The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1872-03-01

were badly injured. 1.-THE body Of Henry
A. Sweet, son of Alanson Sweet an old resi-
dent Of Milwaukee, was found frozen be-
tween Superior and Bayfield,, few days
since, where he had gone To look sfter prop
erty ..... The first of the riot murder cases at
Los Angeles has resulted in verdict of not
guilty, the District Attorney stating that he
had only Chinese testimony to offer, which
was not reliable. The defense introduced no
witnesses ....A grinder employed in the
reaper works of +. Ii. Nanny, AZ Rockford,
H., on Thursday, was caught in belt from
a shaft, revolving at the rate of seventy
revolutions a minute, and almost instantly
killed. His head was crushed, and his bones
badly broken. The deceased was a Swede,
named Charles Ingland, and was about %
years old Harry Johnson, employed on a
wood saving machine, was killed at Mazo-
mamie, Wis, by the bursting of the fly.wh, ell,
pieces striking him in the head and breast
and killing him almost instantly.
PRIVATE letter from Fort Benton, Mon
tana, states that during the latter part of
December the thermometer marked SO de-
grees below zero; that buffalo, antelope,
cattle and horses were frozen to death in
large numbers. On JAN IL, when the letter
was written, the weather had moderated to
20 degrees above zero.....At Lagro, Ind, on
Friday, the heading and stave factory Of
Scherschell & Bro. was destroyed by fire.
Loss about $6,000...... The jury in the case of
r. j. Bright, State Printer Of Indiana, on
trial for perjury and overdraw, have re-
turned verdict of not guilty.. nited
States Deputy Marshal John Peeke, having
in charge a man implicated in robbng the
express at Muskoga, Indian Territory, was
shot and MORALLY wounded at that place, on
the 18th inst, by some teamsters, with whom
he had some high words.
THE Kansas House, in Committee Ct the
Whole, on Monday, agreed to the Sen ate
bill providing that nobody shall DO hanged
for murder until one year after conviction,
and not then unless the Governor issues the
warrant for execution, which he may never
do unless he so elects.."..At Bowerstown,
Ohio, on Sunday, a desperate young man
named George Clark shot his sister with a
rifle because she threw snow ct him. The
ball passed through her right thigh, just
below the hip joint, and thence nearly
through her left thigh. Clark was arrested.
......A barn belonging to William Freeman,
living about two miles from harrington
Station, H., was burned on Saturday even
ing, together with nineteen head Of cattle,
six horses, and a large stock of farming
utensils. The fire was caused by the eXplo-
sion of "non-explosive" lantern.....Ad-
vices from Lawrenceburg and Madison re-
port all the gorges broken and the Ohio river
full of floating ice between Cincinnati and
Louisville"...At Horse Bluff, Wis, on Mon
day, an Irishman named John Murphy
stabbed and instantly killed Nick Cranz, a
German laborer, mistaking him for another
German with whom he had had difficulty.
.....A Mrs. Gordon and her little daughter,
three years old, were SO terribly burned by
the explosion of coal-oil lamp, in their
residence at Gayoso, Mo, lately, that they
both died shortly after.....A fire at Lima,
o., on Sunday night, destroyed John R.
Ashton's handle factory and saw-mill. Loss
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