The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1882-09-22
NEWS OF The week.
AMERICAN ITEMS.

Rev John Kerr to travel on Sunday TO Ma
trona by rail TO minister to a weak congre-
CATION, after holding service at Allegheny
City.
The Superintendent OF Police in New
York has issued orders to close all reputed
gaming houses, lottery and policy offices,
and instructed his Captains to visit such re-
sorts at uncertain hours each day and night
A monument to the memory of Capt.
william Morgan was unveiled CT Batavia, N.
Y, by the members of the National Christian
Association Jonathan Blanchard led the
singing. Rev. b. T. Roberts prayed that the
people might be emancipated from the evils
of secret societies DR.. Ray classed Morgan
as q martyr, and Prof G. A. Blanchard &C
oused the Masons of numbering Morgan.
Moses Williams, of Boston, who died
at the age of 90 years, leaves an estate val
ned at s3,5J5,0OO
Three survivors of the Jeanette ex-
petition, Melville, Nnderman and Noros, &c
companied by Lieut. Berry, of the relief
steamer Rodgers, arrived in New York last
week, and were deluged with greetings
The puddlers of Pittsburgh held
mass meeting the other day, and, after dis
oussing the situation for several hours, de-
cided to propose to the manufacturers q
compromise scale of g.. IS per ton, to be 40
cepted within ten days
The attempt to bring about a COM
promise between the iron manufacturers OF
Pittsburgh and vicinity and a committee Of
the Amalgamated Association resulted in
osition TO adjust differences and end the
strike by paying puddlers s5 70 per ton, an
advance of - cents, The manufacturers adj
here to $50, the rate prevailing when the
strike began.
Dwight S. Lathrop, Assistant Cashier
of the Central Railroad of New Jersey, has
absconded, after embezzling $4,000 His
plan was to alter deposit tickets on his way
TO the bank and pocket the difference.
Anton Pelata, of Pittsburgh, awoke
the other morning TO find his babe dead in
bed with large black cat sitting on its
breast The Coroner held an inquest and
the Jury formally declared the cat to be the
destroyer of the infant.
The international rifle match at Creed
moor Long island, resulted in o victory for
the British team at every range, the total
score being ,975 to a l ,SO5.
A loss OF $3.50 900 was incurred by
the burning of Richardson Co. s shoe fac
tory, at Elmira N. Y,
West.
The widow of the late President Gar
field has Just paid $50, 600 for n residence on
Prospect street, Cleveland
H. Nj. Vale, the star-router, decided
to his wife a residence at Independence, Mo-,
for consideration of $4,000
Stamps and money to the amount of
$1,000 were taken by burglars from the post
Office at Huntingdon, Ind
The Crescent mills and elevator at
Denver were destroyed by fire. Estimated
loss, s225, 600; fully insured
A dispatch from the West states that
"a band of 400 or 500 Indians have appeared
in Beaver Creek, Kas, south of Dundy
county, and are stealing horses and murder
ing the settlers The Indians are in the
same route followed by the Cheyennes when
they escaped from Fort Sill some years ago.
Intense excitement prevails
Eastern Kansas has been suffering
from simoom blowing from the Staked
Hlains in Indian Territory The wind was
the hottest known in years, and wise ones say
rs pregnant forerunner of malarial fevers
The thermometer rose as high as l07 at some
places
The rumor of an Indian invasion of
the southwestern part of Nebraska which
was started in Dundy county and tele-
graphed broadcast over the country, proves
to be entirely without foundation. The story
was started by a frightened settler, who
magnified a small party OF peaceabe Indians
into an army of hostiles
William j. Beck recently married in
Bartholomew county, Ind, but the bride
soon discovered that he had another wife,
when he fled to Kansas A number of ladies
I'm the latter State interested themselves in
the case and a Mrs Ruggles proceeded to
indianapolis and secured requisition from
Gov. Porter, went TO Kansas arrested Beck,
and brought him back TO Bartholomew
county in irons
The Northern Pacific Directors have
declared scrip dividend amounting to
January, to bear interest at the rate of per
cent per annum.
The mill and stock of the Mitchell 81
Rowland Lumber Company, at Toledo,
valued at $685., 600, was destroyed by fire
The Missouri car and foundry works,
at st. Louis, were burned, causing loss of
sl5o,oe0; covered by insurance.
Samuel Redding, negro, was exc
cuted at Metropolis, Ill, on Friday, Sept. 10
for the murder of Adolphus Zimmerman.
James Tracy was hung in Chicago
for the murder of officer Huebner He
spent the forenoon in calm preparations for
death He wrote a large number of cards
for distribution TO friends, and directed that
his body be given TO James Mccain After
declaring on the gallows that he was inno-
cent of the crime charged, he stood bravely
up for execution
The Northern Pacific road has been
completed to Park City, Montana, twenty
four miles west of Billings