The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1882-01-06
NEWS OF The WEEK.

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Is rapidly increasing in New York.
The Lochiel Mutual Aid Association,
Of Harrisburg Pa, has gone the way Of other
gravcyard-insurance concerns.
terrible story comes from Jersey
CITY of a man who was seized with malignant
type Ct smallpox, and, being refused adj
mittance to the police station, died on the side
walk.
At Biddeford, Me-, young man
named Moore shot his aflianced, Miss Belle
Cushman, dead, and then shot himself.
The business of New York for the
year, as exhibited by the returns Of the clear
ing-house, reach tho unprecedented total OF
S49, 400, 10000.
The depositors in the Massachusetts,
savings banks number 1885, 951, and the amount
of money deposited by them amounts to
$3.50, 4,479
In cushion carom billiard game at
New York, for OF, 900 and gate money, William
Sexton defeated Jacob Schaefor by q score Of
COO to SIG
A collision between two freight trains
on the Pennsylvania road at Christiana Pa.
killed three persons and destroyed $500, 900
wor OF property.
The deaths are announced at Phila-
delphla of Lieut.. Col. w. r. Price, Sixth United
States Cavalry, and Dol. II. s. MeComb, the
well known railway builder.
West.
A fire at Durand, Wis, destroyed
twenty-one buildings the loss being estimated
at $4,000.
Dan p. Eells, of Cleveland, announces
that the bonds recently stolen from him are
again in Iii, possession 1t is runored that lie
paid $50, 900 Tor the recovery of his securities.
Alta meetingsof leading citizens of
Bismarck, resolutions were adopted favoring
division of Dakota, tho southern half to enter
the Union as STATE.
Mrs. Cruz, of Florence, Cal, gave
birth to six perfectly formed female children.
A Chicago physician, who has made
speciality of cancer. has discovered what he
elaims to be a po tive cure. He will lay the
details before the profession shortly.
A fraud of considerable proportions
has inst been unearthed i'll Southern Dakota.
gang OF scoundres in Douglas county issued
s2O0, 90 worth of alleged county school bonds,
though the county itself has nev'r been or
ganiz, into school-dlstiicis and though the
whole taxable p, operty Of the county does not
exceed $1,000 or $4,000, and contains only
some forty voters.
Advices from Postmasters in all Sec
tions OF the c,untry. received at the Po~toffice
Department in Washington, show an alarming
mere SO OF sm ll-pox in the Northwest The
disease il spreading raj iuy, and several post
Offices have Leen ordered closed in conse-
quence.
Four cowboys attempted to raid the
shsl Kruger, who shot down one, named Brown,
and captured another.
South.
A San Antonio (lexa,) dispatch states
that the result OF tive Fhpper court martial. re-
Gently held there, will 10 dismissal from the
army.
A London firm has purchased from
the State OF Mississippi 1900, 900 acres of land,
mostly loc.tci in tho Yazoo delta, which will
be colonized and cultivated.
Mrs. NJ. L. Coppege was killed ut New
Orleans while playing with her 4-year old son
The mother was giving the child instructions
in the of toy pistol The child aimed
and fired, and the Juliet entered the woman's
brain.
A terrible tragedy occurred at Bell
font, Ala, small station On the Mobile and
Ohio railroad, forty-iour miles from Chatta-
nooga resulting III the fatal shooting OF W. ID.
Martin, his son John and G. NJ. Pennel. They
were the only mt rchants In the plaor, and the
difficulty originated through jealousy. They
usei pistols.
Joel Johnston, q well. known citizen OF
Baldwin couny, Ala, was shot from behind
tree by negro ho was returning home. He
was stunned by the shot and fell from his horse,
whereupon tho assassin shot him twice.
Though MORALLY wounded, Johnson managed
to crawl TO his house and told his brother OF
the assault. The brother started out and in
an encounter with tho murderer was fatally
shot. The murderer also received mortal
wounds.
Eson Bolin, q carpenter residing at
Rogers, Ark, was slot dead in bed by his wife.
She claimed that he had killed two men, was
horse-thief, and had twice threatened her life.