The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1882-06-30
NEWS OF The WEEK.
AMERICAN ITEMS.
East.

were destroyed. LOSS, %ooV'VoV' 'SS'
5000, ZOO.
Michael Davitt had an audience OF
nearly 8. 900 people in Boston, to whom he un-
folded his theory OF land tenure.
The fifth great well in the Warren
county Pa) oil-feld was struck the other day,
the Weld being 1900 barrels. One well caught
fire. the flames rising to a height Of fifty feet,
and causing loss of $1,000 day while it
burned.
James Fitzgerald, who played a bunko
game on Charles Francis Adams, has been SEN
fenced to FIVE years in the Massachusetts, PEN
itentiary.
West.
The cyclone which swept over Iowa
made two or three attempts at devastation in
Nebraska, but fortunately in unsettled portions
of the State only. Along the Platte river, in
Butler county, is n stretch of country mile
long which was plowed up by the storm. Trees,
grass rocks and all else were torn up and scat
tered in every direction. Quite number OF
cattle were killed. Their bodies were tossed into
the air like feathers and torn to pieces by the
fury of the storm.
Two young men were drowned in San
CANON county,. ILL.,, while bathing, aud two
young men were drowned the same day at
Hastings, Num-, by falling overheard from an
excursion boat.
Advices from Indian Territory show
that there are 1000 head of cattle and 10000
horses on the trail toward market.
Hon. J. B. Grinnell appeared on the
Chicago Board of Trade in behalf OF the people
of Iowa made desoate aud homeless by the re-
cent cyclone. He was introduced by Mayor
Harrison, all business was stopped, and prom
Uses Of aid came from all sides. After listening
to his touching recital of the devastation
wrought by the tornado a committee was APP
pointed to raise funds and supplies. John V.
Farwel the merchant prince started the ball
by subscribing $1,000.
George Eddy, a we'll known reporter
Of ST. Louis, had an encounter with saloon
keeper and cut him slightly. The assaied man
followed Eddy home, and fired three times
through the door, inficting mortal wounds up
on Mrs Eddy.
BY the explosion of saw-mill boiler
at Wllliamslold. Ohio, four men were killed.
Under sealed orders, Indian Inspector
Pollock and a squad Of troops arrested Agent
Berry at the Uintah Agency in Utah.
The Des MONIES Register estimates
the losses Of property by the recen: cyclone in
Iowa as follows: Boone county, $50. 600; Story
county, $4,000 Jasper county, $4,000; Pow
eshiek county, $4,000 Keokuk county, $780,
600; Henry county, $500, 600 Mount Pleasant,
500, O00 Grinnel, 100000 Malcolm. 51sO,OO0
Fonda, Pocahontas county, $4,000 the Chi
cago and Rock leland railroad, train merchan-
disc, S2G, GOO; Chicago and Rock Island Rail-
road Company, 515, OG0; Central Iowa Railroad
Company, $4,000 unenumerated. $685.
Total, $2,27l, coo. Some estimate the actual
loss will exceed 9S,O00,0OO.
A jury in Chicago awarded damages
Of $4,000 TO William j. Council for being put
off Pennsylvania train last year because he
held coupon ticket issued by the Wabash rail-
road.
One Owen, receiving teller Of the
Third National Bank Of st. Louis-who was
also engaged in the commission business-has
been arrested for embezzing $4,000 of the
banks funds. The banks officers give assur-
ance that the stability of the institution is in
no danger.
George A. Woods was hanged at Dur.
ango, Col, for the murder of Nj. G. Buchanan.
Large herds of cattle are arriving at
Dodge City, Kan, and 1t is estimated that
within space of sixty miles there are So, 900
head.
Mrs. Henrietta Randall, aged 33,
hanged herself in the yard of her residence at
Springfield, Mo. BY the uttoring of maledic-
ton years ago she believed the curse OF God
was upon her.
Thomas j. Foster, editor and proprie-
tor of the Fort Wayne Qnd.) Ecening Herald,
shot himself through the head. The Coroner's
jury rendered verdict of temporary insanity,
superinduced by alcoholism.
A wave nearly twelve feet high swept
along the shore Of Lake Erie, from gainesville
to Cleveland, accompanied by roar like thun-
der, the wind shifting from south to north.
The undertow did great damage at Cleveland
A lot of steel rails weighing twenty tons were
thrown back ten feet, and one man was swept
out into the lake and drowned. The eght-inch
hawser on the steamer Northwest was snapped
like a thread.
A large area of the Northwest was
visited by series of tremendous wind and rain
storms on the oath and 25th Of June causing
much damage to crops, farm buildings, dwell
ings and other property, and in a few sections
attended with considerable loss of life. Iowa,
al usual, was the greatest sufferer. At
Emmettsburg, the shire town OF Palo
Alto county, the wind demolished p number Of
houses and injured several persons. At Hos
per, fifty miles northeast of Sioux City, the de-
pot, hotel. an elevator and eighteen cars were
demolished and one man fatally injured The
town of Primghar, 0Brien county, was par
italy wrecked and six or seven persons in
jured. In the southern part Of Clay county
five persons were killed and twenty-five
injured. In Kossuth county a number OF
houses were blown down and several persons
fatally injured Butler, Saunders, Lancaster,
Otoe and Nemaha counties, in Nebraska, were
swept by the storm. In Saunders county
the hail beat down the corn and ruined
the small grain. Two residences in
Wahoo were blown down and herd