The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1881-11-25
NEWS OF The WEEK.
AMERICAN ITEMS.


900, has called a meeting OF his creditors.
II is discovered that j. Howard
weIles, jay Gould's blackmaller is a commits
sary who defrauded the Government of about
$4,000, 600 and then went TO Europe during the
war.
The commission of militia officers of
Massachusetts, sent to Richmond to investigate
the outrageous acts of the Ninth regiment on
the trip to Yorktown find the charges against
that regiment fully sustained. Gov. Long has
ordered Col. Strachan to discover and dis
charge the guilty men within thirty days, or
the regiment Will be disbanded.
The boarding-house keepers of New
England met IN convention at Boston, to or
game for protection against beats.
Adelina Patti gave a concert in New
York for the benefit of the Michigan sufferers,
which realized $4,000 after all expenses were
paid.
George Law, well-known New York
capitalist, died last week.
Twenty-Five fremen were seriously
injured while subduing q fire at Hopkinton
Mass.
w est
S. Loewenthal & Co., wholesale and
retail dry-goods dealers, at Leavenworth, Kan,
have suspended payment.
A shock of earthquake at San Jose,
Cal, was violent enough to upset pile of
sacked wheat in the railroad depot.
The house of Jesse Baldwin, near
Youngstown, Ohio, was entered at an early hour
in the morning by burglars, who took there
from between $50, 900 and $4,000 in gold.
Baldwin is somewhat of a crank, and recently
exchanged some of his Government bonds for
coin He is probably sorry now. The burg
lars, five in number, belong to gang who have
been operating rather extensively in Western
Pennsylvania and Eastern Ohio
The Clark House, the principal hotel
at Duluth, was swept away by fire, causing a
loss of $4,000
A new kind of cattle disease, so far
attended in each case with fatal results has
appeared in Dubuque county, Iowa.
Western distillers held a meeting in
Chicago, and formed the Western Export AS
ISOLATION, the object being to export the sur
plus of the liquor distilled.
An accident occurred on the Spring
field and Northwestern railroad. near the San
CANON river, about four miles from SPRING
field, Ill. The mail and passenger train fell
through trestle twenty feet to the ground.
No one was killed, but fifteen were more or less
injured.
The Asylum for Idiotic Children at
Columbus, Ohio, has been burned. 1t is be-
heved to have been the work of incendiaries.
Owing to the excellent discipline of the teach
ers, the pupils were safely marched out and no
lives were lost. The loss Of property is about
S25O,O0O
Edward Maxwell, the bandit recently
captured in Nebraska, was lynched by the citl-
zens of Durand, Wis. People from the sur
rounding country flocked in by squads and
heard the impudent wretch confess numbering
the Coleman brothers. A rope was thrown
over his neck in the courtroom, and he was
strangled while being hauled down the aisle
and stairway to the nearest tree, where his
corpse was left to dangle nearly all the af-
ternoon.
South.
Miss Lillian Duer, who shot Ella
Hearn because the latter wouldn't marry her,
has just become the bride of young man at
Wilmington, Del.
Gen. Sherman appeared as a Mexican
veteran at the exposition at Atlanta, a city
which seventeen years ago was reduced to ashes
by his ORDERS and was most enthusiastically
received.
A gang of moonshiners, convicted in
the United States court at Little Rock, were
sentenced TO fines and terms of Imprisonment
ranging from $500 to $500. and from one to
three years. Their operations dated back to
1877, and they were only captured after a
pitched battle.
James l.. Ridgely, who since 1910 has
been Secretary of the Grand Lodge of Odd
Fellows of the United States, died in Balh-
more.
At Atlanta, Ca, Gen. j. b. Gordon
railroad which will, it is believed, be great BEN
eft to the whole South.
A negro named Augustus Smith suf-
fered execution at Smithfeld, n. c., for out
raging the person of white girl 7years of age.
Several thousand colored people assembled at
Hamburg, Ark, to witness the execution of
Boge Jackson for the murder of Reuben Jor-
dan.
The Jail at McDonough, in Henry
county, Ca, was destroyed by FIRE, and two Of
the fifteen prisoners persisted in the flames
The others were in a senseless condition when
rescued. Many of the citizens of McDonough
were injured while attempting to save the un-
fortunate inmates.
In presence of his wife and five chill
dren, Henderson Lasater was murdered by five
masked men, who broke down the doors Of his
residence at Harrison, Ark.