The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1874-10-30
NEWS OF THE WEEK.
Tho East.

NH, compelled him to accompany them to
the bank and open the safe, and robbed the
institution OF 100000 in currency and
bonds.
A New York dispatch chronicles the loss of
the wrecking steamer A. Winans. All on
board, fifteen persons, perished
Phelps, the Deputy in the New York State
Treasury, through whose scoundrelism the
State was defrauded, some months ago, out of
large amount and his official chief driven to
the insane asylum, has been sentenced to if
teed years in the State Prison.
The reunion Of the Army OF the James was
held at the rooms of the Union League Club,
New York. Oct. 81. Gen. Hawley, OF Con-
necticut, presided the address of welcome
was delivered by Gen. b. +. Butler, and
poem was read by DR.. j. G.. Holland. Gen.
Hawley was selected as orator for the next
meeting, which is to be held at Philadelphia.
The well-known New York banking firm of
Henry Clews & Co., who were seriously
crippled by the panic Of last year, have at
last filed an application for an assignment OF
all their property for the benefit OF their
creditors.
At Pittsburgh, recently John and Jacob
Ehresman were fined $50 each and costs for
killing old horses and selling the meat to saul
sage-makers
The New York coopers have refused to
abandon their trade society, and have been
locked out in consequence.
The west.
The marriage of Col. Fred. Grant son of
he President, and Miss Ida Honore of Chi
cago occurred on the goth of October. The
affair is pronounced by the Chicago papers
the most brilliant social event in the history
OF the city.
The steamer Brooklyn, of the Northern
Transportation Line. exploded her boiler near
Fighting Island, ten miles below Detroit, Oct.
%. The explosion tore her apart, and she
sank instantly. Five passengers and eight of
the crew were killed. and four passengers and
seven of the crew woundnd. The captain,
Henry Brown, Gays he cannot account for the
explosion, but passengers on the boat and an
other CART in the vicinity agree that she was
racing with the steamer Cuba, and carrying
tremendous head OF steam when the catastro-
phe occurred.
Indictments by the wholesale are being re-
turned by the Salt Lake grand jury. The
Salt Lake Ne1os computes the number of
polygamists in the Territory at 1000 men,
5000 women and 5000 children, and the cost
and loss by punishment of all at 1900, 900,
and that the courts would have around them
1900 crying women and 5000 crying children.
The members of the Chicago Board of Pub
lie Works are in st. Louis examining the fire
and water system of that city, with view to
introducing whatever may be found Of advan-
tage in Chicago.
Maj.-Gen. Ord, Of the United States army.
on a recent visit to Chicago, laid before the
charitable of that city the distress Of the
people Of Western Nebraska. He presented
their case before the Board of Trade, and
committee of ten merchants was at once APP
pointed to solicit subscriptions for the relief
of the destitute and starving victims Of the
grasshopper plague in Kansas.
The Secretary Of the Nebraska State Aid
Society states that there are from 1000 to
10, 900 people in that State who will need to
be fed the coming winter.
A telegram from Topeka, Kan, says :
I" Late advces from the Indian country are
very encouraging. The Indians are thor
oughly demoralized and fleeing to their
agencies, leaving behind them everything but
their ponies, arms and clothing. The recent |
surrender of Satanic, and other leading |
Chiefs demoralized all hostile parties, and it |
is believed that they do not contemplate |
further resistance"
The Chicago bar is interested in securing a
consolidation Of the Supreme Court Grand |
Divisions.
1t is expected that when the report of Gen.
Sheridan is received from Fort SILL the chiefs
Satanic and Big Tree will be delivered over
to the State authorities of Texas, by whom
they were released, to be hanged for murder,
as they have violated the conditions of their
release and have been found in armed hos
tility to the government.
The various railroad companies Of the West
propose, among other measures Of retrench-
ment and economy, to reduce the wages Of
their locomotive engineers. The latter had a
meeting at st. Louis, last week, and resolved
that they will not submit to the proposed re-
duction.
Or. Edmund stoughton Kimberly, one of
the old settlers of Chicago, died at his resi-
dence in Lake county, ILL.,. short time since.
aged seventy-two years.
Tho South
The Elliott Block, in Memphis, has been
destroyed 10y fire. Loss, $780, 900.
The Navy Department reports three new
cases of yellow fever at the Pensacola Navy
Yard, one fatal.
News from the sugar districts Of Louisiana
shows a larger crop of cane than for many
years past.
An important transportation convention, in
session at Atlanta, Ga, is endeavoring to per-
feet arrangements for reduced and uniform
freight rates Cd the Southern and Southwest
ern railway lines, in connection with a line OF
steamers from Savannah to Liverpool, ostab-
fishing direct trade between the South and
Europe.
A New Orleans telegram says 1.-Two
registration frauds have already
been discovered, and the investigation con-
tinues. The location Of residences given by
ten persons was found to be an unoccupied
lot. One colored man had registered -FOUR
teen times"
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