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

| from tho Cincinnati Chamber Of Commerce,
have appealed to the courts for redress.
Various portions of California were visited
by earthquake shocks on the 29th ut.
Near Cairo, ILL.,, the other day, bank caved
in at q gravel pit, killing and wounding a num-
Der of railroad hands. Three have died. and
others are not expected to recover.
William Campbell (colored) was hung at
Cairo, H., on the 29th ult., for the murder OF
the mate Of the steamer Grand Tower, ON
the oath of last April. Tho culprit was obdu-
rate to the last, repslling all attempts at con-
version and all religious Offices, and died
protesting that he was hanged unjustly.
A dispatch from Clinton, Mo-, states that a
skirmish had taken place in st. Clair county, be-
tween the Iowa Sheriff and the Rock Isladd
train robbers, in which one of the Sherif's
posse and ono of the robbers were wounded.
The Sheriff and his posse were in hot pursuit
at last accounts.
Near Gallon, Ohio, last week, train ran
into farmers wagon, containing himself, wife
and two daughters, killing tho children out
right, and severely injuring the father and
mother.
Advices from Eastern Montana foreshadow
formidable Indian troubles there this fall.
Those Modocs not under sentence of death
are to be turned over to the Oregon authori-
ties.
The reported Indian massacre at Fort Sill
was vile canard.
The steamer Jay Cooke ran down yawl
containing nine men, near Sandusky, Ohio, a
few days ago. Four were drowned, and one
had shoulder broken.
A horrible tragedy was recently enacted near
Scdalia Mo. crazy man named Knightly
killed his sister and nephew set fire to the
of all three were almost entirely consumed by
the flames.
The South.
The steamer Belle Vernon, Capt. James
Remission, en- route from Cincinnati to Mem
phis, with full cargo, struck the wreck of the
Jennie Howell, a few miles below Shawnee
town, ILL.,, on Wednesday, and sunk in 20
feet of water, and is lying across the river.
Some lives were lost, but the num-
Der and names were not ascertained.
Tuesday night the steamer Ruby, with 1872
head of cattle for New Orleans, swamped her
cattle-pen below Shreveport. The boat is
total loss. One hundred head Of cattle were
drowned The cattle stampeded when the
larboard railing was cut, and the cattle on that
side jumped ashore, leaving all the weight on
the other guard which swamped her. No in
surance on the boat. None Of tho crew were
lost, but several injured.
A ALL of Ia IN.
Gently between Luke Fay and David Jones, in
which the former was terribly used mp.
A telegram from Waco, Texas, to a New
Orleans paper, announces that Fort Sill has
been surprised and captured by Indians, who
massacred the women and children, and about
half of the Fourth United States Cavalry.
The report is not credited at Washington.
Hon. Elisha Mears, Judge of the Thirteenth
Judicial District of Arkansas, was recently
murdered at Clarksville, Ark, by an unknown
assassin.
Nineteen persons were convicted Of murder
at tho recent session of the United States
District Court at Fort Smith, Ark.
The last spike was driven on the Cairo and
Fulton railroad at Fulton, Ark, on the 30th
ult The road is now completed from St.
Louis to Fulton, distance of 4Gl miles.
This road connects the Northeastern States
with Texas and the Gulf Coast. Arkansas
and the Red river country rejoice over this
event.
Hon. d. NJ. Barringer, formerly Minister to
Spain, and once prominent Wing leader in
North Carolina, died last week, at Green
Brisr Va
The ravages of the cholera at Millersburg,
Ky. are frightful, the disease proving fatal in
nearly every instance, and death ensuing in
from three to six hours after the attack. 1t is
stated that the symptoms and course pursued
by the disease are similar in all respects to the
epidemic of 1884. Cholera has also broken
out at Wheeling, W. Va,