The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1875-10-22
NEWS OF THE WEEK.
The East.

A Frenchman named La Page has been al
rested at Suncook, N. H., on suspicion OF being
the murderer of Miss Josie Longmaid.
Strauss, Lehman d Co., heavy dry goods
dealers of New York, have failed. Liabilities,
$500, 1000.
John II. Contoit the millionaire CONNECTION
or, who died recently in New York, bequeathed
to his sole heir and child, Charles II. Contoit,
the nice little fortune Of sS,000,OOO.
While a number of colored men were re-
turning from a picnic near Brooklyn, a few
DAYS ago, they were attacked by party Of
white men. One negro was killed and one
MORALLY wounded. Seven of those engaged in
the assault were arrested.
Several commercial suspensions have oc-
Cured in New York during the past week.
Another horrible murder is reported from
New England. An old man of 20, named Ru-
fus streeter was found dead in ditch near
Barre VT, his head beaten to a jelly, his alb
domen ripped open, and the body otherwise
mutilated. The crime was evidently commit
ted for the purpose of robbery.
A shocking domestic tragedy was enacted last
week at Hackettstown, n. j. Jas. Kicker shot
and killed his two sons, aged 6 and 10, and shot
at his wife, but missed her. He then shot him
self in the head. The wound is not serious.
Domestic trouble led to the crime.
Thomas NJ. Judd, member of the Massachu-
sets Legislature from Berkshire county, has
been arrested for forging note for 81 ZOO, on
which he secured the money.
There was large reunion of Union and
Confederate soldiers at Elizabeth, N. j., last
week Speeches were made by Gems. Kill
patrick, Pemberton and Pryor.
The first building in the country erected ex-
clusively for the order of the Sovereigns of
Industry, was dedicated last week at Spring
field Mass.
The west.
Judge Foreman, of the Third District Court
of Utah. has taken the Mormon bull right by
the horns. In his charge to the Grand Jury at
Salt Lake City, the other day, he admonished
them to indict number of individuals impl-
Gated in swindling the Territory out of lands
and for illegal voting. He particularly urged
them to indict every leader, proclaimer or in
stigator of polygamy, which he denounced as a
walking ulcer and degrading crime, fit only for
the darkest days of anterior civilization. He
said it had existed only by the generosity Of
the government but that the government was
now in earnest, and the Mormons would soon
be made to realize it.
There was bloody row at mining camp 100
miles flom Denver Col, last week, so or 100
miners, with guns and pistols, playing lively
part. The notorious Maj. Graham, lately re-
leased from the penitentary shot and wounded
a miner, at which the friends of the latter be-
came 30 incensed that they started out to lynch
Graham, whom they completely riddled with
bullets. A number of Graham's friends were
then ordered to leave the country on pain Of
being treated in a similar way.
John Bulliner and Allen Baker, two of the
Williamson county Ql.) Ku-Klux have been
found guilty of murder in the second degree,
and sentenced to twenty-five years each in the
penitentiary.
At the county fair grounds near Greensfeld,
o., one day last week, the seats arouAi the
race track fell, precipitating fully 1000 people
to the ground severely injuring a large num-
Der Of men, women and children.
letter has been received in st. Paul from
a wel-informed gentleman at Bismarck, pre-
dieting a red-hot Indian war next year, unless
Congress takes heroic measures TO suppress it,
before fairly insugurated. He says frontiers
men insist that the Black Hills will be occupied
without a treaty or that the Indians will be
stirred up to such an extent that trouble and
treaty must follow. Except few timid ones,
the people on the frontier 10 not fear the re-
suit in that case, believing that it will require
ing them employment and adding to the popu-
lation Of the border.
San Francisco and other portions of Cali
fornia, have just experienced another sharp
earthquake shock.
The grand jury of Winnebago county, ILL.,,
has indicted the two st. Louis editors, Foster
and Edwards, who some time ago fought duel
near Rockford. The seconds and surgeons,
and Postgate, the Inter Ocean reporter, were
also indicted. The same grand jury also
found indictments against Patrick Flynn, ex-
Sheriff of the county, and Franc b. Wilkie, one
of the editors Of the Chicago Times for con-
spiracy and subornation Of perjury in obtain
ing affidavits to damage tie character Of Miss
Early, the young lady who some time ago
recovered verdict for $4,000 damages for
libel against Storey, of the Times.
John T. Huss, Cashier of the First National
Bank of Tiffin, Ohio, having involved the in
stitution by embezzlement, ended his life the
other day by shooting himself through the
heart with pistol.
The village of Park Ridge, a suburb of Chi
csgo, has narrowly escaped having second
Charley Ross affair. Willie Broughton, aged
10, son of prominent citizen, was enticed into
a secluded spot by a couple of strangers, bound
and gagged, and thrown into carriage in
waiting. The men then drove rapidly away.
At the neighboring town OF Jefferson they
stopped to get drink, leaving the boy under
the seat out Of sight. While they were drink
ing lac managed to slip the cords from his wrists
and make his escape, and reached home safely.
The affair created the widest excitement in the
village
Prof Walter p. Jenney, chief geologist of
the Black Hills exploring expedition, returned
to Cheyenne last week having spent five
months in the Hills. The Professor reports
gold 6alds aVtandinO forty miles north from