The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1872-06-28
NEWS SUMMARY.
The East.

Public Instruction has decided against ex-
GLIDING children from public schools for re-
fusal to read the Bible.
Three expeditions have left this country
within few days, to sucoor the struggling
Cuban patriots.
In Allegheny City, Pa, on the 18th inst.
Ambrose Lynch fatally stabbed and killed
John Hatfield, aged 40 years, for criminal
intimacy with his (Lynch's) sister.
A man was knocked down and robbed by
two abandoned women, in Broadway, New
York, last week.
Paterson, N. j., has just had the fercest
tornado she ever experienced. number
of buildings we're demolished.
The seventeenth international conven-
ten of the Young Mems Christian Associa-
ton was in session at Lowell, Mass, last
week. II. Thane Miller, of Cincinnati, pre-
sided.
Twenty-three Ku-Klux prisoners arrived
at Albany N. " Penitentiary, last week +,
from Charleston.
New York telegram announces the
sad intelligence that Mr.. Joseph Jeffer-
son, the celebrated comedian, has become
suddenly blind. The constant glare of gas
and calcium lights is said to have produced
the painful afiiction. Mr.. Jefferson is un-
der the care of the ablest oculsts of the
metropolis, and hopes are INDUCED of his
ultimate recovery.
Hot weather in New York on the 18th /;
thermometer 90.
The earthly remains of James Gordon
Bennett were deposited in their final res ting
place, in Greenwood Cemetery, New York,
on Thursday, the 18th inst. The funeral
ceremonies of the great journalist were very
imposing, many noted men appearing in the
cortege. The streets along the line of the
procession were lined with spectators, and
flags throughout the city were hung at half
mast
Fred. Kramer and Richard D. Maxwell,
machinists, were crushed to death by an i'm
mense steel bed-plate, at Pittsburgh, on the
18th inst
The Republicans of Maine have renom-
mated Hon. Sidney Perham for Governor
Col. Forney and Col. Thos. A. Scott the
railroad king, have gone on several months
jaunt to Texas.
Emil Andre, Frenchman, shot and
killed his wife, in New York, on the 18th
inst
Miss Tenne C. Cafin has been elected
Colonel of the Eighty-seventh regiment of
New York recruits (colored).
During a floral concert in Henry Ward
Beecher's church, New York, on the l4th
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burned by the explosion of kerosene lamp.
Thirty persons were poisoned at a New
York boarding house, on the l4th inst, by
eating custard. One has died, and others
are in dangerous condition.
cambridge Wadleigh Republican is New
Hampshire's new United States Senator,
vice James W. Patterson.
By the falling of new smoke-stack in
process Of erection, at West Conshocken,
Pa, on the l4th inst, six persons were killed
outright, and eight wounded.
Four cases of sun-stroke in New York on
the 14th inst.
An attempt was made to burn the Cuban
headquarters, in New York, on the 14th
inst.
The steamship Rhein, which arrived at
New York on the l4th inst, had on board
the German Imperial Band, Herr Strauss,
Nine. Pescha Leutner Ten route for the Jul
bilee), and the wife and daughter of Horace
Greeley.
New York and Brooklyn, and their sub
urbs, were visited by fierce hurricane on
the evening of the l4th inst, doing con-
siderable damage to property. Many per-
sons were, injured, and in Brooklyn three
were killed outright.
The citizens of East New York have been
annoyed by ircendiafies to such an extent
that they formed a vigilance committee,
and propose to deal summarily with these
dangerous fre-bugs.
La Grave, the swindling New York mer-
chant, carried away some 100000. Detec-
ives announce that he has fled to Europe.
The New York Orangemen have deter
mined to parade on July u, fully armed for
any emergency.
The water in White Lake, Sullivan county,
n. Y, near Port Jarvis has receded several
feet the past few days, and is still rapidly
sinking. The lake is on the mountain tor
and has probably found a subterranean out
let.
By the explosion of Locomotive near
Hornellsville, N. Y, on June Is, two per-
sons were killed and one wounded.
The international Peace Jubilee, which
opened at Boston on Monday, June II, may
be set down as success. The telegraph in
forms us that the audience was immense and
enthusiastic, and the chorus, though gigantic,
proved perfectly manageable.
The notorious bank robber, Dutch Helm
rich, an inmate of Sing Sing, has become a
raving maniac.
Rev. U. B. rockingham, of New York,
has been Eliminating from his pulpit against
the striking laborers.
There is much tribulation in Pittsburgh,
produced by the announcement Of a fatal
case of undoubted Asiatic cholera
Tom Thumb has sailed for Europe. Il is
announced that Thomas has sailed down
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