The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1879-09-12
DOMESTIC INTELLIGENCE

Jefferson Borden, for many years q
a financial wreck, all Of his property having
been attached by creditors. His ruin was
brought about by the speculations and pecula-
tons of Paine and Durfee, his sons in-law.
Pleuro-pneumonia in man and beast
is attracting the closest attention of the medical
profession in the Eastern States. Many cattle
found to be suffering with the disorder have
been killed. The prevalence of the complaint
on the Atlantic seaboard is to be made the sub
ject of thorough investigation by the New
York health authorities.
A sail-boat capsized in Lake On
tario, near Sackett's Harbor N. Y, the other
day, with distressing result. There were nine per-
sons on board, seven of whom attempted to swim
ashore, distance of half mile, and were
drowned. Two chung to the spar above water
and were rescued.
Cases of plerro-pneumonia among
the cattle of the East are again becoming too
common to be pleasant. number of cases
have been discovered recently among the cattle
in the stock yards at New York, and many
more on dairy farms within forty miles of that
city.
Jay Gould, the railway magnate, has
contributed s., COO for tie benefit OF the suffer-
ing Memphians, and will give more if needed.
The wife of Sheriff Kern, of Phila-
delphia, has just died OF hydrophobia Six
weeks ago she was bitten by pet dog
Two children have just been fatally
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West.
A San Francisco dispatch says the
Eureka stage coach was stopped above Nevada
City by twelve masked men, the express bag
taken, and the passengers made to stand up
the road and deliver their personal property
William F. Cummings, banker, of Moores
Flat, resisted the robbers when they at
tempted to take gold bar belonging to him,
and WAS shot through the head and instantly
killed
A Chicago paper saws the cost of
building in that city is 20 to % per cent higher
than 1t was Six months ago. Bricks are worth
nearly twice as much now as they were then,
and wages have advanced 81 cents day for
bricklayers, and 80 to IS for unskilled workers
Three men were recently taken from
the custody Of a constable by a mob in Mendo-
cino county, Cal, and hanged. Their offense
was the larceny Of a saddle and some harness.
Three young people, named Louis
Summit, Alice Cottrell and Ellen Delinger, were
drowned near Petersburg, Ind, few days ago.
They were being ferried across White river in
flat-boat and the mules attached to the
wagon In which they we're sitting, becoming
frightened, precipitated the vehicle and it's hu
man freight into tho water, with the result
mentioned.
The steamer Alaska, plying between
Detroit and Sandusky, met with a serious dis
aster near Detroit The lining in her steam
chimney blew out knocking the front end of
the boiler into pieces. The escaping steam
scalded eight of the crew. The two engineers,
one fireman and one deck-hand jumped over
board. The latter was saved, but the other
three were drowned and their bodies lost
Nebraska is filling up and growing.
A late census shows q population Of 1896, 400,
being an increase of 263, All since 1870
Quincy, Ill, was visited by fire last
week, which swept away about $4,000 worth
of business property.
A freight train on the st. Louis di-
vision of the Wabash road ran through q