The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1879-06-13

lusa, Cal, by cutting his throat with razor.
His wife took the razor to him.
A shocking calamity occurred ut Gin
cinnati, the other day. force of laborers
were at work clearing therubbish out of a arge
five-story building that had been partially gut
ted by fire. The walls gave way burying the
unfortunate mon beneath the ruins, killing six
of them and seriously injuring others.
The steamer Yellowstone was recent
ly sunk in the Yellowstone river, by striking
rock in crossing over Buffalo rapids The loss
on boat and cargo is $4,000.
Three renegade Cheyennes, who shot
and killed private Bsder ana wounded Signal
Sergt Kennedy. while en- route to Fort Keogh,
Mont, and who were turned over TO the civil
authorities at Miles City, Mont, to answer the
charge of murder, were sentenced, the other
day, to be hanged on the 7th of next July. The
same evening two of them committed suicide
by hanging in the cells of the guard-house at
Fort Keogh.
The Episcopal Diocese Convention,
in session at Detroit last week, elected Rev.
Dr. S. s. Harris, of Chicago, to fill the vacancy
caused by the displacement of Bishop Nc
Coskry
Information received by the Indian
Bureau at Washington from Fort Belknap
states that 500 lodges of Sitting Bulls Indians
are reported south of the British line. They
have not as yet committed any acts Of direct
hostility.
A dispatch from Santa Fe, New Mex
leo, reports that "some United States soldiers
of the Fifteenth Infantry, stationed at Fort
Bliss, crossed the international boundary TO
Paso del Norte and got into row with the
Mexicans, in which two soldiers were killed and
several wounded before they could recross the
Rio Grande"
LecOcqs charming opera OF The
Little Duke" is the attraction this week at
Mcvickers Chicago Theater, with some really
good singers and actors in the leading roles
The whole cast will be very strong, and the
opera will be put on the stage in superb style
The work will be given without mutilation, in
which respect it will differ from previous repre-
sensations, and it may be added that it will also
be given with regard to decency which has not
always characterized its performance.
Two highwaymen perpetrated bold
robbery in Chicago, few days ago. Two
messengers were sent from the Illinois Central
railroad Office to one of the banks with a pack
age of money. While walking along Washing
ton street. in the very heart of the city, they were
attacked by two footpads. The messenger who
carried the package was knocked down with a
sand-club. while his companion was blinded
with pepper; the package, containing about
$4,000, was seized, and before the passers-by
could realize the nature Of the transaction the
thieves, with the money, had driven out of
sight in buggy which was waiting for them.
Advices from the Upper Missouri re-
port that Sitting Bull and small band of his
adherents have gone to the Saskatchewan. 1t is
said that before his departure he advised his
tribe to return to the United States and submit
to the Government
A Nashville dispatch reports that
United States Deputy Revenue Collector James
NJ. Davis and six men were waylaid and killed
by illicit distillers near Smithfield, Tenn.
The report, heretofore mentioned,
that Deputy Marshal and six men had been
murdered by moonshiners in East Tennessee
was without foundation. The revenue posse
was fired upon by the crooks, but no one was
hurt
At Rohrersville, Washington county,
Nd, Lewis s. Miller, aged Is, shot and killed
Charles Norris, about the same age. Miller
had been leased by the boys who called him
nicknames. He procured musket, loaded il,
followed the boys and shot Norris, who died
instantly.
There were two executions in Mis-
souri, on Friday, the 9th of June. John Bland,
aged %, was hanged at st. GATHERINGS, for the
murder of Elijah Ward, his brother-in-law, in
September last, and a negro named Monroe
Guy was executed at Hilsboro for killing Aaron
McPete in December last
The Arkansas editors will make an
excursion to Chicago and the Northwest about
the 1st of July.
The little town of Mcintosh, Liberty
county, Ga, was the other day the scene of
terrible riot between party of negro excur-
sionists from Bryan county and those belong
ing to the place. 1t began in fight between
two negroes, wherenpon John Randall, Captain
of the negro militia company from
Bryan county, part of the excursionlsts,
ordered his company to charge, which they did,
bayoneting everybody within reach The Cap
tain himself killed one man, by running him
through with his sword There was intense
excitement at this outrage. The Liberty county
negroes rallied and drove the military COM
pany into the cars, opened fire on them, killing
four and wounding many more, only stopping
the shooting when the train got ont Of the way,
which they tried to prevent by tearing up the
track. All the parties engaged were negroes