The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1874-05-27
NEWS OF TIE WEEK,
The East.


orchards and especially in those near Denton
Caroline county, Nd, and has done seriou
damage. In one nursery the grated stocks o
$4,000 trees were entirely killed. 1t is as
serted that the insect is even capable Of de
stroying large trees, as it thickly covers TIN
leaves.
Forty ladies of Pittsburgh, Pa, were ar
rested, while out crusading, for obstructinl
the sidewalks. They were taken to tn,
Mayors Office, but were discharged, being
warned that a second appearance would result
in their being fined as heavily as the law al
owed.
Tammany Democrat and Republican, in
New York, together with an Independent AL
derman, Mr.. Ottendorff, have united in a re-
port to the Board of Aldermen in which the
Police Commissioners are charged with "gross
ineficiency, great negligence, and fragrant
neglect of law" and the Mayor is urged to
remove those who are responsible for the de-
moralization Of the department.
After being arrested, warned and discharged,
the temperance crusaders of Pittsburgh, Pa.
again started ont to work. with the result OF
second arrest and the imposition of fines
attracting much interest.
The American Society of Civil Engineers
of New York, has appointed committee con-
ssting of j. b. Francis, of Lowell Gen.
Thomas G.. Ellis, of Hartford William
Northern, of Pittsburgh, and L. G. Davis, OF
Northampton, to investigate the Mill river
Disaster and to report to the society.
The total number of lives lost by the Mas
sachusetts reservoir catastrophe is now de-
iinitely ascertained to have been 147 The
mass of water, when it left the reservoir, was
175 feet wide and 35 feet deep. This, when
we consider that the torrent rushed
down the valley almost with the rapdity of
the wind, gives us a somewhat definite idea of
the terrible character of the disaster.
The students Of Bowdoin College, Maine,
have rebclled against military drill, and there
is talk of expelling the freshmen and sophie
mores.
Mr. and Mrs. Sartoris have sailed for En-
gland.
The Broadway New York; bus drivers
struck recently FOR an advance Of wages to SO
per diem, and the street was stageless for
day.
Julius l.. Shuman, member of the Pennsyl-
vania Legislature died May % at his resi-
dence in Washington, Lancaster county, from
wound inflicted By one Willmar.
The West.
Tobey & Booths packing-house, Chicago,
has been totally destroyed by fire. Loss,
100000
The Acknowledgement of Minnesota has
10 oh in fror tha
and st. Peter Railway Company the sum Of
S5S, 900, claimed for taxes.
The iquor-sellers of Anoka, Mimi. have
resorted to legal proceedings to dissuade the
crusaders from interfering with their trade.
Judge Zane Of the Sangamon County Gil
Circuit Court, has decided that the writ of
certiordri by which the Chicago and Alton
Railroad Company sought to have case pend
ing before him transferred to United States
court was not valid, and that therefore his
court possessed full jurisdiction.
The Wisconsin State authorities are deter
mined to enforce tho new Railroad law while
it stands. Gov. Taylor has prepared an adj
dress to the people, stating such an intention
and asking cooperation.
On the day following the conclusion of his
trial, the Rev. Mr. Swing notified the people
of Chicago that he had decided to withdraw
from the Presbyterian Church, as he could not
endure further controversy
A. S. Dyckman, President of the State
Pathological Society, of Michigan, reports an
abundant fruit crop for 1874 in all portions of
the State, except the southeastern, where
peaches are not so favorable.
A cooperative mining company has been
organized in Vermilion county, Ill. Capital,
sic. 900.
A fatal derailment occurred on the Wabash
railroad, short distance from Wabash Ind,
last night. The accident was unavoidable.
The accommodation train, running east at
full speed, burst wheel, which threw a car
filled with passengers over on its side and
inta the ditch, killing one man and fatally and
seriously iniuring others.
The Supreme Court OF Utah has decided to
recognize b. l.. Duncan, the appointee OF
the Governor, az Territorial Marshal, instead
of McAllister, elected by the Legislature
also the Probate Courts have no right to
grant divorce.
Two prisoners tried to escape from the
State-Prison at Saltwater, Mimi, recently
by crawling through the sewer leading from
the vaults but were discovered at the outlet
of the sewer and returned to the prison.
They had crawled 500 feet through filth in
describable
Gov. Taylor has issued an address to the
people of Wisconsin, in which he sharply re-
views the course of the railroad companies in
defyng and disregarding the railroad law.
He reiterates his purpose to vigorously en-
force it, and appeals to the people and the
prosecuting attorneys and police officers to
aid in its enforcement.
In the case of The People vs. The Chicago
and Alton Railway Company, in the Circuit
Court of Sangamon county, ILL.,, proposition
from the company to let The People take
judgment on certain conditions, was rejected,
and, on the conclusion of the trial, verdict
for $4,000 was gwen against the company.
In Madison, Wis, three suits have been
brought against officers of the Chicago and
Northwestern aud Chicago and st. Paul Rail-
road Companies, and the officers were ar