The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1873-06-06
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PAW PAW. MICHIGAN.
NEWS OF THE WEEK.
The East.

frauds have been perpetrated in the construc-
ton of the East River bridge.
John b. Gallagher, Philadelphia alder
man, has been sentenced to prison for nine
months for extorting illegal fees.
The New York Legislature has passed
law dividing the crime of murder into two de-
grees.
A committee has been appointed from the
Northern Presbyterian General Assembly to
confer with a committee from the Reformed
Church, concerning a union of the two
churches.
1t is stated that the bonded warehouses of
New York are filed with imported goods,
which the importers do not find it profitable to
take out, on account of the high price of gold
and the dullness of the season.
Ralph Waldo Emerson has returned to his
home at Concord.
The American Tract Society has reelected
the old board of officers.
The Atlantic Bank is not so badly hurt by
Taintor's defalcation as was feared at first.
Its assets are found to amount to 70 per cent.
of the liabilities.
1t is stated that Wall street men have gen.
orally determined, in view of the new railroad
law going into effect on July 1, to put no more
money into Illinois railroads.
Jay Gould, it is said is making big efforts to
gain control of the Chicago and Northwestern
railroad.
The horse disease has reappearedin Brooklyn
and New York.
George Francis Train has been pronounced
sane and is now at liberty.
Boston has been visited by another dsas-
trous fire, which devastated an area of four
acres in the business portion Of the city. The
loss is estimated a. from ~, 900 to g, 500
600. Among the buildings burned are the
Globe Theater and the Chickering Piano
Warehouse. During the progress of the con-
fagration, five firemen we're killed by falling
walls, and number of people were injured.
Three hundred thousand dollars worth of
bonds stolen from the Waterford, n. Y, bank,
have been returned by the thieves, who have
received 35 per cent and immunity from pun
ishment.
George Francis Train is about to sue the city
of New York for false imprisonment claiming
800, 900 damages.
George Francis Train says the late Boston
At the recommendation of Henry Ward
Beecher the deacons Of Plymouth Church
have resolved to institute an investigation into
the scandalous charges against their pastor.
Whitelaw Reid acknowledges subscriptions
amounting to $10,6S3 to the Greeley statue
fund.
A New York paper says a reward Of nearly
$500, 900 is dependent on the extradition of
Mcdonnell the Bank of England forger.
The International Typographical Union, re-
Gently in session at Montreal, elected the fol-
lowing officers for the ensuing year: President,
w. r. Mackean Washington; First Vice
President VIM. Kennedy, Chicago; Second
Vice-President, w. G. Johnson, Troy; Secre-
tary and Treasurer, John Collins, Cincinnati
Corresponding Secretary, j. L. Hawkins,
Memphis.
Tweed's trial has been postponed till Oc-
tober.
The West.
Myriads of potato bugs are making them
selves visible in Mclean and adjoining coun-
ties of Illinois, and the crop of potatoes this
season will be unusually light, if not entirely
destroyed by these insects.
immigration is taking definite shape. The
Board of Supervisors will pass an ordinance
that all Chinese sentenced to the county Jail
shall be deprived of their pig tails, levying
tax of $15 quarter on Chinese laundrymen,
and prohibiting the removal of dead bodies to
China.
A furious tornado recently swept through
Neosho county, Kansas. It's track was half
mile wide and six miles long. 1t wrought a
terrible destruction of life and property. Six
persons were killed outright, and of twenty
one who were wounded six more are expected
to die.
The Supreme Court Of Minnesota has just
decided that railways are subject to Legislative
control in the matter of passenger and freight
tariffs.
Grasshoppers have appeared at Sioux City,
Iowa, in countless swarms.
1t is stated by the Secretary of the National
Agricultural Congress, in session last week at
indianapolis, that there are now TO- 900 farmers
associations in the country He assumes an
average membership of 40, which gives those
societies 400. 900 members in all.
San Francisco dispatch says Bogus
Onarley, SHdch-NdsLy jim, IlOOhh JlLl anu
Steamboat Frank after conference with Gen.
Davis and ride through portion of the Law
bed, were furnished four days rations, horses,
and Springfield rifles, and started on the trail
of Capt. Jack. A proposition was made by
them to kill him or capture him with the rest
of the band. Davis is satisfied of their
loyalty.
Cleveland is agitated by a mysterious muir
der, the victim being young woman, who
was found dead in a vacant lot.
The large wholesale furniture store of Pot
ter, King & Co., on Wabash avenue, Chicago,
has been totally destroyed by fire.
The Grand Pacific Hotel, in Chicago, the
largest in the world, has been thrown open to
the public.
A stock company, with large capital, is
about to be organized in Chicago for the
establishment of extensive silver smelling
works in that city.
At Princeton Mills, Mimi, the other day, a
little girl playfully threw pair Of scissors at
her young brother, the points Of which pene-
trated the little fellows heart, producing in
slant death