The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1872-05-24

him."
ABOUT midnight on Saturday, William
Bowles, an engineer of the Great Eastern
railroad, was crossing the track at the corner
OF Knzie and Carpenter streets, Chicago,
when he was caught between two cars and
crushed to death instantly.
A GENTLEMAN by the name of Mumford, OF
Chicago, about SO years of age, was murdered
at Kenosha, Wis, on Monday morning. His
skull was found broken in by heavy, bent
! instrument, probably n bar of iron. young
German is the suspected party. About Sl60
in money and watch were taken......A
! fire at Wabasha, Mimi, early Monday
morning, destroyed the large elevator
of II. w. Holmes & Co. Loss about
| $22 900. .... Labor riots are occurring in the
Lake Superior mining region. Gov. Bald
win, Of Michigan, has received dispatch
| from the Sheriff of Houghton county asking
for two companies of troops The Governor
has telegraphed TO Washington asking that
a detachment may be sent from Buffalo to
Lake Superior. Lake Superior men in De-
troit are inclined to believe that Sheriff Shea
is in a needless state of excitement.
The South.
A SPECIAL from Richmond, Va, dated May
7, states that nothing has been heard rom
Step hen Lowry or Andrew Strong since
the murder of Col. Wishart, in North Caro-
lima. The same special brings to life again
Henry Berry Lowry, chief Of tho " Swamp
Angel" gang, who has been reported dead
for months.
Four stores were destroyed in Selma,
Ala, by fire Wednesday morning. Loss
SIS 900 partially insured.
OK Saturday, negro in jail at Carthage,
Tenn, charged with rape on a white lady,
was taken out by five men and hung TO a
tree and afterward shot with pistols.
Washington.
A COMMITTEE of workngmen from New
York had an interview with Secretary
Boutwell, Wednesday. The Secretary re-
ceived them kindly, and agreed with the
committee that there had clearly been an
evasion of the eight-hour law, and stated to
the Chairman of the Committee that proper
action would be taken in the premises. The
committee then waited on the President.
The President said he had instructed the
Attorney General to prepare an order for
the immediate enforcement Of the eight
hour law on all Government works.
The President has written letter fully
indorsing the Supplemental Civil-Rights
bill of Sumner, which was defeated on
Thursday, but was reintroduced again in
the Senate on Friday....A report was in
circulation Friday that telegram was re-
ceived from London stating that there is no
promise of an arrangement between the !
United States and Great Britain respecting
our claims for consequential damages, both |
countries adhering to their respective posi- |
tions"".Th President on Friday approved |
of the following bills: To regulate cleo
tons in Washington and Idaho Territories ; |
for the relief of Robert Williams, Jr., Col !
lector of the Third District of Ohio for the |
relief of the purchasers Of lands sol d for d-
rect taxes in insurrectiOnary States for re-
lief of G. S. Baker, Mayvillc, Mo-; for the |
REISSUE of certain bonds; TO extend the |
time of payment for their lands by persons
holding prescriptions en- public lands in |
the States of Minnesota, Wisconsin and |
Michigan, and the Territory of Dakota; to |
perpetuate testimony in the courts of tho |
United States TO change the time for the
holding of Circuit and District Courts in
the Western District of Wisconsin, at La |
Crosse.
PETIrIoSs have reached Washington from
Minnesota and other Western States, com
planning Of the heavy exactions Of private
parties who have control of the bridge across
the Missouri river at Omaha, and asking the
of ngress...... President Grant
issued a proclamation extending the provis-
ions Of the act allowing consular urisdc-
tion over the crews Of vessels in American
ports 10 the Consuls OF Sweden and Norway.
..... The President, it was officially an
Sunday night, asked and received
the resignation of his brother-in-law, Col
lector Casey, of New Orleans, and that Of
the Deputy Collector of the port.
Mr.. CAsEY's successor as Collector of Gus
toms at New Orleans will not be appointed
for several days The action of the House,
on Monday, in ordering all debate on the
Tariff bill finally closed at four o'clock on
Thursday, and ssigning sessions for every
evening till the middle of next week, is con-
sdered as equivalent TO a resolution for final
ad journment..".Th The President on Monday
10 the Senate the correspond
ence between the United States and Great
Britain relative to the Treaty of Wash
ington, accompanied by a brief message.
The message and documents were ordered
printed in confidence, and referred to the
Committee on Foreign Relations. There is
scarcely a question that the Senate will adj
wise the acceptance of the additional article
10 the treaty.
Foreign.
IT is admitted by La Union newspaper
hat the main body of the Carlists in Spain
was surprised and lost 700 men, and that
Don Carlos fled TO the mountains, but denies
hat he was pursued by the Government
roops.... The Gernens are about to expend
seven million pounds sterling upon the for
at Strasbourg. ..... Advices received
n London, England, by telegraph from
Australia state that heavy floods, which
caused a terrible loss of life, had occurred in
Melbourne. Four hundred persons were
drowned, and the growing crops were greatly
damaged.
OPTICAL dispatches received at Madrid,
spain, from the North, state that the in.
'urgents have disappeared from Guipuzcoa,
and only a small band remains in the pro-
vince of Saragossa. OF the Carlist forces in
n aware, 429 have surrendered to the Gov
eminent troops, and the remainder have
dispersed telegram from Bombay
brings intelligence of most disastrous floods ,
n the southern part of British India. The ,
g Ill a.