The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1881-06-03
DOMESTIC INTELLIGENCE.
East.

A train on the Boston and Albany
road struck light engine near Client, N. Y,
by which the engineer and fireman Of the
passenger train were killed.
Over-production and high wages have
caused the window-glass manufacturers o.
Pittsburgh to resolve TO close their works fol
the summer.
Commodore Mutt, the dwarf, whose
real name was George w. Morrison, died o.
Bright's disease at New York. He was 81 years
of age and forty-three inches in height. o.
late he has kept restaurant
e. l.. Godkin, of the Nation, and
Carl Schurz have purchased the New Yorl
Evening Post.
Edward Desendorf, Brooklyn print
er, killed his wife and then committed suicide.
In the OLeary international pedestri-
an contest at New York, Edward vint, Brook
Ign shoemaker, captured the belt. He made
57s miles in six days. which exceeds all previous
records.
A train on the Pennsylvania railroad
was wrecked by an open switch near Trenton,
NJ. Two passengers were killed, and ten
others seriously injured.
West.
The wheat crop of Indiana has been
seriously damaged by the drought, the chinch-
bug and the Hessian fly.
The report of the business of the
Northwestern railway shows earnings of nearly
$40, 100000, gain Of about 10 per cent on
last year.
A collision on the Denver and Rio
Grande road, near Granite Col, caused the
death Of one man, mortal injuries to four
others, while four were seriously hurt.
Four children of Andrew Lewis, hv-
ing near Plain City, Ohio, set fire to barn
and peIished in the flames
Capt. Paul Boyton left st. Paul on
the 30lh ult. for Cairo, In a suit of inflated
rubber, hoping to paddle the distance in six
teen days. He then proposes to float down the
Missouri from Fort Benton TO St Louis
John E. Clapp, catcher and Captain
of the Cleveland Baseball Club, was APP
preached by ]. s. Woodruff, a dry-goods clerk
of Chicago, who attempted to corrupt him into
giving away games. The catcher was incor-
ruptible, and "gave away" Woodruff instead,
and the young man was exposed in the Chicago
papers.
MIR. John Griscom, the New York
faster, who went to Chicago to fast forty-five,
and perhaps fifty, days, began his task on Sat-
urday, May %, at noon, after partaking OF a
hearty meal with q number OF professional
men and others, among whom was DR.. Tan
ner
John l.. Eaurich, an indianapolis
policeman, shot his wife in the right eye and
right lung, put bullet in the arm of her
father, and wound up by killing himself.
South.
The explosion of condemned boiler
in the machine shops of Risk i Co., at Mem
phis. killed two men and wounded three others.
Twenty-Five or thirty men made jail
delivery at Morganton, Fannin county, Ca, of
prisoners held there for violations of the in
ternal revenue laws.
At the annual sale of yearlings ut
Preakness farm, near Lexington, KY, eighteen
colts averaged s947 per head, and twenty FL
lies S400 each. Mo Of the purchases were
made for James II. Keene.
In quarrel between Airs. Garrett and
her daughter, of Cochran Ga, the latter
seized shotgun and shot of the top OF her
mothers head. The father then whipped the
girl nearly to death.
Jim Baker shot and killed Alexander
Osborne and the two Ryner brothers, and NOR
tally wounded another man, name unknown, at
Osborne's ford. Scott county. Va.
A duel took place near Charleston,
w. Va. between John p. and George Nunley.
uncle and nephew. George was shot in the
mouth before he got ready TO fro.
The most careful estimates put the
cotton crop OF last year at 6, 400, 900 bales. or
nearly million and half bales more than the
splendid crop Of 1879. The greatest crop ever