The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1875-07-30

The East.

The East.
The great thrteen-mile swimming match be-
tween j. ID. Johnson, of England, and Thomas
Coyle, of Chester, Pa, for the championship of
the world, came off on the Delaware river, at
Philadelphia, last week.. and was won by the
Englishman. Coyle became exhausted and gave
up on the tenth mile The entire distance swan
by johnson was 1919 miles, and the time three
hours and ten minutes. After being taken
from the water he was as fresh as when he
entered, and began dancing jig.
Hugh Donahue of Springfield, Mass has
just accomplished the unparalleled feat Of walk
ing 100 miles in l 100 consecutive hours.
During the last few day of his weary tramp he
was very nervous, and almost FRUSTRATED by loss
of sleep, and firearms had to be discharged to
wake him for his hourly toll.
Ingleside, a well-known summer resort near
Holyoke, Mass, has been totally swept out of
existence by fire.
At Philadelphia, on Monday, fool named
Conor playfully pointed a gun at his young
wife and pulled the trigger. He thought it
was empty, but it wasn't, and Conor is now a
vidower.
A locomotive boiler exploded the other day
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Three men were killed outright-the body of
one of them, the engineer, being blown dis
lance Of over thousand feet, where it lodged
in tree.
A large amount Of spurious fve-cent nickel
coin has been placed in circulation by Brook
Ign gang of counterfeiters.
Syracuse, On. y dispa tch announces the !
death of Celia Burlegh the womans rights adj
vocate.
New York telegram announces the suspen- /
sion of the old and prominent banking and
brokerage firm of Duncan, Sherman Il Co. The
failure was caused 10y heavy advances made on
stocks and cotton account The liabilities of
the firm are between IS, 900, 900 and s6 600, 600
The news of the failure produced the widest
excitement in Wall street. Barring Brothers,
Of London, are heavy losers. Americans travel
ing in Europe will also suffer largely by the fail
ure. For time it was feared that the collapse
of this great house was but the beginning of
great financial crash, but an exposition of the
causes that led TO the suspension showed that
these fears were unfounded.
The West.
The Chicago Journal thinks there is a
chance that the lost balloon is still drifting
about in the high upper atmosphere, its pas
sengers lifeless, and the vessel at the mercy of
the currents. If so, it will, of course, ulti-
mately descend to the earth and be heard from
Edmons and Cochrane, accused OF participa-
ton in the Vandalia railroad murder at Long
Point, H., have been fully identified and COM
mitted to tIial without bail.
The trial of John d. Lee, for the Mountain
Meadow massacre, is in progress at Beaver,
Utah. The jury consists of eight Mormons and
four Gentes.
A terrific explosion occurred the other day in
the paper mill of Close & Son, at Iowa City,
Iowa, resulting in the death Of five workmen,
the bodies of three Of whom we're blown dis
lance Of 500 feet across the tops of houses.
The mill was valued at $3.50, 900, and was badly
injured.
News has been received at Gen. Sheridans
headquarters in Chicago that 500 Ponca In
dams have abandoned their reservation. 1t is
also reported that Spotted Tail, with 26O Sioux
warriors, had left his reservation with the in
tention of visiting the Ponca Agency and mas
sacring first the whites on the reservation and
then the Poncas.
Kansas will have no State fair this year, be-
cause no city can afford sufficient subsidy.
John Garretty Peoria pedestrian, succeed
ed the other day in walking seven miles in 571&
minutes.
Hows circus was sadly demoralized by a tor
nado at La Crosse, Wis, few nights ago.
A prisoner at Fort Leavenworth, while work.
ing in quarry, was sunstruck, and it is said
that while in that condition, Sergeant Hogan,
in command of the gang, commenced to beat
him, and inflicted injuries from the effects Of
which he died soon after.
A report comes from the Black Hills, by way
of Fort Laramie, that new and richer gold .
fields have been discovered about thirty-five .
miles northeast of Harney's Peak, and that all
the miners in the Hills, about eight hundred,
were rushing pell-mell for the new diggings. |
1t is reported that nuggets have been found
worth Il and upward.
Judge Booth, of the Circuit Court Of Cook |
County, H., has rendered decision to the eff
feet that the bondsmen Of David A. Gage, late /
City Treasurer Of Chicago, are liable for the /
full amount of the claim of the city against !
Gage-a little less than a millien dollars.
mixed train on the Northern Pacific rail- ,
road consisting Of twenty-five cars, recently |
went through bridge across the Mississippi /
river at Brainerd, Mimi, killing tive persons.
The bridge is about eighty feet high.
The South.
1t is reported that terrible fight occurred in .
Perdido, Escambia county, Ala, few days ago,
between two families named Hallett and Byers,
in which six men, consisting of the father and .
two sons ON each side, were engaged. Five Of /
the party were killed outright, while the sixth /
and last had load of buckshot ia his side.
which must cause death. 1t was old family .
feud.
L. G.. johnson, revenue officer and mem
Der Of the Florida Legislature, was recently
shot dead by unknown assassins at distillery
near Fernandina in that State.
Ex-Confederate Gen. Joseph L. Johnson has
been elected President of the Arkansas IN
dustrial University.
L. Nutting & Co., stave manufacturer Of
indianapolis, have failed. Liabilities, $500
900 assets, $3.50, 600.
Legal proceednus have baa,, covo,oancod Il,