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

says: "Col. X. ID. Cunningham, United
States army, son of the late Judge Con-
| ingham, died on the Goth inst
White and Ramsdell, arrested for
stealing the treaty, were released on
Saturday.
1t is rumored that Fort Buford has
been surrounded by Indians, and the
entire garrison massacred.
| Col. Jesse |. Alexander late of the
59th Indiana Volunteers, died of apo
plexy, at his residence at Terre Haute, on
Tuesday.
The Supreme Court Of Kansas has
sustained the validity of county bonds
for railroad purposes, holding their is
sue to have been constitutional.
The Superintendent of the postal
money order system has gone to Lon
don and Berlin to negotiate an inter
national postal money order system
with Great Britain and Germany.
Bancroft Davis, Jr., left for London
on Saturday, as a special messenger to
convey the treaty to Minister Schenck
and to bring back the official notice Of
ratification.
| Thomas Earle, of Worcester, Mass,
who attempted short time since to
kidnap his children who had been given
to the custody of their mother by the
court, died on Thursday in lunatic
hospital.
| M, A
nected editorially with the Kansas City
Ne,oS, died in that city on Thursday, the
25th. His remains were forwarded to-
day to Wilmington, Ind, where his
father resides.
The writing found in bottles wash
ed ashore at Shediac, n. B., and New
port, n. s., containing reports Of the
lost steamship City of Boston, has been
pronounced genuine, the handwriting
having been recognized.
The much-dreaded seventeen-year
locust has already appeared in Illinois.
Mr.. Sanford, of Morris, Grundy county,
has sent in few specimens, and reports
that many millions of the pests are yisi-
bic in his section.
Henry D. Wenzler, a well.known
Danish artist, who has resided in New
York for the last thirty years, in the
practice Of his art, died on Saturday
afternoon. at the residence of his
friend, DR.. Samuel w. Francis, at New
port, r. /.
There were eighteen prisoners ar.
raigned for sentence in the Criminal
| ~ no of
Ten of them were sentenced to the
Penitentiary at Joliet, for an aggregate
term of thirty one years, and eight to
the County Jail for an aggregate term OF
one thousand and fifty days. "Good
radiance to bad rubbish
Barley was cut on May 26, upon
the farm of Mr.. John Anderson, on the
American bottom, near Collinsville, H.,
at the foot of the bluff. The field con-
tains about forty acres Of ripe barley,
and Mr.. Anderson, ST., says that no in.
stance of such early harvesting has oc-
cured in Illinois within his recollection
of the past half century.
-Whitelaw Reid, managing editor of
the n. Y. Tribune, is in Washington, in
answer 10 summons to appear before
the Senate Investigating Committee to
give such information as he may pos
sess in regard to the premature publica.
ton of the treaty of Washington.
1t is reported that a new telegraph
company is forming of New York and
European capitalists, who intend to lay
a cable TO Santo Domingo, Jamaica, and
other West India Islands, thence down
the east coast Of South America to Rio
Janeiro.
1t is reported in financial circles at
New York. that the new London firm
of Jay Cooke, McCulloch IL Co., of Lon
don, will soon succeed Barring Bros. al.
together as the financial agents of the
Government, though the State Depart.
ment has SO far persstently refused to
listen to such arrangement
The Peace Jubilee celebration at
Chicago on the Goth of May probably
exceeded that in any other city in the
United States. The procession was
seven miles long, and represented every
civic society, military, or other com
pany, and every trade carried on in the
city.
The Senate, on the Goth, again took
up the stolen treaty question, and had
long and exciting debate on the sub
; .ject, and were about to adjourn when
an Executive message was received
from the President, which prolonged
the session for five hours, and is likely
to prolong it for two or three days.
The French Minister at Washing
ton has asked the Versailles Govern
ment, from which be is accredited, tc
recall him, on account Of ill.health
He has been suffering from alteration
of mind, produced by fever, and accel
Grated by the exciting events which
,, have been transpiring in France.
E The news was received at the mill
tary headquarters of the Santa Fe dis
{ trict, on the oath, by an express mes
senger from Camp Apache, Arizona, thai
the whole mountain Apaches have de
clared open war against the whites
This is supposed to have been caused by
!. the recent killing of 100 Indians a