The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1881-02-04


being S600.00
The President has nominated George
| II. Foster, State Senator and foe to Conk-
| ling, to succeed Stewart L. Woodford as Dis
triot ATTORNEY at New York.
William +. Thornton is declared in
eligible to the Office Of Judge OF Sullivan coun-
ty, n Y, TO which he was elected. Mr..
Thornton offered to serve for IL, 2J0-the sal
airy being $4,000. This pledge. made to the
voting taxpayers before election, is held by the
court to be bride.
Hughes, the winner of the interna-
tional walking match, in New York, made
fraction over sos miles. This is the best
pedestrian work on record.
Eight men were killed near Bradford,
Pa, by tho explosion Of forty quarts Of nitro
glycerine.
The building occupied by the Down
town Club, of New York, was damaged TO the
extent OF S35, 900 by fire.
The Sprague divorce case is set for
trial at Kingstown. r. l.. on Feb. 81.
BY the burning of q store and tene-
ment house at Union, Ct, Mrs. George Stone
I
A mandatory of lamp-burners at
Forestville, Ct, employing 800 men, has been
burned to the ground, the estimated loss being
$3.50. 200.
West.
The fifteenth annual meeting of the
Northwestern Dairymen's Association will be
held at GAINESVILLE, Wis, on the 9Th, 9th and
10th OF February. cordial invitation is ex-
tended to all dairy men, butter and cheese man
ufacturers. dealers. manafactm ers Of dairy i'm
PIGMENTS and all others interested in this great
and growing industry, TO be present on this &C.
casion.
A route for the Dakota railroad has
been surveyed from Mandan, on the Northern
Pacific, to Deadwood. Coal was found at vari-
GUS points.
Toledo chronicles seizure of Fenian
stores, 5000 cartridges having been found I'M
der building in st. Clair street, formerly oc-
cuped by one of the army of liberation
Lieut.. Archibald Gibson, of the Sew
enth Cavalry, son OF prominent lawyer.of St.
| Louis, died Of inflammation of the brain, caused
by the bite of spider.
Smallpox has broken out in the Iowa
penitentiary at Fort Madison and the foremen
on contract work have fed, which will cause.
delay in filling contracts.
Theodore Vatrim, Frenchman living
on farm near Assumption, ILL.,, deliberately
shot his wife dead, and made what will prob
ably provs fatal attempt on his own life.
Mr.. l.. q. Letter has withdrawn from
the firm of Field, Letter & Co., of Chicago. to
engage in extensive mining and real-estato op.
erations. The business will be conducted
hereafter under the name of Marshall Field
g. Co.
A German woman at Dundee, ILL.,,
gave birth to five children at one .ime
Three persons lost their lives in
snow-storm, near the Monte Crsto mine, in
Plumas county, Cal
New Mexico advices report that fear
nj atrocities are beng committed by band of
indians in the region Of San Jose. Among
)ther excuses mentioned is the burning to
ieath of four women and children.
The Military Headquarters at Pres
colt, Arizona, have been burned.
The annual report of the Illinois Gen.
.ral Railroad Company shows that the gross
earnings for the year 1880 were SS,30i, S11,
,gainst 81, 234, 464 for 1879.
A row of frame stores on the Public
Square at Wooster. Ohio, has been reduced to
ashes, the insurance companies suffering to the
extent of S25, O0O
A bill has been introduced in the Iii
nois Assembly providing that men convicted Of
beating their wives shall receive not less than
i've nor more than twenty-five lashes on the
bare back with a ravhide.
There have been sixty cases OF small
pox among the Canadian immigrants in Union
county, Oak, one-half Of which have terminal
cd fatally. The Legislature has authorized
| 1gid quarantine.
The death of Ezra Elliott, one of the
Oldest merchants Of Cincinnati is reported.
Miller Dewitt, a farmer OF Angola, Ind,
died at the advanced age of los.
Gen. John Love, of Indianapolis, died
| in that city Of heart disease.
The four-miIl of w. Trow e. Co., at
Madison, Ind, was destroyed by fire, causing
loss of $125,000
The Talbot boys, convicted of the as
sassination of their father at Marysyille, Mo-,
have been sentenced to die on the gallows on
! March %.
A double tragedy Is reported from
! riqua, Ohio, where a dentist named Harbough
killed his wife and himself, blowing off the top
of his head with shotgun.
The Pacific coast, from British Co
unbia TO the southeastern portion of Califor-
MIA has been visited by the heaviest rain-storm
b, that has been experit need since 1861. The
Feather, Yuba and Upper Sacramento rivers,
and all their tributaries, overlowed their
banks. Immense damage was done, the ex-
tent of which cannot be estimated.
The propeller st. Adams, bound from
Milwaukee to Ludington, was 20 badly injured