The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1879-07-25

lives. Two boats capsized off Scituate, and
three persons were drowned. Near Montreal,
Mrs Peter Robertson was killed by lightning
Round about Kingston and Saugertes, n Y,
the crops were ruined, and barns and out
houses blown down. The hailstones resem-
bled large chunks of ice.
Gen. William +. Barry, commandant
at Fort McHenry. and Colonel of the Second
United States Artillery, died last week at Balti-
more, after brief illness, of bilious dysentery
John Hope, convicted of the robbery
81, 0OO, 600 securities and cash, has been SEN
fenced to the State prison for twenty years.
A Granger law" has been passed by
the lower house of the New Hampshire
Legislature. board of commissioners
will have power, under this act, to regulate the
charges of all railroads in the State.
In the case of Chastine Cox, the
murderer of Mrs. Hull, of New York, stay
| CT proceedings has been granted by Judge Noah
| Davis. The case will come before the New
York Supreme Court in October.
Ex-1ax Collector r. G. Waldron, of
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embezzlement of $1,000 during 1876 and 1877
while in Office.
West.
Chicago elevators contain 3,649,0S0
bushels of wheat 2,57S, 27S bushels of corn,
367, 1877 bushels of oats, 81 $3.50 bushels of rye,
and Sl,ST bushels of barley, making a
grand total of 6,739,552 bushels, against
| .lzla i'll l.
year. - Milwaukee warehouses contain
1897, 900 bushels of wheat, 1854 bushels of
corn, 1880 bushels of oats, 3, 794 bushels of
rye aud 92,Sl7 bushels of barley.-Stock OF
lumber, ETC., in the hands of ninety Chicago
yard-dealers: $50, 2S2, 63S feet of lumber and
timber; 1885, 755, 00O pieces shingles; 1881, 100
pieces OF lath; 539,35l feet of pickets, and
206, 273 pieces of cedar posts.
John Charles Adrion Hamilton,
grandson of Alexander Hamilton, died at Mer-
ced, Cal a few days ago.
Arthur Townsend was murdered by
Indians in Tulare county, Cal, last week. The
Indians were lynched by white settlers.
1t is currently reported in Milwaukee
that Alexander Mitchell, President of the Mil
waukee and St Paul railroad, has gone to
Europe to negotiate for the control of the
Northern Pacific road
Advices from the West report that
"Gen Miles is in the neighborhood of the
Bear-Paw mountains, where he expected to
find large party of Sioux. The Generals
fighting force does not exceed 600 men. The
wood. choppers and hairbreadth- escape fellows
along the river say that he will be cleaned ont
If he strikes the main body of Sitting Bulls
followers Old officers on the frontier who
fought the Indians before Miles entered the
army say he will get caught They predict for
him the same fate that befell Custer"
There were 274 deaths in Chicago
last week, that number being 131 less than the
figures for the corresponding week of last year.
Three men were drowned in the bay
at San Francisco, last week, by the upsetting
of boat
South.
A party of Indians have been MUIR
dering and robbing near Fort Davis, Texas.
The meager accounts of the outrage do not in
dictate whether the raiders were from across the
the lurking ground of the Mexican cut throats
makes it likely that such is the case.
Five new cases of yellow fever were
reported to the Memphis Board of Health on
the 18th. The cases occurred under one roof
in the southern part Of the city. A general
panic ensued, and citizens began to flee from
the pestilence as fast as they could get away
Five new cases of yellow fever and
one death were reported at Memphis on the
18th inst. There was great excitement in the
city, and everybody was leaving that could get
away.
The relatives of the late Mrs. Dorsey,
who bequeathed s25o,OOO worth of property to
JEFF Davis, will contest the will Davis was
the guest OF the lady before her death, and the
contest will doubtless be made on the ground
of undue influence or the insanity of the test
atrix.
There were five new cases of yellow
fever, and one death, in Memphis OH the 10Th of
July, and on the 10th seven new cases and four
deaths we're reported to the Board of Health
A Memphis dispatch Of the 2lst says "Busi
ness is dead The Wholesale merchants have
nearly all made their arrangements to continue
business at other points. Many retailers have
closed their stores and left the city. The
city authorities recommend the immediate
evacuation of the city, and number of promi-
nent citizens have paid the passage Of all their
employees to other points The officers of the
Hebrew Hospital Association day distributed
about $4,000 to 100 poor jewish families, thus
furnishing them the means to leave tIis i'll
fated city. The city authorities are send
ing the poor people out of the city, having
made arrangements to get half-fare rates
over the Louisville and Nashville Rail
road. DR.. Dudley ID. Saunders, acting
President of the Board of Health, states that
the fever is not so malignant as last year, and
yields more rapidly to treatment CT liens con-
tinue to leave in large numbers. The Men,
phis and Paducah railroad has ceased running
trains. The Avalanche, Appeal and LedJer will,
from date, issue only half-sheets."
In New Orleans, last week, according
% the report Of the sanitary director, there
were eight fatal cases of malarial fever, tho
whole number of deaths being seventy one
| The health authorities are still confident that
there is no yellow fever In the place