The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1879-05-02

The citizens of Wyandotte, Kan, re-
Gently refused to allow steamer to land $50
negro emigrants at the levee in front Of that
town
The buildings of the celebrated Gath
Ollie University Of Notre Dame located near
south Bond, Ind, were destroyed by fire on the
Esd of April The loss is abou. s200, and
the insurance 100000. Rebuilding will W.
mence Immediately.
A small fight with hostile Sioux lately
occurred in Northern Montana, on the Mussel-
shell, q tributary of the Missouri. Eight of
the savages were killed, and one Gros Ventre,
acting with the whites, was killed, and one
wounded. The troops engaged were under
command Of Lieut. Loder, of the Seventh In
fantry.
A sensational scene, and one not down
in the bills, Was enacted in Mcvicker's Theater,
at Chicago, the other evening. Shakspeare's
historical play of Richard IL was being enacted,
the well-known tragedian, Edwin Booth, per-
sonating Richard The third act had been
reached, and Mr.. Booth, dressed In somber cos
tune, was seated on the stage delivering the
man arose in the audience and de-
liberately fred two pistol-shots at the
actor. Fortunately, the would-be assas
sin was poor shot and the bullets went wide
of the intended mark. The episode created
the widest excitement among actors and audi
once; but, after brief intermission, the play
went on and was earned to its conclusion. The
shooter was arrested and gave the name Of
Mark Gray, and his residence Keokuk, Iowa He
admitted the shooting, and expressed regret
that he had not aimed more accurately 1t is
suspected that the man is crazy.
Four large warehouses, with their
contents, on Kinde and'State streets, Chicago,
were destroyed by fire last week. Loss about
$4,000
A very notable murder trial has just
been concluded at Chicago, having lasted
eighteen days. In July of last year young
man named Peter Z. Stevens, fired by jealousy,
shot and killed his wife, girl of 16 years In
due course of time he was indicted and ar
raigned for trial For counsel Stevens en-
gagged Storrs and Trude, probably the two
shrewdest, if not ablest criminal lawyers In
chicago. They set up the insanity plea, and
abored with mastery ingenuity to con-
vince the Jury that the murderer wac
insane at the time Of the commission Of the
deed; but without success. A verdict Of man
slaughter, with fourteen years in the peniten.
tiary, was rendered No sooner was the decis
ion OF the jury rendered in the court than Mrs
Young, the mother of the murdered woman
who had been constant attendant at the trial,
leveled revolver at the head of Stevens and
pulled the trigger. but, fortunately, corner OF
handkerchief which the would be murderess
held in the same hand that grasped the weapon
was caught by the hammer, the cap failed to
explode and the intended-victim's life was
saved.
One of the most depraved and blood
thirsty wretches of whom modern criminal an
mails give any record has just been executed at
Minden, Kearney county, Neb. The immediate
crime for which s. d. kichards-such being
the name of the iend-suffered was the muir
der Of Mrs. HARRISON and her two children,
whom he had robbed of life within a
period of four years The wretch made
Q speech from the gallows, in which he said
he had made his peace with Jesus, and expect
ed to go to heaven. Richards was in his 25th
year; was born and raised in Northern Ohio,
and was an exemplary young man until he
came West four years ago.
The late attempt upon the life of
Edwin Booth has had the effect of crowding
the houses at each performance in Mcvicker's
large Chicago house. For the present week
John Howard Payne's tragedy of @Brutus,'
Shakspeare's Hamlet" and king Lear" and
Bulwer's @Richelieu are tho attractions. The
support given Mr. Booth in this engagement
by Messrs. Keene and Levick and the stock
company at Mcvicker's is no small element in
the attractveness of the performances.
South.
1t is reported that the emigration
fever has reached the sugar parishes, and that
the negroes are leaving In such Numbers as to
excite the most serious apprehensions regard
ing the sugar crop.
A Charleston Is. o. dispatch says
that ex-Treasurer Cardozo and ex-Congress-
man smalls, convicted of bribery, have been
pardoned by Gov. Simpson
The region of Corsicana, Texas. was
visited, the other day, by one of the most ter
rife rain storms ever witnessed In twenty
seven hours 9sl inches of RAIN fell Bridges
and fences we're swept away, hundreds of cat
tie and hogs were drowned, and the Texas Cen
trail railroad was submerged and the trains
abandoned
The Iron Mountain road bridge across
the Rid river at Fulton, Ark, was washed away
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