The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1878-01-11


Company, for conspiracy to defraud policy
holders.
Thomas Lord, one OF the wealthiest retired |
merchants Of New York, aged "a, married, a
few days ago. the celebrated Mrs. Wilhelnina
wilkins Hicks, aged 43. His children have
joined in petition stating that their father is
deprived of his understanding through old
age, infrmity and decay Of his natural powers,
and is unfit for the government Of himself and
management OF his estate, wherefore they
pray for commission in lunacy. The affair
has produced a big sensation in the metrop-
oils.
The cost to Pennsylvania OF suppressing the
riots Of last summer foots up about $4,000
Two men were killed and third probably
fatally wounded at Glendale, l.. l., by the ex-
plosion of dynamite cartridge while preparing
a blast.
The schooner Martha Innes went ashore Oh
Cape Cop, and the crew of six men were lost.
A number of other vessels were wrecked by
the recent gales on the Eastern coast, and some
loss of life is reported.
Henry r. Hinckley, one OF the private de-
positors who lost heavily by the robbery of the
Northampton Bank, has recovered $25, 600 of
Union Pacific per cent gold bonds, with two
years interest, at cost Of $4,000. short
time ago the bank burglars pledged 100000
of the best railroad bonds for a loan of $8, 600.
The bonds recovered were among the collat-
erals.
West.
A poor orphan boy in st. Louis named Au-
gust Kablemann, has been left a fortune of
100000 by the death of an uncle in San Fran
cisco.
Jacob Bum, banker, Springfield, ILL.,. has
Joined the innumerable caravan of bankrupts.
Liabilities, s75O,OOO assets, s25O,OOO. The
State Savings Bank, Indianapolis, Ind, aud
Hickox q Spear, bankers, San Francisco, Cal,
have also collapsed.
The Union Pacific Railroad Company has or
dered reduction of the wages of its employees.
A terrible explosion Of nitro glycerine oc-
CURED at Negaunee, Mich, on the I'd inst, by
which seven men were instantly killed and Sew
eral others more or less injured. The shock
was felt for many miles around, shaking the
buildings in Ishpeming, three miles distant,
breaking the glass in nearly all the stores and
dwellings, i'll Negaunee. The explosion &C.
Cured while some men were loading nitro
glycerine into freight car OH the Chicago and
| Northwestern railway track, just west Of Ne
gaunee, within twenty rods of the North Jack
son mine. Some 4 800 pounds had been or was
being loaded, when the explosion occurred,
with such tremendous force as to completely
demolsh the locomotive attached to
| Al,
into fragments. The engineer, William
Myers the fireman, and two brakemen,
named respectively Charles Miller, jeremiah
Foley, and William Spellman, were instantly
killed. and their bodies horribly mangled.
Ira Hinkley, s. A. Wheeler, and his son, 20
years old, who we're handling the packages,
were blown to atoms, fragments of their bodies
being found three-fourths Of a mile away.
Considerable property was destroyed by the
explosion.
Chicago papers announce the failure Of
Samuel Bliss d Co., wholesale grocers, and j.
d. Easter & Co., dealers in Marsh haryestors.
The Bliss liabilities are given at $3.50, as
sets not stated. Easter q Co. owe 81, 400 600;
assets ION paper) about 81, 100000.
The failure is announced Of Clement, Morton
& Co., one of the heaviest Wholesale clothing
firms in Chicago.
Abraham Lipman, the leading pawnbroker
of Chicago, has failed, owing creditors about
100000 When our 'uncles" begin to 80
into bankruptcy the times must indeed be sadly
out of joint.
1t is reported that desperate and bloody
fght'to place recently in the Panhandle of
Texas south Of the Red river, on the buffalo
hunting grounds, between hunting party of
Indians composed of Arapahoes and Pawnees,
and another hunting party of Pawnees, during
which some thirty Cheyennes and twelve Paw
nees were killed.
The gold and silver product Of Colorado FOR
1877 reaches the neat sum of $3.50, 432.
south.
A Nashville (Tenn.) dispatch says fright
ened team backed wagon containing Mrs.
Morris Goodloe and four children OFF the
bridge over the Obion river, resulting ia the
drowning OF the four children.
The banks composing the Clearing House
lutions protesting against the remonetizing of
silver.
The business men Of Nashville and the
other Southern cities are agitating the ores
ton of establishing direct trade with the West
Indies. A delegation has gone to Havana
with that object in view.