The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1873-08-08

nestle troubles, aggravated by too much
mother-in-law.
There are $50 Oranges in Nebraska. They
resolve to take no direct part in politics.
Rich gold deposits have been discovered In
Alaska.
Two coal-miners at La Sale, ILL.,, were pro-
cipitated down the shaft of a mine, distance
of $50 feet, while standing in bucket
Strange to say, they were not fatally injured.
Virginia City, New, is rejoicing over the
completion of her water-works. The aqueduct
is eighteen miles long.
A special to tho Kansas City Tunes from
Cherryville, Kan, says Col. A. M. York has
received intelligence that more bodies have
been discovered at the Bender graveyard, and
that a clue to the whereabouts of the Benders
can be made.
The Ohio Constitutional Convention has
voted to adjourn until Dec. 2, when they will
meet in Cincinnati.
The late Jesse II. Grants household furni-
ture was recently sold at auction, at Coving-
ton. Ky., for $780, Mrs. Grant will hereafter
live with Mrs. Corbin, at Elizsbethtown, n. ].
The magnificent new dry goods palace of
Field. Letter & Co., in Chicago, erected by
the Singer Sewing Machine Company at cost
of 5000, 900, and almost ready for occupancy
was partially destroyed by fire on the ID
inst. 1t will cost about $4,000 to repair the
damage.
Transportation item: 1t cost sc to shiptwo
tons of spelter from LaSalle to Mendoza. ILL.,.
by wagon, and IS to ship the same weight by
rail-
In Nodaway county, Mo-, $4,000 head OF
stock have been destroyed by the Texas cattle
plague. Other counties have suffered nearly
as bad
Portland, Oregon was visited by destruct-
i've eonhagration on the I'd inst. Twenty
three blocks in the business portion of the
city were burned. The loss is estimated at
800, 900. Three foundries, four mills, five
hotels, 100 stores and $50 dwellings we're de-
stroyed. The fire was evidently the work of
ncendiaries as the flames started in several
different places at the same time, and one of
the fire-bugs was caught in the act Of setting
fire to building.
The total loss by the Portland, Oregon, con-
flagration is $1,15S,675; insurance, 1921, 900.
Senator Ramsey has returned to st. Paul
from Washington, feeling entirely satisfied
that his efforts to induce the State Department
to interfere in behalf of the Manitoba prison.
ers will prove successful. Bancroft Davis, the
Acting Secretary of State, gave him assurances
that he believed the Canadian authoritss
would promptly respond to any reasonable re-
quest on the part Of the American Govern
ment for clemency to these prisoners and re-
lease on bail.
Mrs. Brigham Young No. II, who has petit
toned for divorce and alimony, has boon
approached by her husband, who offers to buy
her off for $4,000, but che refuses to COM
promise, and will press the suit to legal con-
clusion.
Madison, Wis, has suppressed Sunday
The fast train on the Toledo, Wabash and
Western railway makes the run between Tole-
do and st. Louis in Is hours. The time be-
tween New York and the Mississippi river by
this train is As hours.
The sixth annual report of the Ohio Insu-
rance Department shows that the aggregate
number of policies issued in Ohio during the
year ending Dec. 81 1872, was 5,30i. amount
ing to S3,O1S, 704 the aggregate number of
policies in force in Ohio at that date was !
GO, 043, amounting to Sal, 925.410 the aggre-
gate premiums received during the year was
"a, 943, 26O7O; aggregate losses and claims
paid during the same time was II, 4s1, 53SS7. |