The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1875-07-23
NEWS OF THE WEEK.
The East,

meeting TO lndorse him, and express confidence
in his innocence.
The Kings County On. Y.) Grand Jury has
returned true bills against Joseph Loeder and
John j. Price, who are charged with having
sworn falsely against the Rev. Henry Ward
Beecher and Mrs. Elizabeth r. Tilton.
A recent fire at Dunellen, n. j., destroyed
five of the largest buildings in the place. with
a loss of 800, 900.
The New York banks have received notice TO
look out for forged notes Oh the Bank OF En-
gland and Bank Of France.
Hon. VIM. A. Foster, Chef-Justice of the
Vermont Circuit Court was wounded in the
arm by shot being fired in the car window
while riding between Concord and Boston re-
Gently. 20 clue to the perpetrator of the act.
At Pittsburgh, Pa, last week, while the
family of John S. Hays were at dinner at the
Monongahela House their rooms were entered
bv thief and robbed of $4,000 in diamonds
and jewelry.
he Roman Catholic clergy of Lawrence,
Mass, have published card condemning the
rioters in the severest terms, and expressing
the hope that they will be punished to the full
extent of the law
A whole family named Hessler, consisting of
father mother and three children, were killed
last week in Montgomery county, Pa, by the
falling of their house during the prevalence of
a tornado.
gentleman in New York City has brought
a case to test the consttutonality of the
amended Postal law, claiming that it originated
in the Senate.
James L. Bailey shot and killed his father, in
New York city, last week. The murdered man
was wealthy and prominent citizen, and has
for many years been connected with the Hud-
son River railroad
Pomeroy the boy murderer, of Boston, has
written the story of his ife in which he re-
tracts all his former confessions. He claims to
have been goaded by the police into making a
confession of being guilty of the crime for
which he WIS first arrested, and that he was
entirely innocent.
The West.
John d. Lee the Mormon has turned States
evidence, and will be witness for the prose-
oution and tell all he knows about the Mountain
Meadow massacre.
Advces from Minnesota are to the effect
that the grasshoppers have forsaken that State
entirely, going no one knows whittier. Their
depredations have not been extensive, and
there will be no perceptible diminution of the
crops in consequence.
The United States Grand Jury, at st. Louis,
has returned nearly thirty indictments against
the members of the whisky ring, about one
third of them being against Gen. John Nc
Donald and Col. John A. Joyce, ex-Supervsor
of Interval Revenue and ex-Revenue Agent.
The Lincoln State Journal prints carefully
corrected report Of the crops in all sections of
Nebraska, showing that in all portions, except
in few counties, the crop prospects are excel
ent.
Secretary-of-War Belknap has started on
jaunt to the Yellowstone region.
The crop reports from all parts of Iowa are
very encouraging. Wheat, oats and barley
especially look fine. Corn is growing rapidly,
and since the rains ceased the farmers are
working among it with renewed courage. There
has been more prairie broken this year than for
some time before
Two Indians were killed and three wounded
by the soldiers at the Red Cloud Agency few
days since, and there is much excitement. The
negotiations Of the Commissioners are entirely
suspended.
News has been received from Bow River VAL
ley, Neb., of the murder of emigrant family
by the Ponca tribe of Indians.
Prof. Donaldson, accompanied by an Erening
Journal reporter, left Chicago in a balloon for
an aerial voyage ON Thursday evening, July IS,
going in a northeasterly direction. Nothing
has been seen or heard of them up to Saturday,
the 18th, and the impression prevailed in Chi
cago that the unfortunate aeronauts had been
wrecked by the storm that swept over Lake
Michigan on Thursday night.
Sprague, who murdered a saloon-k keeper,
named Dwyer in Holden, No., last year, and
who afterwards escaped, has been convicted
of murder. The murderer will have to serve
two years in the Missouri Pententiary before
being punished for the murder.
The statement of John d. Lee, of Mountain
Meadow massacre netoriety, exonerates Brig
ham Young and the leaders of the Mormon
Church from the charge Of being connected
with the massacre.
Crop reports from Dakota are very encourag
ing The wheat yield will be this year about
1000, 600 bushels.
Ionia, Neb has a volcano, fr Jm which great
clouds of smoke and steam ascend. The heat
is rapidly increasing and it is expected the
mountain will soon be red hot.
A dispatch from Beaver, Utah, states that
the substance of John ID. Lees confession is
that thirty Mormons with the assistance of
large number Of Indians, decoyed the emigrants
from their intrenchments by flag of truce
that all were murdered except seventeen child
rem that the deed was done under the orders
of the leaders of the Mormon church that he
took the news of the massacre to Brigham
Young who deplored the transaction, and said
it would bring disaster on the Mormon people.
The statement of Lee, so far as known, only
confirms the previous reports in regard to the
massacre. During the progress of fire at
Cincinnati, few days ago, the Chief Engineer
of the Fire Department, Enoch G.. Megrue, and
ten firemen we're buried beneath the ruins Of
falling building. Fortunately only one of
them Richard Holcomb, was killed, though
nearly all were sadly bruised. Chief Megrue's
injuries we're the most serious, but hopes are
entertained of his recovery