The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1878-06-28
DOMESTIC INTELLIGENCE.
East.

Hon. T. J. Quinn, Member of Con-
gress from the Albany On. W District, is dead.
William Vermilye, founder OF the
banking house of vermilye & Co., New York, is
dead.
An expedition for the recovery of the
relics of Sir John Franklin sailed from New
York the other day.
The celebration of the privations borne
by Revolutionary patriots at Valley Forge was
held near Norristown, Pa, on the 10th Of June.
Moses A. Wheelock, who has been
widely known for more than twenty years as
President of the New York Stock Exchange,
committed scicide, the other day, by shooting
himself in the head.
The defaulting Treasurer of the Fall
fenced to twelve years in the Massachusetts
State prison.
Akron, Ohio, has had a destructive
fire. The Academy Of Music building and
several stores were burned, involving loss Of
about $4,000.
Gen. Harrison will at once institute
suit for damages against the Ohio and Miami
Medical Colleges at Cincinnati, and the Ann
Arbor College, Michigan in $4,000 each, for
the parts taken in resurrecting the bodies of
J. Scott Harrison, his father, and his friend,
young Devin.
George Sherry and Jeremiah Connolly
were hanged at Chicago on the 21st Of June
for the murder of Hugh McConville, in Janu-
airy last. On the same day Perry Bowsher was
executed at Chillicothe, Ohio, for the MUIR
der Of an old man and woman named McVey.
and Charles Burns was hanged at Paris, ILL.,,
for the murder of Elijah Birdwell, in October
last.
About 200 tramps boarded freight
train on the Wabash road, at Jacksonville, ILL.,,
on June 81, saying they intended to ride, as
they had had all the walking they wanted.
Every possible device was employed to get them
off of the train, but to no purpose. The trampr
were determined to stay. The railroad en-
ployes were entirely too few to cope with this
mob. The consequence was that the tramps
stayed on the train until it reached Quincy, when
they got off and scattered throughout the city,
a number Of them being arrested during the
night by the police. The region about Quincy
is reported to be swarming with tramps,
and the Chicago, Burlington and Quincy aud
the Wabash tracks are reported by passengers
to be lined with them for miles.
The people of Rockford, ILL.,, were re-
Gently treated to dose of supposittious
Journalism after the style affected by sensa-
tional papers. They were intensely agitated
by the publication in local sheet of an afro
cious hoax, in which the most fearful posi-
bilities OF a general Communistic uprising
throughout America were served up as actual
occurrences.
Hon. Blanche X. Bruce, the colored
United States Senator from Mississippi,
was married at Cleveland, Ohio, last week, to
Miss Josephine Wilson, Of that city.
William Shehan, of Fort Wayne, Ind,
painter, drank pint OF whisky on wager.
He then laid down in an clubhouse, where his
dead body was found the next morning.
At the annual meeting of the stock
holders Of the Michigan Central railroad, held
in Detroit the other day, two-thirds of the
stock represented voted for the ticket headed
by William H. Vanderbilt. The road will be
henceforth entirely under the control OF the
Vanderbilt interest
south.
Two men who we're in custody on the
charge Of having outraged the person OF Mrs.
Graves, living near Mitchell, Tenn. on the
10th of May last, we're taken from jail last
week and lynched by a large body Of armed
men.