The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1875-10-29
NEWS OF THE WEEK.


statistics of the Church show a steady increase
throughout the country.
Butterick & Co., the well-known dealers in
Bankruptcies, dress patterns, ETC., OF New
York. have failed.
On tho 10th OF December last Jacob Stander-
man killed Louisa Siedenwald, in New York
city, because she refused to marry him. jacob
has Just been tried for the crime and sentenced
to death.
Frederick Hudson, for many years managing
editor of the New York Herald, was killed by
railroad accident at Concord, Mass. last week.
Hudson WAS the author OF work called "Ihe
History of Journalism and was one OF the
ablest journalists in the country.
The District Attorney Of Brooklyn has en-
tered n ole prosequis in all the suits growing
out OF The Beecher-T ilton scandal and there is
little probability that the great scandal will
ever come prominently before the public again.
Damaging evidence has been discovered
against La Page, the French Canadian arrested
at Pembroke, N. H., for the horrible murder Of
Miss Josie Longmaid.
A sad fate befell MI. and Mrs. Murray
newly-married couple, at Cheshire, Ct, the
other day. The house in which they had taken
rooms was destroyed by fire, and they persisted
in the flames.
A shocking domestic tragedy is reported from
Mercer, Me. Greenleaf Tracy murdered the
divorced wife Of Hiram Walton, who was living
with Tracy, but who had been pardoned and
returned to Walton, by shooting her with a
shot gun. He then fled to the woods and took
his own life. Cause, jealousy.
w. ]. Anderson, until recently business
manager and Treasurer of the Hartford (Ct.)
Erening Post, has been discovered TO be
defaulter to the concern to the amount Of
100000.
The large dry goods house of Morgan Bros,
in Montreal, was entered by burglars, few
nights ago, and robbed of $4,000 worth of
goods.
A disease similar to the epizootic Is making
sad havoc with the cattle Of several counties
on the Pennsylvania side of the Delaware
river.
A member of the Order of United Irish
men has been tried by court-martial Of his
fellows at New York, for betraying the secrets
CT the order and sentenced to die the death of
traitor.
The West.
Chicago elevators contain 1922, 935 bushels of
wheat 1,022, 524 bushels of corn; 346,975
bushels Of oats SO, 361 bushels of rye, and
$50, 141 bushels of barley, making grand total
of 2,541, 936 bushels, against 2, 908 997 bushels
at this period last year.
Gen. Sol. Meredith, one Of Indiana most
prominent Generals during the late war; died
ast week, at Richmond, Ind, from cancer of
the stomach, caused from injuries received in
1862 at the battle of Gainesville, Va. where
he was crushed beneath horse.
Denver, Col, is reveling in first-class
sensation. The people of that city were hori-
fed few days ago, at the discovery Of the
mangled bodies OF four persons in the cellar
of building, their Threats cut from car to
ear. The bodies were those of an cid Italian,
his two sons and nephew and they had evil
IDENTIFY been murdered some days. The whole
matter is involved in deep mystery.
The people Of Williamson county, ILL.,. show
determination to make murder odious in that
locality. short time ago two assassins were
entenced to long terms in the Penitentiary,
and now Marshall Grain, one Of the worst out
laws in the county, has been sentenced to death
for the murder of VIM. Spence.
A young German, Fritz Kaiser committed
suicide, in Chicago, the other day, by jumping
from the top Of the water-works tower, a dis
lance of 1877 feet.
Elmer Washbun, Chief of the United States
Detective Service Bureau, has succeeded in
breaking up a formidable band of counterfeit
ers whose headquarters were at Centralia, Ill.
Six boxes of the queer were unearthed in the
woods near Centralia, aggregating some $780,
600 in fifty-cent fractional currency and IS ma
tional bank notes, and g, 900 in $50 national
bank notes. The 50 notes were on the Traders
National Bank of Chicago, First National Banks
of Peru and Aurora, and the Paxton and Canton
National Banks, Of Illinois Several OF the
counterfeiters were arrested They had been
living quiet life in Centralis, having excited
no attention or suspicion from the citizens.
Chicago paper states tina. there are five
theaters in that city, but notes the fact some
what discreditable TO the dramatic tastes of the
community, that at but two Of them is the legiti-
mate drama played, all the other amusement
caterers having found it more profitable TO
pander to the tastes of the low and uneducated
classes. The two exceptions noted are those of
Mcvicker's Theater and Col Woods Museum.
The performances at these places are eminent
ly respectable, and are patronized almost
wholly by the better classes.
The biggest blow which the whisky ring has
received was struck, the other day. at st. Louis,
in the conviction Of Col. John A. Joyce late
Revenue Agent, upon an indictment for frauds
in the Revenue Department The verdict fell
upon Joyce and his friends like thunderbolt
and has caused the utmost CONSERVATION
among the members of the ring all over the
West.
In quarrel, near Clearwater, Wright county,
Mimi, last week, Nathan Laughton shot and
instantly killed his brother Orrin.
Six persons all colored, were drowned at st.
Louis, few days ago, by the capsizing of
boat.
The st. Louis Journal, Of a recent date says
that the great bridge across the Mississippi at
that place, from which the people expected 80
much in breaking down oppressive monopolies,
is not only grinding monopoly itself, but is in
league with other great monopolies for oppres-