The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1873-09-05
NEWS OF The WEEK.
Tho East.

There is trouble brewing among tho city
authorities of Brooklyn, n. Y. 1t il stated
that a large amount of tho citys securities
cannot be found, for the reason that the late
Assistant Treasurer speculated with the funds,
and the securities were gradually absorbed.
This gentleman makes counter charges against
other city officials whom he claims are impli-
Gated in the affair.
Aid. Nichols, of Philadelphia, has been sem
fenced to nine months imprisonment for ex-
torting e1orbitant fees.
In the course of the investigation. that have
followed the collapse Of the Brooklyn Trust
Company, it has been developed that Rodman,
the cashier of tho concern, and Deputy City
Treasurer of Brooklyn, has stolen about $780,
600 belonging to tho city. He has been
arrested, and will be prosecuted.
The citizens of Newburg, N. Y, are improv-
ing tho appearance Of tho old headquarters of
Gen Washington in that town. Secretary of
War Belknap is cooperating, and has ordered
thirty cannon to DO sent there, to be placed on
headquarter grounds.
Two bank officers have recently committed
suicide, William b. Boyoe, President of the
First National Bank of Lynn Mass, and j. II.
Rosanquest, Cashier of the First National
Bank Of Tarrytown, N. Y.
legal investigation into the affairs of the
Philadelphia Morgue has developed the fact
that the Coroner has for a long time been III
tho habit of selling bodies intrusted to him
for burial. DIR. Hodges of the Medical Col
lege, testified that he was in the habit of buy
ing these unclaimed corpses, and could see
nothing reprehensible in 30 doing.
Michael A. Mcfarland, who spent his whole
fortune in securing the acquittal of his brother
Daniel, for the killing of Albert d. Richard
son, has just died in New York hospital.
Having no friends, he was buried in the Pot
ter's field.
At Montpelier, VT, Joseph Daniels shot
Carrie Dennison, and then killed himself.
Love and Jealousy
John w. Horton, the Lancaster (Pa.)
forger. has been arrested in Providence, II. l.
1t turns out that he is ali old swindler. In
1860 he was in the employ Of Philadelphia
banker and mysteriously disappeared with
s43, 600 belonging to his employer, and it WAS
supposed until recently that no was murdered
and robbed
Walter Snowden, a Philadelphia insurance
clerk, the other day robbed his employers
safe, then struck himself with q dumb bell
and simulated Inconsistencies, to mako be-
heve he had been robbed. The trick was dis
covered and he confessed to tho theft.
A boat containing two men and woman
was swept over tho falls at Reading, Pa, the
other day. and one of the men and tho woman
drowned.
Williamson, the principal in the bond forge
ries which have brought transactions in New
York Central bonds to a standstill in Wall
street, has not yet been arrested. So far.
S92, 600 worth of the forged securities have
been discovered, and it is rumored in Wall
street that one bank has been swindled to the
figure of 100000.
The bond forgeries in New York grow more
formidable every day. 1t is now believed that
81 600, 900 worth of false securities have been
put on the market by the counterfeitng gang.
Edward Patterson, clerk for Keep IL Cross,
New York bankers. has decamped with over
$780, 900 belonging to his employers.
The west.
The assessed valuation of all the property
in Illinois exclusive of railroads) is 81, 1885,
100 6S4.
Young. the money-order counterfeiter, was
recently arrested at Arcola, ILL.,, and now lies
in the Chicago Jail, wounded in tho shoulder
by bullet from the revolver Of Government
detective, for which there appears to be little
cause. He was accompanied by his wife, who
clings to him in spite of the disgrace which
has come upon her husband.
i Al. D....- w.
cago, recently became enraged at one of the
bell-boys of the house, and threw him out of
a window, breaking his leg in two places.
Supt. Washburn, of the Chicago police
force. is about to prefer charges against
every detective officer on his force, except
one.
Tho DeGollyer pavement has been de-
nounced as a failure in Milwaukee and Chi
cage.
One thousand men employed at the Mil
waukee Rolling Mills are thrown out of work
by a strike of the heaters of those mills against
a reduction Of wages
The Territorial Penitentiary at Laramie City,
W. T, was recently destroyed bytire.
The land of Illinois is assessed by the State
Board of Equalization at an average Of s22.8S
an acre improved, and ss47 unimproved.
Several of the Iowa railroad robbers are said
to be in Lafayette county, Mo-, and that the
citizens are afraid to arrest them.
A sailor named John 7. Irving, and claim
ing TO be a relative Of Washington Irving,
now in San Francisco has confessed himself
the murderer of Benjamin Nathan, of New
York, and says he was hired to do the job by
son of the murdered man. Tho fellow is be-
lieved to be insane.
The Texas cattle fever has broken out
among the cattle in the St. Louis diaries.
Beane, the conductor of the coal train
which collided with the passenger ex-
press on the Chicago and Alton railroad, caus-
ing a frightful massacre, has at last been ar
rested in Will county H., whore he has been
skulking ever since the disaster occurred.
His captor was Simon l.. Miller, merchant of
Monee. and an old friend Of the prisoner, who
was tempted by the 81 900 reward to betray
him into the hands fjustice. Beane is now
in Jail in Chicago, and will be tried for his
crime.
A wonderful magnetic spring has been
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