The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1882-10-13
NEWS OF The week.
AMERICAN ITEMS.


watson's iron works and the factory OF the
Craighead Elwell Company, the loss aggre-
eating $4,000
The Pennsylvania Steel Association
held it's annual session ut Philadelphia The
Secretary's report showed that the produc-
ton had been increased els, SO4 tons in ten
years
The funded debt of the city of New
York is s97, SS1 ,941, adecreaseof over $50, 900
having been made in September.
A five-story building on Broadway,
near Canal street, New York, occupied by
several dry goods firms, wiped out $50, 900
in burning
George Huntington, his wife and four
children were drowned at Amesbury, Mass +,
by the capsizing of a small boat
West.
By the accident to the Cannon-ball
train at Salem, Kan, five persons were killed
and four others severely injured, one Of
whom has since died The bodies of the
victims were so badly burned as TO be scarce
ly recognizable.
A granite monument, fifteen feet high,
is being made at Muscatine, Iowa, for Jesse
James grave
A brilliant aerial phenomenon was
witnessed at Dubuque the other evening,
consisting of luminous band spanning the
whole heavens from northwest TO southeast
1t lasted half an hour, and then gradually
faded away.
A granite monument, in three sec
lions, to be placed by the Government on
the field in Montana where Gen Gibbon
fought the Nez Perces in 1877, was shipped
from st. Paul
A misplaced switch near Auscogee,
Indian Territory, sent freight train into a
ditch. Engineer Spiar was crushed to Jelly
and Fireman Walker had both legs severed
from his body.
Charles p. Johnson, formerly Lieu
tenant Governor of Missouri, will defend
Frank James in any prosecution brought by
the State
James Rhodes was taken from Jail at
Charlottesville, Va, and hanged to a tree for
the murder of the Massie family He made
a confession of his crime.
Robert Il. Carruthers, of Lebanon
Tenn, ex Governor and ex member of Con-
gress, is dead
A party of Iowa capitalists will i'm
rnedately build another iron blast-furnace
in the Birmingham district of Alabama
Judge Woods, late proprietor of the
Denison Texas) Democrat, but lately citi-
zen of the Indian Territory, where he has
been engaged in getting out black walnut
timber had an alteration with one OF his
mill-hands named Slaughter, in which
Slaughter was killed and Woods shot twice
through the body, from the effects OF which
he died three days afterward.
At Carencro, La, Adolph Marceaux
became offended about some imagined
wrong, got up party of friends in military
fashion and marched 20 n hall where n festi-
val was being held Arriving there, they
opened fire on the assemblage killing girl
named Dominique instantly and mortally
wounding her brother.
Isaac Carton and wife, at Goodwater,
Ga, locked three children up in the house,
which burned to the ground The children
were cremated
At Jacksonville, Ala, John Brooks,
negro, who had confessed to outraging
little girl, was taken from the Sheriff by
crowd and hanged in the outskirts of the
city
The bodies of sixteen victims of the
steamer Lee horror have been recovered.
All save two were buried ut Yucatan land
ing.
The greatest portion of the business
section of Warrington, Escambia county,
Fla, was destroyed by an incendiary fire.