The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1882-07-21
NEWS OF The WEEK.

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A WHtle cauSnt nic Oh toii"oJ NN
in Boston, and the fire department was called
out to save theskeleton. He had been mounted
for exhibition, and the loss is stated at ~, 5oO.
There was serious rioting at Jersey
City arising out OF the freight-handlers strike.
Italian werkmen were assaulted by the strikers,
and retaliated with pistol shots, killing one
person and wounding several One Italian, in
fleeing from the strikers, was drowned.
The safe of the Bank Italo- Americana
in New York was broken open and robbed Of
$4,000.
While workmen on the North Shore
road were blasting near Milton, N. Y, a pre-
mature explo sion killed three Italians and seri-
ously injured eight Others
Three disastrous conhagrations oc-
Cured in New York city at nearly the same
time They broke out, respectively, In White
hail. Pearl and Washington streets, and tie
damage occasioned viii reach 100000.
West
Two sensational murders occurred in
Chicago within few hours. Charles Stiles,
noted operator on the Board Of Trade, and
caller of the Call Board at salary Of $4,000
year, was shot dead at his room in the Palmer
House by an Italian woman with whom he had
been living for five or six years. An old and
respected gentleman named DIR. Joel Prescott,
the proprietor of bathing establishment, was
murdered by burglars, who beat out his brains
with hammer and made their escape.
Advices from Arizona announce that
forty Apache bucks attacked the town Of Globe
and were repulsed after a hard fight by the cit
liens. The fight lasted half an hour, during
which the Indians tried to set fire to several
buildings without success. One white man was
wounded. Indian casualties unknown, as they
carried off their dead and wounded.
At Flagstaff, New Mexico, Jim Brown
and blind" Jim murdered two men named
Storey and F. B. Dietrich. The whole town
pursued, caught and hanged the mlrderers.
A party of Germans made an attempt
to batter down the doors of the Jail at Las
Vegas, in order to lynch a. G. Brown for the
murder of Frank Meyer. The Sheriff gave
them ample warning, and then ordered the
guards to open with Winchester rifles. When
the smoke cleared away four men lay on the
ground badly wounded, two of whom will die.
A party of 100 Indians captured every
horse belonging to band of citizens who left
Globe City, Arizona, to protect settlers in the
Salt river country, and the rangers walked
home.
For the fourth time In the past eight
years the mill of East & Lewis, at Lima, Ohio,
has been burned, the losses aggregating $780,,
900.
The charges of infdelity and skepti-
cism often repeated against the Michigan Uni
versity are answered by the fact that more than
80 per cent. of the students, 81 per cent. of the
faculty and "a per cent. of the teachers and as
sistants are processing Christians.
Juan B. Alvarado, who was Governor
of California from 1886 to 1s49, died at San
Pablo.
At Dayton, w. t., every store, hotel
and bank in the town was consumed by fire,
which destroyed six business blocks. Loss,
$780,
Crop reports have been received by the
Michigan Secretary of State from 6s5 townships.
The acreage OF wheat this year is 1, us, 155, and
the estimated yield is 81, 400, 1874 bushels. Last
years acreage was 1,6694O5 which yielded
2O,179,4 bushels.
Mrs. Lincoln, the widow of Abraham
Lincoln, died in Springfield H.. at the home Of
her sister, Mrs. Ninian Edwards, on Sunday
evening" July 16. Mrs. Lincoln, as is well
known, has been for long time in very poor
health, but recently she Had grown rapidly
worse, ana on Saturday, the 18th, she suffered
paralytic stroke, from which she never rallied,
but lay in q comatose state until she died. She
was Ga years old. Secretary of War Lincoln is
her only surviving child.
Alfred 81. Pease, the pianist, dropped
dead on the street in St Louis after"a debauch
lasting over six weeks. He was engaged to ac-
company Nilsson on her American tour this
fall
f. L. Jones, photographer OF Lou
isville, Miss, who has already murdered four
men, killed boy nanesake in cold blood.
Editors Gaines and Sears, of Louis
vile, INDUCED In street fight over a journal
istic quarrel. Several shots we're fired, but no
serious damage was inflicted. storekeeper
block away from the disturbance, was more Sc
veIely injured by a stray bullet than either of
the belligerents.
Philip Haison was hanged at Clinton,
N. c., for the murder of Henry Sellers.
A mob of white and black men over.
powered the jailer at Henderson, KY, took out
anegro named VIM. Ritter, and hanged him to
a tree on the outskirts, for the rape and MUIR
der OF a colored girl.
Life in Texas: In Orange county John
Goodwin killed W. windham's dog. windham
followed Goodwin and his brother !n-law,
Moran, with a shotgun He shot and killed
both, but was himself wounded and died in an
hour. Near Whitesboro two farmers, johnson
and Ichor, quarreled. Ichor was fatally cut
and Johnson killed. A boy on the farm who
interfered was badly cut.