The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1881-05-13

Bells skull, and laying him senseless on the
ground. Then, snatching Bells revolver from
his belt, he shot him In the breast. Oinger,
hearing the shot, thought something was up,
and ran from the house, where he had been
eating supper, about seventy-ivs yards from
the jail, toward that structure. Just ~ he
entered q small gate leading through the
| Jail fence, the "Kid" shot him from up
stairs with double barreled shotgun, heavily
charged, filing his breast full Of shot, killing
him instantly. The Kid then got . Ratchet,
knocked OF his shackles and handouts, made
man in the jail yard saddle horse for him,
took Winchester rife and four rsvolvers from
the arms in the JAIL and rode out Subse-
quently he encountered . man named Mat
thews, who had testified against him in re-
cent trial, and killed him. He also murdered
another man he met On the road against whom
he bore a grudge. The young desperate is be-
lisved to have hed to Mexico.
The first vessel to pass through the
straits Of Mackinaw this season was the pro-
peller Garden City, which arrived at Alpena
from Chicago on the 4th Of May.
The indications of an outbreak among
the Utes were sufficiently serious to cause the
dispatch of six cavalry companies from the
contiguous forts TO White river.
Eighty-four thousand immigrants ar
rived in Chicago last month, and were distrib-
uted in different directions
Hon. Ansel Briggs, the first Governor
of Iowa, died the other day at Omaha.
There were 984 deaths in Chicago last
month.
Lieut. Dulles followed band of In.
dian murderers across the Rio Grande and
killed four braves and squaw, capturing
twenty horses.
Gilbert Hubbard, senior member of
the Chicago firm of Gilbert Hubbard Co., is
dead. Charles Hitchcock, an old and prom
inent member Of the Chicago bar, has also
passed away.
Leavitt's Rentz-Santley Novelty Com
pany are at Haverlys Chicago Theater this
week. "Billie Tailor" new burlesque, is
their chief attraction, supplemented by the fe-
male MINISTRIES.
A coal-shaft in Usage county, Kan.
caught fire from furnace in the air shaft.
but fifteen Of them were rescued. The remain
! ing seven, with three others who had gone TO
their assistance were taken out dead.
Troops have been sent to the Ute Res
crvation to protect the Indians from invasion
by whites.
George G. Harding, editor of the In
dianapolis Saturday Reuieac, is dead.
A correspondent which the Chicago
Tribune dispatched to the flooded regions OF
the Upper Missouri river sends to that journal
a graphic description Of the ruin wrought by
the high water in Dakota. The bulk Of the
suffering from the food, he reports, is confined
to the territory between Yankton and Elk
Point. In the river bottom, between
these points, hundreds of once fertile
farms are now covered with five
feet of sand. In addition to their present
mournful condition the unhappy jewellers in
theinundated districts have to face the distress
ing prospect Of wholesale malaria. resulting
from the decomposition Of thousands of dead
animals, and Of future want, because it has
been necessary to eat up all the grain and
vegetable seed saved for this years
crops in order to save life. The sit
uation of these people is one that cries
aloud for immediate relief in the way Of dona-
tons of money and articles of food.-The
Quartermaster at Yankton has issued nearly
$4,000 rations to the sufferers by the flood.
Capt. Clagne, who was sent by Gen. Terry OH
a tour OF investigation, reports that the officers
at Fort Randall saved 700 persons from posi-
bic starvation
Trees by hundreds of thousands in
Southern Wisconsin were destroyed by ground
mi 20 during the snow blockade
Reports from eighteen counties in
Kansas indicate that the wheat crop this year
will be the biggest ever known.
There were 800 deaths in Chicago last
week.
Rev. John McMullen, OF Chicago, has
been appointed by the Pope Bishop of the
Catholic Diocese OF Davenport, and Rev. Kill
ian c. Flash, of Milwaukee, has been made
Bishop of the Diocese of Lacrosse.
South.
A shocking murder is reported from
the Cherokee Nation, Indian Territory. man
a haif-breed, to get possession of two gallons
OF whisky he had. They shot him three times
in the head, stabbed him ten times and severed
the head from the body. They then concealed
| the remains.
A freis hit train on the Texas Pacific
railway went through a bridge near Dallas.
The engineer was killed, and the fireman, con-
ductor and brakeman were injured. Another
wreck ON the same road caused TIE death of
two men and the wounding of third.
While some school children were play
ing under a small tree in the yard Of N. F.
Harner, eight miles east OF Winona, Mass,
| lightning struck the tree aud Immediately
killed Mamie and Willie Harner, aged and
years. and Mary Hightman.
Fifty negroes took from Jail at Sparta,
La, a colored lad who admitted having COM
mitted an outrage on child, and killed him