The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1882-02-03
NEWS OF The WEEK.


murderers on the Gath OF March next
The Hartford (Ct) public high school
burned last week. Loss, S120, 900 insurance.
e7O,o00.
Thomas II. Sringham, who wus to-
tally disabled by the fail Of an elevator in the
storehouse Of Mrs A. T. Stewart, at Garden
City, was awarded $4,000 damages, and the
court gave him $500 extra.
DR.. Samuel l.. Griswold, one of the
oldest practitioners of New York city, died, aged
rs years
Hon. Edmund Burke, who died at
Newport, r. L, was three times q member Of
Congress, and WAS Commissioner of Patents
under President Polk.
Mrs. Judith Twombly died at Lowell,
Mass. aged 1o3. Nearly fifty years ago she
took razor and removed from her side can
cer which extended to tho bone and weighed
twenty pounds.
A ladle of molten metal overturning
in Wallace H. Brink h Co.'S foundry at Bur
iington, Vt, the building was Quilted, and Pat
rick Donnelly, Benjamin Wright, ThomsA
Crowley and James Hayden were fatally in
iured.
A loss of $50, 600 was incurred 10y the
burning Of the Office of the Lancaster (Pa.)
Inquirer and two adjoining buildings.
Violent gales caused great destruction
Of property throughout New England on the
9th and 2Sth nit. Three persons were injured
OF Pittsfcld, Mass, and church steeple was
blown down. Extensive brick buildings were
teppled over at North Adams. A four-story
shoe factory at Nashua N. H., was moved two
feet out OF line, stampeding 200 workmen. A
building filled with carriages was overturned at
Rochester, n. III. The roof Of the gas house at
Rockland, Me-, was destroyed Three buildings
at Burlington. VT, were robbed OF coverings,
and the ice was swept out of the bay i'll almost
On instant
Died in Cambridge, Mass, Theophi-
lus Parsons, the celebrated law writer, in tho
Seth year of his age.
Eastern furniture dealers in conven-
ton have decided TO advance prices 10 per
cent
A bitter war between the Times and
the Mail Express is exciting journalistic circles
in New 70 city.
Three men were killed and several
injured by boiler explosion at Fairfield, Mass
Mrs. Garfield, eldest daughter of Gen.
Lewis Cass, died recently in New York. Only
one child Of the General survives, Mrs. Henry
Ledyard.
Some miscreant adjusted n double
barreled shotgun at the residence of DIR. A.
]. Erwin, Mansfield, Ohio, in such manner as
to discharge when the gate was swung. The
doctor received nearly two hundred shot in his
clothing, but was not fatally wounded.
The forthcoming trial of the murder
ers Of Jennie Cramer, the New Haven beauty.
is destined to become national sensation.
Blanche Douglass has definitely concluded to
give the full details Of the butohery.
In an interview in the Indianapolis
Times w. Fl. English acknowledges that ESQ.,
600 slipped ont of bis barrel in the campaign of
1880.
iowa has IT.. special taxpayers, of
which number 1909 are liquor dealers, 12,779
tobacco dealers, and see brewers and distllers.
A controlling interest in the st. Louis
and San Francisco railway has been purchased
from Messrs. Seligman by Jay Gould and c. p.
Huntington.
A bill has been introduced into the
Wisconsin Legislature. imposing tax Of Is
cents on every 200 feet of logs run out OF tho
State to foreign markets.
The house Of Henry Cleer, of Des
Ii - l. Al. - 4 4. r.
and two small boys we're burned beyond recog-
nition
Mrs. Catherine Brearton, native Of
Ireland, who wildly remembered the scenes OF
the revolution of 1898, died in Cincinnati at
the age of 102 years.
The open winter Is causing much in
Jury to the logging interests of Michigan, Wis
consin and Minnesota.
Five hundred citizens of Dakota, rep
resenting twenty-three counties, gathered at
Sioux Falls to urge the admission of the south
ern half Of the Territory as State A COM
nittee OF 1874 was selected to visit Washington.
1t is feared that the Utes, Piutes and
Navajos are getting ready to go on the war
path in the spring.
The Oklahoma warfare between Gen.
Pope and Capt. Payne and his party of in
vaders is to be renewed In the courts. Payne
has brought suit against Pope for a25,OOe
damages sustained by reason OF having been
arrested, imprisoned and finally elected from
the Indian Territory.
Neal, one of the murderers of the
Gibbons family Mt Ashland, KY, has been sem
fenced TO death.
II. @. Caldwell, District Judge at Lit
tie Rock, Ark, threw into the CRATE small
package of white powder which no found on
the mantel. A terrific explosion followed, in
which tho Judge was blown across the room,
the flesh torn from his arms, and his hair and
whiskers scorched of.
Two negroes were executed in Louis
lana on Friday, Jan. ~ August Davis at New
Orleans and Ed Bolton at Mansfield. negro
named John Morris was hanged at Shelby
NC.
Wash Roberts shot his wife TO death