The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1880-04-16

Chastine Cox (colored), the murderer
OF Mrs DIR. Hull, and Pietro Balbo, wife
clurderer, will be hanged In New York, May 20.
West.
The San Francisco Board of Super
visors have adopted resolutions to the effect
that the peace of the city has been seriously
endangered by the iniammatory harangues OF
Mayor Kalloch. They authorized the Judiciary
Committee TO investigate the matter and report.
1t is thought that the proposed investigation Is
only preliminary to the impeachment of Kali
loch.
The directors of the Chicago and Alton
railway have decided to issue new shares of
stock aggregating little over 81 600, to be
offered for sale at par TO shareholders i'll the
proportion of one share to every ten. The
money thus acquired will be used in the pur-
chase of new rolling stock, etc.
A block of buildings was totally de-
stroyed by fire at Minneapolis the other day.
The little city of Dixon, ILL.,, has been
visited by disastrous fire, which burned three
Touring mills and one flax mill. During the
progress of the blaze an explosion occurred i'll
one of the buildings, which threw the walls
TO the ground with n crash, two men beng
killed and thirteen injured. The loss of prop
erty is placed at about 100000.
One million dollars in gold has just
been paid into the sub-treasury at Chicago,
through the First National Bank, for the re-
dempton of the Chicago and Pacific railway.
This is said to be the largest cash payment ever
made in Chicago.
Gen. Hatchs command, operating IN
Southern New Mexico. has had an engagement,
lasting four hours, with Victoria's band OF
Apachcs. The savages finally broke and fled,
leaving several of their dead on the field and
considerable stock, which fell into the hands OF
the soldiers Capt Carol of the Ninth Cavalry,
and seven troopers were wounded.
A farmer and his son got drunk mt
Avilla Ind and left for home in the evening
i'll a beastly coalition. Their dead bodies were
found in the road the next morning. where
runaway team had thrown them.
The Chicago, Milwaukee and St. Paul
railroad earned "A, 539, 024 the past year.
The Chippewa Indians of Wisconsin,
who are probably as near to being civilized as
any in the country, have agreed to a division of
their lands, to be held by them in severalty.
After an allotment of quarter section to each
man, woman and child of the tribe, the residue
will be sold for their benefit.
An engagement of one week only Is
being filled at Mcvicker's Chicago Theater by L.
A. Sothern the eminent English comedian, his
repertoire being, Monday, Tuesday and Wednes-
day nights, Lord Dundreary i'll ''Our American
Cousin Thursday, Friday and Saturday nights,
" Dundrearys Brother Sam" and Dundrcary
Married and Settled" He has a fine supporting
company with him, and has lost none of his for
mer mirth-provoking faculty.
Reports from Ohio, Indiana, and Ken
lucky show that much of the peach crop has
been injured by frost.
Col. Hatch telegraphs' from New Mex
leo in relation to his recent engagement with
yictoria's band of Indians, that Capt Carroll
and seven men were seriously wounded, and
that the loss of the Indians was thirty killed
The latter were so severely punished that it will
probably have the effect of bringing them to
terms.
South.
A Texas Postmaster has absconded
with $4,000 belonging to the United States Gov
eminent
Advices from Fort Keogh, in Mon
tana, report the capture of several Indians be-
longing to Sitting Bulls command. They were
all young warriors, who had come over from
Canada on n raid. They were well supplied
with ammunition, which they said they had pur-
chased from white traders.
Two negroes were hanged, on Friday
the 9th inst-one at Leesburg, Va, for murder,
and the other at Bennettsville, S. c.. for arson,
the latter being the first execution under the
new law.
Joe Reynolds, noted North Carolina
moonshner, whose boast was that he could
could never be taken alive, has been killed by
revenue officer, after desperate struggle.
One man was killed and several others
severely injured by a falling wall during the
progress of fire in Wilmington n c.
A squad of revenue officers surround
ed the stronghold of Buck Singleton, the no
torious moonshiner, in the mountains Of North
Carolina, and, after brief engagement, drove
the crooks from their position. One of the Of
fcials was killed, and several wounded The
outlaws retreat, which was palisaded, contained
sixteen stills and, 600 gallons of whisky, all of
which were destroyed.
j. Tucker, colored, charged with the
murder of Abe Frazer, i'll 1877, was taken from
jai at Greensburg, St. Helena parish La, by
fifteen men, and shot to death.