The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1874-01-09

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Eastern Division, as, 500 in number not ex-
cepting even the President and Vice-President
1t is stated that the engineers will accept the
reduction, but under protest, not receiving it
as full pay.
The Brooklyn IN. ~ Commissioners of
Charities are charged with squandering $780,
900 of the city charity fund.
w. w. Storrs, Treasurer of the National
Savings Bank of Concord, N. H., has con-
fessed to deficiency of $65,0O0 i'll his ac-
counts.
Bradburys piano mandatory in New York
City, and the Opera House at Wilkesbarre,
Pa, have been destroyed by fire.
The unfortunate Spanish steamer Arapiles,
which has been blockaded so long in the
Brooklyn dock by sunken barge, succeeded
in getting out the other day, but while being
towed to another locality, to take on her ar
mament, che ran fast into the mud, where it
is stated she will remain for the present.
A thousand workmen were discharged from
the Brooklyn navy-yard on the I'd inst.
Plymouth Henry Ward Beechers) church
has formally and emphatically declared itself
an independent organization and given those
who interfered in its affairs a very explicit in
timation to attend to their own business and
leave Plymouth church to attend to its affairs.
A dastardly attempt was made, the other
day, to kill Judge S. Il. Morris, of Brooklyn,
n. Y, with an internal machine which was
sent to his house. The Judge opened the
box, but fortunately the matches did not
strike in such a manner as to explode the tor
pedo contained in it, Jgdge Morris is an
ring.
fire in Springfield, Mass, on the 9Th inst,
destroyed 100000 worth of property.
Henry Clews Il Co., of New York. have re-
sumed business, and will pay all their obliga-
tons in full.
The West.
A paper manufacturer of Beloit, Wis, is
about to establish in Rockford, ILL.,, a large
mandatory in which to make flour barrels,
tubs, tobacco casks, cigar boxes, wash-boards,
etc, out of paper.
The threatened general strike of employees
upon the Western railroads has been averted
for the present at least, by the railroad COM
panies Withdrawing their reduction of wages.
The only roads that have been affected by the
strike are the lines operated by the Tom Scott
combination, and the strike on those roads is
practically ended.
The spotted fever has been prevailing to an
alarming extent in Greene county, III.
Three persons were killed and eight
wounded by the rear coach of train on the
Cincinnati, Hamilton and Dayton railroad be-
thrown from the track near Brownsville Ind, |
a few days ago.
Hammond, the revivalist, has caused a great
awakening in Alton, ILL.,, and many gamblers
and saloon keepers have been converted
The receipts of all kinds of grain at Mil
waukee during the past year amounted to
80, All 900 bushels; receipts of flour, l, 230. 900
barrels.
Davenport, Iowa, expended 1900, 900 for |
public improvements last year.
Miss Baty, living near Fort Wayne, Ind,
was assaulted by ruffian whom she met in
the road The brave woman defended herself
valiently, knocking the scoundrel senseless
with club, and afterward had him arrested.
The taxable property of Colorado is S35
GOO 900, having increased about SO, 000 900 in
two years.
Judge Blodgott, of the United States District
Court sitting at Chicago, has decided that
national banks cannot be thrown into bank.
ruptcy under the Bankrupt law, being only
amenable to the provisions of the Currency
ct.
A four-year-old daughter of George Alder
ton, who keeps grocery store in East Sagi-
nav, Mich, the other day threw lighted
match into ten-pound can of powder which
was sitting in the store The explosion that
followed blew the building to atoms, killed the
nl,sI all hall -; To
young man who was clerking in the store.
Paris, Mo-, was visited by destructive fire
on the I'd inst.
There is extreme restitution among the
farmers of Northwestern Iowa. The inhabit-
ants are suffering for the necessaries of life,
and many hundreds are almost dying of want.
The Board of Trade OF Keokuk, Iowa, has
passed resolutions denouncing the st. Louis
bridge a serious obstruction to the naviga-.
ton of the river. and calling on Congress to
abate the nuisance.
Two miners were killed by an explosion of
giant powder at Austin, Nevada, on the 4th
inst.
Twenty-seven lives were recently lost by ]
the wrecking of the schooner Elida, near the
mouth Of San Francisco harbor.
IRichland county, Ohio, is the latest victim c
of the emotional dishonesty 80 fashionable |
among custodians of public moneys. It's
Treasurer has fled, leaving his accounts more !
than hundred thousand dollars short.
shocking domestic tragedy has enacted at :
West Jefferson. Ohio, a few days ago. While
Clinton Knautf, aged II, son of a widow. was !
playin the violin, he was interrupted by his
sister, an esteemed young lady, who jerked I
the bow from his hand and entreated him to q
cease playing on the Sabbath. The young man
became enraged and seized the fre-poker.
striking her on the head and infcting a {
wound from which che died almost instantly.
The case of ex-senator Pomeroy. in which
that dignitary is charged with bribery, came
up for trial at Topeka, Kansas, last week He :
did not appear in person, but his attorneys
made application for a continuance for thirty
days, which was denied by the Court and his
bail declared forfeited.
Two young men, named William McEwan
and George Smith, of East Saginaw, Mich, ,
got adriCt OH a cake of ice the 31st of De- q
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