The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1881-05-06

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over upon the crowd, three Of whom were
fatally burned and ten others singed. The
loss IL $4,000.
Joseph & Isaac Bloom, dry goods deal
srs in Boston, failed for 100000, and the
senior member Of the firm committed suicide
The Girard elevator in Philadelphia,
and several warehouses In the vicinity, were de-
stroyed by fire. The loss was 100000.
Royal S. Carr, convicted of numbering
w. W. Murcommuck, Dec. z, 1878, was hanged
at Windsor. VT.
John w. Minturn, one OF the famous
shippers Of New York, killed himself with
revolver in his private Office. AS he had large
means and happy domestic relations. the deed
is attributed to temporary insanity.
John NJ. Francis has sold his interest
in the Troy Times on the basis Of s25O,0OO for
the establishment.
West.
The Directors of the Chicago Board of
Trade have passed a resolution declaring the
action OF the joint executive committee Of the
railroads in advancing rates to the East with
out giving the customary notice positive
breach OF good faith toward the shipping trade.
They also characterize its action as so troacher-
GUS and tyrannical as - invite unitedyefort by
the people toward commercial political and
legal relief.
A colt with seven perfectly formed
feet is one Of the curiosities OF Normal, Ill
One fore log sports three feet, and the other
two.
Hon. William f. Cramer, senior pro-
prietor Of the Ecening Wisconsin, was placed
in a cell in the Jail at Milwaukee, on a suit for
criminal libel brought by Matt Finch, al attor-
ney, and kept there nearly oil day.
The Grand Jury at st. Louis returned
seventeen indictments against Robert Lindsay
and nine against John Brady, for connection
with the Missouri land frauds.
The beautiful little city of Elgin, ILL.,,
has been the scene of a most distressing calam-
ity that caused mourning in many families.
When the iron bridge across the Fox river at
that point gave way, a short time ago, the City
Council ordered a small ferry-boat, to be pro-
PEELED by cable stretched from bank to bank
1t had just been completed, and the
scow, frai little structure, only eleven by
eighteen feet, running OH puleys on wire ca
bic, and propelled by the rapid current, made
several trips safely, though showing it was not
safe. On one Cf these trips the boat, heavily
laden with human freight, was snatched by the
swift current, turned half round and filed with
water. The panic-stricken children (for half
her passengers were children on their way to
SCHOOL, rushed to one side, the rail broke
and the craft careened over. In q moment q
score and half Of struggling human beings
wrestled with the swift current in the mad
waste Of waters. There they were, in plain
view OF hundreds watching from the shore, on
both the east and west sides, right in the bust
ness portion Of the city, and the cries
OF victims and friends on the shore
were heartrending. One after another the
struggles ended. Boats put out as soon
possible, and many wore rescued Some
good swimmers reached the shore from quar-
ter to half q mile below Six persons are
known to have found watery grave. Their
names are: Thomas Murphy, aged 35; John
Corbin, aged So; Leo Taylor, aged l6; Elmer
Foster, aged 10; Guy Carlisle, aged Is; Fran
ces Creighton, aged IL.
A formidable strike of the conductors,
drivers and stablemen Of the St Louis
street-car companies for an increase OF
wages or o reduction Of tho hours Of
labor was brought to an end only by
the calling out of the militia and the appear
ance OF the Governor Of Missouri at the scene
Of the trouble.
The latest strike in Chicago is that of
the nurses at the smallpox hospital.
The situation at Kansas City, on the
30th ult., was terrible. The Missouri river
continued 10 rise at an alarming rate, and oil
the elevators and the great packing houses
were surrounded by water. or the ten rail-
roads running into the city but three were able
to send out trains over their own track, the
Chicago and Alton alone running their Eastern
trains direct from the Union depot. Fully
1000 people we're homeless, and many
of them had lost everything they
possessed in tho world. Box-cars, railway de-
pots, tents and everything that could be- used
for shelter were being pressed into service, yet
thousands were compelled to sleep in the open
air and depend upon charity for food. Many
Of the houses had been moved to railway
tracks, but several had gone down stream, and
more were expected to follow The Hannibal
railway bridge, which cost 81, 500, 600, was in a
perilous situation.
A horrible tragedy is reported from
st. Paul. Howard county, Neb. Mrs. Koch,
the wife of Christian Koch, railroad night
watchman, while laboring under fit Of tenn
porary insanity, killed her three children by
cutting their throats with q razor and then cut
her own throat. One boy was years old, the
second boy was 2 years and the third child a
girl aged months.
Col. James II. Bowen, in former years
one Of the leading spirits in the business cir
cles Of Chicago, was killed the other day by be-
ing thrown from buggy.
A convention of delegates from the
Land Leagues Of Illinois was held in Chicago,
and State organization formed to perpetuate
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