The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1873-01-31

process OF illustration Will be by photography
W. III. Bumstead, the Boss Tweed of Jersey
City, has been pardoned out of the peniten-
tiary.
The trial of Boss Tweed, at New York, il
dragging it, slow length along.
The latest New York murder was committed
by printer-Marshall McGruder-who burst
open the door of fellow-compositor named
Clarence Lockwood, and proceeded to empty
the contents of a revolver into the body of the
defenseless typo. The murderer was arrested.
\ woman was connected with the tragedy.
Boston is suffering terribly from smallpox,
5000 cases being reported last week
The West.
The accommodating reports OF fatalities by the
recent storm in Northern Minnesota. says the
Chicago Times, intensity the horror of that
dread calamity. The storm seems to have
been unprecedented in its suddenness AZ well
a. its severity, and for travellers who encoun-
tered it death seems to have been the rule and
escape the exception very few of the luckless
wayfarers surviving to tell the story of their
sufferings. Whole sleighiDg parties frozen to
death upon the road, the horses standing stark
npon their legs and the drivers sitting bolt
upright the farmer dying while hurrying to
the succor of his stock husband leaving hie
wife in the agonies of childbirth, dying by the
roadside while Fastening for assistance. the
mother consigning the newborn infant to the
icy grasp of death only to follow the husband
and child-these are among the narrowing re-
citals. Death has few shapes more horrible.
Similar reports come from all parts OF the
State, and the statement that the loss TO life
and property exceeds that by the Sioux massa-
ere of 1862 is probably not all exaggeration.
New York jeweler was robbed Of 500, 600
worth of jewelry while stopping at the Ire
mont House, i'll Chicago, last week.
The First Congregational Church, one of the
finest and most costly church edifices in
Chicago, has been destroyed by fire. Loss,
$500 insured for 511s,OOO
Perfect, the Chicago colored wife murderer.
has been found guilty, on his second trial, and
again sentenced to be hanged.
The employees of the Southern Minnesota
railroad have seized the road for non-payment
Of back pay
McNulty, the Chillicothe, H.. wife-murderer.
il to be hung.
The thermometer at Sparta, Wis. on the
18th of January, marked 45 degrees below zero.
An airline railroad is projected between
Milwaukee and st. Louis.
Adyices from California state that a severe
battle has been fought between the troops I'M
der command of Gen. Wheaton and the Modoc
Indians. The troops fought the unseen foe
from a. III. TO dark, under terrific fire. dur
ing which scarcely one Indian was seen. The
loss of the troops was 40 killed and wounded.
The loss 10 the Modocs is unknown. The
troops were finally obliged to retreat to their
camps.
j. X. Graves, President of the Iowa Pacific
and two other railroads. has succeeded in OBJ
tanning the necessary funds to pay off the
companies Indebtedness incurred in the con-
struction during the fall, and to commence
operations i'll the spring, when it is the inten-
ton at once to build the road from Dubuqe to
Fort Dodge.
A nephew of George Francis Train has been
sentenced, at Council Bluffs, to thirty days
imprisonment for swindlng a rural gentleman
out Of $40 at three card monte.
The South.
The Arkansas Legislature has passed a reso-
luton doing away with the DISTINGUISHING
clause Of the State Constitution. 1t will be
submitted to vote of the people.
Louis V. Bogy, of st. Louis. has been elected
TO succeed Frank p. Blair in the Senate from
Missouri.
S. w. Dorsey, Republican, has been elected
Unitod States Senator by the Arkansas Lcgis-
lature in place of Senator Rice, whose term ex
pires OH the 4th Of March. This result was
brought about by the action of the Democrats
nineteen of whom voted for Dorsey OF the
final ballot
81. Louis is preparing for grand Industrial
Exposition
The erection of the new st. Louis Merchants
Exchange will be commenced shortly
J. j. Moulton, Postmaster at Mobile il
defaulter to the amount Of $50, 900.
At Little Rock, Ark. the other day. Henry
Smith killed Jackson Pike, at a negro dance
house 10y stabbing him with a bowie-knife.
On the same day Enoch Jackson was knocked
on the head with a dray-pin and killed by his
wife. al we're colored.