The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1876-05-12
DOMESTIC NEWS.
East.


Toe Centennial Managers have recoi,sidered
their determination to prohibit the sale OF
liquors on the Exposition grounds, and restau-
rants and saloons are now free to sell liquors OF
all kinds.
Thomas W. Piper, now under sentence OF
death at Boston, has confessed not only that he
murdered Mabel Young in the belfry Of the
Warren Avenue Baptist church, for which muir
der he is to be hung on May &c, but also that he
murdered Bridget Landergan, at Dorchester,
on the night of December 8, 1873 and that he
was the principal in the mysterious and nearly
fatal assault on Mary Tyner, in Oxford street.
Boston, nearly two years ago.
Ten prominent members of the Mollie Ma
guire Association have been arrested at Potts
vile, Pa, and lodged in JAIL charged with
conspiring to murder.
fire at Williamsport, Pa, last week,
burned all the lumber piles on about twenty
acres Of ground comprising 100000 feet of
lumber Loss, 1910, 900 (; Insurance. $210, 900.
The most strenuous efforts have been made
to induce the President to pardon Mckee, the
convicted st. Louis journalist, but he peremp-
torily refuses to intercede.
There is great controversy and much excite
ment in Philadelphia over the action of the
Board of Managers in deciding to close the Ex-
position on Sundays, and strong efforts are be-
ing made to induce the managers to open the
grounds on Sundays, as on other days.
Miss Anna E. Dickinson, the well-known
lecturer, made her debut on the dramatic stage
at the Globe theater, in Boston, a few nights
agN in the presence of vast audience. She
was called before the curtain at the end Of each
act, and four times after the play was over, re-
firing each time overburdened with flowers.
Miss Dickirson's first appearance, says corre-
spondent, was disappointing in that it lacked
originality, soul, and real instinct. Neverthe-
less, it showed that with the energy and deter
mination which she possesses to such a remark
able degree, she may become successful
actress.
Rubenstein, the condemned murderer of
Sara Alexander, at Brooklyn, N. Y, has escaped
the gallows by the only means which seemed
possible in his case-by dying before the day
set for his execution.
West.
a shocking domestic tragedy was enacted in
Chicago one day last week. Anthony Gehr-
ing, a German newspaper carrier, murdered
his wife, to whom he had been married but a
short time, and then took his own life. The
weapon used WAS an Allen revolver. Jealousy
was the cause.
The excitement about the Chinese continues
at San Francisco, and IL is feared unless some
action is taken by the Federal Government
serious disturbances will occur. At a public
meeting in that city, few DAYS ago. the most
incendiary speeches were made, and resolu-
tons adopted approving the destruction of the
Chinese quarter Of Antioch.
There was heavy fall Of snow in Northern
Wisconsin and Minnesota and ON Lake supe-
rior on the Sd inst.
The Wisconsin Fish Commissioners have
had a session at Madison and unanimously Sc
leeted site for a State hatching-house for
which the lsst Legislature appropriated
$4,000. at the Nine Springs thres miles from
Madison.
a tornado of unusual violence svert ov.r