The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1883-01-26
NEWS OF the week.
AMERICAN ITEMS.


A fire IN Iweddle hall BLOCK IN Al
bnny, which contained an opera house.
bank and ten stores caused loss Of $780,,
COO
Nichols Felix died in the Allegheny
City Home, from starvation, self-imposed
Small quantities of milk and whisky sus-
tanned him since last July.
The contest ut Philadelphia between
Engineer Melville and his wife for the custo-
DIV of their children was ended by the Court
awarding the two younger ones to the
mother and directing that the elder be sent
to college at the expense of the father
The anthracite coal shipped from
Pennsylvania the past year was 29,l2o ,00o
tons
At Richfeld Springs, n. Y, Har-
vey Taylor killed his wife and mother
in-law and then committed suicide. He was
insane He had regularly laid eat the corpses
of his victims
The notorious Western desperate,
known as Billy the Kid, was recently lynched
in Montana Territory
Conrad g. Co., the st. Louis manu-
facturers of Budweiser beer have failed for
about $500 600 The concern did business
reaching 81 500 GOO yearly
The weather in the Wisconsin pin
cries is most suspicious, and a full cut is an
tcipated
A dozen business houses at Law
renee, Kan, were burned, involving n loss
of $4,000, upon which there is $4,000 in
surance
Several lives were lost by the explo-
sion of the boiler of a steamer in Port Susan
bay, Pacific coast
The next Nebraska State Fair will be
held at Omaha
One square of the business section
loss of $50 1000, upon which the insurance is
SIC, 400
Freddie Gebhardt called st. Louis
reporter liar and threatened TO thrash him
for publishing an alleged interview with
Mrs Langtry and himself.
Zerelda Garrison, who figured in
the abduction case at st Louis has been
sent East for treatment, as her mental fac
ulties are not of n high order.
Col. A. g. Cunningham, the st.
Louis reporter who wrote up Freddie Geb-
hardt and the Langtry in the Glo6e-D Demo
crdt, for which Freddie called him liar and
scoundrel, sent challenge to Geb-
hardt, which the latter, it il alleged,
was about TO accept, but, at the
earnest pleadings of "the Lily" wisely con-
cluded that discretion is the better part of
valor. Cunningham is an ex-Confederate
cavalry officer, and is reputed TO be dead
shot
The Supreme Court of Iowa has de-
clared invalid the prohibitory amendment to
the constitution, on the ground that the
journal of the House does not show that the
amendment was passed, and also that it va
ried in form and substance from the measure
adopted in the Senate
Elihu Palmer, q st. Louis printer,
nephew of ex-Gov Palmer, of Illinois, shot
and wounded his wife and then inflicted
mortal wound on himself. The affair was
occasioned by domestic difficulties of long
standing.
The bursting of calcium light ma
chine in theater at Milwaukee injured five
persons on the stage, two of them fatally,
suspending the play
At Ogden, Utah, on Jan. 10, the
mercury was S5 degrees lower than was
ever before known there. Butte City re-
ported a temperature 40 degrees below zero
The worst snow-storm for years prevailed in
Kansas and Nebraska, and the loss of sheep
and cattle will undoubtedly be very great
The Key City Block at Moorhead,
Mimi, containing six stores was burned,
with loss of $4,000
A fire at Portland, Ore, destroyed
the wholesale grocery house of Corbett &
McLeary, valued at $4,000, and inflicted
considerable damage upon the adjacent
buildings
The Quincy House, one of the larg-
est hotels in Quincy, Ill took fire at break
fast time the other morning, and the upper
stories were burned away. Over 100 persons
were hurried out of the building. The loss
is about $4,000
A Milwaukee dispatch of Jan. 20
says: Evidence accumulates against Schel-
Ter, who 1t is alleged, fired the Newhall'
House. 1t has been ascertained that he
secreted some of his stock Of liquors and
removed seven sets of billiard balls before
the fire occurred The prisoner was re-
turned to the Milwaukee jail yesterday, and
no one is permitted TO see him. Another
body has been taken from the fire ruins,
making a total of forty-six. The lives lost
are now figured at fifty nine"
The weather throughout the West and
Northwest on the 18th, 18th and 10Th of Jan
uary was intensely cold. the mercury in
come sections ranging between twenty and
thirty below At Omaha some of the public
schools were closed. Railway traffic was
much impeded by snow accommodating in
the cuts, i'm some instances trains being
abandoned A great snow-storm prevailed
IN Ontario during the same time.
South.
Two-thirds of the business portion of
Cisco, Tex, was burned the other day. Loss,
SG5,OO0
A locomotive standing at tho depot
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