The true northerner., 1880-03-19

Mayor Kalloch, of San Francisco, has
issued proclamation in reply TO the manifesto
of the Vigilance Committee stating that the
workingmen have proved themselves to be the
law-abiding portion of the population, and that
there is not the slightest reason TO apprehend
any disturbance on their part
The town of Frankfort; Ind, has been
the scene of most horrible and destructive
boiler explosion. The hands employed in the
faxseed mills of Lehman, Rosenthal Il Go. were
assembled around the boiler, in the engine
room, at an early hour in the morning. waiting
| for the whistle to blow before beginning the
| days labor, when the boiler exploded with
| concussion that shook the entire town. The
| villagers rushed en- masse to the scene OF the
explosion, and there beheld sicKening sight.
The building was in ruins, having been torn to
pieces by the explosion Of the boiler. Round
about ruins, from distance OF 80 to 80 yards,
were scattered the mangled, distorted and life-
less remains Of the ten men who but short
time before had left their homes and stood ready
to begin their daily work. They had been
hurled into eternity without an instant's warn
ing. The majority of them were so mutilated
as to be beyond recognition The most plausible
theory thus far advanced is that the engineer
had started the fire under the boiler
as usual; that considerable steam had
been generated, and as the engine
was started the pump forced cold water into
the boiler and the explosion followed. 1t has
been a custom with the men to assemble at the
usual time in the morning, in front, or at the
north end of the boiler, where they would re-
| main warming themselves by the fire and talk
ing with each other until the whistle summoned
them to work. Not a man was left to tell the
sad story of the terrible disaster.
Dennis Kearney was arrested by the
police in San Francisco, last week, on two
charges Of misdemeanor, based on remarks at
q workingmen's meeting. He gave bail and
was released from custody.
At Lewiston, ILL.,, when Judge Shope
sentenced burglar to seven and half years
imprisonment, the culprit seized heavy ink
stand and hurled it at the magistrates head.
His Honor lodged the missile, and the convict
was hurried off to Jail in irons.
Indian news: G. ID. Richards tele-
graphs from Fort Buford. Dakota Territory:
@sitting Bull has lost all his former power in
the hostile camp, and is en- route for this
agency. Trouble is expected here before
spring. "-Advices from New Mexico report
fight in the Sacramento mountains between
twenty mounted men under Lieut. Couline and
portion of Victoria's band, in which the
latter were defeated, and a large amount of
stock captured.-A report comes from Fort
Peck Indian Agency that the Yanktonnai Sioux
and Assiniboine Sioux, comprising that agency,
had declarei war against each other, and that
fifteen Yanktonnais had been killed and many
wounded, and about the same number of As
siniboines
Full telegraphic reports from eleven
Western States show that wheat is generally in
excellent condition. The winter has been a
remarkable one, but, everything considered,
not unfavorable. 1t is estimated that the yield
will be 60 per cent greater than last year.
The Wisconsin Legislature has adopt
ed proposition f6r female suffrage amend
ment to the State constitution.
Gen. Miles reports that Sitting Bull
is south of the international boundary line
Daniel OLeary, of Chicago, scored
$40 miles in six-days' walking match at San
Francisco, his competitor, E. p. Weston, mark
ing 400 miles in the same period.
B. +. Benson, one of the proprietors
of Grand Central Hall, Oakland, Cal, has been
arrested for stealing the valuables Of guests
during the fire which destroyed the building,
and which appears to have been incendiary in
it's origin.
A resolution in favor of prohibitory
Liquor law has been voted down in the Wis
consin Senate.
The Ohio and Mississippi railroad has
restored the wages of employees to what they
were previous to the reductions in 1877.
Two girls, s and 8 years old, were
burned to death in a fire which destroyed their
fathers farmhouse near Denison, Iowa.
The workingmen of Chicago have re-
solved, in public meeting assembled, that the
Chinese must go.
News Of terrible Indian massacre
comes from Colorado The victims were
party Of prospectors, including Joe Lacome,
Joe Chaves, Pat Kane, Bill Trinbrom, Dave
Stockhammer, and several others The affair
occurred in the vicinity of Blue mountain.
At meeting held in Chicago in be-
half of the negro emigrants, it was decided that
Kansas was not large enough to take care of
all the refugees, and resolution was adopted
inviting $4,000 of them to settle in Illinois.
In his telegram to military head
quarters in Chicago announcing the presence
of Sitting Bull on United States territory, Gen.
Miles states that he is reliably informed that,
while Sioux war parties have been depredating
on the settlem ents, their camps have been OBJ |
tanning supplies from no less than four Gov |
ernment trading establishments between the |
Missouri river and the boundary line.
A San Francisco dispatch says the
number Of Chinese departures to the Eastern |
States has been greatly exaggerated.
South.
The trial of two of the notorious |
Gullys, charged with the murder of John p. |
Gilmer, was commenced at De Kalb, Miss, |