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*n there an hour vo been drowned to tbe open air the •DR’ for him, and at to tho list ofwere of the same an ore alive, and i was brought tolies, and tbe sor-ditionto the pri-n, make the blow-bereaved widows tbe miners work-i. brvc-iI providen- before the- fire Idenly soiled with Vithout any deliv lie tooth extracted, dozen rods away omes. One of the in Cretan) could t, anxious for tho be ran to the east era of the impend-arned coo lato toacrouns ox mo women rrom the top, os that would have added to our anguish.Murder and Lynching in Ocooto.A fatal affray occured in Oconto at a Turners’ ball at Klass’ Hall on Monday evening last A butcher named Ludwig h'eher aerioualy stabbed a man named Dennis White in the ball room. Most ot the men Meher then left the hall, wont onto the sidewalk and deliberately fired into a few respectable citizens who were quietly sitting there. They were: W. F. El-mcr, W. High, another whose name, at writing, I did not learn, and Joseph RuelL The first shot proved useless, but tho second struck young Ruell, the ball psaaing through tno head.The crowd then took Nier, and were going.to lynch him, and had got as far as putting the rope on his neck, when the officers came to his rescue and took him to jaiL Ruell, who was shot, died' at eight o'clock Tuesday morning.— There was great excitement in town all i day over tho affair, and aoveral attempts were made to break down tho wooden i jail, which were prevented by the offi- j cere. The mob went for reinforcements, i and, at half-past eight o’clock returned, overpowered tho officers, and, with J a. big bourn, smashed tbe jail down, j took Nier and hung him to a tree some ; eighty rods from the jail, right in the village. Nierwas a desperat© cbarec-, ter, and shot a man in Green Bay about j a year ago. The lynchers were all mill-men, the citizens taking no part All is now quieta afternoon I roof Thomas Ed-eorgc, two of tho dhm the gates of xem had suffered able to converse g is the converse-*I want yon to re-an remember the.uagiiet, uamoena s cruieci ox Corsica, has been am^ted as tho principal conspirator. His wifo tried to shoot the General who made the arrest.Specials report tho slaughter of insurgents still going on. Many of Mac-Mahon’s soldiers hunt them down and shoot them wherever found. The rego of the soldiers can not be suppressed, and the streets of Paris still run with blood.The insurgent looses, previous to May j 22, when the Versailles troops entered Paris, are estimated at 12,COO killed und wounded and 26,000 prisoners, and since May 22, at 12,000 killed and wonnde4 and 20,000 prisoners. The prisoners have all been sent to Versailles.Mawial McMaeox, in a proclamation joat issued, divides Paris into four commands, the east, north, center and south. General Vinov is appointed to command the east. General L’Adml-rault to the north, Genera! Donai to tbe center, and General Cisstey to the .south. The avil power is transferred to tbe military, and no ingress to or egri-«c from the city will be permitted.JfwrsTEa Washbtw.vi: telegrnphes that order has once more been restored in Paris. As fax as ascer-oxned, Amer-can citizens and property escaped uninjured. He eay« it is difficult to tell who is the coming man or the form of government likely to be adopted. There will, he says, be a desperate struggle among the different interests.
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Weekly Wisconsin
Milwaukee, Wisconsin, US
Wed, Jun 07, 1871
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