The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1872-02-16

The East.

haven, at halfpast 10 CLOCK on Tuesday
night, caused by broken rail. The engine
and tender passed over in safety. The rest
of the train passed over an embankment,
and took fire instantly. The baggage car,
two passenger cars, and sleeping car were
burned. Two of the passengers, James Ly-
saught, of Williamsport, Pa, and Charles
Patterson, of Troy, Pa, became entangled
in the wreck and were severely burned......
A fire at Scranton, Pa, on Monday night
destroyed $4,000 worth of property. In
susance, 500 ,0OO...A fire at Goshen, n. Y,
Saturday night, burned fifty head of choice
cattle aud six blooded horses, the property of
Abraham Rierson
A HALIFAX dispatch says the fate of the
Tariff bill now before the United States Con-
gress, proposing a reduction of the duty on
coal to fifty cents per ton, causes great anx-
iety among dealers there.....Another suit has
been commenced against ex-Collector Muir
ply, of New York, to recover the amount of
political assessment paid by an offceholder
in the Custom House.....A warrant has been
issued for the arrest of the husband OF Fanny
HYDE, as an accessory to the murder of
Watson ...... The Commission of Appeals, in
the case of Rawson against the Pennsyl-
vania Railroad Company, has decided that
the limitation Of liability to 500 for loss Of
luggage is not contract, and awarded the
plaintiff 81, 900 damages for her luggage lost
by the defendants.
A HORRIBLE accident occurred on Thursday
morning on the Lehigh Valley railroad, near
Rockport. AS the Buffalo express train was
nearing that point rail broke, precpitat
ing the train over an embankment about
thirty feet high, wrecking the cars, which
were set on fire by the stoves. Four Of the
passengers were instantly killed, and four
died Of their in uries, and some eighteen
others are more or less in ured ... Professor
Wilson, principal of the Union School at
Washington, Penn, was shot and danger
ously wounded on Thursday by Thos. Nc
Giffen. The professor had refused to deliver
a note from McGffen to one of the young
aides. and n being ordered from the prem
Uses, McGiffen shot him, the ball entering
about the hip. MEG ffen is ABOUT II years
of age.... The will of James Fisk was ad-
mitted to probate in New York on Thursday.
The estate was sworn to as not exceeding
million dollars. His widow is the sole exc
cutrix, Mr.. Jordan acting as co-legatee.
THE New York Yacht Club has reelected
James Gordon Bennett, Jr., Commodore.
Charles and H. E. Markson have been ar
rested at New York for smuggling III gold
watches and nearly 800 articles OF jewelfy,
on the steamer Siberia, valued at $40 ,000......
at Albany, Parsons, one of the State Print
ers, testfies having given Ed. Phelps $l0,-
600 for lobby services. 1t had been the
habit, he said, to give the clerks percentage
on work carried to the firm, and in this way
Terwilliger's percentage was paid, regard
less of whether he read proof or THE
revenue officers raidei on several illicit
dstilleries in the Fifth Ward of Brooklyn,
on Friday afternoon, destroying several
thOnSan1 HOllarS' Of w m
machinery, etc. The officials were aided by
the police.....The Newcastle (Pa.) Agricul-
tural Works were destroyed by fire on Fri
day. Loss SS0,000 insurance $25 000.....
The warerooms of Bouchard & Sortie and
Thompson's bookstore at Quebec were burned
on Thursday night. Loss $4,000.
HORACE GREELEY held a reception on Sat-
urday evening at New York, on the occasion
of his 6lst birthday.
The house of Henry McLellen, near Erie,
Pa, was burned about O'Clock on Tuesday
morning, and Mr.. McLellen persisted in the
flames. He was IS years of 1.-THE
woolen-mll and boarding house Of G. G.
Aldrich & Son, at CRANKY, Mass, burned on
Tuesday morning. Loss $25 900; insured
for $l5,OOO....At New York, on Monday,
while the Brooklyn Ferry Company's boat
Fulton was crossing the river loaded with
passengers, she sprung a leak in md-stream.
The alarm signal was given, ana two other
boats came alongside and took off her pas
sengers, after which she sunk. The viii
layers of Whitehall, N. j., refused to allow
the burial of the remains of Bolts in their
cemetery, and the minister declared that no
services could be held over the body of the
murderer. After an excited parley, a COM
promise was effected by which the body was
allowed to be inferred in grave that had
been opened temporarily.
The West
JOHN OBURN committed suicide at Joliet,
ILL.,, on Monday, by shooting himself with a
shot gun. The shot took effect in his heart,
causing instant death. The deceased was a
very Incorporate man, and leaves a wife
and six children in destitute circumstances.
..... On Monday night Frank Grice, city
editor of the Kansas City Ne10S, shot Charles
Whitehead, city editor of the Times. Both
had previously INDUCED In newspaper per-
sonalities. The latter sought the former all
evening, and finally found him at the NetoS
Office, and in the darkness grappled with
him. Grice finally drew a Derringer, and
shot Whitehead in the hip. The latter will
be laid up a month Grice gave himself up,
and was released on bail.
ALDERMAN BUssE, of Chicago, was on
Tuesday, found guilty of accepting brides,
making the third conviction in the Common
Council of that cty......T The planning of
Rudy, Hilton & Co., at NATION, H., were
burned on Tuesday morning. Loss SIT 900;
no insurance.....The steamer Mary TAYLOR
sailed from San Francisco for Ecuador on
Wednesday with divers ard machinery for
raising the treasure sunk on the Spanish
rigate L'Acade in 1902.
THE Missouri State Senate on Thursday
passed the resolution to pay the State bonds
in greenbacks over the Governors veto by
vote of 81 to 10.....The woman engaged in
passing counterfeit $40 notes in Wisconsin
has been arrested, and large amount of
counter eit money found in her possession.
She goes by the name of Madam DeGroase,
and has two male accomplices who have not
been arrested.
THE planing-mill of Harvey Jones, at
Cincinnati, was destroyed by fire on Thurs
day evening. Loss $1,000; insurance
$1,000.
ON Friday evening, as the Treasurer of
Santa Cruz county was turning off the gas
in his office, he was seized by armed and