The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1876-12-01
DOMESTIC NEWS.
East.

At last that long-expected guest Of the au-
thorities of New York, William M. Tweed, has
arrived. he is once more quartered in Lud-
low street jail, New York city, but has to be
contented with palmer and more secure cell
than the one occupied by him before.
The extensive enameled-cloth factory Of
Atha & Hughes, on Sussex avenue, in Newark,
N. j., was destroyed by fire recently. The loss
is between ESQ, 900 and $4,000. Partially in
sured.
West.
Sheriff Groom, of Clay county, No., one
night last week made descent on the notori-
GUS James boys, the much-feared bandits, at
their home, near Kearney, with posse, but
Ms usual the desperadocs proved too much for
the officers. Groom and one OF his men fred
at the brothers, but the weapons failed to obey
and they escaped.
The two counterfeiters, Lang and Boland
who we're arrested in Richmond, Ind, few
days ago, for passing counterfeit money, were
taken to Indianapolis, one day last week, by
a Deputy Marshal and Detective Rathburn,
OF the secret service. The latter identi-
hod Lang Is the notorious Pete
Mccartney, aud Boland as Walters,
alias Walter Scott, against whom an indict
ment is pending in Cincinnati, he having
jumped bail in the sum Of $1,000, which
Mccartney had put up for him. Rathburn
went before the Grand Jury. at Indianapolis,
and had them presented jointly on four in
dictments. They were arragned on one Of
the indictments and pleaded guilty. Sentence
WAS deferred.
Winnipeg dispatch says there has been a
serious outbreak Of smallpox in the Giml
settlement Of Icelanders on Lake Winnipeg,
and twenty deaths have occurred in ten days.
Dr. Lynch, q physician sent out by Lieut.. Gov.
Morris, has eighty cases on his hands. He
telegraphs that of twenty Indians at Sandy Bar
only two survive. The Lieutenant Governor
has issued a proclamation warning people from
contact with the settlement, and sent troops to
enforce it
Private advices received at San Francisco
render it probable that the revolution in
Lower California is the beginning Of an in
surrectionary movement in favor of Porfrio
Diaz. There are scarcely any Government
troops there to oppose the revolutionists.
The clearings of the Chicago banks for last
week foot upa LOT $2i, Os3 O95.71, being
about a, 1872, 900 less than for the cor
responding week of year ago.
The Supreme Court Of Minnesota yesterday
affirmed the constitLtionality o; law, passed
IN 1873, requiring each liquor dealer in the
State to pay s1O annually for the establishment
and maintenance of State asylum for inebri-
stes. Grounds for the asylum were long since
located at the city Of Rochester and this de-
easion of the Supreme Court removes the last
remaining obstacle to the early erection Of the
necessary buildings.
In fire in row Of small frame buildings
on West Madison street. Chicago, one morning
recently, four persons persisted, two men and
two women. A Peoria dispatch states that two
children persisted in a burning house near
Kickapoo, ILL.,, the same day, during the alb
eence of their parents.
Nc Clrtney, the noted counterfeiter, has
been sentenced to the penitentiary for fifteen
years, on plea of guilty" and his sssoo;-
stes ten years each. He WAS tried at Indian
spolis.
Gen. Crook, under the date Of Camp on
CrhLy WOuhnb fOrkq NOV. 70, reports that
Col. Mackenzie, of tie Fourth Cavalry, at
tackled the Cheyenne camp, consisting of 100
lodges, on the West fock Of Powder river, on
Nov. 25, capturing the village and the greater
portion Of the Indian head. The loss on both
eides is thought to be considerable but was not
definitely ascortained WHOM the courier left.
Lieut.. McKenney, Of the Rsurth Cavalry was
killed
South
The Virginia Conference az the Methodist
Episcopal Church South, in session at Rich
mond Va, last week, unanimozsly approved
Of the results OF the meeting between the
Commissioners OF the Methodist Episcopal
Church North and the Episcopal Church
South, held at Cape May last August and re-
solved that 1--WE regard the actin of the
commission as authoritative and fnsl settle
ment Of the question at Issue, and binding
upon all ministers and members Of due two
churchee."
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