The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1873-05-09
The West.

Rev. Mr.. Frazell, Methodist minister of
Elmwood, H., was publicly whipped, few
days since, by a widow lady named Mrs. Leslie,
on account of indscreet remarks made by him
in a temperance lecture, rejecting on her char
acter.
The stories of Indian outrages in South
western Kansas are pronounced pure inven-
tons.
There is a rowing band of Musquakoe In
Indians in Iowa. which are now encamped on
Skunk river, in Jasper county. A short time
ago a member of the tribe murdered one of
his comrades. The Indians put the murderer
TO trial, and decided that he should be pun
ished by being starved to death. The sentence
was carried out to the cruel letter. The Indian
was tied to a log out in the woods, and several
Indians were detailed to carry the sentence
into effect, which took eight days, other cruel
tres, known only to the red devils themselves
being added to the torture of starvation.
fire on West Washington street, Chicago
on the LIST inst, destroyed 500, 900 worth of
property.
Resolutions approving the "present peace
policy" of the Government towards the Indians
have been tabled by the Ohio Senate.
number of Americans and half-breeds are
reported to have been killed at a trading-post
in Manitoba by the Sioux, in retaliation for the
murder of their chiefs, who were poisoned by
some American traders
The Governor of Illinois, in a formal
PROCLAMATION, calls for the general observance
of May 80 as day for the decoration of the
graves of soldiers who fell in the civil war,
and recommends the clergy of the State to
hold commemorative services on Sunday
May 25.
Gen. Davis is now in command at tho Lava
Beds. Gen. Sherman has determined to send
to his support all the available troops on the
Pacific coast, but says there are not enough
soldiers in the whole army to carry out the
idea of surrounding the Modocs. One hundred
and fifty thousand men were unable to close
circle round Atlanta, which was only five miles
in circumference, while it is thirty miles around
the Lava Beds.
Capt Thomas killed by the Modocs, was the
son of Gen. Lorenzo Thomas, formerly Adju-
tant-General of the Army.
The epizootc has caused a great depres-
sion of business in San Francisco, and
number of heavy failures are reported.
The reports of Indian troubles in Manitoba
and Oregon are without foundation.
Mrs. Mary NJ. Scott, of Crawford county,
Ind, in taking portion of her head-dress
from drawer, dislodged her husbands re-
volver, which discharged in falling, and the
ball entered the back part of her head, killing
her instantly.
During the progress of ball in Dubuque,
Iowa, young man named Byron Clark raised
one of the windows Of the hail. lost his bal
ance and fell headlong to the ground, dis
lance of thirty feet, from the effects of which
he died.
Reports have reached Virginia City, Nevada,
from the North, to the effect that the settlers
at Mountain City, in the Cape district, are
greatly alarmed at the threatening attitude of
the Indians. Snakes and Pintes are pour
ing in from all directions, all in their war
paint.
The Carbon silver mine and reduction
works. situated in Boulder county, about forty
miles northwest of Denver, considered one
of the best silver mines ever opened in the
United States, has been sold to the Neder-
land Mining Company of Holland for So
100000.
A Yreka, Cal dispatch of the I'd inst fur
nishes the following news from the Modoc
seat of war: Capt. Silver and Mr.. j. W. john
son arrived from the front this afternoon
leaving Gen. Gilem's camp on Tuesday morn
ing. Mr.. Johnson says there has been moth
ing done since the battle on the Goth Of April.
Everything was quiet. No future policy for
fighting the Modocs had been settled upon.
An opinion prevailed that it would be perfect
folly to attempt to whip the Modocs in the