The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1882-03-03
NEWS or The WEEK.
AMERICAN ITEMS.

East.
BY the burning of the east wing of
the insane asylum at Flatbush, l.. L, one pa
tent was suffocated and three escaped from
custody.
Arthur Lucas, q Freshman at Dart
mouth College, who WAS to speak at q class
supper In Montreal, Was abducted to White
River Junction and locked up by sophomores,
regaining his liberty by promising not to re-
veal the names of the offenders
There is an alarming increase in ma
Ggnant scarlet fever in New York city. The
deaths In 1880 were s18, and last year were
1854. The deaths for the first seven weeks OF
this year were go.
William Phoenix, of Maiden, Mass.
went home late at night, and, not finding any
thing else to eat, partook freely of poisoned
fish, which his wife had placed in a meal
box to kill rats, and died from the effects next
morning.
Troy, N. Y, has little girl, aged IL,
who is an expert safe-robber. A large quantity
of jewelry was found at her home, the result
of her thievish skill.
William Last, aged II, employed
in a Newark needle factory, was passing coil
of wire through, when a wire broke and coiled
around him, cutting him in two.
Alta dinner of the Boston Merchants
Association, Charles Francis Adams Jr., made
a speech in favor Of national railroad COM
mission and submitted the draft of bill there
for. He also nominated for the board Judge
Cooley, Robert Harris and Gen. Francis A.
Walker.
A committee, representing the ex-
Confederate soldiers of Cincinnati, visited Mrs.
Garfield at Cleveland and presented memo
rial tribute to the late President in the form of
engrossed resolutions framed in Tennessee
marble. The widow and mother OF the chief
magistrate were both deeply affected.
A large and enthusiastic meeting was
held in Farwell Hall, Chicago, by the people of
that city who favor the suppression of Nor
monism. Judge Cation presided and made an
address, Other speakers were Thos. w.
Smith, son Of Joe Smith, the original Mormon
prophet, the Rev. DR.. Thomas, Bishop Fallows,
and the Hon.. John Wentworth. Anti-Mormon
meetings were also held in various other cities,
at which resolutions were passed asking Con-
gross to put stop to the evil.
The Legislature OF Michigan met in
extra session Feb. % and listened to the mes
sage presented by the Chief Executive of the
State. Gov. Jerome recommended the passage
Of laws granting State relief to the sufferers
from the recent fires n the Huron Peninsula
district, including the entire remission Of taxa
ton in the burned section. The proposed Gen
eral Tax law and the question of reapportion-
ment will also be considered.
The Illinois State Board of Health at
Springfield report general decrease of small
pox throughout the State.
A Salt Lake City dispatch indicates
feverish condition of Mormondom. Petitions
to Congress asking so be let alone are being
circulated, and ether measures are being ur
gently pressed to sweep back the rising flood of
anti-Mormon feeling IN the nation.
At New Carlisle, Ohio, the boiler of
portable saw-mll exploded, killing three men
and wounding two severely.
The report of the Chicago and Alton
road for 1881 shows 1,075 miles of track,
SOC, 500, 822 in stock and bonds, 81 ,537 740 in
gross earnings, and net revenue of 11.3 per
cent. ON all the capital stock. The company
owns 2i3 locomotives 124 coaches, ana 6, 043
freight cars.
One of the boilers in the Vulcan steel
works in South St Louis exploded, fatally in
juring four men.
A snow slide in Big Cottonwood canon,
Utah, buried William c. Teckett, wood-chop-
per, his wife and FIVE children.
Joseph w. Curtiss, prominent citi-
zen of Milwaukee, committed suicide through
shame at being arrested on a criminal charge
William Stakeholder, a wealthy Ger
man farmer living twelve miles east of Council
Bluffs, was fatally shot by masked burglars
who entered his house.
A desperate named Weldon was
lynched at Hockberry Arizona, for the muir
der of a peaooabe citizen
d.. Murphy, formerly Distric Atttor-
ney at San Francisco, was shot through the
neck, in the Police Court of that city, by Po-
iceman John Morony, who had been referred
to as an Australian convict. The latter attempted
to kill himself while being taken TO prison.
ma, Ohio, was robbed of package containing
81, 800. The money had been sent from La
fayette, Ind, for Mr.. Thomas, paymaster of
the Lake Erie and Western railway, to pay of
the men on his rolls.
South.
New Orleans was favored with fine
weather for the Mardi-Gras festivities. The
day procession was over two miles in length,
and comprised ftty-Hve cars The pageant Of
the Krewe of Comus in the evening filed
twenty cars, illustrating the religions of the
world, and 25, 600 invitations to the Kings ball
were issued.
A blood-curdling tragedy was enacted
at barn raising in Rowan county, N @. John
Held and Peter Joseph, two of the worl1men
upon the building, got into quarrel, and Held
threw an ak at Joseph, the keen blade literally
splitting his head in two, scattering his brains
and killing him instantly. AS Held threw
the ak he lost his foothold and fell