The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1872-07-05
NEWS SUMMARY.
The East.

ten. Sickles is said TO be the ceming Erie
President.
The smallpox has broken out in Dickin-
son College, Carlisle, Pa, and the students
are scampering for home.
The sugar refners of New York have
S truck, and the reAneries are idle.
The employing manufacturers of New
York have resolved TO resist the eight-hour
movement to the bitter end.
Since June l, 142, O5l emigrants have ar
rived at New York-an increase Of 1875
over the same period last year.
The trial Of Stokes, the slayer of James
Fisk, Jr., opened in New York, on June 10.
The venerable Peter Cooper, of New York,
has given the shirt-cutters 81 ,OO0 to aid
them in their strike.
At the recent Convention of Railway Man
ayers of the New York Central, Erie, and
Pennsylvania Central railroad lines, an
agreement was made to sell hereafter no
more passenger tickets for political meetings
or State fairs at reduced rates.
Joseph Jefferson's condition, it seems, is
not so bad as was at first supposed. The
great artist is said to be daily improving
and there is every reason to hope that his
eyesight will be completely restored within
a very short period.
Among the gentlemen spoken of for Presi-
dent of Erie are Gen. Geo. B. Mcclellan T
B. Blackstone, of the Chicago and Alton
road; and James F. JOY, of the Michigan
Central. 1t is the impression that Gen.
Mcclellan will be the successful man.
The Jumel will case is again. up in the
New York courts.
The Senate of New York, sitting as a
court of impeachment, is engaged in trying
Judge McCunn.
Gov. Hoffman, of New York, vetoed 50
bills during the past session of the Legisla-
ture.
John W. Avery is to be hung at Hacken-
sack, n. y, for the murder of Jacob W.
Erb.
On June 10, over the Mystic Park race
course, Boston, the celebrated trotting mare,
Goldsmith Maid, made the fastest time on
record over mile track-2:163.
Mayor CASTOR, of Boston, has vetoed the
order passed by the City Council for opening
the public library on Sundays.
The japanese Government are having five
twenty bonds and greenback currency en-
graved by the New York Bank Note Company,
under the direction of Clews IL Co. Monthly
shipments are now gong forward to Japan
About 510,00O,0O0 have already been sent.
1t may be authortatively stated, says a New
York telegram, that there is absolutely no
foundation for the report that Miss Nellie
Grant has become engaged to n Scottish Lord.
Paul f. Lowe, son of ex-Gov. Lowe, of
Maryland, has been bailed in 800 600, at New
York, to answer for shooting VIM. Devine.
The New York Express says grand national
reunion of the Greeley editors is to be held at
Baltimore on July 8.
Robert Kirkwood prominent citizen OF
Pittsburgh, was shot dead on his own porch,
while surrounded by his family, on June q, by
q man named Flanders, because he refused to
fulfill marriage engagement with the assas-
sins sister.
In Philadelphia, last week, young man
named George Welsh shot and instantly killed
his mother, while sitting at the supper table.
de II supposed 10 be insane.
The Saltwater wooden mills, near Providence,
r. l., were burned June %. Loss, $4,000
Lizzie Garrabrandt's death sentence has
been committed to imprisonment for life by
the New Jersey Court of Pardons.
Two persons were killed and several injured
by the explosion Of steam lighter at New
London, Ct, June "a.
Rev. E. L. ". Jones, wealthy Pittsburgh
clergyman, goes to the workhouse for three
years for swindling widow lady.
Three boys, aged 8, II and 10 years, respec-
lively, were drowned at Albany, MY, June %.
while bathing in the Hudson.
A clever swindler named Price has been
swindling Jersey farmers by selling them lots
in Communipaw that did not belong to him.
He realized $4,000.
The West.
Chandler & Pomer5y, of Chicago, who
have been running a big corner" in oats
have come to grief. The corner collapsed
on Tuesday, June IS, and c. & P. are out
some 100000. Immediately after their
failure oats receded from AZ cents to 80 cents
per bushel.
The Apaches in Arizona are again on the
war path, Notwithstanding the late peace
palsver.
Myron Bush, wealthy farmer of Ant
werp, Ohio, shuffled off his mortal coil, tn,
other day, by hanging himself with log
chain. Temporary insanity did it.
Eldorado and Augusta, two rival Kansas
towns, are engaged in fierce county-sea
war. The Augustians, the other day, armed
and equipped, marched over to Eldorad,
with the svowed intention of Selling tn,
county records. But the Eldoradians wer,
up in arms, and the valiant Augustian army
beat an inglorious retreat without securing
the coveted plumber. They threaten to re
new the attack, and lively times are looked
for.
Norman B. Judd, ex-member Of Congress
has been appointed Collector of the Port o
Chicago.
The National Division of the Sons of Tenn
perance commenced its twenty ghth an
nual session in Chicago on June 19. A
membership of 2,S4l was reported, beiny
decrease of 1923 for the year.
Six cases of sunstroke in Chicago OF