The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1874-11-20
NEWS OF THE WEEK.
Tho East

NarQ BocCucT HAS Docn pobtpOhou uutu lilo
appeal from the decision of the court refusing
10 order Tilton to file bill of particulars can
be argued. This will probably carry the case
over till next year, as the laws delays will be
taken advantage Of to their fullest extent by
both parties.
The funeral obsequies of the late Catholic
Bishop Bacon were celebrated with unusual
splendor at the Portland (Me) cathedral.
Seats we're reserved for the city government
and other prominent citizens. Archbishop
McClosky, Bishops Williams. Mclaughlin,
Lynch, McWade, enroy nd McNierney, and
some fifty priests, clad their robes, par
tcipated in the services. The requiem mass
was celebrated by Bishop Williams, and Arch
bishop McCloeky preached the funeral SER
mon. The remains were deposited in the
vault beneath the church.
The assay Office at New York recently re-
ceived three and half tons Of silver bullion
from the San Francisco refinery being the
largest amount ever received at one time.
1t will be coined into 5O-cent pieces, and sent,
it is supposed, to South America.
1t is estimated that 10000 poor men and
women are now out Of employment in New
York city, and in need Of charity.
Efforts are being made to arrange for the
disposal by lottery of the grand Opera House
at New York. This would be in keeping with
the history Of building in which the Black
Friday conspiracy WAS concocted, and where
American judicial ermne was 30 long be-
smutched before the eyes Of the whole world.
Three murderers were hung in Pennsyl-
vania in one day last week. Among them
was the famous insurance conspirator, Udder-
zook. He died without making any con-
fession.
The Women's Temperance Convention of
Massachusetts, met in Boston last week.
Chas. Whitman, a clerk, who entered the
Pacific Bank in New York in 1S49, began in
1870 to make fictitious entries in the book of
which he had charge, and when he was de-
tected this week it WAS found that the bank
had lost $25, 900.
L. l.. Adams, the dramatic critic of the
Rochester On. " Democrat and Chronicle,
having written of Mrs. Harry Ryner, in the
character of Elizabeth, THAT her queenly
carriage was far from perfect and her intona-
ton and expression very poor" that lady
called upon Mr.. Adams and attempted to
cowhide him. She was dsarmed and elected
from the office, together with her son, who
accompanied her.
The West.
Fifty stands OF State arms have been sent
fro Springfield to Freeburg, in st. Clair
county, ILL.,, where the coal-miners are on
strike and threatening violence.
An authorized agent from the grasshopper-
plagued district of Kansas is personally so
Letting aid for his people from the citizens Of
Chicago.
Receipts Of hogs at Chicago one day re-
Gently exceeded $1,000. Prices are good
about SCOT per 100 lbs.
Some of the losers by the recent severe fire
at Greencastle, Ind, are suffering, and an APP
peal for their aid has been issued.
Gen. Sheridan recommends the establish
ment of strong military post in the Black
Hills country, to the end that better control
may be maintained over the Indians.
Gen. Ord has received notice that the Com
missary- General decides that the supplies are
barely sufficient for the subsistence of the
army, therefore no rations can be issued to
the sufferers from the grasshoppers in Ne
braska.
A party lately arrived at Kansas City, Mo-,
reports that hunting party, among them
some newspaper men from Ohio, who went
out in the conductors excursion, were chased
by Indians about thirty miles from Hugo, on
the Kansas Pacific. A thousand Utes are
hunting buffalo by permission of the govern
ment, but are peaceable, and their chase Of
the quill-drivers is probable scare on the part
of the latter.
Senator Pomeroy, of Kansas has had the
time of his trial postponed for six months, at
the end of which, he affirms, he will be better
prepared to meet the charges of bribery pre-
ferred against him.
dispatch from Camp Supply, in the Indian
Territory, tells the story of fight on McCel-
Ian creek between twenty-eight men of the
Sth cavalry, under Capt. II, j. Farnsworth,
and 100 Cheyennes. The United States troops
lost one killed and four wounded, and the In
dams lost fifteen killed.
Charles L. Murray late a clerk in the Treas
ury Department at Washington. and CORE
spondent of the Danbury Neocs, has purchased
the South Bend, Qnd.) Union, and will as
sumo control of it next week. It's politics will
be Bourbon straight.
A case of cremation-murder, quite as re-
voting as the Cincinnati case, is reported.
from Monroe county, Ill. A farmer named
Barney M,Mahon, in August last, murdered
his wife and burned her body in brush heap,
keeping the fire burning for two weeks till
every vestige of her remains were consumed
The affair has just been discovered, and the
fend arrested. He denies his guilt, but the
circumstantial evidence against him is so
strong as to leave little doubt bat that he is
guilty
As the express train on the Great Western
railway was leaving Port Credit station
few miles from Toronto, Canada about
O'Clock p. m, Nov. 10, five masked men
boarded her. After christening the bell
cord, they bound and gagged the baggage
master. They then entered the apartments
of the American Express Company. whose |
messenger they gagged, blindfolded and hand |
cuffed. They took the keys of the safe from
him and secured from $4,000 to SAC. 600. The
robbers remained on the train until il reached |
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