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


East.
Pepper has been ccrnered in the New
York and Boston markets, driving the price TO
II cents per pound. The syndicate holds In its
grasp ali the cargoes to arrive mp to October
Miss Annie Louise Gary, the famous
opera singer, was married at Portland, Me-, to
O N. Raymond
Several persons were killed or fatally
injured and twenty others hurt, by an accident
on the Long Branch division Of the New Jersey
Central road, at the bridge at Parker's creek
Gen. Grart was in the smoking-car, but es-
capped uninjured. William r. Garrison, Q son
Of Commodore Garrison, was fatally injured.
James l. Bradley, wealthy New Yorker, was
killed outright @. w. Demorest and James
G.. Mallory, of New York, and Charles NJ. Wood
ruff, of Newark, all prominent business men,
havesince died. About lo0persons were wounded
more or less seriously. The accident seems to
have been due to the criminal careiessness OF
the railroad company. The track had been al
tered TO provide for the running Of excursion
trains and frog had been left unsettled by
one OF the laborers Proper supervision and
inspection would Of course have resulted in the
discovery of the defect and its cure but par
simonious, shiftless management had not pro-
vided for such o chance.
The celebrated Malley trial, which has
been the sensation of New Haven for q long
time, resulted in the acquittal Of Walter and
James Malley and Blanche Douglass or The
charge of having murdered poor Jennie
Cramer.
A gambler named Bradley died at
Ration, New Mexico, with a rope around his
neck, placed there by his unappreeiative neigh
bors.
Ovens embezzlement of the funds of
the Third National Bank OF st. Louis, accord
ing to the figuring Of the Government Bank
Examiner, will foot up $500, 600; but the solid
ity Of the bank will not be impaired.
Crop reports from all over Minnesota
agree that corn is making up lost time. In
Kansas and Dakota the wheat and corn pros
pect is gloriously encouraging, and Nebraska is
figuring on the biggest grain yield in her his
tory.
A horrible tragedy was enactedat Gin
cinnatL Henry c. Cole, lawyer of some
prominence, his wife, and their only child,
girl about 20 years of age, were discovered
dead in their beds. Each one of them had
been shot through the head, and the pillows
and bedclothing were stiff with blood. The
evidence went to show that Cole had first shot
his wife through the temple with 4s-caliber re-
rolyer, when she was sleeping at his side. Then
he went into the adjoining room and shot his
daughter, who had wakened anu partly risen at
the sound Of the discharge that killed her
mother. Seeing that both shots were effectual,
Cole then returned to his wife's room and took
his place in the bed at her side. Placing one
OF the dead woman's arms about his neck, as
though she were sleeping with his head on her
shoulder, the man finished the terrible tragedy
by placing the muzzle Of the revolver at his
own forehead and pulling the trigger. Cole
was OF q wealthy family who formerly lived In
New York.
: A negro attempted to enter the house
Of Mrs. Howe, of Elizabethtown, ILL.,, who was
alone at the time, but she screamed for assist
ance and the fellow skunk away. A posse started
IN pursuit found negro in the vicinity, and
brutally beat and then hung him, though Mrs.
Howe failed to identify him as her assailant-
The new town of Larrimore, Dakota,
was swept by a oonfagration that destroyed
property OF the estimated value of $50, O00
One man lost his life, and another was badly
burned
Half a dozen laboring men were
drowned at Mardan, Dakota, while crossing the
Missouri river in a small boat
John McAuliff, once a noted labor
agitator Of Chicago, killed himself in his room
1t Denver, and the corpse was not found for
several days.
New Orleans has had genuine case
Of yellow fever, accompanied by black vonit
Extraordinary precautions are being taken to
prevent the spread Of the terrible pestilence.
At Frenchburg, Menifee county, KY,
q cloud burst and flooded the streets in some
places to the depth of eight to ten feet Three
dwellings, were swept away and six inmates
drowned-Mrs. John Fox, Mrs. Byrne, and two
grown daughters and two Misses Watkins.
The postofice and contents were washed away.
Hail fell with such violence as to crush men to
the earth.