The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1872-06-07
NEWS SUMMARY.
The East.

to keep off the storm of flame....At Am
sterdam, n. Y, Tuesday, the knitting mill
of John Maxwell was destroyed by fire. Loss
estimated at $4,000.
TIE preliminary arraignment of Edward
Stokes for the murder of James Fisk took
place in the Court of Oyer and Terminer, at
New York, Wednesday. After a motion
for further time to afford opportunity for
special plea, the Court adjourned the hear
ing for a day, and Stokes was returned to
prison ...... Greenwood's wooden mill, in Phil
adelphia, Pa, was totally burned Wednes-
day morning. The fire originated in the
pickers' room. Loss $40 900 1.-THE Gala
tin National Bank, New York, has received,
through the mail, commercial paper, drafts
and notes, to the amount of $4,000, of
which it's messenger was robbed on Satur-
day last, the thieves profting only s6S by
the transaction.
EIGHT-HouE strikes continue in New York.
The men employed on Government build
ings are on a strike, and delegation has
been sent to Washington TO see about it,.
One thousand emigrants passed through
Pittsburg, on their way to the West, on the
Odd inst...... The trial of Stokes has been
postponed until October next.....The Gus
tom House Inspectors recently seized, on
board the steamship Moro Castle, $4,000
Havana cigars, which were slowed away in
India rubber bags ready TO throw overheard
to men in small boats, who were on hand to
pick them up. The owners would not claim
them..... The death sentence of Libbie Gar
rabrant will probably be committed TO i'm
prisonment for life, for the reason that her
conduct is such as to warrant the belief that
she is pregnant....The Red Stocking Base
Ball Club of Boston defeated the Forest
Ctys of Cleveland, on the 2Sd inst, 10 to ..
The game was played at Boston.
DURING fire at Ithaca, n. Y, recently, a
bridge upon which steam fire engine was
placed, gave way and precipitated the en-
CINE and some fifty persons into the river
below. Many Of them were seriously in
iured, though none killed outright.....Sev
eral vessels have arrived in New York dur
ing the past week with smallpox prevailing
among Storage passengers. The captain Of
one of the vessels seemed to think the dis
ease was fostered by the dirty habits of the
emigrants, who were chiefly Poles. Nothing
short Of physical violence could induce
them to wash, and the men deliberately ate
soap furnished them, thinking il cheese.
A skif loaded with six men capsized on the
Monongahela river, near McKeesport, Pa,
on the path inst, and four OF the men were
drowned. They were all emigrants who
had just arrived from Europc.....lt 10 esti-
mated that over 90 600 men were on strike
for eight hours of work in New York the
28th inst Many factories are closing up
rather than yield TO the demand - The
German brewers of the United States will
hold their twelfth annual congress in New
York, conn encing the 4th of June and ex
tending four days.
TwESTY-rHoUsAND emigrants arrived in
New York the week ending May 25. This
is the largest weekly arrival on record......
The steamship Adriatic made trip between
New York and Queenstown recently IN
seven days and sixteen hours. This is the
fastest time ever made between those two |
places .....A man named Crawford, brother !
in law 10 Commodore Vanderbilt, shot a
policeman in New York on the night of the |
oath inst, because he would not release the |
colOred coachman whom he had |
in custody ...... Dibble, Worth & Co., cotton |
brokers of New York, suspended on Satur- |
day, having been cramped by the withhold !
ing of large amounts of cotton by Southern |
dealers. 1t is said that other cotton mer-
chants, who have contracted 10 deliver in
time, are embarrassed, and more suspensions
are expected ..".. The peril TO life by working
in the East river casson, at New York, was
forcibly illustrated on Friday. A laborer,
named Daniel Pearson, went TO work, and
though he felt the i'll effects Of breathir the
powerful y-condeHsed air, he continued
until the close of working hours, when he
was seized with paralysis Of the limbs, ac-
by intense pain in the head and
abdomen. His death followed the next day,
and the Gor.ner was called upon to investi-
gate whether such sacrifice of the mans life
was legitimate.
TIE tug Epsilon exploded her boiler in
East river, New York on the 9th ult., kill
ing six persons, including the captain and
en- gineer ..... The strikes among the working
men in New York still continue The
cabinet-makers and pattern
makers are the latest strikers for the eight
hour SYSTEM, Dr.. Andrew j. Lynn, of
Boston, has been held TO bail in $40. 600,
charged with procuring an abortion, result
ing in death, on Sarah Brown, young lady
belonging to tchburg 1.-THE boiler of the
Gordon Company's Bleaching Works, Phil
exploded on the 9th ult killing
the engineer and wounding five other per-
"A riot occurred in jersey CITY, on
the 9th ult., b etween body of eight hour
strikers and men who had taken their
places. Three men were wounded The
riot was suppressed by the police.
The West.
FIRE at Hudson, Wis, Monday night, |
burned Coon & Platt's large warehouse and .
wheat storehousC, also Mr.. Powers wheat /
warehouse, and several other similar ad. |
joining buildings. Some $4,000 bushels OF |
wheat were burned. Loss over $50, 000....
Indian Agent Risley telegraphs from Fort |
Laramie on tho 18th, stating that on Friday |
evening, four miles from Red Cloud agen-
cy, John Richards killed Yellow Bear, and |
was, in turn, killed by Yellow Bears
friends. The excitement over the affair was
intense, and there were threats of destruc-
ton to the agency, and against the whites
and half-breeds. A company of cavalry has
camped near the agency. Richards had the
agency official mail, which was destroyed
.....A dispatch from East Saginaw, Mich.
May 81, says: A Mecklenburger named
Chas. Bosse, who lived n the suburbs, this
morning about 4 o'clock attacked his wife
with hat,het, il Fl citing a terrible wound
on her head, and then run ten-inch
butcher knife into his own stomach, liter
ally dsem bowel:ng himself.
The ticket nominated Wednesday, at
Springfield, H., is as follows Fer Cover
nor, Richard J. Oglesby; for Lieutenant
Governor, John L. Beveridge; for Secretary
of State, George II. Ha lows tor Treasurer,
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