The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1874-02-27
PAW PAW. MICHIGAN.
The East.


$6SS, 900 has just been decided at Providence
Y. l., after fifteen years litigation.
Another scene in the contest for women's
rights has just been enacted at Worcester
Mass, where the estates of the women who
refused to pay taxes because they were denied
the vote, were put up for sale. But one Of
them was purchased, and that by friend
Land taxed without representation is as I'M
salable as tea in the same State about 1775.
The Massachusetts, Supreme Court has de-
cided that women have an equal right with
men to sit on school boards
The Maine Senate vas voted in faver of the
abolition of the death penalty.
frightful accident occurred the other day
at Union Dale, Pa. A locomotive leaped the
track, going over All embankment seventy-five
feet killing instantly the engineer, the con-
ductor, the fireman, and the brakeman.
shocking tragedy was recently enacted in
New York city. A party of drunken detec-
tiyes, in pursuit of a man for whom they had
n warrant, broke into the house of a reputable
citizen named Mcnamara, who, resisting the
outrageous intrusion, was shot down by the
intoxicated officers.
The perpetrator OF the New York Stock Ex-
change hoax has been arrested and held to
bail. He is a young man by the name of
Mccoy.
The West.
The Chicago brewers have decided to raise
the price of beer 81 per barrel, and the saloon
keepers threaten to import the beverage from
other cities if the raise is made.
The Supreme Court of New Mexico has de-
cided that the Pueblo Indians, of which there
are some IL, 600 in the Territory, are citizens.
The Chicago Crispins are on a strike.
A private letter from the Red Cloud Agency
to prominent army officer at Omaha says
that the employees there are in constant fear
of their lives, and dare not show their heads
out of doors after dark,
Two rabid dogs made terrible raid through
the streets of Chicago, few days ago, crea-
ting the widest CONSERVATION. Seventeen
persons and sixty CANNES were bitten before
the brutes were dispatched.
There has been serious rioting in st. Clair
county, ILL.,, between the striking coal-miners
and the negroes who have taken their places in
the mines. Gov. Beveridge, at the call of the
Sheriff of the county, has sent arms and ammu-
Hostile Indians recently appeared at Jules
burg and Chappel stations, on the Union Pa
cifc railroad stole several head of horses, and
fired into the station-houses.
The National crop Reporter publishes esti-
mates in relation to the percentage Of the hay
and potatoe crops of 1878, in producers hands
Feb. 1, in the States of Illinois, Iowa, Kansas,
Minnesota, Ohio, and Wisconsin. These
States produced last year over 900O 600 tons
of hay, of which there was on hand Feb a
little over AZ per cent, or about 800 900 tons
Illinois retains the lightest per centage, trihe
less than As, and Wisconsin the heaviest.
nearly 50. The States named produced last
year about 20, 600, 0O0 bushels of Irish pota-
toes. Amount now on hand, 10, 900, coo bush
els
The prospects for fruit in Southern Hi
nois and Southwest Missouri are fatterng.
The freight war which has for some time
been going on between the Baltimore and Ohio
and Pennsylvania railroads has gradually
spread and fierce battles are now fighting be-
tween these two corporations in nearly every
city of the Union. The result is a general re-
duction of rates and universal rejoicing
among the travelling and shipping public. This
battle, which has now lasted for several
months in the East has moved westward, UNI
til nearly every Western road is on the war
path.
General Sherman is now at Fort Laramie,
Wyoming Territory, where he and General
Ord are organizing an army to operate against
the murderous Sioux. General John T.. Smith
will be in command of the troops in the field
Three hundred men went adrift in East
Saginaw Bay, Mich, on the morning of Feb.
90, on a cake of ice upon which they had built |
a fishing village, and which was driven away
from the shore by strong southwest wind.
The cheerless craft bore them out into the
lake till change of the wind to the west
brought them up to the eastern shore of the
bay, where 200 of them managed to escape at
different points. About 100 were still on the
ice at last accounts, and their escape from the
perils of the breaking ice and the freezing
weather can hardly be hoped for.
A dispatch from Saginaw Bay of Feb. q
states that 70 or 100 men were still on the ice
foes, about ten miles from shore. Little APP
prehension was felt for their safety, as small
parties were constantly making their way to
shore although the passage was very perilous,
having to be made over broken cakes of ice.
A call has been issued for a convention of
delegates from the Northwestern States to be
held at Rock Island, H., on March "a, on the
subject of cheap transportation.
Thirty-six valuable circus horses and other
property of Montgomery Queens circus were
consumed by fire at Morris, Ill., last week.
The Government has recovered judgments
against the whole batch of Pekin (Ill.) dis
tillers, the total amount being $4,000.
The Yogel Excise law, which repeats the
Graham Liquor law, together with all restric-
tions upon the sale Of liquors on Sundays or
election-days, has been passed by the Wiscon-
sin Assembly.
l.. NJ Haverstck, editor Of the Rock Island
Oll) Union, was recently cowhided by j. p.
Chopper for an alleged insult to Mrs. j. p. G.
Some excitement is caused in San Francisco
by serious charges against the Mayor and City
Treasurer touching their management Of the
city's financial affairs, and broad hints are
thrown out that big steal has been going on.