The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1874-04-24
NEWS OF THE WEEK.
Tho East

der that has been committed there. Inc
victims we're Mrs. Roerig and her three-year-
old boy. The murderer, one DR.. Otto, sub
sequently committed suicide by taking poison.
Twelve printers belonging to the Titusville
(Pa) Typographical Union have been sem
fenced to "a hours in jail each, $40 fine and
costs, on charge of conspiracy against the
Daily Courier. The conspiracy consisted in
striking against reduction of wages.
Sir Lambton Lorraine has declined public
reception at the hands of the New York city
authorities, with thanks for the compliment.
Philadelphia reports genuine case Of Gre
nation. physician, whose son died, erected
furnace in the cellar Of his house and re-
duced the body to ashes.
A bill has been introduced in the New York
State Assembly to incorporate an incremation
society. for burning the dead, with capital of
$4,000.
The West.
According to the Indian Peace Commission
ers, there is no disposition on the part of the
tribes visited by them to engage in war; The
Commissioners assert that the warlike reports
forwarded during their absence at the agen-
cies were in the interest of certain spectators
and contractors.
An important meeting of vessel-owners
from all points on the lakes was held at De-
troit last week, to protest against the bridging
of the Detroit and St. Clair rivers in the in
terests Of the railroads.
The Lakeside Monthly, of Chicago has sus-
pended publication until September next.
The next Wisconsin State Fair will be held
at Oshkosh, Sept. 20.
The fruit crop has not been materially dam
aged by the recent cold snap in Southern
Illinois
The National Crop Reporter publishes de-
auctions from the estimates of its correspond
ents in relation to the probable area which
will be seeded this spring in wheat corn and
oats, in the States of Illinois, Indiana, Iowa.
Kansas, Minnesota, Missouri, Ohio and Wis
consin. The following is an abstract of the
information furnished: The area seeded in
spring wheat last year in the States named is
placed at G, 800, 600 acres, upon which there is
an estimated increase this year Of 8 per cent,
making the estimated area this year 1902, 900
acres. The estimated area planted in corn in
1873 in the above eight States was 90, 800, 600
acres the estimated increase this spring is
8 40 per cent, which would make the total
area %, 900, 900 acres. In oats, the area sown
last year was 5,272,0O0 acres in the States
named, and the probable increase this year is
estimated at 8 2-10 per cent, which makes a
total area amounting to 1914, 900 acres.
A Milwaukee paper publishes interview
with the Hon. Alexander Mitchell, President
of the Milwaukee and st. Paul railroad, in
which he says, in respect tc the law passed
by the last Legislature of Wisconsin, that the
road cannot run under it. He further says |
that the company will first test the constitu-
tionality of the act in the courts, and if |
beaten there, will take off all its trains.
Nearly all the business part of the town of
Ishpeming, Mich, has been burned Loss |
about S150.00O. The fire was the work of
incendiaries.
The Chicago Eoening Journal has just COM
pleted its thirtieth year. In all these years
it has never had occasion to defend libel
suit.
Detroit (Mich.) statistics Number of man
ufactories in the city, 4O2-the largest number
in single branches being cigars, breweres,
iron, and furniture capital employed, S2S,
$40, 900; value of annual products, $2S, 540,.
000 number of employees, IA, 66S; annual
amount paid in wages, 57,131, $50.
A Salt Lake (Utah) dispatch says "Old
man Bender, now in Jail here, has been iden-
titled through photographs of him sent to
Kansas, and will be taken there. The young
man arrested as his son has been released, he
proving to be q deserter from the army"
Tho South.
Nashville, Tenn, was recently visited by a
terrific tornado, demolishing and damaging
buildings and doing much other damage. Loss
over 800, 900.
The recent flood in the Cumberland river
destroyed large amount of property in Nash
vile. Delegations of planters from the par
ishes bordering on the Mississippi, Red and
Ouachita rivers recently waited on the Gov
ernor of Louisiana, stating that their cattle
and stock had all been drowned, their lands
and houses inundated, and themselves and
their laborers reduced to restitution by the
flood. They ask that the
United States military authorities be requested
to issue rations to the sufferers.
A Raleigh IN. O. telegram Of April 10 says
" A private dispatch received in this city this
and heavy rumblings in Beld and Stone noun
tains on Thursday last. The trembling of the
earth was felt more than 100 miles from the
mountains The shocks are more severe than
before, and it is firmly believed by scientists
that an eruption is imminent"
Advices from New Orleans state that the
whole OF that portion Of Louisiana extending
from Monroe to the mouth of the Red river is
under water, and that $4,000 people in that
district will soon be on the verge of starva-
ton. Large numbers Of negroes from the
overflowed district will soon DO fiocking to
New Orleans. Gov. Kellogg has issued a
proclamation to officials and citizens Of the
overlooked districts assuring them that the
State Government has done and is doing all
that it's resources allow to alleviate the suffer
ings Of those who have been reduced to desti- ]
tuition by the disastrous floods. !
st. Louis papers state that the robbers who
rified the San Antonio (Texas) stage are
James II. Reed, G. IL. Carter, and John II.
Nelson, all from Vernon county Mo A strong ,