The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1880-11-19
DOMESTIC INTELLIGENCE.
EnSt.

East.
The testimony In the case of Philip,
charged with forging the Garfeld-Morey letter
closed at New York on the 9th, when Gen.
Pryor asked the discharge Of the prisoner.
Judge Davis said he would render decision on
Saturday, the 18th. George Bliss then caused
the arrest OF S. s. Morey and Robert Lindsey
for perjury, and they were committed for OK
animation. Lindsey testified that for ten years
ho had not slept twice in the same place.
Col. T.. l.. Drake, who drilled the first
oil-well at Titusville, and who has for years re-
ceived pension from the State of Pennsylva-
mia, Ia dead.
Samuel >. Morey, who was arrested
in New York for perjury in tho Philip trial. has
made full statement OF the manner in which
he was induced TO testify, declaring that he
spent two nights before election in the rooms
Of the National Democratic Committee, from
whom he received $3.50. Lindsay has confessed
that he was coached by William II. Price, a
Democratic elector in Maryland, and that his
testimony throughout was false.
A fire at Petrolia, Pa, destroyed Bly,
miller's Hotel, the office of the United Pipe
Line, Backus' hardware store, LOOMS meat
market, and the Argyle Savings Bank, and sew
eral other buildings. Loss. Sl50. 200.
Solomon 8. Morey and Frank Lind
sey, alias O'Brien, were brought before the
Grand Jury of the New York Court of Sessions
on the 18th inst, and made confession that
they had perjured themselves in the hearing Of
the Philip case. Morey was held as a State wit
ness, and O'Brien was indicted for perjury.
A horrible accident occurred, few
nights ago, at Bordell City, Pa. Several men
employed in q saw-mill were sitting around q
stove, in their boarding house, playing cards.
The fro was low, and Joseph Keeps thought to
revive it by throwing peach-can full of petro-
leum into the stove. Tho gas caught
fire, and Keeps with an oath
threw the can away. 1t fell into
q bucket of crude oil, and instantly the struct-
ure was in flames. The burning oil flew over
everything. The men made wild effort TO es-
cape, and five out Of eight staggered out of
the building with their clothing on fire, and
were frghtfully burned. Three men persisted
in the flames, and four others were fatally
burned. Keeps, the man who caused the dis
aster, escaped without harm.
The proposition of New York paper
to raise a Presidential pension fund is being
brlskly responded to i'll that city. Hon.
Edwin ID. Morgan heads the list
with $4,000, conditional that $3.50. 900
Ii subscribed before Jan. l. John II. Slarin
places his name down for $1,000. Other sub
scriptions are George Jones, 81, 900; Arson G..
McCook, $3.50; Thomas l.. James, $3.50. and
A. j. Dittenhoefer. 800.
Two burglars entered the house of
Thomas O'Brien, a Syracuse merchant, and,
with carpenters hammer, Drained Mr.. and
Mrs. O'Brien while they were sleeping in bed.
O'Brien's condition is very precarious, and
there is no hope Of Mrs. O'Brien's recovery.
A lady who went shopping in Broad
way with $4,000 in her pocketbcok offers one
fourth of the roll to the finder.
VIM. v. Grover, of Red Bank. N. J..
who is 80 years Of age, six months ago married
Jemima Chambers, aged IL. The other night
he killed her while she was taking her effects
to her mothers home.
Kenward Philp has been held for
trial at New York on charge of criminal libel,
and remains at large on his bond of IS, 1000.
Judge Noah Davis, in reviewing the case
thought Hart, the publisher of the Truth, dis
played reasonable caution before publishing the
Morey letter, but the course Of Hon. Abram
Hewitt he declared to be thoroughly rep
rohensible. The Judge regards the letter as
altogether forgery. Mr.. Hewitt, smarting
under the reflections of Judge Davis, retorts
that the letter was published before he had
ever seen Mr.. Hart or the original, of which
and that when q man becomes Judge he
should cease 10 DO a partisan.
Hackensack, N. j., has been struck
by a financial panic, and nearly oil the banAs
have suspended.
A wrestling-match between w. j. Far
rcll, OF California, and John Mcmahon, OF YER
mont. for the championship of America and
81, OOO took place at Pittsburgh, and resulted in
victory for Mcmahon, who succeeded in
throwing Farrell twice out of three times.
A broker doing business in Broad
street, New York, has been robbed of Sl6O, 900
In bonds.
Diphtheria prevails to an alarming ex-
tent in Brooklyn.
West.
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