The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1881-01-14
of from an adjoining build ng, ana broke in

baby reached her arm up I'D nln anu NO
seized it, but the burned flesh parted from the
bone, and she slid from his grasp back into
the flames. Tho scene was appalling beyond
description
The pews OF the Plymouth (Beech-
er's) Church, Brooklyn, were sold at auction,
realizing e42.S62.
A loss Of $40, 600 was incurred by the
burning OF the Phoenix pharmaceutical works,
in Eighty eighth street, New York.
The residence of Elisha Sperry, in
New Haven, was robbed Of $4,000 in bonds,
His nephew has heen arrested on suspicion.
The Dixon Crucible Company, OF Jer-
sey City, has suspended, the liabilities being
about 100000.
Fowler, Champion q Co., OF New
York, engaged in the importation Of chemicals,
have made an assignment. their liabilities be-
ing 100000.
A fire Mt Lockport, N. Y, destroyed
the Hodge Opera House and the Gargling Oil
building, tke less being $4,000. In the lat
ter structure there were the postofiice, internal
revenue and telegraph offices.
Gov. Porter, of Indiana, was married
TO Miss Stone, at the residence OF the brides
uncle, Mr.. Walter 8. Gurnee, of New York.
Only few relatives witnessed the ceremony.
BY the explosion of a vat OF varnlsh
in the brewery of Peter Dodger, in New York,
four men were enveloped in flames and
scorched to degree which leaves no hope for
.neir recovery.
b. the explosion of boiler in the
Allentown (Pa.) rolliny-mil, six men were
killed or fatally wounded, and five men seri-
,usly hurt.
A mail train on the Passumpsic road
was thrown from the track, near Newport, VT,
by a broken rail. Mrs. Cushing, OF Keene, n.
H.. was killed. and twenty others mora or less
injured.
The New York Stock Exchange has
LOO members. A seat was sold the other day
for 100000.
The county peor-house, near Dover,
N. H., caught fire about daylight on the morn
ing OF tho 7th inst, and was totally con-
sumed. There were 1863 paupers in the build
ing, thirteen Of whom were suffocated
or roasted alive Those who escaped were
clothed and sheltered by families residing in
the vicinity. The building was an immense
brick structure, and the pecuniary loss was
$4,000, on which there is insurance to the
amount of S25, 900.
The burning OF temporary factory
belonging TO the Ansonia Watch and CLOCK
Company, in Brooklyn, caused o loss of
$40, 0)0.
The case of Mrs. Sarah T.. Howe and
Mrs. julia A. Gould, the managers of the
Woman's Bank, or Ladies' Deposit, of Boston,
has resulted in indictments against both
parties.
Bernard McCane, of Philadelphia,
who distributed $1,000 in charities within the
past ten years, has ended mis- days, leaving
300, 600 more TO forty benefciaiies.
The Grand Jury of Washington county,
Maine, has brought an indictment against
Warren Longmore, of Pembroke, for the murder
of Freeman Wright. Longmore is only years
cid and Wright was but 8.
The commission having in hand the
arrangements for the worlds fair at New Yorh
have agreed upon the Imwood site, above Har-
lem.
Bishop Atkinson, of the Episcopal
Diocese of North Carolina, died at Wilmington
last week.
A party Of eight Aatboatmen were
found frozen to death on their craft, near Port
Royal, s. c.
At Henrietta, Tex, the refusal of
Mr.. Rice to drink with Mr.. Curtis brought
about shower of bullets. When the smoke
had cleared away the latter gentleman was
Iouno DEAD on the floor OF the saloon. Rice
was taken for treatment to doctors Office
where an assassin finished his career by shot
through the window.
Prince Hannibal, the sou of an African
King, was frozen to death in the recent storm
at Warrenton, Va. He owned slaves before the
war, and retained them after it's close. His
devotion 10 the South caused his imprison-
ment for some months in the Old Capitol at
Washington.
The insatiate Jay Gould has gobbled
ming north from New Orleans to Donaldson
ville La.
The cold weather has caused extreme
suffering in Virginia. Several unfortunates
living in the country have been frozen to death.
In Loudon county cabin was buried under
the snow, and an ola lady and her grandson
persisted before assistance could reach them.
!o-d oI Indians captured Texas
stage in QGitman canon, killed the driver and
horses, and sliced up the mail-bags.
West.
Mrs. Harriet N. Cooper, a negress,
who died at Cheltenham, Mo-, was 115 years of
age, weighed 400 pounds aud was the mother
Of twenty-five children.
Gen. Charles b. Stuart, the eminent
civil engineer has just died at the Forest City
House, Cleveland.
The losses by fire in Chicago in 1880
aggregate 81, 164, i59.