The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1882-04-21
NEWS OF The WEEK.
AMERICAN ITEMS.


money Ior euueIeTs Oh III hiiiur, unS uiSap-
peared from Lynn, Mass. leaving wife and
children behind.
Mrs. Nichols Smith. eldest daughter of
the late Horace Greeley, died OF diphtheria at her
fathers homestead, Chappaqua, N. Y. She
leaves three children, the youngest weeks old.
She was III snly one week.
By a vote Of 10 to IL the Board of
Harvard College, declared it's unwillingness to
train female doctors In its medical school
The Connecticut House of Repre-.
sentatves has passed by q vote of 141 yeas to
"a nays a constitutional amendment prohibiting
the manufacture and sale OF intoxicating
liquors, except for medical purposes.
John f. Slater, wealthy citizen of
Norwich, Conn, proposes 70 give 81 .ooo, 600 to-
ward the education Of the negroes of the
Southern States. r. b Hayes. Gov. Colquitt,
William T. Dodge and others are to act as trus-
tees Of the fund.
The Connecticut Legislature has
passed law limiting the traffic in intoxicating
liquors.
Flames destroyed the carriage factory
CT b. w. Stivers, in New York city. Loss,
e15O, 600.
It is announced that the well-known
firm Of A. T. Stewart & Go. have determined
to discontinue their dry-goods and manufaot-
uring business, and that they offer for sale
their entire stock of merchandise and all their
mn properties. The announcement will cause
general surprise In the mercantile werid, al
though it has been known for some time that
the sales of the firm were not as large as when
Mr. Stewart was at the head Of the house which
he founded
A fire at Titusville, Pa., destroyed the
Hotel Brunswick, the Parshall Opera House
and hotel, and the Watson stables on which
the loss Is estimated at $3.50, 00O A fireman
was fatally burned and col, cd cook prob
ably lost her life.
In the suit for libel brought in the
New York courts by Rev. Samuel d. Human
against Bishop William Ii. Hare the jury rem
dered a verdict of $4,000 for the plaintiff.
Counsel for Bishop have moved for a new trial.
On the FIRST ballot by TIE jury ten voted in favor
of S25, 900 for plaintiff and two voted for a yer
dict tor defendant. Next morning they COM
promised on $40, 900 for the plaintiff.
Scoville lectured on the Guiteau trial
to three policemen eight reporters and twenty
others in Jersey City, N j.
The figures of the nationality of New
York's population, just completed, show
200.00 of Irish birth and les, 900 Germans
one-thhd of the total population.
William II. Vanderbilt purposes
building a mausoleum on Staten island, which
will cover an acre and a half. the building,
which will be seventy feet high 10 be seen twenty
miles at sea q clear day.
West.
William A. Hubert, President of the
National League of Base Ball Clubs, and alss
President and active manager of the Chicago
Base Ball Club, died in Chicago OF heart dis
case.
The saloon keepers of Seneca, Kan,
pleaded guilty and were fined $500 each, their
places of business ordered closed ~ nuisances,
and their Government licenses were surren-
dered.
The Wisconsin millers have adopted
resolution condemning gambling in grain.
Charles McKinnon, Kansas City
liquor merchant, has made an assignment.
The Kansas Prohibitory law, he says ruined his
business.
John Nassett, of Cambridge, Ohio
murdered his son and then took his own life.
Closer examination into the amount OF
harm done to the growing crops by the recent
severe weather shows that the damage was at
first overostimated. Fruits have suffered
some injury, but not to the extent that was
feared while it does not appear that the frost
has affected the growing winter wheat in any
appreciahle degree.
The Northern Pacific road has met
with complete success in it's experiments with
artesian wells in Dakota. Water nearly as
pure as that from Lake Superior flows thirty
feet above the ground at Tower City
John Land, the Blue Cut ono. train
robber, has been sentenced TO three years in
the penitentiary for perjury.
At Sedalia, Mo. fellow-soldiers with
Jesse James in the Confederate service have
raised $3.50 for his widow and children
Eighteen Nihilists have escaped from
Siberia. Among them Is nkaloG, one OF the
assassins Of Gen. Miezenthof.
The distillery of Oscar Furst, located
two miles south OF Peoria, ILL.,, and the bonded
warehouse adjoining were destroyed by fire.
The loss is $3.50, 900, and the insurance $780,
600. The institution will be speedily rebuilt
A storm of unparalleled severity ragged
in the region of Deadwood for week, almost
destroying the telegraph lines.
The Saints at Salt Lake were last Sum-
day advised by their preachers In the Taberna-
Gle to boycott the Gentiles. Probably tho
Gentle merchants will retaliate by discharging
all Mormon employees.
A notorious desperate, Elias, or jack
Ingalls,, known as Three Fingered Jack, and
his pal Dan Griscomb, known as "Grizzly
Dan" were lynched in the woods four miles
from Durango, Col. It is alleged that the
Sheriff and other prominent men were members
Of the lynching party. The bodies were cut
down within fifteen minutes and secretly bur-
led
The realistic, sensational and spec.
tscular play, 1.-THE World" is again on the
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