The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1882-09-01
NEWS OF The week.
AMERICAN ITEMS.
Hast.


Fire burned the Adirondack Hotel,
Nolette House and thirty buildings, comprising
stores and dwellings, at Keesvile, N. Y. Loss,
900, 900 insured
The main mills of the Syracuse IN. "
Iron Works were burned Loss 100000; in
surance, S54,O Three hundred men are
thrown out of work. 49, q. 80 AEr
Hon. A. W. Sawyer, formerly Justice
Of the Supreme Court of New Hampshire, died
in the hands of physician, who was giving
him ether in order to amputate his foot.
Little Brown jug made four attempts
at Poughkeepsie to beat his record OF 2I1M,
but could only make 2lS.
A Coroner's jury at Paterson, n. j.,
held James Kennedy for manslaughter, for
locking his children in garnet when attacked
by smallpox.
The Erie railroad elevator at Buffalo,
valued at 100000 took fire from an explosion
OF dust. and was DESTROYED. Five men were
burned to death and another fatally injured.
BY the use of magnetic rod, mine
locator has found off the harbor OF Erie the
wreck Of the schooner vermillion, which was
sunk in storm nearly half a century ago, with
$50 tons OF copper ON board, valued at $780,
00O
President Arthur, accompanied by
large party OF representative men, visited the
torpedo station of Newport last week, and was
shown wonders in naval warfare until he grew
weary. At dinner gwen him by Cornelius
Vanderbilt, the walls OF the room were hidden
from view by flowers, and at each plate were
twelve glasses and $25 bouquet
Timothy Bailey. a soldier in the war
OF 1912, the inventor of the knitting machine,
died at Ballston, n. Y.
The leading importers of dry goods at
New York report a steady increase in the de-
mand for silks cashmeres and velvets.
A temperance worker at Augusta, Me-,
secured a warrant against the officers of an
express company for bringing liquors TO the
city. The Deputy Sheriff broke the locks OF
the storehouse and seized sixty-two cases Of
beer As il was being loaded upon the wagons
the crowd drove away the drivers and carried
off about half the cases, several persons being
seriously hurt.
West.
A desperate named Rymer, who
stabbed McGarvey, near Fort Lyon, was taken
from Jail at West Las Animas Col, and
lynched by mob supposed to be composed of
soldiers from the fort.
A hunter named Gibbon killed man
named Aiken at Rock Creek, Wyoming. Within
five hours he was dangling from box-car.
Denver reports eighteen recent at
tempts at suicide, the last victim being Charles
Hutchins prominent jeweler.
The widow of John Brown, of Osa-
watomie was brought from California to Chica-
go to attend a picnic for the benefit of the
monument fund. About three hundred per-
sons attended, and the gate receipts, amount
ing to $3.50, were levied upon and seized by a
constable.
Oklahoma Payne writes to friends in
Kansas that he is encamped on Dry creek in
Indian Territory, and that his men are erecting
buildings.
Hon. G. A. Tucker, from New South
Wales, who is inspecting jais and insane
asylums paid visit to the mad house at Salt
by the sights he witnessed. Among the patients
are two sane persons, bound hand and foot.
Joseph A. Shlrk, one of the best
known postal clerks in the West, was killed near
Indianapolis by a lurch Of the car, as he stood
near the door, throwing him out against the
beams of Eagle creek bridge.
Coup's circus is in the hands of the
ing to 525, 900 have been served.
Mules for the British army in Egypt
are being purchased at St Louis by Lieut. Col.
Swinney, OF the Royal artillery assisted by
veterinary surgeon.
Maj. Sumner telegraphs from Fort
Robinson that Red Cloud has threatened to
drive away Agent McGilicuddy by force unless
he be removed within sixty days.
Gov. Cameron, of Virginia, refuses to
commute the sentence Of Mary Booth aged IA,
to hang Nov. IL, for poisoning Mrs. Grau and
Mr.. Jones
The legality of the prohibitory amend
ment 10 the Iowa constitution adopted June q
is to be tested in an agreed case. wherein
brewery firm sues saloonkeeper to recover
the value OF beer furnished the first two weeks
in August The defendant admits the pur-
chase Of the beer, but denies the right Of the
plaintiffs to recover in a suit at law for the rca-
son that at the time of the purchase the plain
tiffs were engaged in the business OF brewing
and selling beer, contrary to the amended con-
stitution. The case is to be carried through
the highest courts
The Hooking Valley Manufacturing
Company's works at Lancaster, Ohio, burned
causing loss Of s135OOO
South.
At Lunenburg, Va, while Garland
whitfield stick In the courtroom for fifteen
minutes, the jury acquitted him of the murder
Of Addison in q duel.
The hangman swung off Robert Par