The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1880-05-28
DOMESTIC INTELLIGENCK.
East.

A young man living at Port Jervis, n.
Y, who, on a small salary, has dressed expen-
sively, had plenty OF money, and ma lie the girl
to whom he was engaged presents of diamonds,
is under arrest for the forgery of 26O checks on
his employers bank account.
Forty buildings in Condersport, Pot
ter county, Pa, have been destroyed by fire.
The loss was about 5200,000
An abandoned mine under Scranton.
Pa, is caving in, the results being great alarm
and the destruction of considerable property
A sensation in Eastern financial circles
has been produced by the suspension of the
Philadelphia and Reading Coal and Iron Com
pany, and the Philadelphia and Reading Rail-
road Company, which are practically identical.
Seventy buildings have been destroyed
by fire in Edenburg Pa. Most of the citizens
were at a circus when the conflagration started,
and nothing was done to extinguish the flames
until about twenty houses had been ignited
Maj. John Il. Harold has obtained a
Judgment of 100000 against the New York
Elevated Railroad Company for injuries re-
ceived in an accident on the road
Several Philadelphia firms have failed
owing to the collapse of the Philadelphia and
Reading railroad.
An express agent at Red Hook. n. Y,
has run OFF with 50, 800 belonging to a ha
At Troy, n. Y, during a fight be-
tween roughs. John Wall, an ex-conyict re-
Gently released from prison, shot and killed
Supervisor Casey, who was attempting to quell
the disturbance Wall fed pursued 10y an in
furiated mob During the chase duel took
between Wall and the pursuing officers, and a
policeman was shot in the head and side, but
not fatally. A man named Trowley was also
shot and injured slightly, and a child was shot
in the hand. The widest excitement prevailed.
Wall, when captured, had narrow escape
from lynching.
Henry S. Foote, Superintendent of
the New Orleans Mint, and an old-time South
ern politician died recently at his home, near
Nashville, Tenn
Hon. John B. Gordon, United States
Senator from Georgia, has rendered his resig-
nation and ex-Gov. Joseph E. Brown has been
appointed his successor.
Clark Mills equestrian statue of
Jackson was unveiled at Nashville, Tenn, in
the presence of 10000 people.
A large section of Georgia has been
visited by tremendous rain-storm 1t il said
the fall in twenty hours amounted to nine
inches. Bridges were swept away, trains
stopped, and crops ruined.
West.
The whites are fleeing from the San
Pedro region, New Mexico, on account of the
incurslons of the Indians. Nine prospectors
are known to have been killed, and it is sup
posed that five others have been killed.
A Santa Fe telegram states that the
horses of Gen. Hatch's command having given
out the troops are following Victoria on foot
The Indians lately killed seven people at Lunas
rancho, besides killing some herders in another
locality and stealing some children.
A party of invaders of Indian Territory
have been arrested by Gen. Pope.
ID. X. Jones, the inventor and first
manufacturer of lucifer matches, has Just died
at Chillicothe, Ohio, aged SO years.
A train on the South Pacific Coast
railway, carrying large number of picnickers.
jumped the track near Santa Cruz Cal, killing