The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1875-03-19
NEWS Or The WEEK.
Tho East

Tho East.
The reports of gold in the Black Hills country
are vigorously denied by correspondent now
in the Hills.
Yankton has organized Black Hills trans
portation company.
second woman's crusade has broke out in
Chicago.
AS the down morning express train on the
North railway was passing between Grafton and
Danbury, N. H., one day last week, one OF the
passengers, William L. Gordon, of Balton, VT,
hot himself in the head, dying instantly He
was known TO have been insane. On the same
train passenger named Jesse Thayer, we'll
known merchant of Toronto feeling faint at
the incident, went out on the platform and fell
off, receiving fatal injuries.
The West.
Large numbers of strangers are concentrat-
ing at Sioux City, Ia, with the intention OF
Joining the first expedition to the Black Hills.
The annual report of the packing business OF
Chicago printed in the papers of that city, shows
that the total number of hogs received, alive
and dressed, during the season. was 2,362'9 74,
against 9, 243, 212 for the season of 1884. The
average price of the season just closed has been
s6.6216 against $3.50 last year. Trade has been
peculiarly active, and the season has been gen
orally profitable to packers.
Washington dispatches state that President
Grant has sent strict orders for the employment
of such military force as may be necessary to
check the Black Hills expeditions now organic
ing at Yankton and Sioux City.
BY order Of Judge Mexican, of the United
States Court, at Salt Lake, Brigham Young has
been fined S25, and imprisoned i'll the peniten-
tiary for one day, for contempt of court.
Gen Sherman has been interviewed, and
SAYS that expeditions will be prevented from
entering the Black Hills country, or, if they get
ill., they will be driven out.
Five colored men in Chicago have brought
suit against the ST. Elmo restaurant for violation
of the Civil Rights law in refusing them enter
tainment.
The chief occu;ation of the Chicago grand
jury seems to be the finding of indictments
against the editor of the Times. -Four fresh
ones were returned last week, three for libel
and one for obscene publication.
The fishing schooner Sarah II. Cressy, OF
Gloucester left on halibut trip to the Grand
Bank upward of eleven weeks ago. and has not
since been heard from, and in all probability
has been lost. She had crew of twelve men.
This makes the fourth vessel engaged in the
fishery from this port, lost in January and Feb
ruary, with total loss of forty-three lives.
The Davis House. at Gloucester, Mass, has
been destroyed by fire. Much of the furniture
and personal effects of the boarders were
burned, and 30 rapid was the spread of the
flames that the occupants of the building es-
capped with great difficulty. Julia Kelley, al
employe, was taken from the second story, but
was dead when found, or died soon after. The
charred remains of the bodies of Hector Skinner
and c. Smith, boarders, and Margaret Walton
an employee, were found ia the ruins.
A Chicago courtesan named Hannah Kelley
who had been confined in the lookup for some
misdemeanor, committed suicide by taking al
overdose of morphine. She left note which
she stated that she had taken this step to beat
Boyden (the Police Justice) out of Fee"
powder explosion about five miles from
Cleveland last week gave that city very clea
idea of what good square earthquake is. Th'
conclusion was so great as to thoroughly alarm
the whole city, besides doing no iHconsiderabl'
damage in the way of partial aud complete de
struction. Three men were killed.