The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1882-05-12
NEWS Of The WEEK.
East.

The intentions of the late Henry w.
Longfellow regarding the disposition Of his
estate will be to q considerable extent frustrat-
cd by the decision of the Probate Court to the
effect that the erasures which occur are to DO
considered no part Of the will, and that the in
ordinations are OF no effect This view is
based upon the principle that the man who
makes will can only alter it by oodicil-
Prof. Doremus, of New York, finds
that the gun-cotton sent to w. II. Vanderbilt
and Cyrus W. Field was the toughest kind and
of foreign manufacture.
A negro at a Pittsburgh boarding
house put poison in the bread. Nine persons
were poisoned, OF whom one or two may not
survive.
Gen. Grant and w. 81. Vanderbilt
officiated rs time-keepers for Frank Work, at
the Gentlemen's Driving Park in New York,
where Edward and Dick swiveller, hitched to
a road-wagon, made a half-mile in 1O91S and
mile in 2:2312.
The Senate of Massachusetts, passed
bill to double-track the Hoosac tunnel and inn
prove the Troy and Greenfield railroad.
=. staging on the new railroad bridge
1t Greenfield, Mass, fell forty-six feet to the
ground. or eight men at work one WAS fatally
and two others badly hurt
It is understood that the estate OF
Ralph Waldo Emerson will inventory 5000, 00o
Three inches of snow fell at Pottsville,
Pa, on the 9Th inst.
The Court House at Pittsburgh, which
cost nearly $3.50, ZOO, was partially destroyed by
fire.
Mrs. George Scoville appeared before
New York audience in company with child,
and remarked that family troubles compelled
her to retire, after giving them an opportunity
to see a sister of Charles ]. Guiteau. The
money was then refunded to forty auditors. 1t
is underst God that Mrs Scoville is to file bill
for divorce at once.
West
The Michigan peach belt and other To-
caities in the adjoining States suffered severely
by the recent frost.
Denver took holiday and laid the
cornerstone of the National Exposition build
ing, in which ceremony several thousand per-
sons participated.
The Secretary of the Ohio Board of
Agriculture reports damage of 10 per cent
TO the wheat of southern Ohio by frost.
The report of the Chicago, Milwaukee
and 81. Paul road for 1881 shows gross earn
ings of ST., O25, 461 and expenses OF $1O,3l7,-
93l. 1t owns 4,2l7 miles of track, and has
bonds and stock outstanding in excess of
Sl14,000,000.
A farmers wagon drove up to the gates
of the Iowa penitentiary, the other day, with
Polk Wells and Charles Cook, under strong
guard. They were found in barn five miles
away by John Stenger and son, and were soon
forced to surrender at the muzzle Of shotgun.
A reward Of $3.50 was paid to the Stengers
The prison birds have been indicted for the
murder of John Elder, the guard
The annual meeting of the Michigan
Central Railroad Company was held at Detroit
The net earnings for the year were q, 06S.S90.
81, as against SO, 212, 623. 95 for 1880.
Dynamite was exploded in the saloon
of Con Sweeney, al Cedarville, Ohio, throwing
the entire family out of bed and blowing out
one end of the building. An attempt was made
to blow up Coldwell's drug store but tho
charge failed to explode.
The reports of trouble in Wyoming
Territory by the Snake and Bannock Indians
are considered by the Washington authorities
as much more serious than the Arizona troub-
les The Snakes and Bannocks are about 1000
strong and very shrewd, hard fighters.
Chicago Inter Ocean All reports
about the fruit crop being seriously damaged
by the late frosts in Central Illinois are gam
mon. The prospects for a large crop were
never better. Two-thirds of the peach crop
and other small fruits were destroyed by the
recent frosts in the Michigan fruit belt.
Chicago has lost by death two of her
old and honored citizens-Col. W. b. Snow
hook and Bon. r. p. Derickson.
There have been 218 entries for the
July trotting meeting at the Chicago Driving
Park, for which purses Of $4,000 have been
hung up.
There is supposed to be in existence
$500, 900 in surveyors scrip, falsely represented
to have been issued at Santa Fe by an Assist
ant Treasurer OF the United States John d.
Cameron. OF Sioux Falls, Dakota, has been ar
rested for connection with the fraud and taken
70 Yankton.
Newspapers in Arizona denounoe Pres
ident Arthur for his proclamation against the
cowboys, and insist that he has been misled by
Federal Marshals.
South.
Hon. Horace Maynard dropped dead
Of heart disease at Knoxville, Tenn. He was
born III Massachusetts. but wont to Tennessee
after graduating at Amherst He eight
times elected to Congress, and served rs Min
lister to Turkey and Postmaster General. Dur
ing the war he was exiled frsm his home, and
suffered great loss Of property.
At Greenville, Miss, DR.. Preston E.
Buckner was mistaken for burglar by W. J.
Wentworth, and shot dead.
POLITICAL POINTS.
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