The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1882-11-03
News OF The week.
AMERICAN ITEMS.


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Professor of Anatomy at Harvard Universe
ty, desiring TO give more time to literary
pursuits
Charges of embezzlement. perjury
and com piracy TO defraud were lodged in
New York against J. C. Tiffany, late Indian
Agent at San Carlos Agency, in Ariz ma, by
the Assistant United SCates District A tor
nay. under Instructions from the Attorney
Genera in Washington Tiffany was arrest
ed and held IN 5000 bail, which he fur
nished and was released Cfr0 NrF f..
The Rubber Comb and Jewelry Com
pany of Bloomingdale n J., has suspended
payments through the fsi uIe OF Il note
broker The liabilities are said TO be $780,
co.,
The Flint Mills, at Fall River, Mass,
were almost entirely destroyed by fire. The
mills ran $1,000 spindles, and produced On
nually 1900 900 yards OF print cloths The
property was valued at $4,000, on which
there was insurance for S690,U00
The Eureka Cast-Steei ComDany's
works at Lamolin, Pa, were burned The
Loss $3.50, 600 is covered by insurance
West.
Congressman John Hanna died at
his residence at Plainfeld, Ind
Gen. Crook is said to have checked
an Indian outbreak at San Carlos by putting
stop to frauds which were being practiced
on the reservation.
A. B.ckus, Jr. g. Sons lumber and
planning mill, at Detroit, was burned together
with 100000 feet of lumber. Loss, $50
CO...
The storehouse of the Goss &
Phillips Manufacturing Company, located on
the corner OF Fisk and Tween y-socond
streets Chicago, burned down The loss is
estimated at 100000
After an hours fight with the officers
OF the law NJ Norton, Oak, a mob dragged
Charles Thurber "a negro from his iau cell
and hanged him He hid committed a
criminal assault upon two respectable white
women.
In the suburbs Of Lead lille. Col,
asage-coach was stonpel by two masked
men. While enc covered tho driver with n
revover. the other ord C1e ras-engers
who were on the stage O dismou1t Ihay
did 30, "a being arranged in Arow, one of
tie road aNnts covered them With reviewers,
while tbs other roliavel thsm OF their valu-
al les amountn TO som thing over $1,000,
after which the passengers were allowed to
continue their journey, Willie the robbers
escaped.
A farmer named Kingbite, residing
near Saltwater, MINI, who had served two
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arose from bed the 9th r night, stabbed his
wife fatally, killed his son, and resisted cap
ture until mortlly wou ded by Sheriff
Holcomb
The Kewance Gll) bank-robbers,
Pratt Welsh an Dunklc, pl ade gu lty, and
were sentenced 10 x x years hard laborin the
penitentiary. scott, an accomplice, was
given four years
John McCul ough's matinee at st.
Louis for the benefit of the family of Col
slayba netted nearly sSUO0
Bob Ford, participant in the "re-
m val" of TIE no orious Jesse James, was
acquitted at PlGttsburg, Mo-, OF the murder
OF Wood Hi6e
Thomas +. Talbot, one Of tho oldest
residents of Cheyenne, was mort Lly wound
ed by. his wife in self-defense, he being n
toxicated and ugly. They have nine child
rem.
Judge Alexander Hamilton, of ST.
Louis who stood in the front rank of
cLancery lawyers, died, after an illness of
four weeks.
In the army rifle contest ut Fl.
Leavenworth, Sergt Barrett, of the En-
gineer Batta ion, took the first prize Gen
She MN decorated the successiul marksmen
with their well-won trophies
While steaming north on Lake NJ Chi
gan in search of tows, the tug Wetzel, of
Racine. Wis, exploded, Instantly killing
Car t. Frank F. Lowell the engineer, William
Kelley, and the fireman, Pat White, the IN Y
person. on board The accident occurred
alb ut sixteen miles north of Racine. and
three miles off shore small board, bear
ing the name OF the bout was the largest
piece OF debris found In the wafer The
bodies of the victims were torn into shreds
After liz tening TO the testimony of
large number of witnesses, Chicago Jury
dec AIRED Mrs Scoville the sister of Gar
ht'N eSNttSStil, W NC ~ III ouDJcSS Aoi ~ III
matte asylum.
Seventy-five thousand dollars worth
of lumber was DESTROYED bv fire ut East Sag
NAV, Mich 1t was covered by 1900 in
surance.
A great portion Of the business sec
ton of Truckee, Cal, was destroyed by fire.
The accident was attributed to careessness
of employees In Mink's brewery. and there
was some talk of lynching the proprietor.
Judge Gresham, of the United St,tes
Circuit Court at Indianapolis, has given
jud ment against railroad company for
5000 in the suit of brakeman whose arm
was u he'd in consequence of the coupling
apparatus being out of repair.
South.
Homer Oldson, 14-year-old lid. of
Paris, KY, shot his teacher, Prof Yerkes
through the right arm for having reuuested