The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1882-12-15
NEWS OF The week.
AMERICAN ITEMS.


Samuel f. Worcester, brother OF
the photographer formerly Judge and
member of Congress from Ohio, died at
Nashua, N H., aged 81 years
The machine-sho ~ of the Lackawan-
M road, at Kingsland, N. j., valued ut sT0,-
Oo0 were destroyed by fire.
Gov. Cornell has pardoned Joe Co
burn, the pugilist out of Sing Sing prison
The Government has brought suit ut
New York against Harrison Johnston, form
erly treasury agent for the recovery of
nearly S., 900. 600 arising from the sale of con-
fiscated cotton, for which he has failed to
10 account
H. G Fero's vegetable soup works, at
Rochester, n Y, were destroyed by fire
The use of cider as an extinguisher saved
many adjoining buildings
The engagement Of Gen. Beaurerard
and Mrs Commodore vanderbiltis mentioned
In print in New York
Pennsylvania has public debt of
S3O, 225, 0S3 The expenses OF the State Gov
eminent last year were 81 isl COL
West
In rad on the Chicago gambling
dens by the police of that city, the other
night five houses were cleaned out over a
hundred gamesters arrested and thousands
Of dollars worth Of gamblers implements
oonfscated.
Affairs at several Indian agencies
around Salt Lake City are reported in very
bad condition and needing immediate atten-
ton
The widow of Col. Alonzo w. Stay
back, of st Louis has entered suit against
Editor Cockerill, of the St Louis Post and
Dispatch, for O., 900 for killing her husband
Jewelry to the amount of over 50, 900
was taken from the residence of Col w.
Harris, in Cleveland, while the family were
Mt the tea table
The Ohio Editorial Association held
Its annual meeting at Dayton on the 9th inst,
elected T. f. Mack, of Sandusky, President,
were rendered a banquet in the evening and
started the following morning by special
train for Florida
At Mexican q wedding at Saballo, n.
N man named Naten, while drunk, shot
ana klUeu TWO anu WcAiO
home and cut his wife's ears of.
The Denver + re Insurance Com
pany, organized fifteen months ago with an
alleged capital of 81, DOC, coo, has collapsed
A loss of nearly $40, 100, WAS in
cured at Saginaw City, Mich, by the de
struction of the works of the Barrel Com
pany and it's stock of lumber
Snow has fallen to the depth OF five
feet in the region of the Straits of Mackinaw.
w. f. Biakeney, inventor Of the
turbine water-wheel, died at Dayton, Ohio
South.
Col. W. II. II. Tilson, Speaker of the
Mississippi House of Representatives, was
shot and killed at Baldwin, Miss
The propeller Morning Star, PLYING
between New Orleans and Magnolia Planta-
ton, exploded it's boiler near New Orleans,
killing three persons Instantly, blowing into
the river and drowning fireman and seven
roustabouts, and probably fatally scalding
six others
Fire swept away fifteen buildings at
Covington, Tenn Loss, $4,000.
At Arkadelphlt, Ark, Sallle 0tokes
was acquitted of the murder of Malinda
Stephens
Gen. Sidney Burbank, died at New
port, KY, at the age OF II.
Tom Robinson and Bill Cephas were
taken from jail at Bastrop, La and lynched
Previously, a negro named Wesley, who at
tempted to kill a white man, expiated his
crime at the hands OF mob
Eleven convicts at work in the peni-
tertiary at Little Rock disarmed the guard
and escaped Bloodhounds were put upon
their track, but the fugitives killed three of
them
A robbery of 1000, by frauds, has
been discovered in the office of the Tax
Collector at Louisville. 1t Is thought the
total defalcations will reach $4,000