The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1880-07-09

married to widow at Friendship. n. Y. They
were engaged in youth but quarreled and sep
arated.
jim Elliott, the prize-tighter, has
been sentenced to two years in Sing Sing for
burglary.
There were 200 deaths from sunstroke
in New York, during the six days ending on
July /.
The fifth annual eight-oared race over
four-mile course between Yale and Harvard
was won by the former in twenty-four inmates
and twenty-seven seconds.
The honorary degree of Doctor of
Laws has been conferred upon President Hayes
by Yale College.
Two deaths from yellow fever have oc-
Cured at the New York quarantine station.
A Jersey City woman, sick and desti-
tute, killed her three children, believing that
they would go to heaven.
New York papers announce the death
of George Ripley, LII. d., President of the New
York Tribune Association and literary editor of
that paper. He was 70 years old. Mr.. Ripley
had been continuously connected with the Tt-ib-
u,,e since 1S49. He had also been for many
years chief literary adviser of the firm of Har-
per q Brothers. He projected and was princ
pal editor of the American Cyclopeda," and,
in addition had done vast amount of other
literary work.
A hole in one of the boiler tubes OF
the steamer Seawanahaka, recently burned on
Long Island sound, suggests the theory that
the steam escaped into the fre-box and blew
the Goals into the engine-room
A young lady has died at New York
from pulmonary apoplexy, produced by tight
lacing.
George M. Harencourt, . well-known
Cincinnati brewer, is dead.
The population of Indianapolis figures
up rs, O31. and that of Milwaukee l1S, 122.
A break in what is known as the Sny
levee, an embankment which protects the IL
lnois river bottoms for many miles north and
south of Quincy from overflow of the Missis-
sippi river. has caused an immense destruction
of farming property and some loss of life.
1t is estimated that 100000 bushels of
wheat and thousands of acres of standing corn
have been ruined. Many houses and barns
fioated away, and considerable stock has been
drowned. The region flooded is forty miles
long by from four to ten WIDE and comprises
some of the best land in the State of Illinois.
A flood in the Columbia river, Ore
gon, has damaged property to the amount of
$780, 900 to 100000.
Omaha's population foots up 30,605, a
gain of IA, 900 in ten years. Other populations
are thus shown by the census returns Spring
field, H., 1858 Terre Haute 26,5l9 making
it the third city in Indiana indianapolis,
1907.
The census returns indicate that Kan
sas will have nearly 100000 population.
The pleasure steamer Mary exploded
her boiler on Lake Mnnetonka, Mimi, killing
four persons and painfully injurlng several
others.
H. Hendrick, Cincinnati's oldest in
surance agent, is dead.
Reports from various places in Hi
nois. Wisconsin, Iowa, Minnesota Kansas and
Missouri (says the Chicago Tribune indicate a
healthy condition of the crops. The corn yield
promises to be unusually large, and the grain
crops except in the case of winter wheat. will
be better than the average. Even in Kansas,
where the reports for time were unsatisfactory
on account of drought, the yield will be much
better than anticipated. Fruit in all places is
exceedingly abundant, AID plentiful and cheap
market will be the consequence.
Hon. Lon Sexton, ex-LieutenantG Gov
ernor of Indiana, died recently at Parsons
Kan, whittier he had gone on a visit.
The 200th anniversary of the discov-
cry of the falls of st. Anthony was celebrated
in fitting manner at Minneapolis Mimi, on
the Sd inst. Gen. Sherman, Secretary Ramsey,
and other prominent officials were present.
Gen. Grant was accorded brilliant
reception in Kansas City. Cannon were fired
and bells rung in his honor. The principal
feature of the reception was procession
through the streets of the city.
The Sioux and Blackfeet Indians had
dispute recently about ponies which resulted
in eight of the Sioux being killed.
A yacht containing fourteen persons
capsized in White Bear lake, Minnesota on the
5th of July. Seven of the party, valorous sin
gle men, swan ashore, leaving the remainder
women and children, to drown.
Hugh Hanna, farmer living near
Bryant, Iowa, attempted to drive across sub
merged bridge near his home in lumber wag-
on in which were also his wife and five children.
The flood upset the vehicle, and of the seven
" Mrs Hanna ESCAPED drowning.
South.
A census enumerator in North Carolina