The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1882-12-29
NEWS OF The WEEK.
AMERICAN ITEMS.
East,

4.
A steel-rail maker states that Penn
sylvania mills have sold Vanderbilt 40, 600
tons at s3S
A runaway couple from Oneida
county, n Y, named Thomas Doyle and
Katie A. Morgan were found TO have been
suffocated by gas in their room in a hotel in
Rochester
Henry James, ST., the philosopher
and metaphysician, an associate of Greeley,
Emerson and Thoreau on this side of the At
iantic and of Carlyle Mill and Tennyson on
the other died in Boston.
Earthquakes are generally supposed
to be luxuries within the reach only of
jewellers in tropical climes, but the people
of Concord, Dover and other towns in New
Hampshire were the other evening treated
to genuine shock, which lasted some eight
or ten seconds and was accompanied by
rumbling noise.
Lewis Thompson, mulatto, 81 years
of age, the first man ever committed to Sing
Sing prison, has been sent back for six
months for stealing a door-mat in New
York Over forty years of his life have been
passed behind grated windows
The City Bank of Rochester, n. Y,
has closed it's doors It's President Charles
T. Upton, got on the wrong side of the oil
market and sunk $3.50 900 of the banks
money in trying to get even Several small
savings institutions in Rochester deposited
with the City Bank, and many poor people
will suffer by its failure
Eastern manufacturers Of all descrip-
lions Of iron, at a meeting at Philadelphia,
while not approving the changes proposed
by the Tariff Commission, expressed the be-
lief that the reductions would not paralyze
the industries affected
A negro in Brooklyn, named Alexan-
der Jefferson, sent the contents a double
barreled shotgun through the window of
residence, killing Henry Hicks and wound
ing Celestial Jefferson. He then entered the
house, cut Mrs Emma Jeffersons throat
and severely slashed Annie Jackson
A loss of $S5, 200 was incurred at Os-
wego, N Y, by the burning of the Mansard
block and the Union Hotel
The Commercial AdUertiser building
at Buffalo and Miller & Greivers grocery
house and other structures adjoining were
destroyed by fire. The loss is placed at
$3OO,0O0
The Ford brothers, who killed Jesse
James, the Missouri outlaw were announced
for lecture at Hartford, CT The door re-
ceipts were only 81, and the lecture was
abandoned
A confagration DESTROYED half block
in Third street. Grand Forks ID. T., causing
heavy losses TO a number of merchants and
real estate owners One hundred thousand
dollars worth of property was consumed
The Western brewers held confer
ence ut Chicago, and resolved TO advance
the price of beer 81 a barrel
For the year ended June 30 the rail-
roads in Wisconsin earned SIS 765 42S an in
crease of s3,300OOO over 1881. During the
above named period 100 persons were killed
by accidents and 81 were injured
The farmhouse of John Clark, in
Linn county, Kan, was burned and three
small children perishedi in the flames. Clark
had removed two children, and while he was
searching for n third the other two wandered
back in the house and all were consumed
Davton dispatch chronicles the
death of Rear Admiral James f. Schenck, re-
tired who entered the naval service in 1871
as a Midshipman on the Hornet
The auction-house Of w. H. Hagarty
Sons, st Louis, was ruined by fire, and as
considerable damage was done to adjacent
buildings, the loss is placed at $50, 600.
A murderer who has been in the
Michigan State prison for sixteen years piled
the contents of his cell against the door,
poured over them the oil in his lamp and
applied match AS he was naked it took
but a few moments to literally bake him.
A policeman in San Francisco, named
Joseph LankIee, stole $4,000 worth of silks
from Central Pacific car
Mrs. Pigeon supposed TO be Mrs.
Labouchere), who was married in England
entered suit for divorce at Richmond Va
In hail-storm near Huntsville, Ala,
Deans milling house was blown down, kill
ing Albert Driden and four negro women
who had sought shelter. Three or four
others were slightly wounded
Seven men attempted TO rob Texas
and Pacific train at q ter-tank 80 miles
this side of FL Paso. but squad of State
rangers on board opened fire and drove the
robbers TO the brush.