The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1878-03-15
DOMESTIC INTELLIGENCE.
East.

East.
Three men were killed and ten seriously in
jured, by the fall of a trestle platform used in
building bridge over the Potomac river, at
Rowell's Bend, Nd, last week.
Something of panic has overtaken the
Philadelphia provision trade, and several firms
have collapsed.
The first new silver dollar was coined at the
Philadelphia mint at seventeen minutes past 8
o'clock on Monday, March IL.
West.
The San Francisco city government is at a
dead lock for want of funds.
Advices from Fort Keogh say that Gen. Miles
was organizing an expeditionto go in search Of
the hostile Sioux.
A national convention of the cheese, butter
and egg men was held in Chicago last week.
About 800 delegates were in attendance.
A Joliet dispatch to the Chicago Tribune
says that Rande, the wholesale murderer,
has not been assigned to any occupation by the
prison authorities, aud it is said he stubbornly
refuses to work. He will probably be managed
on the principle of 'No work, no eat, and his
backbone allowed to rasp his sternum until he
is satisfied that little healthy labor is better
than good deal Of starvation"
The Nebraska Supreme Court has decided
that dealing in grain options in Chicago is
gambling, and that contracts in Nebraska
founded thereon are void.
Chicago papers announce the death of Hon.
Charles L. Wilson for thirty years publisher
and proprietor of the Chicago Euening Journal.
He died at San Antonio, Tex, where he was so
journing for the benefit OF his health. Mr..
Wilson was native of Connecticut and was 60
years old.
Arnold, Constable & Co.. the second largest
dry-goods dealers in New York city, have leased
the Singer building in Chicago Qately occupied
by Field, Letter q Co., and now being rebuilt),
and will shortly open an extensive wholesale
and retail dry-goods house in the Garden City.
The region of country extending from Chey-
enne 400 miles westward was visited by tse-
mendous snow-storm on the 9Th and 9Th of
March, which placed an effectual embargo upon
all kinds Of travel. The Union Pacific railway
was completely blockaded for twenty-four
hours
South.
The business portion of the town of Hot
Springs, Ark, has been swept away by fire.
Loss between s20O. 900 and 800, 900.
Three heavy failures are announced from
Louisville. Ky.-Harvey q Keith, the largest
dealers in boots and shoes In the city the
Newcomb-Buchanan distillery, the largest in
the country, and J. A. Zeanore q Son, whole
sale liquor dealers.
The propeller Hope was run down and sunk
by the steamboat Texas, in the Mississippi
river, near New Orleans, a few days ago. Paul
st. Pierre, his wife and two children, were
drowned, being in the cabin of the propeller.
A violent wind-storm visited the city of At
lanta, Ga, at IL o'clock on the morning Of
Sunday, the 10th inst. The churches were all
filed with worshipers at the time. The wind
struck the Episcopal church broadside, and
shook it to It's foundations. The rector cried out
to the congregation TO throw themselves under
the seats This advice was followed and prob
ably saved the lives of hundreds, for in u mo-
ment after the ediice was a mass of ruins. and
the worshipers were buried beneath the debris.
Remarkable to relate, not one was killed, and
only eighteen injured, all Of whom will proba-
bly, recover. Several other churches were in
jured, the walls shaken, and roofs partly
stripped. The City Hail was entire
ly unroofed and the car sheds of the railway
depot unsettled.
The merchants, bankers and business men
generally Of Louisville, in mass-meeting the
other night, passed resolution strongly favor
ing the repeal Of the Resumption act and Bank
rupt law.