The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1871-10-06
The West.

TIE convicts who escaped from the Ne
vada State Prison in the great break are
scattered through Sierra Nevada, making
toward California. An express rider from
Wellington is supposed to have been met
and murdered by them, his clothes being
found covered with blood. Many parties
are in active pursuit. The prisoners are
scattering over the country robbing the
rancheros, providing them elves with horses,
and are evidently making for Arizona and
Southern Califernia.....News has been re-
ceived at San Francisco of the loss Of the
schooner Mary A. Reed, of San Francisco,
at Cape Lopatka, Kamtschatka, where she
was taking off the cargo of the wrecked
bark Katalina. The crew were saved.
PROPERTY to the amount of 81 200, 900 was
destroyed by fire in San Francisco on the
2Sd inst,...,A dispatch from Salt Lake, dated
the 23d inst, says: The Grand Jury has
adjourned until Tuesday. There are excit-
ing rumors that high dignitares of the Nor
mon Church are to be indicted. Squads of
men are arriving tonight, said to be Nor
mon militia. 1t is generally thought there
is a crisis. The Mormons laugh and keep
their own counsel.... Charles Rogers, an
cmploye of the Union Pacific Railroad was
run over and instantly killed, at Omaha, on
Saturday night, near the O'Fallon Station.
His father is supposed to reside in Wiscon-
sin, and his grandfather in Iowa.
IN Tippecanoe county, Ind, VIM. Beeler
has been sentenced to 10 yearc' imprison-
ment, and to pay fine of $4,000, for burn
ing bridge on the Wabash Railroad east of
Lafayette. He pays the fine at the rate of
rs cents per day for labor in prison. This
will take him y years to liquidate the fine.
.,..Advices from Montana TO Sept. l5 state
that the Crow Indians offer no opposition to
the Northern Pacific Railroad. They are
perfectly willing it should be built, and, in
fact, have volunteered to have part Of their
chiefs and head men TO accompany the en-
gineers and soldiers, to aid the scouts and
assist them in any way in their power
against the Sioux."..A dispatch from Salt
Lake denies that Brigham Young sought to
evade any process of the court or
grand jury. They say that he will
obey summons as witness, or sub
nit even TO warrant of arrest, but
will not yield to imprsonment.....Mi Michael
Money, a prominent farmer of Royal Oak,
Mich, was gored to death, recently, by one
of his bulls......" Esq" Roberts was arrested
at Salineville, Ohio, on Saturday, by an
officer of the secret service, for passing coun-
terfeit money. A considerable amount of
counterfeit twos on the Ninth National Bank
of New York was found. Roberts is super
intendent Of one Of the extensive coal mines
operated by the Cleveland Iron Company.
He is wealthy, and was prominent in the
community for his zeal in the cause of reli-
gion and kindred virtues.
II Is stated that, since his return from the
Pacific coast, Felix r. Brunot has partially
reconsidered his declination of the Commits
sionerehip of Indian Affairs, and will proba-
bly, accept the Office. The vacancy is held
open for his final decision.... The Supreme
Court meets in two weeks, and among the
first cases on the calendar which were ar
gued last term, and are awaiting decision
is the constitutionality of the direct tax on
cotton, levied q few years ago, and after
ward repealed, but under which several mil
lions were paid into the Treasury The
distilers of spirtuous liquors have deter
mined to press Congress, at its next session,
to consolidate the tax on spirits, now that
these distillers are required TO give bond for
only the tax on each gallon-5O cents
The South.
FEARS are entertained that another break
may occur in the Mississippi river soon near
New Orleans. The crevasss in different
places is hardly three feet above the level of
the river at the present stage of low water.
IA deaf and dumb boy. named Chas.
White, was run over and killed in the streets
of Louisville on Friday.
MISS CURRY, of Green county, Kentucky,
girl 16 years Of age, was fatally burned, on
Thursday, while making fire with coal oil.
49," Thomas Collier, who was shot by DR..
Boatman, at Hopefeld, Tenn, on Saturday,
died on Sunday 1.-THE yellow fever is be-