The true northerner., 1882-12-22
NEWS OF The WEEK.
AMERICAN ITEMS.
East.

refiner of New York, died at the age of "a
He leaves fortune variously estimated at
from 5000, 600 to sSOO0,0O0
The Enterprise cotton mills at Mana
yunk, Penn, were destroyed by fire, the loss
being S75, 0O0. In descending by the hoist
rope or springing from the windows sixteen
persons were injured one fatally
Fifteen Brooklyn Aldermen were
fined $3.50 each, and sent to prison for con-
tempt of court
A new oil we'll yielding 1000 barrels
per day having been struck in Forest county,
Penn, the bottom dropped out of the mar
ket at Bradford and Pittsburgh, and almost a
panic followed The price fell 1914 cents
w. H. Vanderbilt appeared before
the New York Senate Committee on Grain
Corners TO state that the system of dealing
in futures has n bad effect AS for himself,
he said, he never bought share of stock TO
speculate and never sold one short
The ice gave way on q, dam near Phil
adelphia where large number of children
were skating and four were drowned
During the week ending Dec. ID, the
business failures in the United States num-
bered go, being a decrease of seventeen
from the previous week, but sixty-tive more
than in the same period in 1881.
A laborer in Brooklyn said to a res
taurant waiter that although good Catholic,
he had n Protestant stomach, and within a
few minutes he was strangled by piece of
meat lodging in his throat
Parks Lemaine and his two sisters,
all young persons, while returning from a
prayer meeting at Upton Station, Pa, were
killed by locomotive
Mr.. Stewart, Secretary of the Brook
lyn Board of Education, is nowhere to be
found, and is defaulter to the amount of
$3.50, 600
The Sunday code was practically a
dead letter in New York last Sabbath, the
usual avocations on the Sabbath being piled
with immunity. Even alleged sacred con-
certs were given at many public resorts.
The New York Senate Committee on
Grain Corners called before it Henry Ward
Beecher, who expressed his conviction that
the gambling carried on by merchants is far
less injurious TO public morals than the eff
feet produced by church fairs and religious
lotteries. AS TO stock speculation, he got a
liberal education by buying Panama railroad
at S4o0 and selling at 500.
West.
Patrick Slattery, aged %, shot his
1,
Pleasant, Iowa, and then put bullet through
his own brain A note left by the suicide
states the tragedy was caused by whisky.
While dispositions were being taken
before notary in Sc. Louis in the suit OF
Mrs Slayback against Col Cockerill, an
affray took place between the attorneys, in
which John NJ Glover seized Frank Bowman
by the throat and sent him TO the floor
The corner stone of the new Chicago
Chamber of Commerce, which is to cost
$l,5O0,00c, and to be completed in year
and n half was laid the other day with inn
posing ceremonies.
A Cleveland jeweler was robbed al
midday of go 600 worth of diamonds by q
stranger who called ostensibly to get watch
repaired
There is an epidemic of disappear
ances in Chicago. Within less than month
II dozen cases of mysterious disappearance
of girls and young women have been report
ed to the police of that city. In Milwaukee
u number of similar cases were reported
A fire at Toledo, Ohio, totally de-
stroyed the Hall block at the corner of st
Clair and Jefferson streets the finest bu;si
ness structure in that city. The main occu
pants were Taylor, Rodgers Il Co, shoe
dealers; l. s. Baumgartner, notions; anc
Wood & Acldin, grocers The building haC
fallen into the hands of the Connecticut Mu
tual Life-Insurance Company, and the tota
loss il $3.50, 600
The jury in the case of Teresa Sturla
charged with the murder Of Charles Stiles
at the Palmer House. Chicago, returned
verdict of guilty of manslaughter, fixing the
penalty ut one year in the penitentiary.
Three days continuous rain caused
great floods in Washington Territory anc
Oregon, mills, houses and bridges being
carried away.
Lieut.. Col. George w. Schofeld, oi
the regular army, brother of Gen. John M
Schoicld, committed suicide at Fort Apache
Kansas reports an increased acreage
In winter wheat, with the crop in fine con
dltion
Judge Clinton Briggs, of Omaha,
was killed by falling, as is supposed from
the platform of an eastward-bound expires,
train, near Alton, Iowa
Sparks from locomotive at Kansas
City started a aconhagration which swallowed
up the Missouri Pacific freight-house, the
State Line elevator and nine freight-cars
causing loss of $4,000
Hon. Godleve s. Orth died at La
fayette, Ind, of blood poisoning superin
duced by cancer. He is the sixth membel
of the present Congress who has passed
away. Mr. orth was IS years Of age.
South.
The iron and steel bridge over the
Mexican Pacific railroad extension near sar
Antonio, Texas, collapsed, and seven mer
were killed.
The Princess Louise and her husband