in which deputy marshal was Sc
verely beaten and the goods carried off in
triumph by the Sheriti's party....It has
been ascertaned that Capt. Colvocoresses,
who was murdered a few days ago at
Bridgeport, CT, had on his person $50 600 in
money. He had insurance policies on
his life amounting to Sl93, 500..".Prof.
Kings immense balloon, Colossus-the larg-
est ever made-in which he intended to
cross the Atlantic from Boston, on the Fourth
OF July, was destroyed by fire at Charles
town, Mass, on the 18th inst..... DR.. Lanahan,
of the Methodist Book Book Concern, was
arrested at New York on the 9TH inst, on a
suit for damages for alleged SANDER, irsti-
tuttd by S. j. Goodenough. His bail was
fixed at s. 900.
COMMISSIONER BUMsrED, the " Boss Tweed "
of Jersey City, goes to the penitentiary nine
months for his peccadiloes..... DR.. Lanahan
was bailed in $4,000 to answer to the suit Of
Goodenoug .....A reward of Sl2, 900 has been
offered for the arrest of the murderers of
Capt. COlvOcoresses ..-.. Frank Mead, a noto-
rious thief, attacked peaceable laborer, in
the streets of New York, on the 9th inst,
and received death stab from the latter.
s'.s'' 4 ne clgnl-hOuF strlKe,l IN New Ork, en-
tered upon its sixth week on the 10Th inst.
At least forty thousand men are enrolled in
the unions, and their numbers are being
augmented daily.
Two hundred indictments relating to
whisky frauds have been draughted for the
new United States Grand Jury at New
York.....The Continental Hotel, Long
Branch, has been sold for $3.50 ,0OO-one-
third its Value. News of another terrible
triple tragedy comes to Us from New York
On the 10th inst, Charles Maggari, an
Italian, shot and killed his wife Louis
Magrif, brother Of the murdered woman,
then shot and mortally wounded Magyar,
and he in turn shot Magrif, inhicting a
death wosnd"".The venerable Nathan
Weston, late Chief Justice OF the Supreme
Court Of Maine, is dead 1.-THE eight-hour
parade of the workingmen Of New York, on
the 10th inst, was grand failure, not more
than 1000 or 5000 turning cut. The strikes
still continue.
The West.
AT Dubuque, Iowa, on the night of the Sd
inst, a negro named Blatchford was shot
and instantly killed by his son, who mistook
him for a burglar.....T The house Of David
Danley, at Farley, Iowa, was struck by
lightning and burned down, last week. .....
Five Mic ipan railrnade-tba EI;p. D..