The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1873-09-12
NEWS OF The WEEK,
The East.


Treasury in New York. Experts pronounce
them the best counterfets they have ever
seen. Few of them are in circulation in New
York, and it is believed that they have been
issued mostlyin the West. An old man named
Sweet has been arrested at Titusville, Pa, for
passing one Of these counterfeits.
Gloucester, Mass, the famous fishing
port. lost 35 lives and 800 600 by the late gale
on the Nova Scotia coast
Ten of the counterfeit $500 notes have been
received at the New York Sub-Treasury. 1t
is thought that it will be found necessary to
call in the whole genuine issue Of S35, 900, 000
There is a law in Massachusetts, which per-
mits the Governor to grant conditional par
dons that is, to provide that if the prisoner
be convicted of crime committed after his
release, he shall be required to serve out the
remainder of his previous sentence. A prs-
oner who was detained under these circum-
stances recently applied to the Supreme Judi
cial Court by writ of hdbeds corpus for re-
lease and that tribunal has just granted the
application, holding that the law is uncon-
stitutionla.
1t cost New York $50, 500, 900 to run her city
government last year.
The Fashion stud-farm stables at Trenton,
n. j., were burned the other day Nine val
liable horses were consumed, including two
road-mares belonging to President Grant.
Total loss, $4,000.
A New York telegram says that the amount
of bogus securities which the railroad bond
forgers expected to negotiate in this country
and Europe was go 900, 900, and that 81 ZOO, O0O
oil tlo XOr I'll, Of
the gang, it is said, left for Europe some time
since, with large amount of forged bonds
which are reported to have already been dis
posed of in the English market.
A strange tragedy has just been enacted at
Williamsburgh, n. Y. A young lady called Oh
another whose school-mate and most intimate
friend she had been for years. This female
thereupon murdered her, and, after keeping
the body in her bedroom for two days, set fire
to the building to destroy the evidence of her
guilt. 1t appears that the motive Of the
murderess was to obtain a sum of money
which che supposed her friend to have upon
her person. The murder, and the singular
circumstances surrounding it, have pro-
duced profound sensation in Williams
burgh.
Titusville, Pa, was visited by sG0 900 fire
on the 7th inst
Tho west.
Cholera has been raging fearfully at Okaw-
vile, Ill., a little town 20 miles from St. Louis
Twenty-three died in twelve hours Five died
in one family within three hours. The patients
die within fifteen minutes after attack. and
turn black Immediately.
baloonst named Palmer, made an ascent
at Belmont Wis, the other day. When at the
height of 1000 feet, Palmer let go the ropes
aud falling backward, hung by his toes to the
bar his toes slipped from the bar, and, as he
dropped his hands caught the two rings which
were suspended eight feet below the trapeze
1t il described as the most daring feat ever
performed.
Population Of Leavenworth, Kansas, %, 0S7 /
an increase of 1929 in three years.
The Chicago Times, of the 5th inst, prints
special dispatches from over hundred differ
ent points relative to the condition and pros
poets of the corn crop They embrace reports
from almost every county in the great corn
belt through Illinois, Iowa and Kansas. and
there is general coincidence in the statement
that the corn has suffered severely from the
bly, below the average.
Cincinnati has just completed her new stock
yards. They cost including the land, $500 600,
and will accommodate 80, 600 head of live
stock.
At 4 meeting OF the Western Nail Associa-
ton at Pittsburgh, on the Sd inst. a four and
three-eighths card was adopted The associa-
ton unanimously resolved to make the agency
price of nails in Chicago $462I with an eighth
off to the trade while the price in Cincinnati
was fixed at S435 net at indianapolis, $3.50,
and at Kansas City, S4.75 net.
dispatch from Sedalia Mo-, says: The
Lafayette County Vigilance Committee, who
have been in pursuit of the Iowa railroad train
robbers, have returned here and disbanded.
They traced the robbers to st. Clair county.
and surrounded the house where they sup
posed they were hiding, but the birds had
flown. 1t is said they are making for Texas.
Rev. w. L. Watkins, pastor of the Waterloo
Qowa) NJ. f. Church, committed suicide the ,
other day. by drowning himself He was
thought to be temporarily insane, caused by
the dangerous illness of his wife,
Col. John T. Harper Collector of Internal :
Revenue for the Eighth District of Illinois
hes resigned his position, leaving the ac- '
counts of his Office at Springfield about $780, a
900 short. I
Archibald Duncan. of St. Louis. last week c
murdered his wife by shooting her with pis- /
tol, and then blew his own brains out
The Toledo, Wabash and Western road il /
now laying new steel rails the whole length Of t
their line, from Toledo to st. Louis. They t
have just received from Metz, France the c
first steel rails ever brought here from that :
The Union Pacific Railway Company sold u
during the month of August, 1873, 22.s73 p
65-10O acres Of land, at an average of Sc 90 f
7-10 per acre, amounting to sl57. 995. The Il
sales averaged 80 40 acres to each purchaser. d
Total sales to Sept l, 1878. 779.5ls 22-1OO r.
acres, at an average price of s445 per acre. f
amounting to 50, ass, 1927.
The Kansas stallion, Smuggler, has been &
sold to Col Russell, of Milton, Mas, at a n
price above $4,000. =
Prof. Marsh's Yale exploring party has re- :, =
turned to Fort Bridger, after an absence of :,
six weeks in the Uintah Mountains The trip -