The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1881-09-16
NEWS OF The WEEK.
DOMESTIC INTELLI0ENOH.

EasI-
Boston and the surrounding country
had natural phenomenon, the other day, in
peculiar condition of the atmosphere, which
was OF a iog-ike character, and seemed to
change the colors Of various objects. The
League baseball game was postponed on ac-
count of hight This condition Of the atmos-
phere lasted from morning till evening. At
Providence, r.. l., the day was dark and very
sultry, the gas being lighted in offices and fact
cries. The same features were observed at
Hartford, gas being burned through the day.
The hop crop Of Eastern New York
has been harvested, and the yield is but 8 per
cent less than last year, while the quality is
far superior.
A remarkable mirage was seen at
Long Branch just AZ the President arrived.
At Jamaica, l.. l., a tavern-keeper
named KENNEL killed his wife, set fire to the
tavern and then hanged himself.
BY the carelessness, arising from IN
temperance, of Charles Rust, an employe Of
the Roberts Torpedo Company, of Sawyer, Ii
village near Bradford. Pa, four men were in,
stantly killed, three fatally injured and several
persons seriously injured.
Four thousand acres of timber and
5000 acres of wheat on the farm OF David
Tracy, near Erie, Pa, were destroyed by
foress fire.
Shinkel, OF the Cornell crew, has ar
rived from Europe, and will bring suit at Ith-
aca against his fepow-oarsmen for defamation
Of character.
There was n heavy snow-storm in the
Black Hills on the 9Th and 9th Of September.
Six inches Of snow fell at Deadwood City.
Two inches OF snow fell at Hastings, Neb., on
the 9th inst.
The giant-powder packing-house of
the Lake Superior Powder Company, two miles
northwest of Marquette, Mich, blew up with
terrible effect on the morning OF the 9th inst.
There were eleven men in the building at the
time, all Of whose bodies were torn into frag-
ments the average size of which were not larger
than a mans hand. The building, which was
aframe 26 x GO feet and one story high, was
blown into splinters and scattered over an area
OF twenty-four acres The shock OF the explo-
buildings in Marquette were terribly shaken.
Half an hour after the explosion the place was
crowded with people, ali OF whom as-
sisted in searching the debris for flesh
and bones OF the killed. or the eleven bodies
part of one trunk only and about two patent
pals full of remains were found Following
lis q list of the killed. all of whom were unmar-
red men: John Reichels, Joseph Reicheh
Jacob Smith, John Smith, Lewis Collins, Peter
Laplant Oliver Bashaw, Edward Murray, Fred
Valrum. Charles Schmidt. John Anus. No
plausible theory Of tho cause of the explosion
has been advanced, md as the men do not
live who saw it, the cause will never be known.
All the Indians are reported to have lief
the western portion Of tle San Carlos reservation
and gone in the direction of the Apaches. In
tense alarm prevails among the whites at sta
tons on the Southern Pacific east of Wilcox.
and non-residents intending to leave are
prevented from boarding trains. At stations
between Deming and Wilcox temporary
Notifications have been thrown up. Seventeen
companies of troops are en- route from Cali
fornia for Wilcox by special train; ten COM
parles of the Sixth cavalry have been ordered
orSard, and tie Fifth cavalry. Crooks veteran
fighters, will be sent in hot haste from the
Platte. A general uprising OF the Arizona
Apachcs is expected.
The Governor Of New Mexico has or
gained companies OF militia at Las Cruces and
La Mesilla Two companies are forming at
Socorro. one at Rincon one in the Black range,
and one at Santa Fe. The Governor called on
the Secretary OF War for 1000 stand Of ARM
now at Fort Union and fair supply Of amnau-
milton.
Three of the bandits who engaged in
the robbery Of the. Chicago and Alton train
near Glendale, Mo-, were arrested near the
scene of their crime by the Sheriff of Saline
county, and have been fully identified. Their
names are Greed Chapman, Samuel Chapman
and John Burglar, and they reside not twenty
miles from Independence. II in believed that
nearly $4,000 was taken from the passengers
and thrown into pill )w-case as the robbers
walked through the cars.
A Kansas City dispatch says that six
OF the Glendale train robbers have been cap
tured. They prove to be young farmers living
III the immediate vicinity Of the outrage and
the idea that the James brothers were in the
raid has been quite generally abandoned. Matt
Chapman gave to Sheriff the names Of the
robbers, and has himself been placed in Jail at
Independence as witness.
Rev. DIR. n. w. Thomas, of Chicago,
who has for several days been under investiga-
ton as hereto, has been found guilty ON all
the charges, and will be deprived OF fellowship
in the Methodist church until he can be formal
ly tried at the annual conference At Hyca-
more, Ill
A dispatch from Tucson, Arizona, says
that supplies OF all kinds are being rapidly
pushed forward to the front punishment
not to be forgotten will be dealt out to the
sreacherous murderers Of the lamented Hentig
and the brave men who fell with him. At no
time in the last ten years, in that Territory has
there been such quick and rapid placing OF
troops in different portions threatened by hos
tiles Us has been done on this occasion.
Another Indian war, bu, of small di-