The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1882-02-24
NEWS OF The WEEK.
AMERICAN ITEMS.

ing part of the city by eiectrc-lamps-
John e. McDonough, the actor, died
Of starvation in Philadelphia, cancer in his
throat making him unable 70 take nourish-
ment
The Coroner of New York demanded
bail in the sum Of $1,000 from Orlando b.
Potter, owner of the old World building pend
ing his indictment for maintaining . man
trap, and refusing to make it safe after being
warned.
Enos Sylvester, OF Providence, r. L,
up his 6-year-old boy as q burnt-offering to the
Lord. Neighbors interfered in time to prevent
the consulamation of the sacrifice, and Sylves-
ter will 60 to the asylum.
Joseph E. Sheffield, who died in New
Haven last week, went to Chicago in 1850 and
caused the building Of the railroad to Rock
Island. He has given for educational purposes
no less than 100000, one OF his good works
being the scientific school attached to Yale Col
lege. He leaves to widow and six children an
estate valued at S2,000.000.
DIR. j. Emilio Howard, whose impris-
onment in Cuba some years ago created much
feeling between the United States and Spain,
died at Philadelphia.
V. w. MacFarlane e. Co., of New
York. lard rofners, have suspended. Liabili-
ties about 100000.
Another sea serpent has appeared at
Long Branch, N. J. 1t was fish-hke monster,
forty feet long and had horns on its head.
Seventeen railroads in Pennsylvania
have incurred penalty of $4,000 each because
of failure to make their annual reports, and
the Attorney General Will bring them to judy
ment.
The thriving manufacturing town of
Haverhill, Mass, has been visited by most
destructive confagrahon. Eighty-two shoe and
leather firms, representing 81, 100000, were
swept out Of existence, and 2, 600 people thrown
out of work. The blaze originated in frame
building used as q leather store. Adjoining
buildings were also of wood, and a brisk wind
from the north carried the burning wood for
blocks. The bursting of some hose in the early
stages OF the fire also served TO hamper the
fremen. One national bank and two savings
banks were destroyed, two persons are known
to have persisted, and eighteen families were
rendered homeless. The insurance is light In
proportion TO the losses.
West.
Jacob Gessert, lately Superintendent
of Police at Cincinnati, killed himself with
revolver, leaving wife and nine children.
Iowa has ], 027 deaf mutes, few of
whom met at Des Moines and called a State
Convention for September.
Several failures on the Chicago Board
Of Trade are announced.
Smallpox is decreasing rapidly at all
points.
The authorities of Wyoming Terri
tory have signed contracts for keeping their
prisoners In the penitentiary at Joliet
Only one store was spared from
confagration at Robinson. Kan, the loss being
estimated at $4,000.
-Four quarts of strawberries from
Florida arrived in Chicago, and found pur-
ehasers at 81 per quart
In Chicago confidence operator
named Thomas Ward, who had heavy beard
and mustache when arrested. succeeded in
pulling out the latter, hair by hair, and would
have made way with every trace of his
whiskers had his hands not been ironed be-
hind his back.
Mrs. Garfield acknowledges the re-
ceipt of letter from Mrs. Scoville, and au-
thorizes the statement TINT she cherishes no
malice toward Guiteau, and feels profound
pity for his sister and other members of his
family, but asks to be left alone with her sor-
row.
South.
The Riddleburger bill for the read
justment of Virginia's debt has received the
sanction of the Governor, and is now law.
Bishop w. NJ. Wightman, of the
Methodist Episcopal Church South, died at
Charleston.
The oyster war has again broken out
OH the Lower Rappahannock, in Virginia.
A fire in Louisville, KY, originating in
the candy factory of William Ehrman g. Co.,
destroyed stock valued at CTS, 900. and damaged
w. H. Meningitis carpet stock $4,000.
Ella Shores, aged IA, and Howard
E. White, aged 16, we're married the other
day at Westover, Ind. A singular feat
ure of the affair is the fact that the child
bride was the divorced wife of her stepfather.
to whom she was married at the age of IL
years.
An expedition organized by the Gov
ernor of Virginia against the oyster-thieves on
tho Rappahannock sailed from Norfolk on the
18th inst 1t comprised the Norfolk light artil-
cry, with three-inch guns, and the Norfolk
hight infantry, seventy men.
Gov. Cameron, at the head OF the vir-
ginia navy, captured In the happahannock .
whole oyster feet consisting Of six scheoners
and one sloop, and made prisoners the crews
sixty-one men, Eighteen shots we're fired
through the rigging Of one of the schooners,
and she was chased thirty-Rve miles toward tho
capes of Virginia before brought to.
A terrible tragedy occurred near Gen.
treville, Texas, in which two negroes named
Hall were killed and their wives MORALLY wound
ed. It appears the negroes, who we're riding
along the road in wagon, had some trouble
with child of a white man named Iyle The