The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1882-06-02
NEWS OF The WEEK.
AMERICAN ITEMS.

been President OF the City Bank since 1856,
and was connected with the first Atlantic cable,
the Lackawanna railroad and coal companies,
and the Georgia Central road. He leaves to
widow two sons and three daughters fortune
estimated at $50, 100000.
An explosion in the Kohinoor colliery,
at Shenandoah Pa, killed eleven men The
victims presented a most sickening sight. The
bodies were beyond recognition. Several of
them were brought to the surface headless,
while others had legs and arms blown of and
their clothing burnt entirely off, their flesh
hanging in shreds from their bodies.
Some Joker climbed pole of the
Mutual Union telegraph, near Georgetown, Ct,
tied fine wire around each of the thirteen
wires and run it to the ground, breaking COM
municahon between Boston and New York for
two days.
The New York Senate passed bill
for the appointment by the next Governor Of
that State Of State Board Of Railroad Com
mssoners.
L. b. Frye, the champion wheelsman
of the United States, was thrown from his
bicycle, at Marlboro, Mass. and injured beyond
recovery.
The jury in the case of Gen. Curtis,
Special Treasury Agent at New York. rendered
a verdict OF guilty on the first and eighth
counts, which charged the defendant with re-
ceiving, while in the employ Of the United
States, money or other things Of value for
pohtica, purposes. A motion in arrest Of judg-
ment was made and juno fixed for the ar
gument.
United States Senator John r. Nc
Pherson, of New Jersey, has commenced suit
against the New York Herald to recover $780,
600 damages for libel. The suit is based on the
statement published by the Herald from its
Philadelphia correspondent, charging the Sem
ator with having been interested in Shepherds
Peruvian scheme.
The will of Ralph Waldo Emerson
makes no public gifts. James Elliott Cabot is
appointed literary executor.
While fishing in Lake Spofford, near
Chesterfield, N. H., George L. Comfy and Her
man Reitzel, the basso and pianist of the
Kellogg Concert Company were drowned.
In the Supreme Court of Washington
county, r. l., decree was entered divorcing
Katherine Chase Sprague from William Sprague,
giving Mrs. SpraGue the custody of her three
daughters, permitting her to resume her maiden
name, with leave hereafter to apply for alimony
she chooses.
Some of the best authorities In the
Michigan fruit belt state that frost has not af-
fected peaches or apples, but grapes and straw
berries were cut 10 some extent
The centennial anniversary of the
massacre of Gnadenhutton, wherein
ninety-six Moravian Christian Indians
were cruelty butchered by christian" white
people 100 years ago, was celebrated at the OBJ
scure village in Eastern Ohio, on the Oath OF
May. Gov Foster and other State officers
made speeches to an assemblage Of 10000 or
more people.
A bloody fight occurred in Southern
Arizona, near the Mexican border, between
American railroad laborers and Mexicans, in
which seven Of the latter were killed and three
Of the Americans fatally wounded.
Gov. Crittenden, of Missouri, is said
to be negotiating for the surrender Of Frank
James, who is now in Jackson county, and who
desires to make the best terms possible.
Cattle sold in Chicago last week at
$50 per 100 pounds, being the highest figure
obtained for several years. The highest price
was paid for Colorado steers fed in Iowa
A Kansas City dispatch says that Mrs.
Jesse James, widow Of tho late bandit, has
signed a contract to furnish facts for a lecture
on the life and adventures OF her husband She
will accompany her lecturer, and, with her two
children, sit upon the stage while the lecture is
being delivered. The funds so raised, it is
stated, will DO used to educate the children, one
boy named after his father and aged Z, and
the other girl aged 5.
The Grant smelling works, at Lead
ville Col, the largest in the world, were swept
away by fire and $50 men thrown out of en-
ployment. Loss estimated at S4OO, 900 insur-
ance, s35O,0O0.
Fire at Tombstone, Arizona, destroyed
large number Of buildings. The portion of
the town destroyed comprises almost the entire
business part Of the place. The three princi-
pal hotels burned, and the Office Of the Daily
Nugget was destroyed, and the Daily Epitdph
Office heavily damaged. The loss will probably
reach $500, 900 insurance, s25O,QO0.
The May Festival in Chicago was
big success. The gross receipts were s57, 900.
Advices from the wheat region of
Michigan are to the effect that the prospect
was never more promising, but the acreage has
only increased in the newer counties.
In an ARRAY at Denver, Phil Hubbard,
horse-jockey was MORALLY wounded, John
Denny was shot in the leg, and q man named
Mackey was injured, by @. II. Wood, real
estate agent.
A big impetus to Western immigra-
ton will result forthwith from the decision of
the Secretary Of the Interior which opens up
to entry and settlement 5000, 900 acres OF val
liable land in Dakota heretofore claimed by the
Chippewa Indians. The land is in what is
known as the Turtle Mountain district, and is
every way adapted to agriculture. There will
be tremendous rush to secure farms in the
fertile region, which is large enough and rich
enough in natural resources to support an