The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1875-09-24
NEWS OF The WEEK.
The East.

fourths of the horses in the city are affected
with it.
The great Boston dry goods house of Jordan,
Marsh Co., has been partially destroyed by
fire. The loss is estimated at 100000.
The engineer, fireman, and two brakemen of
coal train on the Lehigh Valley railroad were
killed by the explosion of a locomotive at Stony
Creek, Pa, few days ago.
The famous case Of Tilton vs.. Beecher was
called in the City Court of Brooklyn last week.
but was, by consent of counsel, put over until
the next term of the court. Tiltons libel suit
against the Brooklyn Eagle also went over I'M
til the next term, by consent
In the case of Westervelt, who has for some
time been ON trial at Philadelphia under an in
dictment for completely in the Charley Ross
abduction affair has been found guilty OH three
counts of the indictment. But the trial has
failed to reveal the fate or whereabouts of the
lost boy.
The epizootic has broken out again in New
York. 1t is estimated that at least 10000
horses are at present sick with it in that city.
The experiment of publishing daily relig-
iolls newspaper in New York has failed, and the
object several years ago, announces its own
demise.
The cattle disease has broken out in Massa-
chusetts and Rhode Island, and a number of
animals are rapidly dying off.
The West.
The dispute over the Episcopal Bishopric OF
Illinois has also been settled by the election of
the Rev. DR.. McIaren of Cleveland to sue
coed the late Bishop Whitehouse. DR.. Nc
Laren was until very recently Presbyterian
minister. His leanings are toward the High
Church wing of the Church.
A dispatch from Red Cloud Agency says
there will be no difficulty in treating with the
Indians for the purchase of the Black Hills
country. They are perfectly willing to sell,
and will take whatever il offered them, az they
say that the white men are going to occupy
that country anyway. II is thought the Commits
sion will not offer the Indians much money but
will provide for their sustenance for long
term of years, which arrangement would be
preferable for all parties, as the government
must support them anyway.
Rev. John II. II. Brown, of Cohoes, n. Y,
has been elected Bishop OF the Diocese of
Fond du Lac, Wis.,
A man named Ketchum, who has spent ff-
teen years among the Missouri River Indians
arrived at Sioux City, the other day. lie says
there is very great dissatisfaction among them
in regard to the Black Hills matter. Many of
the Indians at Standing Rock and other agen-
cies refuse TO attend the Red Cloud council,
and openly avow their intention of going on
the war path if the Hills are opened to the
whites.
Another great banking institution is about
to be established in San Francisco by the Lazard
Brothers.
A shocking casualty is reported from Terre
Haute, Ind. The boiler of threshing ma
chine engine exploded, and the straw sur
rounding the machine catching fire, three men
were consumed in the flames.
The deadly kerosene lamp has piled up five
more victims in Otoe county, Neb. At farm
house out there the other evening, Mrs.
Black was carrying small child up stairs with
lamp in her hand when she was run into by
boy coming rapidly down. The lamp was
knocked from her grasp and exploded setting
fire to everything combustible. The husband
seized his wife and threw her in pool of
water, and in striving to rescue the remainder
of the family was badly burned and crippled
for life. The mother and two children died
before morning.
Stilson Hutchins has sold the controlling in
terest in the 81. Louis Dispatch to W. r. ALI
son, for twenty-five years the editor of the
Steubenville co. Herald. The price paid was
40,000.
Terrible storms have lately prevailed
throughout New Mexico. The town of Las
Cruces was destroyed by the bursting of
waterspout.
Jesse James is living quietly in st. Louis
among friends, and denies that he was killed
at Pine Hill KY. II has been ascertained that
the name of the dead robber of the Huntington
bank was Thompson McDaniels, Western
Missouri desperate, whose brother Bill was
shot while endeavorng to break jail at Kansas
City few months ago, where he was held for
completely in the robbery of the Kansas Pacific
train at Munce last December
Washington