The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1875-06-11
PAW PAW, MICHIGAN.
NEWS OF The WEEK.
The East.

The East.
Tie Masonic fraternity had a grand day in
New York on the Inauguration Of the magnif-
cent new Masonic Temple recently completed
in that city. Thousands of knights Templar
and other Masonic bodies moved through the
principal streets in imposing numbers and APP
pearance.
The Beecher trial has passed its one hun
dredth day.
DIR. ]. II. Eccleston, of Philadelphia, has
been elected Episcopal Bishop of Iowa.
Pemberton, who murdered Mrs. Bingham at
Boston recently, has been convicted of the
crime, and will probably suffer death, as the
murder was most atrocious one.
VIM. H. Talcott, buyer Of the silk depart
ment of II. b. Clafin 4 Co., New York, has
been arrested and held in bail of 10000 on
the charge of purchasing 800, 900 worth of
silks from alleged smugglers.
W. +. Leslie, Receiving Teller in the banking
house of Duncan, Sherman & Co., New York,
has abeconded, taking with him S12 900.
James NJ. Sweeney, a brother Of Peter Il.
Sweeney, according to a cable dispatch, died in
Paris recently. The deceased was recently in
out of the affidavit made by Ingersoll, the par
doned Tammany ring convict.
The Atlantic Cotton Mills of Lawrence,
Mass, employing 1850 operatives, will shut
down on account Of the dull market on the
10th of July, and remain closed till Sept. /.
The West
destructive wind and rain storm passed
over portions of Ohio, Indiana and kentucky,
last week, doing great damage. Many build
ings were blown down, and railroads and cul-
verts washed away. The roof of a school house
at Lafayette, Ind, was torn off, and several
school children were seriously hurt. At Fort
vile, Ind, railroad bridge was washed away,
and train ditched, killing the engineer and
fireman, and fatally injuring brakeman.
The investiture of Bishop Henni with the
full dignities Of Roman Catholic Archbishop,
and the comforting of the pallium by the Pope's
special envoy was celebrated with impressive
ceremonies and solemnities at Milwaukee on
Thursday last, and was an event of uncommon
interest to the Catholics of the Northwest.
The grasshoppers have invaded the Black
Hills country in great numbers.
Lieut.-Gen. p. III. Sheridan married last
week in Chicago to Miss Irene Rucker, daughter
OF Bvt- Mai. Gen. l.. II. Rucker, of Sheridan's
staff.
During the night Of May Is a burglary was
committed at Dudshoorn, Holland, and among
the property stolen were 10 bonds of Il, 900
each, of the Chicago and Northwestern Rail
way Company II of the same denomination,
of the Winona and ST. Peter Railroad Company;
coupons Of the Winona and st. Peter Railroad
Company, and 20 of the Chicago and South
western Railroad Company-an representing
about $50, 600.
Gordons party, who were taken to Fort
Randall by the military, have been uncondi-
tionally released and allowed to return to Cor
don City.
Gigantic frauds have been discovered in con-
nection with the Missouri State Treasury.
Over a million dollars have been distracted
from the treasury by means Of forged war
claims.
In the case of the twenty-five contemptuous
Chicago Aldermen, who, at the advice of six
lawyers, canvassed the votes of the city incor-
poration election in defiance of the judicial in
junction, Judge Williams, of the Circuit
Court, sentenced each of the Aldermen to pay
a fine Of 500 and costs, and each of the advis-
ing lawyers $500 and costs.
The champion base ball club Of Boston sus-
tanned a crushing defeat in their game at Chi
cago last week, the score standing 2 to in IA
vor Of Chicago. The Bostons had previously
been defeated by the St. Louis club. In their
games in the East the Red Stockings had
scored twenty-seven victories, and it seemed as
though they would win every game they played
this season but base ball is very uncertain,
and it is not safe at any time to bet odds of
and 8 to /.
The Quahada band Of Comanches surren-
dered last week to the commandant at Fort
Sill. The band comprised $50 warriors, and
800 women and children, with l, 400 ponies.
desperate encounter recently occurred in
the vicinity of Stockton, Rocks county, Kansas,
between Mr.. Alexander, Sheriff of Ellis county
and horse thief, resulting in the death of
both.
The plan of paying a bounty per bushel for
dead grasshoppers in lie Sueur county, Minn
has been a success. So far the greater portion
of that body Of the pests has been destroyed
Two hundred and twenty-seven bushels
we're captured in two towns in lie Sueur
county.
A disease known as the BLACK Death. is
making great havoc among the swine Oh the
Upper Ottawa river, Canada.
The South.
Deputy Collector Holman Leatherwood wa
shot and instantly killed last week by an illici
distiller, at Huntsville, Ala.
Hilton e. Fosters lumber mill, and two
schooners were burned at Savannah, Ga, last
week, with loss of 100000
An aged spinster Of Savannah Ga. Miss
Mary Telfar, daughter of ex-Gov. Telfair,
and who died last week, in her will devised to
various religious educational, and charitable in
stitutions in Georgia, legacies amounting to
total of over II. 600, 900.
Crosby, the vicksburg Miss negro Sheriff,
who created so much trouble last winter was
last week shot and dangerously wounded in
saloon in that city, by white man named
Gil1ner with whom he was drinking.
Washington.
The following $40 coupon bonds, known rs
1.-THE fourth series under the act Of Feb. %,