The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1882-07-14
NEWS OF The WEEK.
AMERICAN ITEMS.


Ichabod Goodwin, the first war Gov
ernor of New Hampshire, died at Portsmouth
at the age OF SO.
Joseph Rogers, Pittsburgh molder,
inspired by jealousy, shot his wife in the breast
and fired bullet into his temple.
Marquis Bibbero swan across the
East river at New York with his feet tied to-
gether and his hands pinioned behind him.
Sullivan, the prize-fghter, gave pic
mic in New York. In sparring match of three
rounds he knocked James Elliott senseless, in
which condition the latter remained for twenty
minutes.
Four children were fatally poisoned
Mrs. f. L. Weston died at Greenfield,
N. H., at the age of 104 years and months.
AT Skowhegan, Me-, Stephen Coburn,
prominent member OF the bar, and brother
of ex-Gov. Coburn, drowned himself while
temporarily insane His son Charles, in at
tempting to rescue his father, was also drowned.
On the Fourth, IN the Concord Mass.
State Prison, the convicts demolished the cell
furniture because they were not granted the
usual one hours recreation
West
Smallpox has been ravaging Indian
Territory, thirty deaths having occurred at
Muscogee alone.
In Cincinnati, Jacob Wagner killed
his wife with revolver and MORALLY wounded
himself.
A constable and posse at Linkville,
Ore, in endeavoring to capture two horse
thieves, killed one and MORALLY wounded the
other.
Many buildings were demolished and
several persons injured by tornado in Craw-
ford and Cherokee counties, Kansas.
Editor Cowles, of Cleveland, has en-
tered suit against the Catholic Bishop Gimsur
Tor malicious libel. Gilmour. it is alleged,
charged Cowles with religious persecution OF
his (Cowles0 daughter, and the journalist
Thinks he has been injured s25, 900 worth.
Charles Colvig, chief of scouts at the
San Carlos Agency, and four Indians were am
pushed by a small band of renegades, Colvlg
and three men being killed.
j. H. Plant, wholesale clothing mer-
attachments had been filed, drowned himself
In a slough.
The incorporators of the Garfield
Monument Association held meeting at Cleve-
land and selected board of trustees, who or
gained by electng Gov. Foster President, aud
ex-President Hayes and Gov. Cornell Vice
Presidents. The contributions 80 far approach
Sl2O,OOO
The Grow Indians in Northern Wyo-
ming are killing cattle and destroying the
wheat fields. Fears of another Indian war are
expressed by the settlers.
A GAMBLER named Madden, who died
at Leadville the other day, had the largest
brain ever taken from human skull in this
country. 1t weighed 621l ounces, nearly nine
ounces more than Daniel Websters brain.
South.
At Camden, S. c., Capt. Halle shot
dead L. W. r. Blair, prominent Greenbacker.
The latter dubbed Halle liar, and refused to
retract.
1t has been discovered that great
frauds upon the Government by Texas United
States Marshals have been perpetrated, and a
large number of them will be arrested.
The body of Kilgour, who murdered
Gardner and shot Marshal Bryant at Belmont,
Ky, was found in the woods, terribly mutilated
by hogs and buzzartis.
Advices 10 the National Board of
Health from New Orleans state that no case Of
yellow fever and no doubtful or suspicious case
has occurred since the one reported case of
June 26.
Mont Robbins, whose father, ex-Con-
gresham William Robbins, was assaulted by
l. Mott, at Statesvhle, N. c., on account OF
bitter political speech, went to Iredell county,
where Mott lived, and killed Mott for the at
tack on his father.