The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1877-11-23
DOMESTIC INTELLIGENCE.
East.


Robert L. Case, President of the Security
Life and Annuity Insurance Company Of New
York, has been convicted Of perjury in swear
ing to the annual statement for 1875.
Newman & Capron's hardware mandatory,
on Twenty-ninth street, New York, has been
destroyed by fire. Loss, 100000.
A terrible explosion Of fire-damp occurred
last week in a colliery near Scranton, Pa, by
which four or five miners were killed and sew
eral badly injured.
Three savings banks in Reading, Pa, closed
their doors simultaneously the other day,
creating the greatest excitement among the
depositors. Their total liabilities amount to
$4,000, 600.
Leprosy has been added to the list of ills
that flesh is heir to in New York. The heather
Chinee is suspected of importing the plague
along with his josses, chopsticks and other
peculiar institutions Of the Flowery Land.
Jonathan Edwards, the eminent Presbyterian
theologian and preacher, died last week at
Hartford, CT, aged rs.
A Fall River (Mass.) dispatch announces the
destruction by fire of the Borden City Mill No.
/. LOSS $450,000.
Conrad Poppenhusen, the owner Of all the
railroads on Long Island, N. Y, has filed a
voluntary petition in bankruptcy. The as
certained liabilities amounts to $3,5OO,OOO,
while the assets are put at 81, 10000 in round
numbers.
Philadelphia was the scene, on Sunday last,
Of a brutal assassination. Alexander b. Sayre,
regular attendant upon the services, left his
seat, advanced up the aisle to where his wife
was sitting, drew pistol and shot her through
the back, infiicting wound believed to be
mortal. They had been separated for two
years, and Sayre had once been imprisoned for
breaking an arm.
thorough investigation of the affairs of the
missing Pittsburgh lawyer, s. B. W. Gill,
shows that he is a rogue Of no common order.
His assets, which were reckoned at little less
than half million, have dwindled to little or
nothing, and his liabilities swelled to over
100000.
West.
Hon. William +. Coolbaugh, President of the
Union National Bank, and an old and highly
esteemed citizen Of Chicago committed sui
eide on the night of the 18th inst, His body
was found at an early hour in the morning at
the base Of the Douglas monument, in the
southern part Of the city. A bullet hole
through his head and pistol beside the body
gave certain proof of the manner of death.
Domestic infelcity is reported as the cause of
the rash act. The sad event created pro-
found sensation throughout the city of Chi
cago.
Chicago has been the scene of another de-
structive confiagration. At o'clock ON the
evening Of "Wednesday, the 14th inst. flames
broke out in the palatial dry-goods store OF
Messrs. Field, Letter Il Co., the third largest |
house in the United States and the second |
largest in the retail business and in a few |
hours the magnificent structure. with its |
vast stock Of goods, was reduced IN n |
mass Of ruins. During the progress Of the |
conhagration two iremen were killed and four |
badly injured by the falling Of ne of the floor.
of the burning structure. The total loss by the |
fire is estimated at about 81 ZOO, 900. The stock
was valued at nearly 1880, 900, a considerable
portion of which was saved in dam |
aged condition. There was an insurance
on the stock OF s95O,0OO. The building
was erected in the spring of 1872 by the Sing
err Sewing Machine Company, at a cost of
between $4,000 and 100000. The first !