The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1883-06-01
LATER NEWS ITEMS.

In the Belleville GIL mining district
q band of women 200 strong went to the
Rose Hill and Reinicke mines, and prevented
the men from going to work. In the latter
mine thirty persons were kept confined
in the pit and Col Reinicke the proprietor,
was Imprisoned in little shanty. train
containing company of militia rolled
up at this juncture, and the striking miners
fired several shots, wounding one Of the
soldiers The troops were ordered to fire,
which they did, and pursued the rioters,
who fled. One of the latter was shot through
the head and killed and several others were
wounded The women quickly dispersed,
and several of their husbands and brothers
were arrested
At Helenwood. Tenn, John and
Riley Cecil, father and son, were shot down
by three brothers named Smith The af-
fray was the result of feud of several years
standing
A free fight between whites and
blacks at Archer, Alachua county, Ala, re-
suited in the killing of one on each SIDE.
Hiram Snellwiss, of Cedar Hill, JEFF
ferson county, New, killed his sweetheart,
his rival in love, and himself, shotgun
being the deadly weapon with which the
bloody work was accomplished
The ship Northampton, from New
Orleans for Liverpool, with ! $50 bales of
cotton and 5000 slaves, has been wrecked
ON the Marquesas Reyes
Jay Gould and Gen. Grant and the
Mexican Government have signed contract
consolidating the Mexican Southern and
Mexican Oriental railroads The former
line, which was not subsidized, will now re-
ceive Sc, 900 per kilometre completed
The receipts of the American Baptist
Publication Society were last year ST., 500
in excess of the receipts of any previous
year.
Mrs. Walter Davis, of Harrodsburg,
KY, has published long statement de-
nouncing the court and jury that she claims
was organized to acquit Phil Thompson, and
making strong defense of her husband,
claiming his entire innocence of criminal
intimacy with Mrs Thompson, throwing all
the blame on Jessie Buckuer, and claim ng
that the reason her husband took Mrs
Thompson to his room ut the ST. Clair
Hotel last November was because Mis- Buck
ners room was closed against her at the
time for the reasons which are but limited at
The most important fact l. in the statement
that letter was found written by Davis to
Thompson, and dated April -. referring to
the scandal connecting him with Mrs
Thompson, solemnly declaring his innocence
and his ability to prove it if he (Thompson)
would give him the OPP ortunity. This is
supplemented by statements from other
parties detailing conversations to the same
effect, but which the were not permitted
to give in evidence al Thompson's trial. The
publication mas made a great sensation in
the Blue Grass region, and the affair il not
yet over with.
Favorable weather has materially
improved the harvest prospects in Great
Britain
A duel with swords was fought near
Paris, between Delpit, writer, and Al
phonse Daudet, the well-known novelist
The former was slightly wounded
The third of the Phoenix Park assas-
sins to pay the penalty of the law was Mi
chael Fagln, who was executed Mt Dublin
May 2S Unlike Brady and Curley, who pre-
coded him on the gallows, Fa9in prote ted
his innocence of the crime imputed TO him.
Ex-Chief Justice Sharswood, of
Pennsylvania, is dead
Mike Cleary, the pugilist. sues
Mayor King, of Philadelphia, and Police
Lieutenant for $1,000 damages for prevent
ing his sparrlng exhibition with John l.
Sullivan
WOMEN are most nnrfnct rhnt, 1,nnaf