The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1875-05-28
NEWS OF THE WEEK.
The East.


Judge Porter, of counsel for the defense in
the Brooklyn scandal trial lvaened his argument
on Wednesday, May 10. Tilton and Moulton
were handled quite roughly the speaker point
ing them out in person and denouncing IL EN-
with scomful emphasis.
A terrible conhagraton secured last week at
Osceola, Pa. Two hundred houses are reported
destroyed, and twelve hundred people are rem
dered homeless. The fire originated in a lum-
Der yard two miles away, but high wind car
ried the burning embers into all parts Of the
city, and it was found impossible to stay the
flames. Half the town was consumed, includ-
ing all the public buildings and nearly all the
business blocks. The adjacent villages of
Houtzdale and Powellton were also partially
DESTROYED. The total loss will exceed $1,000
600.
another victim Of the specializing mania has
come to grief in Boston Mr.. Abraham T. Jack
SON. hitherto a respected member of the BAR
has disappeared, taking with him several large
sums with which he was intrusted, amounting
in the aggregate to SOC 600.
A dispatch from Pottsville, Pa, states that
destructive fires were raging in the mountains
in that vicinity Shutdown, a small mining vii
lage, was entirely destroyed. dispatch from
the same place states that an attempt was made
TO burn the town of Shenandoah, fires being
started in several places by incendiares. The
flames we're discovered and extinguished. One
incendiary was arrested.
Cardinal McCloskey has been presented with
diamond cross worth $4,000 by the young
ladv In NJ Tpet it,,ta in, No
York.
Another murder even more horrible in it's
details than that of Mrs. Bingham few weeks
since, was perpetrated in Boston last Sunday.
bright little girl, Mabel Young, years of
age, was murdered in a church, and bruised
and mutilated. The body was carried up in the
tower and thrown upon the floor of the loft.
The sexton of the church, Thomas Piper, has
been arrested on suspicion of being the author
of this foul murder
Further investigation into the defalcatons of
Jackson, the missing Boston lawyer, swells the
amount TO over 800, 900.
The West
Mrs Mary Lincoln, widow of the late Presi-
dent has been adjudged insane by jury of the
County Court, at Chicago, and will be sent to
private institution for the care of the insane at
Batavia, III.
The unfortunate widow Of Abraham Lincoln
made an unsuccessful attempt to commit sui
eide at Chicago, just before leaving for the Ba-
tsvia asylum. She purchased what she supposed
to be bottle of laudanum and swallowed the
contents. The mixture, however, was of a
number Of gaugers and storekeepers in
Chicago who were participants in the whisky
frauds, or were criminally careless have been
removed and three or four of them have been
held to bail to await the action of the grand
jury.
The Indiana Grand Lodge of Odd Fellows
has just sustained the action of subordinate
lodge in suspending members connection
with the order on the ground that he was
saloon-keeper.
After protracted trial, the st. Louis RepuJ-
GcGn has been assessed one cent damages for
calling a / Syer a.''shyster."
The issue of the Chicago Inter Ocean for
May q was probably the largest daily paper
ever issued in this or any other country. 1t
contained the delinquent tax-list of Cook coun-
ty, and the whole paper embraced Is full sheets
of pages each, IA pages, and S64 columns.
Thirty compositors were employed SO days in
putting it in type, working 1919 hours per day.
The manuscript copy of this enormous tax-list
weighed 275 pounds and occupied 13, $40 pages.
The grasshoppers arrived in Kansas City last
week on their Eastern journey. They marched
into town and covered the sidewalks, fences,
yards, etc., and the citizens, instead of going
to church, devoted the day to destroying the
pests.
Daniel O'Leary, the pedestrian has just ac-
complished at Chicago the marvellous feat of
walking 500 miles in 1853 hours
AS might have been anticipated the at
tempts of parties Of miners to reach the Black
Hills and their arrest by the military are caus-
ing trouble. The Gordon party was
stopped by company of soldiers while
they were in the State of Nebraska. They
refused 10 be arrested, preferring to
fight. The officer in command of the detach-
ment was sent to Fort Laramie and to Camp
Sheridan and a company of men with a Calling
gun started for his assistance. The miners
also sent out couriers, and intelligence was
conveyed 10 dDOuJ OUU OlueT prOspeCtOfS, VINO
were. on their way to the hills, to hurry ON and
Join in resistance to he soldiers. Meanwhile
a dispatch was sent to Gen. Sheridan, asking
that the Gordon party be set at liberty and
the General ordered their unconditional re-
lease provided they were in the State Of Ne
braska when halted. He further states that
prospectors will not be allowed to enter the Big
Horn country.
Kansas epicures have tested the grasshoppers
as food, and find them very palatable.
The grasshoppers appear to be.making but
slow progress in the West. They are being de-
stroyed in great numbers by every means at the
command of the farmers, and it is now hoped
that their devastations will not be as great as
was at first apprehended
The officers of the secret service, in search
of evidence to be used against the Chicago
distillers. conceived the idea that the freight
bills of the several railroads would show how
much spirits had been shipped within given
time and by comparing these bills with the
books Of the distllers and gaugers, an approx