The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1872-06-14
NEWS SUMMARY.
The East.

<oth UT. one Trefsy,a baker, stabbed hi
wife fatally with a dirk and then Stable
her paramour, Franz Linderman winain
up by cutting his own throat. All thre,
VIII probably die...... Lyman Tremsine, JohI
u Townsend and Henry Daily, Jr., hav
been retained as Stokes counsel Owe
4o,oeO worklngmen are on a strike for eigh
hours, in New York. They are quiet an,
confident of the ultimate success of thei
movement. Bids for supplies for the In
dian department were opened in New Yorl
on the 2Stn uit. Bids for % ,0oG, zoe pound.
OF beef on the hoof delivered at different
agencies during the year, ranged from 81. 81
TO u per leo pounds. An award will be
made at from 81 SO to s.. go per 100 pounds.
Bids for 100000 pounds of -four, delivered
at the agencies, range from $2.S5 to 81 per
100 poun ds...... Capt. Samuels' famous yacht
was sold at New York, the other day, for
$4,000.
The Brooklyn schutzen corps will start
on June 90, for Hanover, to take part in the
German National Schutzenfest, in father
land.....Two mines of the Delaware and
Hudson Company, one at Carbonate and
the other at ELEPHANT, Pa, suspended oper-
atoms in order to reduce the production Of
coal. The two mines throw out of employ
msnt 700 men and boys, and decrease the
production Of the company 5000 tons per
day......Fab a. Co.'s lead pencil manufac-
tory was destroyed by fire, in New York, on
the goth ult. Loss, 5000, 900.
The Democrats of Pennsylvania have
nominated Hon. c. R. Buckalew for Cover
nor"...Strikes among the workingmen of
New York still continue, with no prospect |
of 3 speedy settlement of the troubles.....
Brick Pomeroy has mandamused each |
member of the New York Board of Audi
tors, to compel the payment of his bill for
city advertising. The claim amounts 10
between $40, 900 and $4,000. While some
workmen were roaming an oil well, near
OIL City, Pa, last week, there was a sudden
How of oil and gas, and an explosion occur
red in the derrick, blowing the men outside
To considerable distance, and setting them
on lire. Two of them were killed, and two
seriously burned.
SEVERAL employees on the Delaware and
Lackawanna railroad have been arrested for
embezzIing the company of large sums of
money during the past two years......T The
great strike OF the New York workingmen
still continues, with every prospect of sue ,
cess......Late advices from New York state
that Mr.. James Gordon Bennett, the founder .
and proprietor OF the Herald, is hopelessly '
ILL., HIS death may be expected at any !;
The first jury impanelled under .
the New York State law providing that the
reading OF newspaper shall not be a capital =
ofense IN a Iror, has been drawn at Pulaski, :,
n that State.
The strikes in the Eastern cities for eight
hours labor and ten hours pay have been
practically successful. The effect upon the p
Employers will be less serious than was at {
irst expected, since but few contracts have ?
'et been made without reference to the pos % -
lDle advance in wages.".The New York 81
curt House Commissioners, on Saturday, 81
ischarged all the workmen employed on the a.
ew court house building. The men had az
ct received any wages for the past nine =,
1onths......T The Daily Register has been u'
ected as the official paper Of New York city, "
$4,000 year. The successful bidder was =.
ever heard of before. DR.. William Pitcher ~
led at Hudson, n. Y, on the lst inst, from ~
bison introduced into his system while at -, 80
nding an erysipelas patient. W. y"
GEO. LAvERY, convicted of murder in the So
cond degree for killing officer Lam brecht. TIC
Is been sentenced, at New York, to the h,,
ate prison for life...... VIM. H. Wadleigh tai
scount clerk in the Merchants National on
ink, Boston, is defaulter to the amount tn,
S87, O00...... Fred. Douglass residence. AT
n. Y, was burned on Sunday.
ne 2. cue
Inc west. Me
YOUNG man named Woods was killed at JOG
arion, Ind, on the 9th ult, by the falling ie,,
tree; and on the goth, near the same so
ace, youth named Caleb Boots was rib
lshed to death by large stone falling on GOV
m. IN stone quarry ......Joseph Staverly, at
EpghshmaD, committed suicide at Joliet
E, on the 2sth ult., by drowning himself
the canal. The Houghton lake su- p
litary have been witbdrawn o'ef' T ana the adjc
ion among the mechanics has extended JUS
Cleveland, Ohio, and number of the all .
des are on strike for an advance of lie {
yes. men
MAN named Cbarlos soolr;l . cal
suicide on the goth ult., by jumping into Ten
re Huron from the propeller Winslow......
4 yers, travelling agent for Boston lew II
esta blishment, was robbed Of 81 900 At ~
flankenton House, Milwaukee, on the days
ult.....The Masonic Grand Codge of In. 90 b
Ia, in session lrst week at INDIANAPOLIS 60,
largely attended, and good deal Of l. a.
4 Thn 49, " sHo Uiuei was trans tin o
ad, having extended to Cincinnati The and
RS and shoemakers Of that city have oner
oa ~; on az oi "ages, ana other Grea
"''- own ''i'o"' AGAR
IPT HENRY DEXTER, one of the Oldest matte
N boatmen on the Western waters, died Bo
Evansville, Ind, last week, from an their
dose of morphine. ..... The India napolis exter
nal has passed into the hands OF a new
{ ompany, headed by Mr.. Redmour, Ss.tya -
OF the junction railroad ...... Philip d 60 an,
ks, mail robber, of Des Mones, Iowa, el,oO'
pleaded guilty to ten indictments... noun
annual report Of the State Insurance 80
rtment OF Ohio shows ~ life insurance Sepai
'anies in the State, and the total amount 80!
fe policies now in force to be about u.ieo'
600 O00......A Mrs. Brady, wife of Hon. Ploee
i. MitchelPs coachman, suicided at M
sukee last week, by cutting her throat "'1 IT.
ohm Barclay has been found guilty of Iii Iii,
er in the first degree, at Columbus, - III,
for killing Charles F. Garner. Hon, I',rIe
Cambden, Of Parkersburg, has been il'
mated by the Democrats for Governor 60. ."'
st Virginia. Nohsr
" so-r. :, ,,,do- r. III THE
&C, Ill, for the murder of William no MOI
lgs.....P. d. Banks, of Page county, "'''o'o
has been sentenced to ten years in the confer
ntary for robbing the mails...A oonsle
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