The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1882-01-20
NEWS OF The WEEK.
AMERICAN ITEMS.

The miners in the anthracite coal re-
sion are insisting on an advance in wages and
tho operators propose to defeat the movement
by restricting mining to three days each week
mp TO the 10Th OF April.
The Methodist University OF Boston
has come into possession OF S2,O0O,0O0 be-
sueathed it by Isaac Rich, the fish merchant,
ten years ago.
Mrs. Abraham Lincoln is an inmate
of Turkish and electric bath establishment in
New York. DIR. Sayre finds that she suffers
from chronic inflammation of the spinal cord
and disease OF the Kidneys and that cataract
has appeared in both eyes.
For passing resolution over the veto
OF the Mayor after an injunction had been
granted by the Circuit Court, fifteen Aldermen
OF Brooklyn were fined $3.50 each and sent to
Jail for terms Of from ten to thirty days
Brakeman Melius, who is charged with
criminal carelessness in the New York Central
disaster, admits that he can neither read nor
write. He has been on the road for over .
quarter century.
West.
An explosion in the drug store OF o.
borne 4 Mccarthy. at Denver fired the build
ing and destroyed two stocks Of goods. John
Townsend was killed by a falling wall. The
loss is estimated at $500, 900, which is fully
covered by insurance.
The Northern Pacific surveyors have
been driven from the Flathead Indian reserva-
ton 10y hostile savages.
The house of Joseph Posey was
burned near Knife Falls, Mimi, and Posey and
two of his children persisted in the flames.
The lumbermen of the Upper Missis-
sippi report themselves able to secure three
fouTths as many logs as in previous seasons.
One Of the party Of seven Indians who
murdered l.. ID. Perkins and wife in Washing
ton T,rritory was hanged at Yakima. Three
have been executed and three others were shot
while resisting arrest
A vein of petroleum has been discov-
cred at Pomeroy, a few miles north of LeayeR
worth, Kan.
Gen. Carr, the gallant officer who wa
reported to have been massacred with his en-
tire command by Indians at Fort Apache last
summer, but whose bravery and ability found q
way out OF the perous situation and Sverted .
sickening horror like that of the Custer butch
cry, is under arrest at Fort Grant, by order OF
Gen. Wilcox, commanding the Department Of
Arizona, for trial by court-martial.
The suspension and voluntary assigli-
ment OF Slbley, Dudley Il Co., a well-known
wholesale grocry house of Chicago, is an
nounced. Their liabilities amount to about
$4,000 and their nominal assets to about
S24O,0O0
Six Northwestern capitalists, including
Senator Window, have made an agreement
with the Northern Pacific road to lay track
of standard gauge to the geysers, at a cost Of
s1,600, 900. The syndicate will deposit 600
as forfeit money, and has received assurai c,s
from the Government that it may construct
hotels in Yellowstone Park.
South.
In consideration of grant of 3,000,-
900 acres of land, Rock Island firm has con-
tracted to erect capitol for the State of Texas.
The building is to be 366 feet high, 5G6 long
and 2S5 in depth, tho seventh highest building
in the world, and the second in the United
States.
j. 7. Lloyd, famous as New York map
publisher, has been arrested at Nashville,
Tenn, and is now in jail under true bill for
obtaining money fraudulently.
The South Carolina State Legislature
have been appraised that within the past six
weeks an exodus of 1000 negroes occurred from
one county.
A serious conhagration occurred in
the business portion OF Galveston, Texas, re-
sulting in q loss estimated at IL, 100000.
Caroline Richings- Bernard, the we'll
known cantatrce, died at her homo in Rich
mond, Va. of smallpox. after an illness of
thirteen days. Two days before she was
stricken down. a lady friend told her of the
spread OF smallpox all over the country, and
begged her to be vaccinated but she declined,
as she had no fears OF having the disease.
The superstious recall some singular CO.
medicines connected with her illness and
death. few days before she was attacked
she celebrated the thirteenth anniversary Of
her wedding ard at the dinner table on that
occasion thirteen people were seated. The SUI
perstlton which makes the number thirteen an
omen Of disaster was commented upon at the
time and laughed al. 1t is remarkable that the
unfortunate lady died after sickness OF thr-
teen days, and on tue 18th of the month. Mrs.
Richings- Bernard was born in England 40 years
ago, and came to this country hen year old.