The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1874-06-05
OH Grue Turtherner.
The East.

the Mayor in the case OF the female cru
saders, who we're arrested, and ordered the
fines to be refunded The ladies, OF course
are wildly jubilant over their victory, and will
resume their crusading operations.
J. Edgar Thompson, President of the Penn
sylvana Railroad Company, died in Phiadel-
phia on the 2Sth ult., of Bright's disease of
the kidneys.
Nmety-seven aspirants for military honors
presented thems elves at West Point Mt the
June examination. OF this number thirty-two
were sent back home because they could not
write, spell or cipher, or were not familiar
with maps or grammar. The colored applicants
all failed.
In the investigation into the Mill riv er dis
aster Bassett. the dam-contractor, admitted
that even the definite specifications for the
construction of the dam were not adhered to,
and that himself and his partner entered n.the
work in the belief that the dam might give
way. even if built according TO the specifca-
tons.
The Springfield (NIass.) Republican figures
mp the total losses by the Mill river disaster at
81 300 900.
Peter II. Watson has determined TO resign
the Presidency of the Erie railway,
Thomas A. Scott succeeds j. Edgar Thomp-
son (deceased) as President Of the Pennsyl-
vania Railroad Company.
The bodies of all but four of the victims of
the Mill river disaster have been recovered.
President Grant on the ID inst, laid the
cornerstone of tho American Museum of
The building is to be twenty-five feet longer
than the National Capitol at Washington, and
will cost SC. 600, 600
A shocking tragedy was enacted in New
York few days ago. Mrs. Michael Dwyer,
while laboring under temporary fit of in
sanity, murdered her three children, aged 7,
and years, by MASKING their heads to
jelly with a flat-iron, and MORALLY wounded
her husband by ceaving his skull with a
cooper's adze.
The West.
Advices from the West report the Chey-
enne Indians on the war-path, and a lively
campaign is predicted for the summer.
There are now organized in Michigan 43O
Oranges of the Patrons of Husbandry.
The following returns from the census of
1874 evidences the healthy growth of Michi-
gan cities and towns: Grand Rapids COM
plete, except two wards, 26,0O0; Flint. except
one ward, S.l05, against 1886 in 1870; Big
Rapids, g. OS3, against ! 237 in 1870: Coldwater
Abb, against 1881 in 1870; Greenvlle City
$3.50 Lapeer, 2,8S6 against 1,776 in 1870 ;
Port Huron, S,24O, against 5977 in 1870.
Mr. aud Mrs! Warren Mcdowell and two of
their children, living near Saugatuck, Mich,
ate of a raw ham, of their own raising and |
were shortly after attacked with the fatal dis
ease. Mrs. Mcdowell died Sunday and her
husband Tuesday of last week The children |
at last accounts were also considered in |
dangerous condition.
Medical science has achieved another tri-
umph by an operation which was successfully |
performed in Chicago the other day. The |
event referred to was nothing less IL an the |
direct TRANSMISSION of blood from lamb into |
the veins of man in the last stages of con-
sumption, a full report of which is published |
in the papers of that city. Twenty-Five min
utes after the operation the patient recovered |
so far as to regain his usual pulse and was
feeling WELL He conversed freely with his
in excellent spirits. The operation is pro-
nounced successful in every respect, and the .
final result will be watched with much anxiety |
by the medical profession.
Jack Evans is a genuine hero if ever there |
was one. Jack runs an engine on the Bur-
lington and Missouri River Branch road. The
other day, when approaching FaTagut, be-
tween Hamburg and Red Oak, Iowa, he dis
covered a child on the track some sixty yards
distant. He rushed out upon the cow-catch-
err. and, when the engine had reached within
ten feet of the child, whose arms were raised,
made leap, grasped the child, and the two
rolled down the embankment. The child
was uninjured, Jack receiving severe, though
not serious, injury of the ankle for his heroic
effort
The National Crop Reporter Of the 1st inst.
publishes deductions from the estimates of
in relation to the total of
spring and winter wheat now in the ground in
the States of Illinois, Indiana, Kansas, Min
nesota. Missouri, Ohio and Wisconsin, which
indicate an average increase in the total area
of wheat of 2-1O per cent. The increase is
IA per cent in Illinois, $40 per cent. in In.
diana, IS $40 per cent. in Iowa. "a per cent.
in Kansas, 40 per cent in Mime
sofa, II 4-l0 per cent. in Missouri,
5 per cent. in o hio. and 4-10 per cent in
Wisconsin.
The residence Of Robert Jones, a farmer,
living near GAINESVILLE, o.. was destroyed by
fire on the 3Oth ult., and three children were
burned to death.
Five men were instantly killed on the 3Oth
ult.. in the Consolidate Amador mine, Suffer
Creek, Cal, by the falling of cage in the
mine
Madison (Wis.) telegram of June 1;
Crops in this region are looking magnif-
Gently. The growth of grass small grains,
and corn, is wonderful"
II reports from the West are to be believed
general Indian war is imminent.
Abort Madison Qowa) dispatch says spring
and winter wheat are looking better than for
years past. Corn is doing finely is several
inches high, and is being plowed for the first
time. Oats well up. Fruit promising coed
Weld