The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1871-12-29

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fortune. His wife had been sick for some
months, and the shock SO unsettled her rea-
| son that she became q raving maniac. Three
| little children are left to charity 1.-The
final games in the Cleveland Chess Congress
were played on Friday, and in the evening
the distribution of prizes were made, as fol-
lows: First prize, 800, G. ii. Mackenzie,
| New York; second prize, $50, II. Hosmer,
Chicago; third prize, $40, F. II. Elder, De-
troit; fourth prize, $35, Max Judd, Cleve-
land fifth prize, $50, P. Ware, Jr., Boston
sixth prize, $40, Ii. d. Smith, Michigan
seventh prize, SIS, III. Harding, Michigan.
..... Tucson dispatches say the Apache Mo-
jave Indians, who murdered Loring and
party, near Wyckenburg, have fled from the
Date Creek reservation to the mountains......
The lower house of the Missouri Legislature
on Saturday passed concurrent resolution,
asking Congress to pass law granting full
amnesty to all who had been deprived of the
rights of citizens. Christian Hess, of
Pekin, Ill.,, was killed on Friday by run
away team......The schooner Hutchinson,
from Alaska, arrived at San Francisco,
brings from Adaka Island three shipwrecked
japanese seamen whose junk drifted ashore,
they having been disabled off the coast of
Japan, and drifted by the japanese Gulf
Stream $500 miles in nine months, finally
Bleaching there. Twenty-three others had
to Japan by Consul Brooks.
The South.
A DISPATCH from Raleigh states that both
branches of the Legislature held an excited
debate upon the recent arrests for alleged Ku-
Kluxism. The General Assembly authorized
the Attorney General of the State to apply
to the Supreme Courts of the United States
for writ of habeaS corpus to test the legality
of the military Private advces
state that Hinkley, Democratic Represen-
tative of the Third Alabama District. has
been indicted for connection with the Ku-
KluX.
A COLUMBIA, S. c., dispatch states that the
Government witnesses against Legann, Fos-
ter and Mitchell, charged with conspiracy
against the Government have divulged
the full secrets of the Ku-KluX of South
Carolina.
A SPECIAL from Helena, Ark, says that on
Monday last fiendish murder was commit
ted at Lake village, Checout county, by San
ders, Dugan, and Garrett, citizens of the
county, upon G. w. Wynne, young colored
lawyer, who had recently located there. The
murder grew out of political differences in
the late election in that county. Intense
excitement prevails.....At Cookevile Tenn,
last Saturday, j. W. Crutcher, Taylor Nc
Kinney, and II. II. billiard, all armed, at
tackled Charles Burton, who defended him
self, shooting Crutcher mortally and McKin-
ney slightly. Burton was also wounded
slightly. Whisky and scandal caused the
difficulty.
A REPORT was presented TO the South Caro-
Z %
day, by committee of investigation, by
C. c. Bowen, to the effect that the State had
been defrauded by an over-issue of $6,3l4,-
600, and recommend the House to take the
necessary steps to hold accountable those
persons who have violated the law and ruined
the credit of the State.
Washington.
The Public Buildings and Grounds Com
mitteo will report in favor of an appropria-
ton of $7,5OO,OOO for the erection of public
buildings at Chicago. The entire expense
of the census was S3,2S7 800.
IT is authoritatively announced that At
torney General Alderman will be assigned to
the United States District Court in Florida,
recently made vacant by the death of Judge
Ia,
our Minister in England, having accom-
plished his purpose with reference to the
Treaty Of Washington, and regarding his
personal interest here as imperative, has re-
quested the President to name his successor,
and call him home..... Official notice is
given that the treaty with Mexico has been
extended for the settlement of claims for a
year and a half from February next.....T The
United States and British Commission re-
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case Of John Holmes Hanna Us. the United
States, the Commissioners decide that the
United States cannot be held liable for iniu-
lies caused by the acts of the rebels.
The Committee on Appropriations have
considered Farwells bill for the purchase of
grounds and erection of public buildings in
Chicago, and agreed to report favorably,
bat cutting down the sum named in the orig
nal bill from five millions to four...... The
War Department, in general orders. an
nounces to the army the death of Brigadier
General Robert Anderson, of Fort Sumter
memory, and pays handsome compliment
to his military service and private charac-
ter. On the arrival Of his remains on the
ship Of war Guerrerre, orders will be issued
to do them honor.....T The British bark
Chance and the Hawaiian bark Arctic, the
vessels which saved and brought 10 Homo
lulu the wrecked Seamen OF the whaling
fleet recently broken up by ice in the North
Pacific, have presented this Government o
claim for service rendered to TIE amount o
$9,520,...The Southern Claims Commission
made their report TO Congress on Thursday.
They say voluntary residence in an insur-
rectionary State during the war is prima
facie evidence of disloyalty, and must be re-
butted by satisfactory evidence that claims
have come from those who served in the
rebel army, and the Commissioners hold that
such service is proof of disloyalty. The
whole number of claims presented up to the
end of November is lO,O99, and the entire
amount $26,599, 900. The Commissioners
have examined $50 cases, in which the
amount claimed is 81 ,656,357. They allowed
S344, l6S.".The American and British Com
mission has decided that the United States
is not liable for the payment of debts con-
tracted by rebel authorities.
LETTER from Alexandria, Egypt, gives
the details of the drowning Of seventy-five
Algerian pilgrims, previously mentioned.