The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1884-05-22
MISCELLANEOUS.

The aggregate of the clearances Of
the United States last week showed an in-
crease of so per cent. ovor tho correspond
ing week of last year.
The comparative increase of earnings
of the Union Pacific system for March
amounts to s4l9,000.
The Methodist General Conference, in
session ut Philadelphia. elected AS bishops
Rev. Drs. w. X. Ninde. J. N. Walden, G. ii.
Fowler. and w. +. Mallahen.
Charles O'Conor, the well-known
New York lawyer, died ut Nantucket Mass.
aged so years.
Cyrus ii. Mccormick, the inventor
OF the reaping machine, died at his homo in
Chicago. He was born in Virginia I'm 1909,
and emigrated TO the West in 1917. He has
given vast sums TO the Presbyterian Church
His estate is estimated at S15,OO9,0oo, which
dcsccnds to his wife and five children.
The Greedy squadron is at last all of
on its errand of mercy. The Bear, the first
TO start, must be now we'll up to the Green
land coast. The Thetis has been reported at
st. Johns taking in supplies, and tho Alert
sailed from New York last week. The three
vessels will meet at Upernavik, and
the northward voyage will begin about the
LIST of June, heading for 'Greely's Station,
on Lady Franklin Bay. The squadron Is
composed of stanch vessels, plentifully sup
piled with every appliance which will be
needed, and manned with officers and crows
arti N RI tod nd nj na1 for thav
work. Besides this official search, the boun-
tiful Government reward has already started
quite feet OF whalers into that nhospitabe
region, SO that we may expect to hear tidngs
of the gallant Greedy and his party possibly
before another winter sets in.
A weeks death record: Hon. Tru-
man Smith, of Connecticut, who served in
Congress from 1889 20 Is47. and in the Senate
from 1s49 to 1854; Prof. Samuel ID. Gross. an
eminent surgeon of Philadelphia Col.
Thomas III. Hunt, Treasurer OF the Worlds
Exposition organization at New Orleans;
William +. Clogg, celebrated naturalist, of
Boston; Judah p. benjamin, formerly United
States Senator from Louisiana and Confed
crate Secretary of War, ut Paris, France;
John r. Slater, of Norwich, Conn.,, who gave
81, 600 600 TO the cause of education i'm the
Southern States: Lemuel Shaw, President OF
the Great Boot Mills, in Massachu-
sets; Mdhat Pasha, the exiled Turk
ish statesman; Giovanni Pratt, Italian
poet and statesman; Paris G. Dunning, of
bloomington, Ind, who was Governor OF In
diana in 1916; Charles Adolph wartz, distin-
guished French chemist.
Lord Aylesford, cattle king in
Texas, has returned TO England for n visit
and will bring back number OF arstocratc
to near him.
The national convention of the An
cient Order of Hibernians held ut Cleveland
last week, passed resolutions declaring fideli-
ty to the free institutions of the United
States, while unchanged in their love for
their mothcrland, and declaring their organ
izaton entirely Roman Catholic in its tenden
cles.
The Jail at Ashland, Ohio, was guard
ed for twenty-four hours by the Eighth Regi-
ment Of the National Guard, in consequence
of threats by a mob TO lynch George A. Horn
and William ii. Gribben, the murderers of
Harry Williams. Nearly ten thousand peo-
pie gathered about the Enclosure where the
execution by the Sheriff took place. The
condemned men became penitent ut the last
moment, and four clergymen prayed with
them. The murderers were given brandy to
maintain their nerve, and Gribben nearly fell
fainting on the scafIold. Lewis Cook one of
the miltiamen, was shot i'm the leg by roter
Christian Riebling was executed in an in.
closure at Morrison, whitesde County, ILL.,,
for the murder of Albert Lucia. He made a
full confession and met death with firmness
His neck was broken and he was pronounced
dead in twelve minutes. At Greenfield. $.
c., Riley Anderson and james aud Alfred
Mccullough Gather and SOM paid the full
penalty of the law. Judge Lynch ofiiciated
at the execution OF two brothers named
Pope and man named Kuykendall, In How
ard, Arkansas, who confessed to having
robbed and murdered peddler named Ward,
afterward burning his body. The mob took
the prisoners from jail and hanged them to
the limb of q forest oak.