The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1873-09-26
NEWS OF THE WEEK.
The EaSf

The Eclectic Lie insurance Company, of
New York, has collapsed.
The earnings of the Erie railroad from Jan.
to Aug. 81 1872, we're S12, 167, 2i9; same
time in 1879 S11, 635, 961 decrease, 1851, 2s7.
The New York merchants and shippers
have organized Cheap Transportation Asso-
citation.
Charles Bradlaugh, the English agtator ar
rived at New York last week.
The argument.on the motion of Mr. Evarts
to dismiss the Credit Moblier suits on the
ground of unconstitutionality have been con
Guided at Hartford, and the csse taken under
advisenent. This closes the Credit Mobilier
case for the present. The decision will prob
ably be given as soon as reached, but that time
is uncertain.
Ned O'Baldwin, pugilist, better known as
the " Irish Giant" is again in trouble. He
has just been sentenced, at Philadelphia, to
two years ia lie PeLiten.i.ry fof aggravated
a5sIu-L
The west.
The notorious " Lord - Gordon Gordon was
recently arrested some 400 milca west of Fort
Garry, and is now confined in jail on charge
of larceny.
serious accident occurred on the Detroit
and Milwaukee road, fifteen miles from Grand
Haven, on the 18th inst, by which two per-
sons were killed outright two more are ex-
pected to die, the life of another is in doubt
and seven others are wounded more or less
severely. The accident was caused by & bull
lock stepping upon the track thirty feet in
front of the locomotive, which deliberately
stood there until thrown down under the
ing the tender, express, mail, and tive emil
grant cars off the track Six hundred people
were on the train, and it is miraculous that so
few were killed.
Great damage has been done to the corn
tobacco and buckwheat crops by the early
frost throughout the Northwest.
Eighteen bodies have been washed ashore
from the foundeSed propeller Ironsdes, and
two persons are Sill missing. All the rest of
those on board were saved. The steamer sank
in 12O feet of water at place four miles west
by souh of The Piers at Grand Haven Mich.
The cause of the accident was correctly given
in the first dispatches. The steamer sprung
heavy leak at o'clock, which gained so rap
idly on the pumps that at o o'clock it put out
the fires. When all hope of saving the vessel
was gone, the crew and passengers took to the
boats, and all the loss of life occurred through
the capsizlng of two of them.
Capt. Dennis Chapman, member of the
Chicago Board of Trade committed suicide by
blowing his brains out, last week. Financial
troubles had crazed him.
The two hundredth anniversary Of the es-
adjustment by the great French explorer, La
Sale, of Fort st. Louis upon Starved Rock,
near Ottawa, ILL.,, was appropriately celebrated
on the 10th inst. Hon. n. F. Armstrong
related to an immense audience the legend of
Starved Rock, as he had it when a boy from
celebrated Chief Shick-Shack then 104 years
old, and who was an actor in all the bloody
struggles between the Miami and Kickapoo
and Illini or Pottawottamie Indians, beginning
on the Wabash, continuing through Northern
Illinois, including the starvation and massacre
of the entire tribe of Illini Indians except |
seven at Starved Rock the rupture between
the two victorious tribes of Indians at Hard
ing; their four years of war through Central |
Illinois to Kaskaskia, and thence to the Wa
BASH where the bloody duel was fought be-
tween the 600 savages, 800 on either side, and |
the vanquishment of the Miamis.
The Yellowstone expedition has completed |
its mission and will shortly start on its home
ward march. 1t has been complete success,
having accomplished every object for which it
was inaugurated. An area OF 10000 square
miles of unknown country has been explored,
the Indians thoroughly ttrashed, and the
survey of the Northern Pacific railway COM
pleted.
Twenty-four hours Imprisonment is the
sentence pronounced upon the Manitoba
prisoners concerned in kidnapping Lord Cor
don. The temper of The Court and people |
seems to have become much mollned. Gov.
Austin of Minnesota, wko was present, was
Invited to a seat on the bench beside the
Judges. The trifling sentence was received
with cheers by the audience, and, after the
formalties of trial had been Observed. the
Americans and their friends spent the evening
socially with Judge Betouney.
Chicago was visited, on the 18th inst,
by destructive oonfagration. A spark from
a passing locomotive set fire TO a hay shed,
which was soon famed into a fame. A high
wind was prevailing at the time, and the fire
spread with incredible rapidity, causing wild
manic. The flames were not subducd until ten
acres of buildings had been consumed. The
number of houses burned was fifty-tree, nearly
all of which were frame shanties of little value.
Total loss about $25O,OOo, one-thrd Of which
is covered by insurance.
The lost propeller Ironsides is said to have
long been in an unseaworthy condition, and
that she had been leaking badly for several
DAYS before the accident.
Chicago underwriters estimate the loss by
the recent storm on Lake Michigan at half a
million dollars
THE Pacafic Mail steamer Costa RIGA was
lately wrecked on the California coast. The
passengers and crew were saved.
A. San Francisco telegram tags: Measures
have been taken, in military circles, to secure
a communication of the sentence of the Modoc
prisoners Slow Luck and Boncha. The death
warrants of the other prisoners have not been
received vet at Fort Klamath.
The most remarkable discoveries have been
made by the Wheeler exploring expedition in
the Far West. The topographic and geological
results of surveying Eastern Arizona are de-