The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1882-05-05
NEWS OF The WEEK.
AMERICAN ITEMS.



knocking down Charles A.. Robbins in the
street and fracturing his jawbone. The pug
list was sentenced to three months in the
House of Correction and gave bonds for an APP
peal
Two internal machines, ddressed to
William II. Vanderbilt and Cyrus w. Field,
were mailed ut branch postoiiice in New
York. One of them took fire in a mail pouch !;
the other was opened after being soaked in
water for half day. They consisted OF two
pasteboard boxes, each inclosng tin canister
containing half pound of powder and glass
bulb which would be broken upon the opening
Of the boxes, precipitating into the
powder an explosive compound. The
senders were evidently Communists. A
police headquarters by Mr.. ]. A. Davenport, re-
siding in East Nineteenth street. Superinten-
dent Wolling lives but few doors distant, and,
as the box was marked "W." and left on
door-mat, it s thought that the attempt was
directed against the police chieftain. Prof.
Doremus made thorough examination OF the
boxes and found that each canister contained
one pound of gun cotton, and that the liquid
in the bulb was sulphuric acid.
A committee of the Garfield Club of
New York sent to Washington a petition for
the pardon OF Sergeant Mason, containing
175,000 signatures.
The will of the late Sarah Burr, of
New York, bequeathing SO, 100000 to charities
is TO be contested.
Near the grave of Nathaniel Haw-
thorne in the cemetery at Concord now rest the
ashes of the third and last of Americas greatest
literary hghts-the mortal remains of Ralph
Waldo Emerson, which were inferred with
simple solemnity and lack of ostentation
peculiarly betting the occasion. At the house
the. services were conducted by the Rev. w. III.
Furness at the Unitarian Church Judge e.
lockwood Hoar and the Rev. James Freeman
Clarke delivered addresses and at the grave
the burial service was read by the Rev. DIR.
Haskins, an Episcopalian clergyman. There
were present Oliver Wendell Holmes, George
William Curtis, Gen. N. P. Banks, President
Eliot and many others of eminence in the
higher walks Of life.
West.
Near Salem, Ohio, George Stull, a
farm laborer, shot and killed Mrs. Calvin Sum-
mers who had recently discharged him from
her employ. The murderer fed but was pur-
sued, and, finding escape impossible blew his
brains out.
Mrs. Saltzeman, of st. Joseph, Mo-,
who owns the house in which Jesse James was
killed, has filed with Gov. Crittenden a claim
for $4,000 damages, caused by relc-hunters.
She holds the State responsible.
The American Forestry Congress was
organized at Cincinnati TO encourage the plant
ing and protection Of trees. Hon. George b.
Loring, Commissioner Of Agriculture, was
chosen President, and ID. ID. Thompson, of
Cincinnati. Secretary.
The marital troubles of Congressman
Clarke, Of the Eleventh Missouri district, and
his wife have been ended by decree of di-
vorce in favor of Gen. Clarke on the ground of
incompatibility of temper"
One hundred masked men at Lake
City, Col, took from jail George Belts and Jim
Browning, the murderers of Sheriff Campbell,
and hanged them to a bridge. As the rope
was being placed around his neck, Belts asked
for a chew of tobacco.
DIR. John t. Hodgen, an eminent sur
geon of st. Louis, is dead.
Resolutions indorsing the action of
Gov. Crittenden in regard to Jesse James were
introduced in the Missouri House, and ruled
out of order by the Speaker.
The annual roundup of cattle Is in
progress in Indian Territory, and grass-fed
stock will be placed in market month earlier
than usual.
At Minneapolis, Mimi, Frank Nc
Manus, tramp, shockingly mutilated little
girl of years, for which he was arrested
and imprisoned. About midnight q party of
seventy leading citizens assembled in the CEN
trail part of the city and made arrangements
for swift vengeance. they proceeded in small
squads to the Jail, where Sheriff Eustis was
promptly made a prisoner All the cells
up to the third tier were examined, and
the door of the iend's cell was
smashed in with hammers. He was
handcuffed and taken to tho scene of his crime,
where three women positively identified him.
After he had made a full confession he was
hanged to large tree on the corner of Fourth
avenue and Grant street.
An anti Chinese convention in San
Francisco decided ON measures looking to the
speedy election OF the Chinese from the Pacific
coast, peaceably or otherwise.
A negro named Frank Fisher brutally
outraged young girl, for which he was
arrested and jailed at Gallon, Ohio. The loco
motives whistled and the fre-bells rang, when
over two thousand people rushed to the Jail
and broke it open The negroes joined in the
mob, and one of them broke open the cell.
Fisher was dragged out and taken to the bed
side OF his victim, Barbara Rettig, who recog-
nized him. A crowd OF four thousand then
took him to the scene of the crime, gave him
time to pray, and hanged him. He declared
his innocence TO the last.
One hundred sacks of new wheat from
Arkansas, the first received this year, sold on
the call board at St LOUIS at $3.50 per busbcl.
Three cattle-thieves were killed on the
Ute reservation, by Sheriff Bowman, OF Gun
nison county, Colorado, and Deputy Sheriff
Brink, OF Utah. and their posse. In q fight
with another gang few hours afterward both