The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1878-09-06
DOMESTIC INTELLIGENCE.
East.

New York failures: George w.
Beach, railroad contractor liabilities $780,
900; Joseph Stiner, tea merchant, liza
bilities 1870, 900; Nathanie Burchill, builder,
liabilities $28S, 900, no ass Young, Smith
Co., importers Of sugar, liabilities $345,OOO;
Francis Williams, merchandise broker, habili-
ties S112, 200, no assets
Peters oil cloth factory, at Newark,
N. j., has been destroyed by fire. Loss,
$3.50, 900.
Ex-Collecuor Thomas Murphy, OF New
York, went through the bankrupt court just
before the expiration Of the law. His liabili-
ties are scheduled at $726,OOO.
West.
A dispatch from Cheyenne says that
Sheriff Widdowield and man named Vincent
were lately killed, in a canon Of Elk mountain,
by a party Of highwaymen.
Judge Hollins, of Deadwood, vic
tim of the stampede to the Sinking Water
gold region, arrived at Bismarck, d. T., the
other day, by steamer. He reports it fraud,
and the man Wetmore, who led the party into
the country, liar There was no gold, and
the Deadwood party is now struggling to get
out They found absolutely nothing.
Three highwaymen recently rode into
Concordia, town of 1900 inhabitants in
Lafayette county, Mo-. dismounted in front Of
the principal bank, walked in, and, after in
timidating the cashier into silence, helped
themselves to all the paper money in the
vaults, some $4,000, They then mounted
their horses and galloped off.
Two men were killed and another NOR
tally injured by an elevator accident in Kings
Mo-, last week.
Great forest fires, extending almost
continuously for distance of 100 miles, are
reported as raging along the north shore Of
Lake Superior.
Frank A. George, superintendent of
the money-order department in the St. Louis
postoffice, has absconded, taking with him
about $4,000 of the postoffice funds.
The President, accompanied by
Messrs Thompson and Devens, of the Cabinet,
reached Chicago Sept. 8, formally opened the
National Firemen's Tournament at Dexter
Park, near that city, on the 4th, and left for
st. Paul on the afternoon of that day.
The Indian difficulties in the far North
west have been extinguished in council in
Washington Territory, at which Gen. o. o.
Howard presided. The chiefs promised to give
mp the Indians who had murdered whites, and
announced their future peaceful intentions.
Seven hundred and thirty. four petit
al IN, tba
Chicago during the last six days OF the exist
ence of the Bankrupt law. The total liabili-
ties Of the bankrupts we're scheduled at lit
tie over $23, 900, 900, and the assets at some
thing over 100000
A Washington dispatch says that
Internal Revenue Commissioner Raum has or
dered Collectors Woodcock and Cooper, of
Nashville, Tenn, to employ forty additional
men each, and to make the woods SO hot for
the moonshiners as to compel them to sur
render. The Commissioner is confident that
all illicit whisky-distilling in Tennessee will
cease in thirty days.
The yellow-fever reports from the
South, on the Goth ult., we're not encouraging.
At Memphis the plague had become more
violent. But 5000 white people we're left in
the city. New cases, 119; Deaths So. The |
physicians were completely worn out and were |
resting, while friends Of the sick were search
ing In vain for medical attendants. At New |
Orleans the death rate was steadily advancing ;
deaths for the preceding twenty-four hours. |
81. AT Vicksburg a larger number of new |
cases were reported than on any previous
day, though the mortality was not 80 |
great. Canton Miss, which had a population |
of $500 when the plague appeared, was almost |
completely deserted not a single business
house open except stores the Court House was
locked up, all the officials having left the town
nothing but hearses and collins we're to be seen
on the streets. Grenada, Miss, reported
twenty deaths in the preceding twenty-four
hours. With the exception Of physicians and
nurses nearly every living soul in the town was
down with the plague. At Port Gibson, Miss,
the fever was extremely malignant, and showed
no abatement.
A severe fight recently took place forty
miles northwest of Ell Paso, between a squad
Of Texas State troops and large body of
Indians from Fort Stanton reservation. Seven
Indians and one Ranger were killed.
Yellow-fever bulletin for Aug. 81:
New cases in vicksburg for the preceding
'wenty-four hours, 100; deaths, 13. Memphis
New cases, 100; deaths, 81. New Orleans
The deaths increased to SO, the largest number
n the season to date. Canton, Miss.-The