The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1882-06-23
NEWS OF The WEEK.
AMERICAN ITEMS.


series OF 1875 are afioat IN BOSTON,
Another railway horror occurred on
the Clarksburg and Western railway, near
Clarksburg, W. Va A passenger car contain
ing twenty persons fell through trestle with
disastrous results. Two OF the occupants died
of their injuries, and many others are fatally
wounded.
An accident occurred on the New
York Central road, near Brockport The en-
gineer and fireman of the New York express
were killed, and number OF the passengers
were badly shaken up.
Morrison's extensive paper-mills ut
Tyrone, Pa, were destroyed by a fire due to
spontaneous combustion. The loss Ia said to
be fully S225,0
BY the premature explosion of blast
ON the Oregon and California extension OF the
Pacific railroad three Chinese and the foreman,
Theophilus Berry, recently from South Way
mouth, Mass. were killed.
The Supreme Court of the United Or
der of Foresters Of the United States met at,
TerTe Haute, Ind. Ten States were represent
ed.
A dispatch from Las Vegas, n. NJ,
says that "four rustlers, who bound and
gagged Mason, a store-keeper, near Mesilla re-
Gently, robbing his store of all they could car
~, were overtaken by Mexican posse and
strsngled. All were Americans, but their names
are unknown. They belonged to a gang Of
Arizona cowboys and richly deserved their
fate"
Agernon Sartoris, a son-in-law OF
Gen. Grant, is hunting and fishing at Sturgeon
Bay, Wis.
A terrible murder andsuicide occurred
at Jackson, Mich. Franz Schumacher, saloon
keeper, got drunk and proceeded to whip his
wife. He closed his saloon and in his fury
seized a musket and, leveling it at his wife,
fred. The ball struck her in the stomach, in
ficting death wound. Passers-by heard the
ring and summoned the police. Three of
them repaired 10 the place and broke in the
door, where they found the wife welterng in
blood. Schumacher picked up the musket and
ran up stairs. Policeman Schweimer followed
him, and when just at the head of the stairs
Schumacher leveed the weapon, pulled the
trigger, and ball went crashing through the
eye aud brain of the officer, who fell back
MORALLY wounded. Schumacher then shot him
self, dying IN few minutes. The tragedy pro-
duced wild excitement at Jackson.
A north-bound passenger train on the
Louisville, New Albany ana Chicago railroad
met with a serious accident near Bedford, Ind.
They were late and running fast to make up
time. Nearing the White River bridge the rear
coach jumped the track androlled down a steep
embankment, pulling the other coach, engine
and TENDER mail and baggage with 1t. The
engine also flew the track, but lodging about
half way down the embankment There were
thirty-fve or forty passengers on the train, all
more or less injured. John Carmony, the en-
gineer, was terribly scalded, and died in few
hours. The injuries of several OF the passen-
gers were OF serious nature.
The Brookfield bank robbers pleaded
guilty, and received sentences of twenty. Eve
years each in the Missouri Pententiary. Their
household effects were disposed Of at auction
at Huntsville Mo-, and brought enormous
prices.
George McMillen, of Canton, Ohio,
killed his wife with revolver as she lay in bed,
then fired shot in his own shoulder and called
the police, to whom he stated that strange
woman did the shooting.
A prize-fght was contested on the
Pennsylvania and Ohio State line between Ma
loney and Weeden. Forty-one rounds were
fought in seventy minutes, Weeden having the
best of it throughout, when he proposed to call
it draw, on account Of the dangerous condi-
ton of Maloney and the riotous disposition OF
his friends. Weeden's only bruise is on the
right eye, while his opponent was terribly bat
tered.
. One man was killed and four fatally
injured by an explosion OF fire. damp in a coal
pit near Wilkesbarre, Pa.
The largest oil we'll in the world has
just been struck in the new oil region in War
rem county, Pa. The yield is 100 barrels per
hour
John Nelson, dry-goods merchant
Of Red Wing, Mimi, took his wife and child
and a lady guest fishing on the Mississippi In
returning home the boat caught ON the ferry
cable, and Mrs. Nelson and Miss Bradley were
drowned.
Father Houck, Private Secretary to
Bishop Gilmour, OF Cleveland, was elected
from the Leader editorial-rooms by L. Cowles
In manner so aggravatng that the priest
swore out a warrant for assault and battery.
x.Gov. William Denison, known as
the "War Governor OF Ohio" died at Column
bus, aged 81. He was Governor of the State
from 1860 to 1862, Postmaster General under
Presidents Lincoln and johnson, Commissioner
of the District Of Columbia under President
Grant, and prominent in other public positions.
He had been sick for nearly year.
A distressing accident occurred in
Linn county, Kan, resulting in the death Of six
persons. Mrs. John Seals and her two children,
two children named Jankley, and one child
named Jacket, attempted to ford q swollen
stream in wagon and were swept away by the
swift current and speedily drowned.
The round up in Dakota shows the
cattle TO be found in the finest possible condi-
ton. The losses OF the season will not exceed
81 per cent, and the crop OF calves is over 90
per cent
South.