The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1885-03-05
NEWS CONDENSED.
Concise Record of the Week.


The Grand Jury in New York, with
out summoning O'Donovan Rosa to testify.
found an indictment against Yseult Dudley
for assault with intent to kill.
John Barkel, O miner at Bryerton,
Pa, who lost his reason during the Presiden-
tial election, is now trying to starve himself
in the insane asylum.
Mrs. Annie Sullivan, wife of John
L. Sullivan, the pugilist, has begun suit for
drunkenness.
G. M. Todd, who pleaded guilty to
embezzlng $4,000 from a trust company of
Philadelphia, for which he was bookkeeper,
received sentence of thirty-two months In
the penitentiary.
ODonovan Rosa is preparing
manifesto. and is also planning lecture
tour.
Mrs. Crandal, of Bloomsbury, N. j.,
died from fast of forty-eight days, during
which time her weight decreased from $50
pounds TO l25.
Justus Schwab, the notorious So
cialist, was held for trial In New York on
two charges-for melting riot and for resist
ing the police. His bail was fixed at $4,000.
Noremac, the pedestrian, has just
completed at New York the feat of walking
hfty-one miles day for 100 consecutive
days, Sundays excluded.
In removing some bodies buried
thlrty-seven years ago in Sussex County, N.
j., that of child named Elmendorf was
found to be perfectly petrihed, but has
changed greatly since its exposure to the
air.
Scouts in the Pennsylvania oil re-
gions who furnish information as to the dis
covery, or condition of wells have organized
an oath-bound society, the object of which is
TO control the oil market for their especial
benefit
At recent conference at the resi-
dence of w. II. Vanderbilt In New York, at
which George b. Roberts, DIR. Hostetter and
George NJ Pullman were present, arrange.
ments were made for harmonious relations
between the Pennsylvania and South Penn
sylvania Roads, and the ultimate acquisition
of the West Shore Road by the New York
Central.
A special dispatch from New York,
based on what Is claimed TO be reliable med
zeal authority, says:
Notwithstanding the rose-colored report OF
Gen Grants health recently gwen in a medical
Journal the truth f. Gen. Grant is a very sick
nan. and his death is apparently not far distant
The public have no conception of the shattered
condition Of his physical system. II il hoped
the affection Of the tongue may not prove
fatal. but there is, yet, no appearance
Of its not developing malignant and
fatal disease. Although somewhat better
now than some weeks ago. the enlarged
and inflated tongue continues. making
1t painful to speak swallow fluids, the only
nourishment he can take. In addition to this
Malay Gen. Grant is a terrible sufferer from
neuralgia, and 10 seems TO have taken possession
Of his whole system. He has had most OF his
teeth drawn TO lessen the neuralgia torture. and
his injury in the hip caused by his fall year
ago. Is still a source of very great suffering and
forbids physical exercise. IL is fact that
should no longer be concealed fl ON the country
that Gen. Grant is rapidly breaking down and
apparently without hope of reaction, and un-
less there should be some unexpected relief. he
will not be long among the living.