The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1873-01-17
NEWS SUM MARY.
The East.

The highest price of gold in New York IN
1872 was ll5s, and the lowest los.
John A. Brown, al old and wealthy banker
Of Philadelphia, is dead, aged So.
The buildings of Colts Willow Ware Manu-
featuring Company, at Hartford, Ct, we're re-
Gently burned. Loss $4,000.
Susan B. Anthony refuses to seek release
from imprisonment by giving bail, and has
been sent back to Jail. Her companions gave
the bail asked, and are at liberty until their
trial for voting begins at Albany
In New York, during 1872, there were s,i4o
marriages. and II 1913 births OF living children.
The deaths exceed the births by nearly ll,OOO
The total death roll is %, 94l, being 5000 in ex-
cess of last year.
The new scheme for the Rapid Transit road
in New York proposes to make the building
thereof the province of the city. The road Is
expected to cost $40, 000, 600.
The loss by the burning of Days Fifth Ave-
nue. Thcather, i'll New York, on New Years day,
will reach $500, 000 For time the Fifth
Avenue Hotel, adjoining, was in immiuent
danger. and a wild panic seized the guests and
emploves. who rushed helter-skelter in every
direction: but by the strenuous exertions of
the firemen the flames were restricted to the
theater building, which was consumed III an
incredibly short time.
passenger train on the Pittsburgh and
Erie railroad ran of the track near Movarla'
Pa, the other day, and was precipitated down
an embankment thirty feet high. Two OF the
coaches were burned, but all the passengers
succeeded in getting out alive twenty Vi
them were injured, but none seriously
The trial of Stokes for the murder of James
Fisk. Jr.. was brought to close i'll New York
on the 4th inst, and resulted i'll verdict OF
guilty of murder in the first degree. On re-
firing. the Jury stood ten for murder and two for
mansaughter. They were absent three hours
On the announcement of the verdict the
prisoner was visibly affected. He turned
ghastlv pale. and threw his arms in the air
with gesture of utter despair.
Financial advices from New York and the
East express the belief that the ruling none
tary stringency must soon give way to an easier
feeling.
Stokes was brought into the New York Court
of Over and Terminer, the other day to re-
ceiye his sentence. The prisoner was asked
what he had to say why sentence of death
that he had not violated the law Intentionally;
that the testimony upon which he was con-
yicted was manufactured and perjured. Judge
Boardman then, in feeling address, III when
he alluded to the prisoners youth and social
surroundings. sentenced him to be hanged
on Friday, the 2Sth day of February next, be-
ing the longest time that could be legally al
lowed the convicted man. The prisoner looked
gentlemanly and bore the scrutinlzing gaze OF
tho thousands of spectators led by morbid
curiosity He was ashy pale. The sympathy
of most of the spectators was with Stokes, and
it is believed Gov. Dix will exert executive
clemency.
A bitter and exciting journalistic war is rag
ing in New York. dispatch of the 9th INST.
says: All the papers in the suit of the Tt'd-
atne against the Times and the Brooklyn Cnton
have been served and the Tribune will press
for trial az early az possible. There il pros
pect of a lively row among the newspapers III
the next few weeks. The Tribune and the
Herald are making common cause against the
Times. and savage compliments are exchanged
daily The Herald IL not in the fight at present,
but will probably take a hand on the side of the
ITtDuIN Gllu NOf IT, iilS "N'' '''e' ~ '''''
gnerce approves the Trib,tlc'S course in bring
ing the libel suit, and intimates that it has
suffered from stories similar to that which
causes the present row.
Deaths in Brooklyn the past year numbered
1868.
Mrs Sophia NJ. Hiltsman andIWilliam j. n.
Sheppard were foully murdered at Morayia.
n. Y, by John Hiltsman, husband of the for
mer.
Stokes has been taken from his luxurious
quarters in the Tombs, and confined in the
murderers cell One ground on which the
verdict will be attacked by Stokes counsel il
the remark said to have been made by one Of
the jurors, between the first and second trials,
that he would be Juror next time then you
will see what will happen to Stokes
The West.
A fire at Galesburg, H.. recently, destroyed
an entire block of buildings, involving loss
of 10000
The damage to steamboats, and barges at
Cincinnati by the breaking of the ice gorge, is
estimated at $780, 900.
Milwaukee shipped, last year, wheat and
flour to the amount of 1858, s21 bushels. Its
manufactures are claimed to foot up $40 000,-
600, of which iron and lager beer are the larg-
est, the former yielding $4,000, 900; the other,
$4,000, 600.
The works of the Northwestern Fertilizing
Company, South Chicago, were destroyed by
fire recently, involving loss of s175,O0O
The fine residence of ex-Gov. Dewey, at
Cassville, Wis, was burned recently. Loss,
$4,000.
The coal-miners' strike at Springfield, H.,
has ended, tho workmen having accepted the
old rates.
Two brothers, named William and David
Clarkson, both butchers, aged respectively 60
and II, were found frozen to death in their
beds in Pike county, Ill., recently. They we're
known to be extremely misery, and it seems
that, Notwithstanding they were wealthy-being
worth 800, 900, had money in their pockets,
and an abundant supply of fuel at hand-they
froze to death because they we're too stingy to
burn their wood Their deaths were certainly
most extraordinary.
A Moroan oounty III forroor has brOuCbf