The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1874-11-06
NEWS OF THE WEEK.


aged properly W the amount of $75. 900. The
sufferers are Adams, Hallock Il Co., manu-
facturers of silverware, S45, 900 +. @. and
q. w. Fowler. owners OF the building,
$40, 900 and American Cork-Cutting Com
pany. 5io,eos.
Eastern chambers Of commerce are taking
measures TO secure revision of tho tariff on
wool and other products, and are bringing in
fuences to bear upon the members OF the
Ways and Means Committee to that end.
The fourth annual convention of the North
American Bee-Keepers' Association meets at
Pittsburgh, Pa, Nov. IL.
There is a prospect that in about six months
the creditors Of Jay Cooke & Co. will receive
ten per cent. Of their accounts.
George IL. Eingsbury, the assistant re-
ceiving teller of the National Bank of Re-
dempton, in Boston, has been arrested
charged with embezzling $3l 900 of the bank
funds within the last two years. Ho has re-
funded $40 600.
The Milford On. H.) Five Cent Savings
Bank has suspended. Liabilities, $500, 900.
A dwelling house at Allegheny City, Pa,
was entered by BURGERS one night last week,
and robbed of considerable silver ware. The
miscreants then set fire to the house, and one
of the slumbering inmates, Margaret Lynch,
was overcome by smoke and suffocated.
Ex-Gov Bnos T. Throop, Of New York,
died at his residence, Willow Brook, near
Auburn, tkst State on the LIST inst.
The West.
The Attorney-Gen eral of Illinois has de-
cided that the State Hospit ais for the Insane
are charitable institutions, and that all per-
sons resident in the State are entitled to their
benefits, free Of charge.
The reports of restitution in Nebraska and
Kansas, caused by the grasshopper plague,
are daily becoming more distressing. An
Associated Press dispatch from Omaha init
mates that the whole truth has not yet been
told. Death by exposure or starvation is the
immediate prospect of thousands in the de-
vastated region unless relief is speedily ex-
tended to them from some quarter
Bloomington, H., is to have new water
works.
The population Of Chicago, accordiLg to the
school census just completed is 395, 226.
The First National Bank OF Salt Lake has
suspended payments.
Stage robbers arc now said to infest Nevada.
Three men stopped the Hamilton coach one
night last week, bouno the driver, and robbed
the mail and Wells & Fargos trunk, contain
ing $4,000. AS there were no passengers and
the drivers conduct being deemed suspicious
he was arrested.
Gov. Beveridge, OF Illinois, has addressed q
la4t m ha ~ = s
latters attention to the fact that dyke con-
strueted by that city, and extending into the
river, has been the cause OF great damage to
the owners of lands on the Illinois side of the
Mississippi, and asking that the matter be
corrected.
One-hah OF the business houses OF Green.
castle, Ind, and twenty dwellings were burned
on the night Of the 28th ult. The fire be gar
by the work OF an incendisry, and spread be-
foro stiff wind, destroying everything in it,
course until it reached the open country ant
ceased fer want Of fuel. The place had ne
fire department, and many Of the buildings
destroyed were very cembustible The loss
is about $400, 900.
The grand jury of the United States Distric
Court at Des Moines, Iowa, has denounced
the grand jury system as unnecessary, ex-
pensive and oppressive" ard recommends it,
abolition.
We learn from the Chicago papers that til,
Tribune of that city is about to change it.
editorial management, Mr.. Joseph Medil
having purchased of Messrs Horace Whit,
and Alfred Cowles a controlling interest ant
taking chief charge as editor. The pur
chase was made on the basis Of 81 ,060, 900 fol
the whole establishment.
The State Baptist Association Of Indiana has
Just concluded an interesting session at Fort
Wayne. Sabbath school statistics we're pre-
sented showing 512 schools in full operation
number Of teachers, $500; number Of pupils
10000; number Of sunday school papers dis.
tributed during the year, 20, 900; number OF
books in libraries, rs, 900; total amount OK.
pended, 512, 00o. heated discus sion took
place IN regard 70 the proposed endowment OF
the State University at Indianapolis The
matter was referred to the committee for re-
port next year.
An exciting race came off at San Francisco
Oct 81. between the celebrated trotting horses
Judge Fullerton aud Occident, which was won
by the latter-best time, 2:l8; $50, COG
changed hands on the result.
An inquest was held at Detroit last week in
regard to the recent explosion of the steamer
Brooklyn, by which calamity eighteen lives
were lost, and q verdict returned placing Tia,
responsibility on the captain, Harvey Brown
and the second engineer, who was one Of tn,
killed.
At Chicago, during the month OF October
1880 carloads and 1872 canal -boat-loads o.
grain were inspected into store, aggregatinl
1901, 999 BUSHELS and 7,7S7,509 bushels
were Inspected out of store grand total Of
bushels grain inspected during the month
is, 479, 4SS.
Bishop McOoskry of Michigan, has sum
moned the initiatory meeting to organize tn,
new Western Diocese Of the Episcopal Church
in that Stale, to assemble at Grand Rapids
December 2.
At st. Paul, Mimi. one night last week
while Joseph Lick and wife we're returning
home, they were set upon by George Lauch.
tenschlager, and George Rapp and his wife
who were evidently lying in wait. Mrs. Lick
was brutally murdered on the spot, the in