The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1882-10-06
NEWS OF The WEEK.
AMERICAN ITEMS.


East.
Wellington & Co., the oldest dry
goods firm in Boston, has made an assign
ment Their liabilities are placed at $780,
co.
Maltby, Stevens & Cutiss' factory, at
Birmingham, CT, burned, causing loss OF
$4,000 The insurance amounts TO s5S,OOO.
A colored miser of Philadelphia, sport
ing the name Of Rev. Joshua Provine Bond
Eddy, died in filthy hut leaving 100000
TO brother He was born in Virginia in
the last century, travelled circuit in New
Jersey, married daughter of Bishop Allen,
and became soured against humanity ON
learning of her infdelity.
The Ford brothers, who killed Jesse
Brooklyn, where they claim TO have seen tho
wife of Frank James, heavily yelled, and
grew quite excited over it
A Philadelphia dispatch says that at
meeting of the Kelly Motor Com pany, the
Trustee appointed by the court stated posi-
lively that the motor would be completed
and patents applied for by December.
A fire at Emporium, Penn, des-
troyed seventeen of the principal business
places, causing loss of $150,ooo.
w. G. Whitaker, residing at Paschal-
vile, a Philadelphia suburb, has been ar
rested for poisoning his wife and family and
n boarder named Cooper, by putting arsenic
In the water with which tea was made.
A runaway accident at Albany, n Y,
caused the death of Mrs Lewis Rathbone,
wife of prominent retired manufacturer,
and the fatal injuring of -Assemblyman
Amasa Parker, Jr. Mrs. Parker and another
lady were slightly injured
West.
The Western Hardware Company, of
Atchison, Kansas, has closed its doors. Liza
bilities, s250,CO0
The annual report of the Chicago,
St Paul, Minneapolis and Omaha railroad
for the year ended June 80 shows the earn
ings to be 81, 567, O52 -, and the operating ex-
penses s2,695, 59076
A shock of earthquake. lasting from
fifteen to sixty seconds, was felt in the re-
gion between st. Louis and Springfield on the
9th of September.
Five persons attempted to cross the
Miami river'at Lebanon, Ohio, and duri1 g a
playful struggle for the oars the craft ap-
sized and four of the occupants were
drowned
Gov. Murray's appointments TO fill
vacancies in Utah, caused by failure TO
hold an election in August, are nullified by
the Mormons, who refuse TO give up the po-
sitions in obedience to the orders of church
officials
William Dyniewicz, the publisher and
editor of the Gdzettd PolSkd "A Polish weekly
of Chicago, shot and killed an unknown
man, who was attempting to force an
entrance into his residence and business
place and who in a drunken frenzy attacked
Dyniewicz and his family with heavy piece
of timber and threatened to kill them all
A Chicago detective has bagged the
fourth confederate in the Kewaunce bank
robbery
The showcase of c. Oskamp. in the
Cincinnati Exposition was coolly robbed OF
$4,000 worth of diamonds by two men who
had keys to the padlocks.
Heinrich & Hansen, well-known
wheat and note brokers of San Francisco,
have failed. with liabilities of sl6l,OOo The
Pacific Bank caused the arrest of Hansen on
a charge OF grand larceny, and he gave bail
in $4,000
George Ames. while insane and at
tempting TO escape capture by officers and
physicians, jumped from the third story OF
"a hotel at Richmond, Ind, and sustained
fatal injuries He is a grandson OF bishop
Ames, and his mother is a sister of Senator
Booth.
A load of new corn was hauled into
Dies MONIES, Iowa, by farmer on the 18th
nit and attracted n large crowd OF specta-
tors.
Gen. Crook says that there is not now
hostile Apache in Arizona He has returned
from a "trip to the Magellan and White
mountains and the San Carlos agency, and
says that he had talks with all the disafiected
Indians, and arrived at n thorough under
standing with them The only band from
which we have TO fear any trouble is that of
the Chiricahuas, now in Mexico.
South.
George Hallenbeck and William
sratton quarreled fifteen years ago at
Palmyra, n Y, and again met the other day
near Carrie Pass Texas, went into a
darkened room and fought n duel Stratton
was brought out corpse, but Hallenbeck
was unnjured
Mrs. Bush and her five children were
drowned at Heathsville, Va, by their house
being carried off by a flood
During the session of the Raptist As