The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1878-01-04
DOMESTIC INTELLIGENCE.
East.

East.
Cornelius Tobin, of Boston, Mass, thr ew
lighted kerosene lamp at Mrs. Mary l.. Mckee
gan, setting her clothes on fire, and she burned
10 death. Tobin was arrested.
Robert p. PARROT, the inventor of the Par.
rott gun, died at Cold Spring, N. Y, last week.
Meter & Co., bankers in New York, have
failed for 100000.
W. II. Roberts building, at Rondout, N. Y,
was burned the other night, and his wife and
daughter and James Brophy persisted in the
flames
Charles Z. Johnson, son of wealthy parents,
and nephew of Henry Ward Beecher, shot
and seriously wounded his wife in Brooklyn, n.
Y, last week. Johnson's wife had left him Oh
account of his violent temper, and for this rea-
son he attempted to murder her.
Areceiyer has been appointed for the Peo-
pies Savings Bank, of New York city.
Gen. George w. McCook, of the famous
Ohio McCook family died in New York last
week.
Seven vessels and thirty-seven men were lost
by the Gloucester fishing fleet the past season.
robbers, Scott and Dunlap, have each been
sentenced to twenty years confinement in the
State prison.
George NJ. Brooks, banker, Lowville, N Y,
has failed, liabilities 100000.
George B. Bigelow, prominent Boston law
yer, has been arrested for embezzling $4,000
held by him in trust.
West.
A general resumption of activity in the In
dian market is noted in the dispatches from
the West A large body of hostiles are Skin
nishing in the Black Hills country, leaving the
miners in a state of uncomfortable uncertainty
as to their intentions in Sonora the Indians
were victorious in an encounter with troops,
and in Idaho trouble il anticipated from the
Bannocks. An expedition is forming at Fort
Lincoln to capture Sitting Bull and his band.
Kate Noonan has been acquitted of the muir
der of VIM. H. Side, at Minneapolis, Mimi, on
the ground of emotional insanity.
The wife of j. b. Bowman, Mayor and
wealthy citizen of East st. Louis, H., commit
ted suicide the other day by shooting herself
through the heart.
Arizona dispatches report the determination
Of band of thieves who had been rcbbing the
mails and preying upon wagon trains in that
region. A portion of the band were pursued
by detachment of cavalry. under Lieutenants
Rucker and Toney, who continued the chase
until they struck permanent camp Of more
than thirty lodges. After gallop through
the village the troopers counted fifteen dead
brigands, and captured number of horses and
large quantity of stolen goods.
A sad calamity occurred near Central City,
COL, few lights since. The residence of
Thomas Terrill was destroyed by fire. and Mrs.
Terrill and two sops and Robert jeffrey per-
ished in the flames.
The deaths from scarlet fever in Chicago for
eleven months of the past year numbered 1877.
The heaviest transaction in mining property
that has yet occurred in the Black Hills country
was completed the other day in the sale to Cal
ifornia capitalists, for the sum of 100000, of
the four mines belonging to the Golden Gate
Mining Company.
The matter of prices of admission to irst-
class dramatic entertainments has been agitat-
ing the managers Of the country for some time
bringing out great diversity of opinion in re-
gard to proposed reduction. Mr.. McVicker. of
Chicago, has taken the bull by the horns, and
reduced the prices at his theatGr about % per
cent, hoping an increase in attendance more
than sufficient to compensate for the change
The amusement tariff has been too high for
some time and Mcyicker deserves success in his
recognition of the fact.
Thomas Nixon, supposed to be one of the
Union Pacific express robbers, has been arrest
ed in Texas and taken to Omaha.
The number of hogs slaughtered and packed
during the past two months in Chicago has
been 1,O22, 537, against 1,O5O,945 for the same
period last year.
The loss of property on Western rivers dur
ing the past year is set down at So, 1870, 900.
This includes the ice and coal-boat disasters on
the Ohio river, amounting to S4,0OO,0OO. The
number of lives lost during the same time was
seventy, more than two-thirds by explosions
and burning of steamers.
south.
Detective William G. Pride, Of Memphis,
while half asleep, imagined he heard burglar
at the window, took pistol from under his
pillow and, in attempting to cock 1t, the
weapon was discharged, the ball passing
through the body of his 5-months-old child,
and also through the body of his wife, causing
the death of both in a few hours.
Postmaster Clarkes, of fernando, Miss, was
garroted and robbed Of 5000 Postoffice funds,
few nights ago.
The Tennessee Legislature has adjourned
without agreeing upon any settlement of the
State debt, the object for which the session
was called