The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1873-08-29

who are inculpated. The engineer was alread,
under arrest, but the conductor has thus fal
eluded the efforts of the detectives. Mr.
McMullin, General Superintendent of thu
road, offers a reward Of 81 900 for his arrest
II is reported that the Hon. Matt H. Carpen
ter is about to institute legal proceeding
against the Chicago Times for defamation OF
character.
The report that Hon. Philetus Sawyer, OF
Wisconsin, had committed suicide was crue
hoax, and arose from the blunder OF an III
competent telegraph operator.
A serious collision occurred on the Cincin'
natl and Marietta railroad, near Loveiand
Ohio, a few days ago, resulting in the death
of three persons. The accident was caused by
the freight train running out of time. The
conductor and engineer have been arrested,
and will be prosecuted by the company for
murder.
John GUSTS, colored body-servant OF
George Washington in 1882, died at Canaan,
Dane county, Wis, recently, aged 107 years.
Great excitement exists in Baxter Springs,
Kan. over the discovery of lead in the streets
of that city. 1t is found in immense quaint
ties near the surface, and the citizens gener-
ally have turned out to mining.
The desperadoes in and around Ellsworth,
Kansas, Infatuated by the killing of one of
their number by the Sheriff, threaten to de-
stroy the town, and the citizens have formed
themselves into military companies for its de-
Tense.
The boiler in shingle-mill at Spencer
Mich, exploded the other day, killing three
men and badly wounding four others.
John Hancock, an old and respected citizen
of Payson, ILL.,, recently murdered his wife,
while laboriug under a fit of temporary in
sanity, and then hung himself
The report telegraphed from Lawrence, Kan.
and widely published, purporting to give the
particulars of the boarding of a train on the
Missouri Pacific railroad by band of ruffians,
and the killing of one of them by passenger,
was a miserable hoax.
Sheriff Low, of Galloway county No. who
was shot by the mob that lynched Kessler, is
dead.
The exploring expedition sent out to ascer-
tain as to the feasibility of turning the Gulf of
California into the desert of the Colorado, in
Arizona, has made surveys which fully dem
onstrate the practicability of the scheme.
The Yellowstone expedition has had two en-
counters with the redskins, the particulars of
which are furnished by dispatch from Muscle
Shell River The first fight occurred on Aug.
t. in which 50 troops were engaged for two
hours against 800 Indians. The firing was at
long range, and but little damage done to
either sde only two Indians being killed.
While the fight was going on, several Indians
left the war party in search of stragglers.
Coming upon Dr. Honsinger, the veterinary
surgeon, and Balarain, the cavalry sutler. who
were less than a mile from the column, they
killed them and took their horses and valua-
bles. Private John Ball, of the cavalry, while
out hunting met with a similar fate. On the
Sth of August Gen. Stanley directed Gen.
Custer to take his cavalry, numbering $50
men. and follow and punish the Indians. On
the 18th he was attacked by about 800 Indians
on the banks of the Yellowstone river. who
opened brisk fire. After the fighting had
been going on some time, Gen. Custer ordered
a charge, which was CALAMITY executed, the
red skins fleeing before the impetuous onset.
They were pursued some eight miles, and
badly scattered. The battle is described as a
fierce one. Gen. Custer and Adjt. Ketcham
had their horses shot under them. Lieut.
Braden was badly shot in the thigh. Private
futile, Gen. Clusters orderly, was killed, and
twenty of the soldiers were slightly wounded
The!lndans loss is estimated by Gen. Custer
at forty killed and wounded. The Indians |
were we'll armed with heavy rifles, and had
abundant ammunition. Some were dressed in
clothes procured at the Agency. These In
dams were mainly Uncapapas, supposed to be
under the command of Sitting Bull, and are |
supposed to have received their supplies from
Fort Peck. The expedition is now on the |
homeward march, and will reach Fort Rice |
about the LIST Of October.
One of the attorneys of the Chicago and AL
ton railroad arrived at Springfield, ILL.,, the
other day, and paid to the representatives of
each of the men who were killed in the late
disaster the sum of $4,000. The prompt
manner in which this matter has been settled
IS worthy of commentator.
The extensive brewery of Valentine Blatz,
N Milwaukee, has been destroyed by fire.
Loss, 100000.
The South.
The agent for the Greek Indians states that
since the LIST of May, when he took charge of
he agency, twenty murders have been COM
n1 in fbo -,