The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1878-04-12
DOMESTIC INTELLIGENCE.
East.

Failures Booth d Edgar, sugar refiners,
Boston, liabilities s750,000; Joseph Poulks'
Sons, shipping and commission merchants,
New York, liabilities S450,00 Manning &
Sears, cotton brokers' Boston, liabilities $780,
OO0
There was terrific explosion and conhagra-
ton on che Lehigh Valley railroad, at Stating
ton, Pa, the other day. An oil train, going at
a speed Of twenty miles an hour, dashed into
freight train preceding it. An oil tank ex-
ploded with terrific force, killing four persons
and woulding twenty-one Nineteen oil cars
and four merchandise cars were destroyed in
the conhagration that followed. The loss is
estimated at 100000.
A shocking tragedy was enacted on the stage
of theater at Pawtucket, r. l., few nights
ago. One feat of the company consisted of the
shooting of an apple from the head or hand of
performer. Mile. volante, trapeze performer
held an apple on her head and Mrs. Jennie Fow-
Ter, known on the stage as Franklin, was to
shoot the apple. With uncommon recklessness
the shooter stood with her back to a mark,
taking aim by the reflection in the mirror The
rifle was discharged and Mile. volante fell
Mrs. Franklin was arrested.
One of the most sickening horrors of the year
occurred at Bath, N. Y. a few nights since. l..
G. Ford. an insane man, sent 10 the Steuben
County Poor-House from Hornellsville, set fire
to the building used for the insane department
of the County House, in which upward OF sixty
insane people were sleeping. The fire spread
rapidly, and made the rescuing of the mates
matter Of great difficulty and danger. About
forty were rescued by officers and citizens, and
some others escaped but fifteen of the crazed
unfortunates perished in the iames and one
was injured shockingly, and probably fatally.
At Cambridge Mass, three men were killed,
one fatally injured, and three others more or
less injured, by the explosion Of boiler in
Seavey & Co. stamping mandatory.
Two more Of the Massachusetts saving banks
being unable to Fay their depositors, have
placed themselves under the guardianship Of
the new "stay law" which secures them from
the opportunities Of creditors for the present,
and may enable them at some future day to re-
sumo the business of "taking in" the thrifty
poor and their deposits.
Leman Klous, senior partner of the firm of
Leman Klous q Co., Wholesale dealers in hat
ters' materials, Broome street, New York, has
failed for 100000.
West.
Chicago elevators contain 1927, t3s bushels
OF wheat; 724, 9S3 bushels of corn; 226, 81
bushels of oats 1907 bushels Of rye, and
549,686 bushels Of barley, making grand to-
tai Of 2,79s,O92 bushels, against 1910, 1858
bushels at this period last year.
Henry Crouch, his wife and two children
we're drowned in pond near Augusta, Mich,
py the capsizing Of boat, few days ago.
Joseph p. Bugbee, hitherto one Of the most
honored business men Of indianapolis, has
been arrested for forgery. The amount of his
forgeries is somewhere in the neighborhood |
OF $4,000.
The first annual conference Of the Mormon |
church since the death of Brigham Young |
has just been held at Salt Lake. The saints |
appeared to be well pleased with the new adj
ministration, which is in some material re-
spects an Improvement upon that Of Brigham.
There has been serious strike among the
engineers and firemen of the Atchison, Topeka
and Santa Fe railroad, which was only sup
pressed by the calling out of the Kansas militia
south.
The Bank OF Jacksonville, Fla, was recently
robbed OF $1,000. A man engaged the atten-
ton OF the cashier while confederate entered