The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1881-01-28

penucnt coihpahy ia oPPoniuoh w
tho great monopoly. In connection
with this subject. recent telegram from
New York, says the leading business men OF
that city ''are strongly advocating the manage
ment of telegraph limo by the Government.
Those who have snadied the problem most
closely see no remedy against the exactions OF
this present monopoly except the adoption or
just such n system as is in use in Great Britain,
and they note with pleasure that the idea Is be-
ing agitated in all parts of the country, par
ticularly in the West" E..
The Egyptian obelisk has been placed
upon its pedestal in Central Park, New York.
Secretary of the Navy Goff, Secretary
of State Evarts, the Central Park Commission
ers and many representatives Of the Masonic
fraternityl were among the nearly 10000 peo-
pie who witnessed the ceremony.
An Erie railway train, having postal
and express cars and nine Pullman sleepers,
and running at the rate of thirty-Ave miles an
nour was thrown from the track near
owego, N. Y, by the breaking of driving
wheel axle of the locomotive. BY the
explosion of the oil lamps the postal car
took fire and burned like finder, four
clerks being roasted to a crisp. The express
messenger, Henry G. Brewer, also expired in
the flames. The train employees escaped un-
hurt, but ten members of a colored minstrel
company from Binghamton were more or less
injured. The mail agents were Messrs. Reid
niger, Seybolt, Ingraham and Fox.
Roelff Won Barren, a Hollander, who
has resided in New Haven, Ct, for six months
in the most abject poverty, has just fallen heir
to an enormous fortune by the death of his
great granduncle, Heinrich Spier, of Rotter-
dam, who bequeaths him his property. The
estate is estimated at about S4O0O0.0O0.
West.
The body of jeremiah Sullivan was
stolen from the Mount Elliott Cemetery, De-
troit, and the janitor of the medical college
has been arrested for participation In the crime.
Near Plain City, Ohio, Mrs. Ophelia
Clark her niece and an adopted son were killed
with club. Robert Gaines, a colored man,
who formerly lived with them, has been al
rested.
Capt. George w. Chilson, of the
Eighth cavalry, committed suicide at Eagle
Pass, Tex, the instrument OF death being re
volver.
Sitting Bull, having grown tired OF
negotiating with the military authorities, has
started for the British possessions, accompanied
by forty lodges.
The directors of the Illinois Central
road have declared semi-annual dividend OF
81 per cent, payable March 1. The New Or
leans branch is in position to liquidate It's
bonded Indebtedness OF Sl2,C00,000.
Floods in Oregon and Washington
Territory caused the destruction Of half
million dollars worth of property.
On decree of foreclosure the Green
Bay and Minnesota railroad was Sold at Mil
waukee, for s2,OOO,OoO, to John l. Blair, for
the bondholders.
The Illinois State Grange, in session
at Freeport Endorsed the Reagan bill to regu-
late commerce between the States.
A mortgage of a colossal character has
been filed in the Recorders Office in Chicago.
BY its terms the Wabash, st. Louis and Pacific
railroad pledges its entire property for the
payment of $4,000, 900 to the Central Trust
Company, of New York, and James Cheney, of
Indiana The mortgage runs for forty years,
with interest at per cent, payable semi-annu-
ally.
During the progress of n fire on Canal
street, Chicago, which destroyed the furniture
factory of L. Mayer, one of the walls OF the
building fell outward, injuring fourteen iremen
and policeman-three or four Of the former,
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A terrible smash-up occurred on the
Chicago, Rock Island and Pacific railroad, near
Pond Creek, Ill. The Omaha express was
thrown from the track by broken rail- and
two coaches were completely wrecked. One
car took fire from lamp, and one passenger,
Mrs. Kirby, Of Nevada, Ohio, was 80 severely
burned that she died. Five others were So
verely injured, two of them perhaps fatally,
and several received slight bruises or burns.
Two Illinois Central trains, about mid
night on Thursday, following their instrllc-
tons, came to stop at weak bridge between
Anna and Carbonate. A third train came
dashing around the curve, and fireman and
brakeman were killed, an engineer seriously
injured, and two engines wrecked.
A playful scuffle between u rough and
gambler, at Bodie, Col, ended by their wind
ing themselves about each other and shooting
until one was dead and the other mortally
wounded.
Jay Gould is said to have purchased
an interest in the Keokuk Northern Line Packet
Company.
Application has been made for a re-
ceiver for the Missouri River Packet Company
Of st. Louis
Frederick Kester, who killed his wife
at Buckley, H., was hanged at Danyille on Fri
day, Jan. II.
James M. Walker, formerly President
and of late Solicitor of the Chicago, Burlington
and Quincy railroad, died in Chicago last
week.
Reports received at Evansville, Ind,
indicate the failure of the wheat crop in South
ern Indiana and Illinois.
An oil well recently opened at Canon
CITY, Col Yields five TO eight barrels per day.