The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1871-06-09
NEWS SUMMARY.



of the Versailles troops, was killed in
action on Saturday.
A special dispatch says Gen. Vinoy
telegraphs to Versailles that the Hotel
de Vile has been occupied by his
troops.
1t is stated on good authority that
among the unfortunate persons held as
hostages in the prison of La Roouet.
who were murdered, were ten nuns.
The slaughter on Saturday night
was awful. Altogether the suppression
of the Commune has cost over GO. 600
lives and the destruction of third of
Paris.
"A Versailles correspondent tele.
graphs that NJ. Delescluze, the Delegate
Minister OF War under the defunct
Commune, was shot by his guards and
instantly killed on Saturday night, in
attempting to escape.
An incendiarist conspiracy is re-
ported to have been discovered at
Marseilles. Naguet Gambetta, Project
of Corsica, has been arrested as the
principal conspirator His wife tried
to shoot the General who made the ar
rest.
The instruction in Paris is now
completely dead. The last band of in
surgents surrendered unconditionally
on Sunday morning. All is now quiet
in the city. The fremen have the
flames under control and the conha-
grafton will soon be subdued.
1t is calculated that there are up
ward of $4,000 dead bodies in the
houses and cellars of Paris, many of
them those of women and children.
The women, it is said, have been per-
fectly furious during the recent fighting
in the French capital.
The following telegram was re-
ceived by Secretary Fish, Sunday after
noon, from Minister Washburne:
VERSAILLES THE Archbishop and 50
priests were shot on Tuesday night. The in
surrection has been suppressed. The insur-
gent losses are enormous, and those of the
government comparatively small.
WAsHBuRNE."
Gen. Vinoy has been appointed
Governor of Paris by Theirs. 1t is pro.
posed, as temporary measure, to
divide the capital into 20 military dis
tricts, each to be strongly garrisoned
This arrangement will Re maintained
until order shall be completely restored,
and the passions aroused by the insur-
rection shall have disappeared.
Owing to the admirable plan adopt
ed by Mcmahon for storming the barri.
cades held by the insurgents, the Yer
sailles troops did not suffer heavily dur
Il f,,,l,t in ! bo
streets. The loss to the army altogether
is 1896, while, according to most relia-
BILE estimates, the losses of the insur-
gents are over fifteen times as great.
The Swiss Federal Council, after
considering the dispatch of NJ. Favre,
the French Minister of Foreign Affairs
with relation to the extradition of Com
munist refugees, have decided that an
investigation must be had in each case
and only those refugees are to be de.
livered over to the French authorities
who are proved to be guilty of ordinary
crimes.
In the Belgian Senate on Tuesday
Baron DAnethan, in answer TO M. Ro
def, stated that the Government, having
become convinced that the recent let
ter Of Victor Hugo was compromising
to Belgium, had requested Hugo tC
leave the country, and that, upon hi:
refusal to do so, the King signed de-
cree, the object Of which was to force
his departure. The Prime Minister
added that the decree would be en-
forced.
The Echo du Parliament reports thai
the Germans have seized letters from
leading members of the Paris Com
mune. disclosing conspiracy agains
the Government of Belgium A plo
had been formed with the insurgents
escaping from Paris to proceed to Brus
sells, where radical movement was tC
be continued. An instruction was tC
be melted, the buildings to be set OF
fire, and the Paris horror repeated.
"A Versailles dispatch dated MAY
29th, says that after bloody and despe
rate conflict the Government troop
succeeded incapturing the insurgents a
Belleville and Pere la Chaise late OF
Saturday night. The firing then ceased
and Sunday morning, on the troop
advancing on one position yet held b,
the Communists, the insurgents hoisteC
the white flag and surrendered in
body. They were Immediately disarmed
andthe great rebellion of Paris of 1877
ended.
The gas works at Aubervillers hav,
exploded. Many other explosions hav'
taken place. The dead bodies of tn
insurgents are seen everywhere. An,
hidden Communists, when found, ar
brought out and shot Immediately, anc
no pity is shown. Raval Rigault, chic
of the Communist police, and Corbet
superintendent of the destruction o
the Vendome column, were captured
and shot
1t is clear that the insurgents in
tended to destroy the whole of Pari.
Even women were discovered THROWN
petroleum upon the houses, and tn
members of the National Guard:
dressed as pompiers, and who tire,
petroleum on the fires, instead of waite,