The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1882-01-27
NEWS OF The WEEK.


The Grand Jury at New Haven re-
ported a true bill for murder In the first de-
gree against Walter e. Malley, James Malley
and Blanche Douglass, for killing Jennie E
Cramer, Aug 8.
Gov. Cornell made the Spuyten Duy-
vii disaster the subject Of special message to
the Legislature of New York He pronounces
the occurrence an absolutely inexcusable one,
and recommends that trains be required to
carry appliances for breaking into wrecked cars
and extinguishing fires.
Katie Manton, Philadelphia girl of
IA years, died in that city OF delirium tremens,
after Undesirable suffering She became q
drunkard before her 18th year had been passed,
and drank the vile liquor of the slums with all
the abandon of an old topper.
At Hampton, Pa, while William Cork
was dying of smallpox, his wife placed light
ed candle in his hands and knelt beside the bed
in prayer. She instantly succumbed to ex-
haustion, the bedding was set on fire, and she
and her child were overcome by smoke. The
neighbors saw the situation, but only one dared
to enter the house. The flesh was burned from
Cork's bones. and his wife and daughter will
not recover.
Deacon w. w. Ellis, of Providence,
r. l., cut his hand while opening q bottle Of
communion wine, and has been seized with
lockjaw.
The Catholic clergy of the Diocese of
Pittsburgh, Pa, will hereafter refuse priestly
dissolution to members of the secret benevolent
order OF Knights Of Labor.
The Rev. Enoch Pond, President of
Bangor (Me.) Theological Seminary and con-
nected for sixty years with that institution of
earning, has just died at the age of 81.
Tom Ballard, the famous counter
feiter, now in the pententiary at Albany, N. Y,
Government secret for making bank-note
paper which will preclude all counterfeiting of
notes and bonds, If the Government win grant
him pardon.
West.
1t is stated in dispatch from Tucson,
Arizona, that Gen. Carr was placed under ar
rest by order of the President. The cause is
not definitely ascertained, but it is currently
reported on good authority that it was on ac-
count of certain facts brought out at the recent
trial Of the Indian scouts.
At Mankato, Mimi, the opera house
was swept away by fire. Insured for $4,000,
which will not nearly cover the loss.
III. b. Lockwood, of Chicago, dealer
in tea and tobacco, has made an assignment to
cover debts of $1O0,O0
Meyer Bros, wholesale notion dealers
of Chicago, were levied upon by their cred
itors. Liabilities, $4,000; about equaled by
their assets.
Fire broke out in Metropolitan and
Court House blocks, at Abilene, Kan, and
ragged furiously for hours. The loss is placed
at $4,000, beside large portion Of the public
records.
In suit brought by the State of Iii
nois against the Alton road and the ferry and
bridge companies of st. Louis, to break up
the pooling arrangements, Judge Zane Of
Springfield, decided that the contracts between
the companies are contrary to public policy,
and ordered an injunction against all parties.
Judge Drummond decided in the
United States Circuit Court of Chicago Gin the
case Of Rawles vs. The Toledo, Peoria and War
saw railroad, the plaintiff having been Injured
while alighting from train), that passenger
has NO claim for damages who attempts to
ahght from car until it has actually stopped.
One man was killed, three fatally in
jured and four badly wounded by the explosion
of q saw-mil boiler at East Liberty, Ohio.
Michael Mooney was hanged at Frank
lin, Idaho, for the murder of Huyckley, agent
of the Union Pacific railroad.
AT Honton, Ohio, one of the muir
derers of DR.. Joseph Beggs (who was killed
near the Etna Iron Works two months ago.
was taken from the county Jail by band Of
men and lynched. Another of the murderers
confessed that money was the incentive of the
killing.
A detective from Chicago has for some
Minded Youth at Columbus, Ohio, and has
finally traced to Elmer e. Gwynn and David
Goodrich the crime Of firing the institution in
November, by which the State lost 100000.
Robert G. Bailey, teacher in a pub
lie school near the town of Redbud, Monroe
county, Ill, was killed by one of his pupils
named Emmett Mcbride. The teacher under
took to chastise Mcbride for disobedience of
the rules. The latter resisted. A struggle en-
sued, during which Bailey was stabbed to the
heart and killed.
One man was killed and two fatally
injured by the premature explosion of blast
IN a stone quarry at Joliet, Ill
John l.. Kaiser, O steamboat clerk OF
st. Louis, was rendered insane by witnessing
the execution OF Kotovsky and Ellis, and died
In the asylum.
South.
Hon. Joseph j. Stewart, one of Mary
lands most prominent citizens, is dead.
Gregory Sternoni, an Italian mer-
chant of Petersburg, Va, was convicted of re.
ceiving stolen tobacco and sentenced to re-
ceive twenty stripes at the public whipping
pest
Anderson Jones, colored, was hanged
at Augusta, Ga, for the murder of John ID.
HARRISON.
A man named John Nelson, while
pIowing on the farm of Robert Hicks, in Boone
Ali x.Io hrxo 81,