The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1881-11-18
NEWS OF The WEEK.
AMERICAN ITEMS.


A collision of Erie freight trains on
the mountain near Port Jervis, N. Y, caused
the death OF Conductor George Dorr and En-
gineers Jerome Grover and Mark Coxson.
Hill, Moynam & Co., OF New York,
failed. Liabilities heavy. Cla6in Il Co. are
preferred creditors to the amount of $l49, 900.
BY the collapse of two three-story
tenement houses at the corner of South Fifth
avenue and Grand street, New York. ten of the
occupants were killed, several fatally and others
seriously injured The buildings were Of brick
and about 80 years old
Through the breaking of a steel
twisted rope the elevator of the Belvidere
Hotel, New York, fell from the fifth floor to
the basement, fatally injuring John Mercer,
porter, and seriously injuring four other per-
sons.
Col. j. Howard Welles, an elderly
gentleman of high social standing in New York,
has been arrested for writing threatening let
tiers to Jay Gould, the wel-known capitalist, in
which he stated that God bad commissioned
him to assassinate Gould. 1t is believed that
the writer is insane.
The Massachusetts, Paper Company
has failed, with liabilities of 100000.
A court-martial has been ordered at
Trenton, N. j. to investigate the charge that
Gen. Madison Drake, of the State militia, said
Guiteau did right in killing Garfield
A skiff ferry-boat crossing the Hudson
from Troy to Fort Schuyler was swamped by
the swell from three propellers. OF nineteen
persons on board, seven were drowned and
three are missing.
Owing to the publication in the North
American Repieao of an article by Robert G.
Ingersoll, which the firm Of ID. Appleton & Co.
regarded as blasphemous, the North american
Reoie,o's connection with that house has
ceased.
Mrs. Edwin Booth, wife of the great
actor, died in New York, of consumption, after
a long and painful illness. She was the step
daughter of Mr.. J. II. Mcvicker. the veteran
theatrical manager of Chicago.
The sream-barge Brunswick and the
schooner Carlingford collided in a gale of
Dunkirk, N. Y, and both were sunk. The
Captain and six men of the schooner pulled
twenty miles to the shore, but one man was
lost before starting. The barge lost an en-
gineer and two cooks in the waves. She was
built by Capt Berwick, of Detroit, at a cost of
$3.50 900, and was insured for $75, 600.
West.
A Chinese missionary student named
All Kim, at Marietta (Ohio) College, committed
suicide with dose of chloral or chloroform
because servant girl had rejected his prof
fered love.
The damage done by the recent over
fow Of the Mississippi in the Warsaw drainage
district is estimated at 5000, 600 in the Indian
Grave district at S7500o0 in the Sny Island
district at 100000 in Quincy bay and city,
$50, 600 in and about Alexandria, No., $780,
0O0 and at Keokuk and vicinity, 800, 600.
The total damage is estimated at $3,005, 600.
Mrs. Sarah A. Mosely, aged Ill, died
ct Madison, Ind.
Ed Williams, one of the notorious
Williams brothers, was arrested at Grand
Island, Neb., and taken back to Wisconsin.
Two cowboys were arrested for deal
ing in stolen stock and were imprisoned at
Shakespeare. Arizona. A dozen masked men
entered the Jail, overpowered the guard and
hanged the two cowboys to a joist.
John L. Smarr, a prominent wholesale
grocer of Kansas City, was shot and killed by
ii. J. Russell, a hveryman, without provoca-
ton.
Sergeant John Hamm, who went to
old Fort Howard, Wisconsin, in 1920, and has
never since been out of town but once, has
passed away from earth.
At Scandal, Kan, DIR. W. Fl. Wood
ward was mortally shot byJ G. Humphrey, edi-
tor Of the Telescope. The ARRAY grew out Of a
local political contest.
By the explosion of battery of ten
boilers in sawmill at Milwaukee, Mich, four
men were killed. There were no others in the
mill at the time. Low water was the cause OF
the explosion, and the damage to the property
amounts to about s25,000
The genial Nat Goodwin and his
sprightly wife, Eliza weathersby, are the at
fractions at Mcvicker's Theater, Chicago, this
week. The Member from Slocum," an anus
ing comedy in three acts, adapted from the
French, is the play in which they appear and
it constitutes pleasing entertainment. They
are supported by frst-class company.
South.
At Marion Station, Miss, on election
day. band Of negroes opened fire on the
whites at the polls, by which four white men
were killed aud two seriously wounded A. T.
Harvey, Democratic candidate for County As
SCISSOR, was slain. Two armed squads went Il
the scene Of the trouble from Meridian, ant
found 100 negroes barricaded in the house o.
Edward Vance. After fight, in which JOIN
Vance, colored, and A. g. Warren, of the
sheriff's posse, were killed, about thirty negroes
escaped to the woods, under a hot fire.
Philip Z. Sullivan, one of the Arkan
sas train robbers, young man of intelligence,
and good manners, died of broken heart il
the penitentiary at Little Rock, to which he hat
been committed for seventy years.
The conductor and engineer of n rail