The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1882-04-07
NEWS OF The WEEK.
AMERICAN ITEMS.

Gardner, Me-, burned. Loss, $oO,0O0 insured
for $4,000.
Ex-Gov. Moses, of South Carolina,
has again been arrested in New York on charge
of swindling.
A member of the New Jersay Legis-
lature was given $500 to vote for the passage
of a railroad bill. The affair will BE- investi-
gated.
Cyrus w. Field erected O monument
to the British spy, Maj. Andre, whom Wash
ington hung opposite to Tarrytown, N. Z. 1t
has been an eyesore to divers and sundry great
grandsons Of Revolutionary sircs, and one Of
them, a few weeks ago. defaced it, and has
been sued for damages by Field. Somebody,
the other day, concluded to settle the quarrel
over the monument by laying q chunk Of dy-
Mantle at its foot The dynamite went on, and
80 did big slice Of the monument. Neither Of
them has been seen since.
A terrible accident is reported from
Phoenxville, Pa. Five boys were digging .
tunnel when the earth caved in and buried
them. Three Of them were taken out dead,
the other two nearly SO.
During furious storm at Reading,
Pa, a number of persons sought refuge in .
shed adjoining the city reservoir, the wall Of
which was blown over on the shed by the force
of the wind, and three people were killed, ono
fatally wounded, and two seriously injured.
A Boston dispatch says that Mrs.
Julia Johnson, a colored woman, left her home
at Gayhead to go to a neighbours. leaving three
children Up the house. the eldest but years.
The house took fire in some unknown manner
and the children were all burned to death.
Cornelius J. Vanderbilt, one of the
sons of the late Commodore, shot himself a.
the Glenham Hotel, in New York, and died
within four honrs. 1t appears that he has suf
fered for years from epileptic fits, and been con-
stantly attended by companion. 1t will be
remembered that he contested the will OF his
father, and received 81, 900 or 80 from his
brother William TO compromise the matter
He was 81 years Of age.
In the suit of the Keely Motor Com
pany against Keely, at Philadelphia, the court
ordered Keely to divulge to the stockholders his
secret, and, in answer to his plea that the court
could not compel him to open his mouth said
he would find way to do it.
West.
At Jasper, Ohio, man named Shrop-
shire killed father and son OF the name of
Rider.
Bowman, an ex-County Judge, assas-
sinated ALI Hayes at st. James, Mo.
On train near Medora, Ind, an in
toxicated maniac killed A. @. wingate, Of Lex
ington, KY, without provocation. The MIR
derer then leaped from the train and drowned
himself.
On ranch about eight miles from
Tombstone, Arizona, in a battle with cattle
thieves, Deputy Sheriff Gillespie was killed,
and the desperadoes sought were both fatally
wounded.
The Chicago, Burlington and Quincy
road reports gross earnings for 1881 at $21,-
324 $50, and q net income of $40, 257,635. The
funded debt is $59 122, 725, and the miles of
track 1894.
The Wisconsin Legislature adjourned
on the 9Oth ult., after being eighty days in
session, passing $40 bills and appropriating for
Statepurposes s675,253.
The Ohio Legislature has passed the
Pond liquor bill, by which saloon-keepers must
pay an annual tax OF from 500 TO $500, and
give bond In $1,000.
The Governor of Missouri has paid
over to H. II. Craig Of the Kansas City police,
and ]. r. Undertake, Sheriff of Clay county,
the reward of 50, 900 offered for the capture of
Clsrance Hite, one Of the Winston train
robbers.
At point sixty miles west of San An
tonic the Ell Paso stages bound east and west
were robbed by two men,
The new liquor law that has just
passed the Legislature of Ohio imposes
license of $500 for saloons in all cities Of the
first class, and requires heavy bonds.
Pueblo, Col, has been the scene of
wholesale lynching affair. A mob of sixteen
men quietly took from the county jail two
notorious cattle-thieves, w. T. Phoebus and
Jay W. McGreu, and hung them TO tree
within 100 yards of the Jail. The Wig
ilantes did not end their work here, but
struck out to dispose Of the rest of the gang of
cattle-thieves and treat them in the same man
ner. Proceeding to Chastine's rancho, ten
miles distant, they surrounded tho house, and,
after neutrality-suspicious., entered and captured
three men, s. P. Chastine, Berry Chastine and
Frank owsby. With hands securely bound the
vigilantes on horseback drove the men to q
thick patch Of timber short distance away,
and without much further delay strung them
up, waiting long enough to be sure that they
were dead.
The Chicago smallpox hospital has
been handed over to the Sisters OF Mercy.
A fire at Stockton, CAL, burned $780,
600 worth of property.
During the menth of March the sales
Of Chicago real estate numbered /, goo, the az
gregate value being s5, 165, se1, exceeding any
month for the past six years.
The insane asylum at Yankton, Da-
kota, temporary wooden building, ,yas burned.
1t contained ffty-four patients four OF whom
lost their lives by running back into the flames.
The people Of Salt Lake county, Utah,
assembled and chose fifteen delegates TO Con-
stitutional Convention, Of whom two are Gen.
tiles, two polygamists, three women and eight