The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1871-04-07
CURRENT NEWS ITEMS.
Crime.


wife and several children.
Chief of Police Eddy, of st. Paul,
on Wednesday last, captured Chas
Bailey, who shot j. NJ. JOY, near Lake
Traverse, last December. Bailey con-
fesses to have done the deed.
William Dodd, of Woodruff county,
Ark, was shot and killed last Sunday
by three men named Rainey, jackson
and Day, who met him in the woods and
shot him down. They allege that Dodd
had threatened their lives.
Thomas Ringsdorf, agent of the
Etna Sewing Machine Company of In
dianapolis, was shot and killed in the
drug store of Robert Benjowsky, at Shell
byville, Ind, Saturday evening. Cause
insulting Benjowskys wife.
The body of young woman was
found III Fox river, three miles below
Aurora, Ill.,, by some boys who were
fishing. The body shows several cuts
with knife, has cloth tied over her
face, and is enshrouded with fine
chemisette.
An old man named Brindle and his
wife, each 20 years of age, have been ar
rested and lodged in Jail, in Westmore-
land county, Pa, charged with the muir
der of a German peddler at New Stan.
ton, in that State, four years ago. When
arrested, Brindle was attempting to sell
goods known to have been in the pos
session of the peddler,
Last Thursday, near Fayetteville.
Ark a man named Rowland murdered
his wife and babe, and then blew out
his brains They had been separated
for some time, and he called at the
house where she was staying, and asked
her to walk with him. She took her
child along, and in few minutes her
sister heard the report of pistol. Run
ming to the spot, she found all of them
weltering in their blood
Twenty days since, Arthur Perkins,
gambler, met William Smith in the
door of saloon, at Virginia City, Neb.,
and asked him, Where will you have
1t p and without further warming shot
smith dead on the spot. Perkins was
confined in the city jail and on Satur-
day morning, at , o o'clock, seventy vigil
lants, armed with guns, bayonets, and
pistols, besiesed the Jail. Forty were
appointed guards and thirty forced the
doors Of the yard and Jail and entered
the sheriff and deputy-sherihrs bed room
and demanded the keys. They were
refused. a struggle ensued, in which
the sheriff was roughly handled. and
wounded about the head. The keys
were obtained, and the viglants took
Perkins from the jail and condemned
him to be Immediately hanged. The
prisoner was taken to an unoccupied
house and hanged at once.
Casualties.
Frank Altman. brakeman on the
Fort Wayne railroad. fell from the top
OF q car and was run over and killed,
at Osborne Station, Pa, Tuesday night.
Robert johnson, a passenger on the
Charters Valley railroad, fell from the
train while intoxicated, and was killed.
"A private dispatch from New Or
leans says the steamer Belle of Alton
was burned at Algiers on the 2Sth. She
was owned by the st. Louis and Alton
Packet Company. and valued at from
$4,000 to 100000.
The Memphis Avahnches special
from Batesville, Miss, says an entire
block of business houses on the west
side Of the depot was burned, on Tues
day night, by the explosion Of coal
oil lamp in Powel's store.
Foreign.
A Versailles dispatch reports that
the Government has ordered the arrest
of Garibaldi upon his appearance on
French soil.
1t is expected that Bergnu will be |
President of the new French Govern
ment, and that its power will center in
Flourens, Delesclauses, Lcfranc and |
Vermorel.
-Thiers made an eloquent, though |
brief, address to the National Assembly. |
on the 2Sth, in which he defended the |
wisdom of his policy, and took a sol
emn oath that he would not betray the |
Republic.
The negotiations for final treaty of |
peace between France and Germany
will soon commence. The plenipoten-
tiaries OF France have arrived at Brus.
sells, and it Is expected that the first sit
ting of the representatives of both GOV.
ernments will be held this week. The
French Embassy is the place agreed
upon for the meetings.
-EX-Emperor Napoleon visited Wind
sor Castle on the 9th, and remained an
hour with Queen Victoria and her fam
lily. An address of welcome was made
by Lord Stanley. Marshal Canrobert's
children were also present The castle
grounds were filled with great crowd
of people, who cheered the ex-Emperor
heartily.
The journal de Paris estimates the
number of qualified electors who alb
stained from voting at 100000. The
opinion with regard to the election in
the Montmartre and Belleville districts
was divided. Some of the insurgents
consider the Committee reactionary.
refused to vote, and continued to keen
guard over their cannon. Others. more
peaceably inclined, attended the polls
and voted for what they believed to be
n compromise.
There is great excitement in Paris.
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