The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1881-10-07
NEWS OF The WEEK.
DOMESTIC INTELLIGENCE.
Eant.

A New York telegram of Sept 20
says: "Cyrus w. Field has collected 1924, 675
for the wife and children of President Garfield,
which can be devoted to no other purpose One
check for $500 and another for $3.50 were sent
in yesterday for the aged mother Of the Presi-
dent, and will be duly forwarded"
Railway lines and news-dealers in New
York are generally refusing mutiated silver
coins. One news agency found its loss by
clipped money to be S5 per day.
The schooner Guy Cunningham, OF
Gloucester, Mass, with fourteen fishermen on
board, is supposed to have been lost with ali
hands.
A fire at Eldred, Pa, in the Bradford
oil district, burned sixty buildings in the BUSH
ness center of the town, valued at S100, 900.
A supposed plot to kill ex-senator
Conkling has been discovered in New York.
The extensive linseed-ol works of
Grove Bro, on the Delaware river. below
Philadelphia, valued at S130,OOO were swept
away by fire.
The New York Tribune says that
present figures indicate that the total number
or 5000 more than in 1880.
Mrs. Jennie McGraw Fiske, who died
at Ithaca, N. Y, left Il fortune estimated at
S12, 100000. She was building q residence es-
tmated to cost $4,000, 600, intending to make
it the finest in the United States. While in
Europe last year she was married to Prof.
Fiske, of Cornell University.
West.
A frightful accident happened on the
Des Moines Northwestern (narrow-gauge) rail-
road, in Guthrie county, Iowa. construction
train, consisting of locomotive, six tlat-cars
and caboose, which WIS carrying a party to
work OH the line, left the rails and the caboose
was badly smashed. Three men were killed
outright and thirty more or less injured.
BY an accident on the Canada South
ern transfer boat at Crosse Isle, near Detroit,
a sleeping-car was pitched into the lake. No
lives were lost
Nearly all the hostile Apaches have
surrendered at the reservation, and military
comms sion to try the murderers will be held at
an early day.
In crowd of 10000 persons at the
Cleveland depot, George Schneider, the we'll
known Chicago banker, was seized and robbed
Of his pocket-book and diamond pin.
The Illinois Supreme Court has de-
cided that the effect OF the constitutional
amendment of 1880 and the statute of 1881
will be to prolong the terms OF Office Of County
Treasurers County Clerks and County Judges
in Illinois for one year. There will, therefore,
be no election for those officers until Noyem-
Der. 1882.
Mrs. Garfield, Grandma Garfield
and the Garfield children, accompanied by
Gen. and Mrs. Swain, Col. and Mrs. Rockwell
and Private Secretary Brown, left Cleveland
the day after the funeral for Mentor. The
train which bore the grief-stricken family to
their once happy home was the same which
bore them from Washington.
Bill Ryan, the Glendale train-robber,
recently on trial at Independence, Mo-. has re-
ceived a twenty-five years penitentiary SEN
tence
John Sherman, United States Mar
shall for New Mexico, nephew of Senator
Sherman, has been indicted 10y the Federal
zling Government funds.
John Boyd, of Chicago, who was bit
ten by Spitz dog several months ago, died of
hydrophobia, the other day, after suffering
horrible agony.
The depot at Irvington station, few
miles north of Fort Dodge, Iowa, on a branch
of the Northwestern railway was struck by
lightning, prostrating eighteen men. The first
one to recover, finding the others apparently
dead, dragged them out into the rain. All re-
covered except one Some had their clothing
entirely torn from their bodies. The building
was nearly destroyed.
Mrs. Garfield announces her intention
to reside permanently at the Mentor farm.
The sons have returned to Williams College.
The Presidents mother is very frail.
Emery Storrs, the well-known Chica-
go advocate, was solicited by the relatives of
Guiteau to undertake his defense. He refused
to have anything to do with the case.
A strip of territory in the Cottonwood
valley in Kansas, thirty miles long by four
miles wide, was devastated by q cyclone.
Twelve persons are known to have lost their
lives A tornado, which swept over Nebraska
at all early hour on the morning of the Goth
ut., nearly demolished the town OF Madison,
which has population of 1000, and two per-
sons are known to have lost their lives. In
the village of Stanton twelve buildings were
blown down and twenty persons injured.
Victoria, the terrible Apache war
chief dsed recently at the San Carlos Indian
reservation, in Arizona.
The Directors of the Chicago, Bur-
lngton and Quincy railroad have elected Vice
President Charles G. Perkins President Of the
company, vice John NJ. Forbes, resigned
Presley Cowan, of st. Clairsvillc,
Ohio, attempted balloon voyage from Wash
ingtop; in that State, but OF. his descent struck
tree-top and fell fifty feet to the ground, dy-
ing in few minutes.
Details of the destruction wrought by
the recent storm in the Northwest prove it to
have been one of the most violent visitauts OF
the kind experienced for n long time. IL orig