The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1880-10-15
DOMESTIC yNTKLLIGENCE.
Hast.

The Holmes, Booth & Hayden manu-
featuring works at Waterbury, Ct, have been
burned. Less estimated at 5000, 900.
The United States Grand Jury at
Trenton, n j., has indicted Charles II. Voorhis,
member OF Congress, for embezzling moneys Of
the Hackensack Bank.
The Chase and the Faulkner mills. at
Lowell, Mass, have been destroyed by fire.
Loss estimated at 100000
Prof. Benjamin Pierce, the celebrated
mathematician and professor at Harvard Col
lege, is dead.
James Mcdowell, messenger for the
Marine Bank, at New York, was robbed in
Wall street stage of pocket-book containing
s21,s5S.
An accident on the Boston and Fitch
burg railroad, near Littleton, Mass, resulted in
the death of two passengers, and injuries, more
Or less serious. to fifteen others.
Several yellow fever patients have
been admitted to the Quarantine Hospital at
New York.
There has been serious accident on
the New York and New England railroad, near
u
a passenger accommodation train and an extra
freight train. The wreck was q bad one. En-
gineers Kenyon and Flood and Firemen Forsyth
and Hurley and Conductor Aldrich, of the freight
train were killed.
French & Wards wooden mills at West
Stoughton, Mass, with contents, have been
destroyed by fire. The loss is estimated at
100000.
Exports from New York, exclusive of
specie, since Jan. l. are $50, 600 600 in excess of
the exports for the same period of last year.
A Pittsburgh dispatch of the 10Th says
the deaths by the dreful accident upon the
Pennsylvania railroad now number twenty
seven, and eight or ten others not expected
to survive. The whole city is in mourning, for
many among the killed were well known and
widely connected
A man named Carson and two boys
undertook to go through railroad tunnel near
Huntington, Pa. and were struck by passen-
ger train and killed.
Two men were killed by the explosion
of Democratic cannon at Plymouth, Ohio.
The writing-paper mill at Elkhart,
Ind, owned by J. r. Beardsley, John Cook and
Mrs. b. l.. Davenport, has been destroyed by
fire. Loss, $4,000; insurance, $4,000.
A Wabash railway conductor named
Whitaker attempted to put tramps OF his train
near Waverly, Ind, and was shot in the arm
and head, receiving dangerous wounds.
Work has been suspended in several
of the Leadville mines in consequence of fire
breaking out in the Vulcan shaft Of the Chryso-
lite mine.
A safe in the office of the Western
Hotel st st. Louis was robbed of money,
watches, and other articles valued at between
$4,000 and $4,000.
Joseph Mehrens and wife were riding
home from Lacrosse, Wis, when spark from
the formers pipe set fire to the straw in the
wagon-box, and both were fatally burned.
DIR. II. II. Williamson, a well known
and respected physician Of Milwaukee, has
made an unsuccessful attempt at self-murder
by poisoning. Cause, domestic troubles.
A fearful tragedy has been enacted
hear view Oanton, Ilhe County, HI III seenls
that six miles from that town lived family
named Baker, consisting of father, mother, and
two daughters. young man named Sellers
had been working for the family. While Mr..
Baker was from home, Sellers insisted that
the daughter, aged 10 years, to whom he
had become attached, should promise to marry
him. This was refused, when Sellers drew
revolver and first shot the dog, and then inn
mediately shot the mother and the daughter
aged I5 He then placed the muzzle TO his own
temple and fired Every shot was instantly
fatal.
Two negroes at political meeting
near wyandotte, Kan, had terrible fight.
One, named Macon. demanded some money
from George Harding. which was refused.
Mason seized O huge knife and rushed at