The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1886-04-22
NEWS CONDENSED.
Concise Record of the Week.
EASTERN.

Sir Thaddeus Fairbanks, inventor of
the Fairbanks scale, died at St Johnsbury, Vt,
in his Goth year. Mr.. Fairbanks was born in
Dedham, Mass, and emigrated to St Johns
bury, VT, when 10 years old. After working
in a saw and grist mill he started an iron foun-
dry in 1928, making newly invented styles Of
cooking stoves and cast-iroL plows, the first
iron plowshares ever made He invented, in
succession, hemp-dresser, a steam-heatng
apparatus, an arrangement of refrigerators
which has everywhere been adopted, and final
~ the famous scale. For the last invention he
was made Knight of the Imperial Order of
Francis Joseph by the Emperor of Austria in
1873
DR.. J. II. Arnett, Superintendent of
the American Express Company, died at Mag
ara Falls from an apoplectic stroke.
Five hundred school-boys at Troy,
New York, struck for a single daily session of
four hours, threw stones and mud at the po-
lice, and forced the School Board TO listen to
statement of grievances.
The late Ann Jane Mercer, of Phila-
delphia, bequeathed her estate in Montgomery
County, with buildings, furniture, horses, etc,
for the establishment of home for aged and
infirm clergymen of the Presbyterian faith
who do not use tobacco in any FORM and set
aside a sum of $780, 600 to maintain the estab-
Eshment
At New York warrants were issued
for twelve of the Aldermen supposed to have
been corruptly connected with the Broadway
Surface Railway legislation Ten of the ~sus-
poets" were arrested and gave bail in the sum
of s25 600 each. Another surrendered and was
also released on bonds The twelfth man,
Reilly, is thought to have fled
John Ii. Noyes, founder of the Oneida
Community, died at his home in Niagara Falls.
Two flowing oil wells have been
developed in the Grand Valley District, ten
miles from Titusville, where prospectors are
focking in great numbers
A rabid dog on the railway track near
Riverdale, n. T., pursued and bit Miss Amelia
Morosini, a daughter of Jay Gould's partner.
A carload of young oaks taken from
Culp's Hill, on the battlefield of Gettysburg
was planted on the grounds of the Soldiers
Home at Erie, Pa, by the crippled inmates
last week
In q Long Island village, DIR. L. S.
Taylor killed his coachman, Thaddeus Gret-
man. while engaged in the sport of shooting
bottles off his head at fifty PAGES
A jury at Pittsburgh gave q citizen
named McMullen a verdict for S24, 623 against
the directors of the wrecked Penn bank, on
the ground that they knew the concern was in
solvent when they induced him to leave his
deposit The decision involves nearly ST.
100000
AS the result of alleged gross mis-
management of soldiers orphans schools in
Pennsylvania, the Governor of that State has
demanded the resignation of the State Superin-
tendent of Schools and summary removed
other officials implicated in the scandal
A Buffalo special to the Chicago
Times says: "Ihe statement of Rev. William
Cleveland, brother of the President, that the
latter will marry Miss Frances Folsom, leaves
no doubt of the fact that the
White House wedding will take place.
The wedding, it is said, will be of
the most quiet character possible, and 1t is to
be solemnized in June. There will not be a
dozen persons present. and, if it is possible,
the time of its occurrence will be kept secret
until after the ceremony Miss Folsom is
modest retiring, and sensitive and her wishes
are that there shall be no display In this it
is understood the President concurs."