The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1881-08-05
NEWS OF THE WEEK.


he declared himself to be Secretary of State.
1t was thought he had designs upon Gov. Cor
nell, but the weapon proved to be unloaded.
William r. Dickinson and Joel Van
arsdalen, two Philadelphia lawyers, have been
convicted Of forging the viii of Robert Whit
aker, that $500, 900 worth OF an estate might
fall into their own hands.
A collision of freight trains on the
New Haven road at Rye, N. Y, killed Eli Lalin,
a conductor, and mutilated Henry Hallock, a
brakeman. Both engineers were injured.
Eight cars were wrecked, the total damage to
rolling-stock being 100000.
Maud S. failed to beat her record at
Pittsburgh. She trotted the first heat in 2:l2,
the second heat Gin which she broke) in 2:lS1,
and the third heat III 2:l21S. These three COLI
secutive heats are the best trotted by any horse
in the world. Vanderbilt watched the wonder
full feat Of his mare.
The failure is announced Of the Nor
wich (Ct.) Pistol Company, with liabilities Of
ESQ., 900 and assets of $4,000.
One hundred men were thrown out OF
employment and loss Of $780, 900 inflicted, by
the burning Of the piano factory Of Pratt,
Read d Co., ut Deep River, Ct
West.
Copper and silver bearing ore has
been discovered nesr Fort Laramie. Wyo. Ter.
Surface assays vary from $50 to $50. A town
is being built on the spot, and big emigration
has set III from Cheyenne.
A pedestrian statue of Gen. J. b.
Mcpherson was unveiled at Clyde, Ohio, in
presence of twenty-one posts Of the Grand
Army, the audience numbering $4,000. Gen.
Sherman was present, and ex-President Hayes
delivered the address.
The Northern Pacific will be opened
TO the Yellowstone for passenger travel on Aug.
1. On the same day the Denver and Rio
Grande will be in operation to Durango.
A Kansas City paper prints startling
and somewhat apocryphal bit of news regarding
Frank James and the late robbery on the Rock
Island railway. 1t is to the effect that at the
time of the robbery the wife and child of the
noted bandit were stopping at the st. James
Hotel in Kansas City, and that he was at the
same place Immediately preceding and follow
ing the affair.
Gov. Crittenden, OF Missouri, in
vited the railway and express chieftains OF the
Southwest to meet him for a secret conference,
which was held in a ST. Louis hotel last week.
AS a result, the chief magistrate offers re-
ward of $4,000 for the arrest Of the men who
robbed the Rock Island train at Winston, Mo-,
$4,000 for the James boys, and $4,000 each
for the other five memSers Of the party. The
railway managers pledged themselves to pay
the rewards upon satisfactory evidence of the
arrest OF the scoundrels.
A Chicago paper reports that a party
of detectives and Deputy Sheriffs will leave
that city at an early date to capture the Mis-
souri, outlaws, for the reward of $780, 900 offered
by the authorities and railroads.
Jay Gould has purchased the st.
Louis, Jerseyville and Springfield railroad. and
will merge it in the Wabash combination.
Hon. John j. Bagley, Ex-Governor of
Michigan, died at San Francisco, whittier he
had gone for the benefit of his failing health.
A hotel, drug store and telegraph of
fee at Hamburg. Iowa, valued at S45. 900, were
destroyed by fire.
Sitting Bull and his immediate follow
ers have been loaded upon a steamer and sent
of to Standing Rock Agency. The fallen chief
tain keeps aloof from all persons.
The Western Union Telegraph Com
pany has absorbed the Northwestern Tele-
graph Company of Wisconsin. The trans
fer, it appears, was made on the Sth OF May
last.
The gauge of the Illinois Central ex-
tention to the gulf was changed to the stand
ard width from Cairo to New Orleans. The
track is $50 miles long, and 5000 men COM
pleted the task in eleven hours at a cost of
100000.
A terrible explosion took place at the
distiliery OF the Woolnor Bros, Peoria, H., by
which eighteen persons were badly injured,
nine of whom nave since died and several more
are not expected to live. The distillery was
burned on June 6, and the proprietors were
engaged in trying to save tub OF beer that
was saved from the fire, and, through the de-
fects Of the machinery and the pipes, the still
tub exploded with fearful results.
For the year ending June 30, 1881,
12,675 vessels entered the port OF Chicago.
The total receipts during the same period for
imports was $4,000, 7O7, and, with the addition
from various sources, 81, 739, $50, making Chi
cago the sixth port in the United States.
Two Mexicans and two miners have
been murdered by the Indians near Fort Nc
Crea, New Mexico, and company Of the Ninth
cavalry is in pursuit OF the butchers.
South.
Five children of Thomas Killeen, OF
New Orleans, aged 1, 8, G. 8 and 10 years, re-
spectively, were poisoned by a colored servant
girl, who put rat poison In some soup. The
girl, when arrested, confessed the crime, and
said she put the poison in to make the children
sick. out of revenge, they having thrown rocks
at her and called her "nieger." One Of the
children has died.
Drought has ruined the cotton and
corn in Middle and East Tennessee, Southern
Kentucky and North Alabama.
The overturning OF lamp in livery
stable at Lebanon, Tenn, started blaze
which swept away eighteen buildings on the