The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1880-06-25
DOMESTIC INTELLIGENCE.
East.

The Supervisor of the Census at New
York says the population of that city is between
l,3OO,O and 100000.
More than thousand people are sick
at North Adams, Mass, from the effects of
drinking impure water. The illness is in the
form of dysentery, and battles the skill of ply
sicians.
The First National Bank, of Brattle-
boro, VT. has closed its doors. The suspen-
SIGN was caused by the dishonesty of Silas NJ.
Waite, its President, who. within a period of
ten years. has stolen 525O,OOO of the institu-
tons funds.
S. w. Race, grain operator of Prov
idence, r. l., has failed, with liabilities of
$150,000.
The survivors of the Fifth army corps
in session at Burlington, VT, unanimously
asked Congress to consider Fitz John Porter's
case without political bias, and purely as a mat
ter of justice.
A blast exploding unexpectedly in an
excavation on the river bank, between West
Forty-ffth and West Forty-sixth streets, New
York, caused the death of three out of sixteen
workmen employed there.
Survivors of the Narragansett disaster
living in Boston and vicinity have agreed to
combine in a suit against the steamship COM
pany for damages, thereby accomplishing the
greatest result at the least possible expense to
individuals.
A violent tornado swept over consid-
cradle section of Indiana a few evenings ago,
playing sad havoc with dwellings, barns,
fences and grain fields, and causing some loss
of life. The storm was severest at Cic-
ero, Hamilton county, where buildings
to the value of 100000 were destroyed,
and some twenty-five persons injured
more or less severely. At Frankfort
fifteen people were wounded, and property
to the value of $4,000 wrecked. Near
Nashville several houses were demolished
and two persons fatally injured. Some
idea of the violence of the wind may be formed
from the statement that fish were blown from
streams into the road, and were picked up by
passers-by Farmers have suffered seriously
by the destruction of houses, barns, cattle and
growing crops
Serious floods, involving the destruc-
ton of mills, bridges, crops and cattle, are re-
ported in the valley of the Loup, in Nebraska.
The Continental hour-mills, at Crest
line, Ohio, have been destroyed by fire. The loss
is $4,000 and the insurance SIG, $50
The Indiana Supreme Court has deci-
ded that the recently-adopted constitutional
amendments are unconstitutional.
Gen. Hatch, in command of the troops
operating against Victoria, has asked permits
sion to follow that savage across the Mexican
border
A carload of tools fell down the shaft
killing four men, and seriously injuring two
others.
Silver City, New Mexico, is threat
enod with famine. owing to the destruction of
wagon trains by victorias Indians.
A Deadwood dispatch reports that
"the north and south-bound coaches of the Sid
ney line were stopped by road-agents, near
French creek. The passengers and express
boxes were searched but no valuabes were
found. The mails were not interfered with.
The robbers numbered three, were masked, and
operated in the most chivalrc manner"
The returns of the census enumerators
place the population of Chicago at about $780,
600 st. Louis, 100000; Cincinnati 100000
Milwaukee, 100000; Dayton, Ohio, $4,000.
A boiler explosion at Richmond, Ind,
killed one man instantly, and severely wounded
several persons.
ID. l.. Phillips, Postmaster at Spring
field, ILL.,, died the other day, at the age of 81
years. Mr.. Phillips was an old journalist, and
for several years owned and conducted the
Illinois state Register.
AT McVicker's Theater, the present
week, is being produced, for the first time in
Chicago, Franz Won Suppe's opera comique,
"Boccaccio," by the II. B. MAIN Comic Opera
Company. The costumes of the opera were de-
signed from the well-known painting of "Dante
in Exile" and other historical works. The
hbretto is creditable piece of literary work.
manship, and the music is very biight and
sparkling.
The two Cincinnati afternoon papers.
Times and Star, have united their fortunes.
and will hereafter appear as a hyphenated
journal, under the title Of the Times-Stdr.