The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1872-03-29
NEWS SUMMARY.
Tho Enst.

second wives and John Sherlock, by poison
ing, has been convicted of murder in the
first degree.....The packing room of the
Meriden Malleabe Iron Works, at Merden,
Conn, was burned on Monday evening.
Loss S50,000.."..At Greenbush, n. Y, on
Tuesday, Samuel Fargue shot his wife dead,
fired at his daughter without effect, and cut
his own throat with jagged, rusty, jack
knife, intlicting frighttul wound. Evil
dence has been given before the New York
Senate Committee that $4,000 900 full paid
stock of the Beach pneumatic tunnel, New
York, has been issued, mourning an indebt-
edness to that amount for no other considera-
ton than the purchase of It's charter and
patents, and no part used in the construction
of the road.
The lumber yards of II. r. Deacons, Hun
sicker 4 Co. and Patterson &
Co, at Philadelphia, were damaged by
fire on Tuesday night to the amount
of 100000; insurance $54 ,000.....A complete
change in the direction of the New York and
Mahopac railroad took place on Wednesday.
The road comes under the control of Van
derbilt.
A. T. STEWART has arranged for the con-
structon Of 100 houses at Jamaica Plains,
l.. l., this spring, at a cost of Sl90, O00......
The number of firms in New York engaged
under false names in swindling persons by
means of lottery, counterfeit money, and
other schemes, is over five hundred. The
Post Office authorities have an alphabetical
list, and are showing increased activity in
fighting the The Iron City Brewery,
of Pittsburgh, owned by Fraunheim &
Feilsch, was seized by the revenue officers
on Thursday for making false returns anu
other oflenses against the government. The
seizure embraced the entire stock, machine
~ and other personal property found on tho
premises, amounting 10 about $4,000.
ANOTHER boat of the Staten Island Ferry
Company was seized at New York, on FRI
day, FOR q judgment against the company.
The Sheriff will lay the boats up, or collect
the passenger fares, unless the judgments
are shortly paid.."..At White Plains, New
York, an attempt has been made 10 poison
a family named Alderman, composed of
eight persons, by impreguating spring
with arsenical poison The official report
of the new Directors of the Erie railroad
states that the earnings of the company
from November, 1871, TO date, were $2l,-
100000, against ST. ,OOO,O 600 the year pre-
vious......A young man named W. Sewers,
and girl named Longuard were run over and
the former instantly killed by train on the
Baltimore and Ohio railroad, on Friday
night They had been sitting on the track
talking.
NEAR Springfield, Mass, on Saturday,
train was thrown from the track by bro
ken rail. The smoking car went down an
embankment fifteen feet, and twenty per-
sons in it were more or less injured, but
probably none fatally.
Tho West.
The Supreme Court of Kansas has set
aside the verdict in the Medlicott case, and
ordered new trial, mainly on the ground
that the lower Court admitted as testimony
the dying statement of Ruth, the murdered
man......The West Hotel, at Mendon, Mich,
was destroyed by fire early Tuesday morn
ing. Loss 10000; insured for $5,0O0.."..A
young man named John Wallace was shot
and killed by Mr. Harvey, in Saline, Kan
sas, on Monday night Wallace was on a
spree, and made a noise before Harvey's
door, whereupon the latter shot him THE
Secretary of War has ordered the removal Of
certain distractions in the Chippewa river
at Eau Claire, WISE. w. KIRK, n citizen
OF Clark county, Indiana, committed suicide
at Jetersonville, on Monday, by throwing
himself under a moving freight train.
Geo. W. Fishback, one of the proprietors of
the st. Louis Democrat, has commenced suit
against his partners for dissolution of the
hrm and valuation of the property ......
Christian Fribolin, & German music teacher, |
living at MascOntah, short distance from
Belleville, H., charged with an attempt TO
commit rape in October last, blew out his
brains on Saturday last, in consequence Of
an intimation from his bondsmen that they |
were about to deliver him up to the Sheriff |
The Wisconsin State Republican Conven-
ton met at Madison on Wednesday. The |
delegates to the National Convention were |
instructed to cast their united vote for a re- |
nomination OF Grant....Samuel c. Landry, |
q resident Of Flint, Mich, employed as |
brakeman a coal train, was run over on |
Tuesday morning and fatally injured......
David i. Taggart was run over by train Of |
cars at ST. Louis on Wednesday, and in
stantly killed. II. Rittenhouse, a con- |
ductor of the Belleville and SoutL ern Hi !
nois railroad, was run over and killed at |
Belleville, H., Oh Wednesday. Ills head |
was horribly crushed.
PETER SMITH shot and killed Michael
Schafier, his brother-in-law, in drunken !
quarrel at Gross Point, near Chicago, on
Wednesday. The murderer was arrested ......
The Calumet feeder dam of the Illinois and |
Michigan canal is TO be removed immedi- |
ately. Thousands of acres of land now
overlooked will be reclaimed in conse-
quence....D. o. Cole, for several years Sec
retary OF the Cleveland Rolling Mill Com
pany, is discovered to be a defaulter in the
sum Of $4,000. Cole has fled, leaving his
young wife and two children behind ......
Willie Bradley, l6 years old was killed at
Shelbyville, Ind, on Thursday, while trying
TO couple cars.....The Globe Insurance Com
pany Of Chicago announces it's readiness to
pay all its losses in full. 1t is the irst Chi.
cago company to resume business since the
fire.
Mrs. ANNA c. RUIN was released on writ
Of haJeas corpus at Lawrence, Kansas, on
Friday. The Prosecuting Attorney an
nounced that since the decision of the su-
preme Court against the admissibilty of
Ruth's letter, written the evening Of his
death, as evidence, her conviction under the
present developments Of facts was impos-
sible, and he did not desire to retain her in
custody any longer. She was therefore dis
charged H.. Michael WEIGH, farmer resid-
ing near Waukesha, Wis, was kicked by
mule on Friday end instantly killed. The
entire top Of his head was taken off. Welch
was about As years Of age, and leaves a
family.
THE Touring mill of Zesighouse & Bro,