The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1881-09-09
NEWS OF The WEEK.


q fire destroyed the Empire Drill Works, by
which 100 men are thrown out of work. Loss,
100000.
Horace Montgomery and Kate Bar
tholomew, both of Washington, Lawrence
county, N. Y, were drowned while making
foolhardy attempt to run the Rapids du Platte
in small boat
BY the explosion of machine used
in loading cartridges In the Winchester arms
factory, at New Haven, . small building was
blown down. Two men were badly burned and
seven others injured
Gen. Grant has declined for the pres
ent the reception rendered him by the people Of
Asbury Park, N. j., in consequence Of the con-
dition Of President Garfield. He says that he
would consider it unbecoming in him to partlc-
ipate in joyous festivals while the life Of the
President of the nation hangs by thread.
Farmers in New York State are dig
ging their potatoes to save the crop which IL
being ruined blythe drought.
The Changers of Maryl land, Pennsyl-
vania and Virginia gave picnic at Williams
Grove, Pa. Fully 10000 persons were present.
Forest fires in Western New York and
Northwestern Pennsylvania have caused great
havoc.
The rubber works of Eugene II. Clapp,
at South Hanover, Mass, valued ut SIS, 900,
have been burned.
Ex-Congressman Hendrick b. Wright,
Of Pennsylvania is dead.
Guiteau was hanged in etfigy in Mag
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sons.
The town of Andover, N. Y, was Wis
tied by an electric storm which Frustrated sew
eral persons and burned eight houses and
barns. The loss is estimated at $4,000
In the criminal court at Philadelphia,
William B. Dickerson and Joel N. Van Arsdalen,
who forged the Whitaker will, were each fined
$1,000 and sentenced to ten years in the peni-
Tertiary. Dickerson who is aged and infrm,
remarked "You may a. well send a coffin with
me-"
Delmonico, the famous New York
caterer. is dead.
A horrible tragedy was enacted in
Milwaukee the other day. young fellow
stantly killed his stepfather, j. Kramer, and
then fred twice at his mother, both balls pro-
ducing mortal wounds Holden came from ST.
Louis, and, after drinking some went to the
house Of his mother and stepfather, with whom
he was not on very friendly terms. He picked
quarrel with his mother, who was lying on
the bed at the time, shooting her twice, as
stated. AT this Cramer entered the door, and
Holden, turning in his track, shot him, the ball
passing clear through the body. He then
made his escape.
The town of Sierraville, CAL, has
been almost totally obliterated by fire. The
loss is estimated at 100000.
While q party of farmers from Lock-
port, village few miles south of Terre
Haute, Ind, were fishing in the Wabash river
about twenty miles south of that city, four Of
them-Hepry Berkard, Marshall Ferrill, Emery
Laspie and James Rudisell-were drowned.
The corner in August wheat obtained
by Cincinnati parties in the Chicago market
was successfully carried ont. The manpula-
tors Of the corner are said to have cleared
s3,OOO,OO0
was shot during fight with James B. Duncan
a photographer, with whom he boarded on
Wabash avenue, Chicago. Duncan was ar
rested, but claims that he only acted in self
defense. There is scandal connected with
the affair.
When the east-bound express on the
Central Pacific road reached Colfax, CAL, two
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track, the rails having been removed by high
waymen. A fireman and the express messen-
ger, who sprang to the ground, were ordered
to keep quiet, but just at that moment
the robbers became alarmed and rode of in a
wagon, leaving large invoice of masks, pow
der and tools.
The Convent of ST. Francis, situated
about FIVE miles from Manitowoc, Wis, was
struck by lightning and entirely destroyed by
fire. There were over eighty persons in the
building. several of whom were injured in their
efforts to escape. The loss on the building and
furniture was $65, 900, with insurance Of only
$4,000.
A lunatic named Neil ran a-muck in
the streets Of Chicago, at the hour of mid
night shooting five men whom he encountered
in his wild race, two Of whom, 1t is feared, can
not recover. He was himself shot by police
man.
A dispatch from Deadwood announces
the discovery, thirty miles from that city, of .
vein which runs $3.50, 900 to the ton.
Reports as to the yield of the Mime
sofa wheat crop, telegraphed to tho Chicago
journals, indicate that the average yield per
acre this year is about 11.4O bushels and that
the aggregate yield OF the whole State will be
about 33,771,51l bushels. This il 100000
bushels less than the yield for the last year.
The crop was best in the western counties
Of the State and poorest In the southern coun-
ties
A strip of land in Nicollet county,
MINI, four miles long and two wide, was WIS.,
tied by hail-storm which beat the corn and
grass into the ground.
Nana's band of Apnches are commit
ting murderous depredations in Southern New