The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1878-03-22
DOMESTIC INTELLIGENCE.
East.

Lang a. Co., grocers and -four deslers Pitts
burgh, Pa, have failed. Liabilities 5000, 900.
Robert Hamilton, a prominent citizen Of New
Jersey, and an ex-member Of Congress, is
dead
An average of 40, 900 Of the new silver dollars
will hereafter be coined per day at the Phila-
delphia Mint.
Theron Merritt, of Westchester county, n.
Y, while laboring under tit Of temporary in
sanity, went to the residence Of Mrs. Ann Leg
gett, wealthy widow lady, and shot her
through the heart, causing almost instant
death. He then turned the pistol upon him
self and ended his own life. The parties were
near relatives, and the tragedy has caused
great sensation in that locality.
A bill has been introduced in the Pennsyl-
vania House of Representatives which makes
the cremation of a human body INSIDE
meanor, AMI provides for fine Of not less
than $500, nor more than 81 900, with impris-
onment.
Joseph LaPaige was executed at Concord, N.
H.. on the 10Th of March. He was convicted
Of having waylaid, outraged and murdered the
schoolgirl, Josie Langmaid, at Pembroke, n.
a., in 1876 and was also suspected of having.
under similar circumstances murdered another
young woman named Miss Ball, school
teacher OF st. Adams, in 1874, regarding
whose death there was great mystery at the
time. When on the scaffold he confessed TO
both crimes.
The Lochmere National Bank, of Cambridge,
Mass, was last week robbed of $4,000 in
money and securities in broad daylight.
West.
The Mayor of Chicago, in order to make ends
meet in the distressed condition of the city's
finances, has discontinued the use OF seven fire
engines, discharged 100 fremen, and curtailed
the police force to the extent Of 100 men.
The recent snow-storm in the far West was
by far the severest visitation Of the kind ex-
perienced in that region since the construction
of the Union Pacific railroad. A number Of
persons lost their lives, and there was great de
struction Of live stock, one ranchman alone
losing $1,000 sheep.
letter has been prepared at the State De-
partment, and approved by the Cabinet, invit-
ing the nations Of the Latin union and others
to send representatives to the conference pro-
vided for in the Silver bill. The place at which
the conference shall be held is left for the sug-
eestion and decision Of the nations which may
accept the invitation.
Over 1000, 900 hogs were packed in Chicago
during the past season.
The Cincinnati Gazette publishes dispatches
from fifty-seven points in Southern Ohio, In
diana and Northern Kentucky, from which it
appears that the prospect for a large crop Of
wheat ia exceedingly good. The average sown
last fall is larger than ever before known.
Theron Barnum, the oldest hotel-keeper in
the West and for many years the proprietor Of
Barnum's Hotel, at st. Louis, died in that city
last week, aged 70.
Oliver A. Willard, for the past five years
editor-in-chief Of the Chicago Evenirg Post, is
dead.
south.
An earthquake prevailed at Columbus Ky.,
early on the morning OF the 18th inst, sudden
ly awaking the people from their slumbers and
badly frightening them. II was 80 violent "A
10 rock the houses NO many cradles, threat
ening TO demolish them. Furniture was thrown
about in a helter-skelter way, and crockerv
generally smashed. An immense slice of the
Mississippi river bank fell In, threatening 10
carry with IL dozen houses, which now hang
over the bluff.
II il stated that the public lands around