The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1882-11-24
NEWS OF The WEEK.
AMERICAN ITEMa
East

Typhoid fever is epidemic at Prov1-
dence, r L There are between 200 and
1900 cases in the city, and great uneasiness
prevails
Richard Hoffman, a resident of Som
erset township, Pa has for years been so
badly para yzed that he was compelled to
use a wheel chair He states that while
praying behind harm he was ordered to
rise and wax, and now goes about in the
natural way.
d. w. Coolidge, grain commission
mer liant of POI tland, Ne, has suspended
with Liabilities of 100000
A company with capital of $3.50, 900
has been organized in Pittsburgh by promi-
nent iron men to erect works for the man l.
facu re OF nails and spikes from steel
something which has never before been done
in the United States
A water tower in New York, designed
for the use of the fire department, was over
turned while being tested, by which two
men were killed
The barge Signal and steamer City OF
Worcester collided in the East river, at
Williamsburg N. y, and while the barge
was beng lowed to the nearest point she
sunk, carrying with her to the bottom seven
persons
A deed has just been placed on record
In New Y, TX, conveying q child l year old
to Mrs Mary Hohl until 1t shall marry or be-
come Of age, in consideration OF 81. The
instrument was executed in 1873.
Gen. James d. Fessenden, son
of the late Senator from Maine, dropped dead
In the street in Portland,
The wife of Engineer Melville, having
completely regained her sanity, has been re-
leased from the asylum at Norristown, Penn
West.
A terrible collision occurred on the
Chicago and Alton railway near Oak Grove,
twenty miles east OF Kansas City, Mo-, be-
tween a construction train and hand-c1r,
which resulted in the death OF six men and
the ditching of the entire train. The con-
struction train was in charge of Condu tor
Hamle Il, and ut the time of the collision was
backing toward Blue Springs, when it en-
countered the hand-car going east All the
men on the hand-car jumped, the loss OF
life being with the laborers and trainmen.
The caboose, six fiat-cars, and one box-car
went into the ditch As the cars went into
the ditch some of the men jumped but
were caught under the cars and crushed
cut of all shape. Beside the six killed n
large number were wounded
Careless handling of derrick
caused an accident in Cleveland wherein
two workmen were killed and another Sc
riously injured
Joe Hughes and Marker Davis were
found murdered in the streets of st Joseph,
Mo. It is believed they were killed by a man
named Harrington because they refused to
return to him money which they had won
from him at cards.
A collision en- the st. Paul and Omaha
road twelve miles from Hudson Mimi,
caused the death of three cattle-men and
the killing of a carload of stock
Spots seen in the suns disk by tele-
scopic observers at Keokuk, Iowa, formed
the figures ~" and a, or @24
Brave Bear, the Sioux Indian chief,
convicted of the murder of Joseph Johnson,
was nangeQ NJ 1anktOn, Dakota.
Stock in the Nicaragua Canal Com
pany TO the amount OF 100000 has been
quietly subscribed in the wholesale quarter
of San Francisco.
Steamboats, on the Upper Mississippi
are going into winter quarters, and naviga-
ton is virtually closed
The towns of Greenville, Vandalia,
Collinsvile, Salem, Centralia and Pana, in
Illinois, were disturbed by earthquake
shocks Tuesday evening, Nov. IA The vi
bratons were distinctly felt, aud in some
instances were accompanied by brilliant
electrical discharges.
Reports from 629 townships in Michi-
gan show the area Of seeded wheat to be 3
per cent less than in 1881, and the condition
to be 92 per cent
Fred Diebolt, rich and influential
German saloon-keeper of Clevela d, was
convicted in tie Police Court of viola ing
the Su day aw. Judge Soldiers ned him
800, and sentenced him to ten days in tie
worNhou
George j. Reek, who killed James E..
Anders, n, at Eureka, New, AID was acquit-
ted on the ground of sc f-de en- e, has
brought suit for SOS 600 damages against the
Enterprise, beca sc, notw thstand ng hi ac-
quittal, 1t asserted he was q poltroon and a
murd erer
South.
IT is stat I'll that the Delaware and
Maryland ship canal will be completed with
out Government aid by European capt.
talists
Yellow fever has disappeared from
Pensacola and Brownsville
The steamer Hankow sailed from New
Orleans for Liverpool with a cargo of S,7l3
bales of cotton, the largest that ever left
that port
Charles Hewey, Jr., an Arkansas
merchant, quarreled with two brothers
named Butter at Texarkana, and, when they
followed him with deadly intent, shot them