The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1882-05-19
NEWS OF The WEEK.
AMERICAN ITEMS.

A statue OF OOl. OnaW, WHO coumanu-
ed the first negro regiment is to be erected in
the State House grounds, at Boston.
Mrs. KONG, OF Boston, a woman Of 46,
who had been deserted by her husband, though
not deprived Of support at his hands, attempt
ed the murder Of her four children. She had
probably become demented az the result Of her
troubles, and it was only because OF the made
quacy Of her weapon, 4 case-knife, that she
failed to kill all her children and herself. AS
it was her youngest child was murdered, and
another seriously wounded.
The New York Assembly has passed
bill TO exclude from Castle Garden oil immi-
grants brought across the Atlantic by steamship
companies which decline to paya commission Of
30 cents per head.
The Keystone Rubber Works, at
wilhamsport, Pa, we're burned. The loss Is
$50, 900, and 200 operatives are thrown out OF
employment.
The New York firm of Clark & Both
we'll dealers in mining stocks, has failed, and
1t is alleged the firm is defaulter to the extent
OF 100000 Mr.. Clark was formerly President
of the Massachusetts, Agricultural College,
while Bothweh is an old Chicago journalist
e. w. Kingsland, Treasurer of the
Provident Savings Institution OF Jersey City,
shot himself fatally In the Trustees room.
The deed was followed by run by anxious de-
postors The Treasurer's accounts are found
to be correct.
The Assembly of New York has passed
a bill wiping away all restrictions imposed upon
savings banks in buying securities.
West.
A demand for an advance in wages
caused the Cleveland Rolling Mill Company TO
lock out 800 men.
A school house near Lakefeld, Mimi,
was lifted by funnel-shaped cloud and scat
tered over the prairie. There were twelve per-
SONS in the building, three Of whom were terri
bly, bruised
The reunion of the Society of the Ar
my of the Tennessee at st. Louis was called to
order by Gen. Sherman, after which a floral
tribute sent by Chicago was uncovered, Bishop
Fallows delivering an address, and ex-Gov.
Fletcher responding. The Secretary reported
$4,000 on hand Letters were read from Pres
ident Arthur, Gen. Grant, Gen. Mcclellan and
corted to the Merchants ana Cotton Exchanges
and 10 Shaw's Garden.
Orders have been issued for the aban-
donment of Forts Fetterman and Sanders, in
Wyoming which are now garrisoned by eleven
companies
Buffalo Bill, who already owns an ex--
tensive cattle rancho near North Platte. Neb.,
70 amt tn ot,ds OF
belonging to his grandfather and has been Of
fered $500, 600 to compromise.
Mrs. Frances NJ Scoville has entered
into contract with Mr.. Clark, OK Gunnison,
Col, and Mr.. Nixon, a theatrical man, o. Chi
cago, 10 deliver series of lectures in st. Louis
Kansas City and Omaha. She will present
petition for the communication OF Guiteaus sem
tence.
The reports to the Department of
Agriculture from all parts OF Illinois indicate
ali improved condition of winter wheat. On
drained land the wheat is much above an aver
age that on wet lands has been niured by the
excessive rains.
The Society of the Army of the Ten
nessee has decided to hold its next reunion Mt
Cleveland Oct. 3 and 4, 1883. Bishop Fallows
was selected as orator. Gen. Sherman was re-
elected President and Col. Dayton Secretary
Three or four inches of snow fell in
Washington county, Iowa, on the 18th of May.
An excursion train conveying the
Missouri Press Association to Galveston over
the Missouri Pacific road, collided with a rum
away engine and caboose, near Oswego, Kan.
The engineer and fireman leaped and saved
their lives. Both locomotives were completely
wrecked, but the journalistic party escaped I'M
hurt.
Patsy Devine, the murderer of Aaron
Goodfellow, at Bloomington, ILL.,, in August,
1879, found guilty at the end of two separate
trials, was executed at Clinton, H.. the 18th
inst. To the very last moment tie condemned
man protested his innocence of the murder.
and asserted that il he had been givon chance
he could have found the man who killed Aaron
Goodfellow. He had led life Of continuous
crime for seven years, and tho evidence given
at his two trials left no room for doubt that he
was concerned in the murder
The Pension Appropriation bill has
been completed 1t sets aside 300, 900, 900 for
the next fiscal year, Of which nearly all is on
army account The bill provides that the in
come from the navy pension fund shall be de-
voted to the needs OF that branch Of the SER
vice, so far as it goes.
A tornado swept away the little town
Of Mill Spring, in the Indian Territory. Only
one house was left standing. Three persons
were killed and seven injured more or less So
verely.
Ferris, OF San Francisco, who claims
to have been recognized by three persons in
that city as Sir Roger Tchborne il making
preparations to visit England
South
A terrible cyclone passed over Meal
lister mining settlement in the Indian Terri
tory near the Texas border Seven people were
killed outright, four fatally injured, eleven
dangerously and thirty-nine more or less hurt.
Fifty-nine houses we're totally demolished and
thirty more badly wrecked. The cyclone cut a