The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1882-02-10
NEWS OF TIE WEEK.
AMERICAN ITEMS.
last.

Oscar l.. Baldwin, the defaulting
cashier OF the Mechanics National Bank of
Newark, N. j., pleaded guilty and was sem
fenced to fifteen years in State prison.
Heavy snow-storms are reported
throughout the Eastern States.
Lockport, N. Y, was visited by dis
astrous fire, which nearly destroyed the -four
mills there. The loss is about S200,0O
ID. o. Mills paid $1,000, 900 for lot
in Broad street, New York, and was erecting
thereon u building 10 cost S2,000,000. The
Building Commissioners found cracks in the
brickwork and breaks in the stone lintels, and
promptly condemned the structure
The Grand Jury at New York has in-
dicted Conductor Hanford and Brakeman
us for manslaughter in the fourth degree
in causing the Spuyten Duyvil disaster.
Mrs. Catherine Branch, the oldest
person in Massachusetts,, died at Boston, IN the
10th year Of her age.
A snow-storm of extraordinary du-
ration and great volume prevailed over the
Eastern seaboard, The snow was about four
teen inches deep in most of the Eastern States,
including Virginn. Trains were abandoned III
many places, particularly in New England.
Jersey City, n. j., was visited by a
100000 fire.
West.
Near Logansport, Ind, a tramp named
William Steele called on Mrs. Buell. for supper.
Finding the woman alone, he outraged her per-
son, and fed. The neighbors immediately pur-
sued, caught him, and, without delay, hung
him. Then they piled brush about him, and
burned the body past recognition. The Sheriff
took possession of the body and turned it over
to tho Coroner.
The Governor of Michigan has called
an extra session of the Legislature for Feb. %,
TO provide relief for the fire sufferers, and take
action on Congressional superintendent and the
report of the tax commission.
An anti Mormon meeting, which was
we'll attended, was held in Milwaukee last even
ing. Resolutions were passed condemning
polygamy in unmeasured terms.
A fire ON Lake street, Chicago, burned
out G. r. Reynolds, dealer in paints, and Whit
ney l. johnson, crockery. Losses, $685. 900
and $4,000.
A dispatch from Walla Walla, Wash
ington Territory, says: "A fire broke out in
the farmhouse of julius Mssck, five mites
from the city, Mrs. Eliza Medler, aged A.; her
daughter, Emma Iaadore Medler aged 10, and
her son Arthur, we're burned to death. The
other inmates escaped"
John W. Berry was executed at Pres
colt, Arizona, for the murder of Michael
Shore.
Slosson won the international billiard
match at Paris, making 5000 points to yign-
eaux's 1858.
Joseph Mahan, of Cleveland, found a
handsome powder horn on the knob of his hall
door, and hung it about the neck of his little
son. An explosion soon took place, two
children losing their eyesisht. 1t is thought
that the horn was an internal machine placed
by some enemy.
George Williamson, a prominent citi-
zen Of Louisiana, and ex-M MISTER to Central
America, is dead.
At Broadway Depot, Va, three young
ladies were drowned while attempting to cross
the river in fral boat
A mob of negroes in Union parish,
La, took Alph Davenport, coored man, from
his home and beat him to death with clubs and
stones.
Elvira Sullivan, 105 years OF age, died
lately at Dallas, Texas. At the outbreak of the
war she was servant in the family of Gen.
Sam Houston. She had been sold several
times lived in eight States, and had twenty
three children.
d. @. White was hanged at Canton,
Texas, for the murder of George Conquest.
A stage with eight passengers at.
tempted to cross the Mayo bridge over the
James river into Richmond, Va, when spar
seventy-fve feet long fell thirty feet to tho
water without fitting, carrying the coach and
its load safely down.