The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1895-05-24
MINOR NEWS ITEMS.



Rear Admiral X. w. Meade was
placed upon the retired list.
The supreme court of the United
States will adjourn for the term June 8.
Killing frosts were reported in fif-
teen different states of the west and
northwest.
quantity of gold-bearing sand was
found in we'll in the heart of Fort
Smith, Ark.
The Commercial bank of Kingfsher,
l. T., made an assignment in favor OF
its creditors.
Fourteen mad dogs were killed at
st. Joseph, Mo-, after they had bitten
several persons.
An order was issued for the arrest of
all persons who ride bicycles on Sun
day at Babylon, l.. l.
A mob lynched John w. III ,werton
in Cullerton county, KY, for assault
ing farmers daughter.
In Coatapre Castles, Mexico, fire de-
stroyed sixty-two houses and left thir-
ty-five families homeless.
The Detroit garden plan is working
successfully in Omaha, Neb., and there
are 500 plats in cultivation.
At Santiago de Chilli the building oc-
cupied by congress was totally de-
stroyed by an incendiary fire.
Much Indignation was felt in New
foundland over the reduction of the
grant for educational purposes.
The Piedmont Marble company, the
largest in the south, was placed in the
hands of receiver at Atlanta, Ga.
Crawford 81 Valentine, stock
brokerage firm in Chicago, made an as
signment with liabilities of $1,000
The North Carolina democratic ex-
ecutive committee passed resolution,
20 to /, favoring the free coinage of
silver.
Halifax, n. s., was visited by $780,,
900 fire and there was not a cents
worth of insurance on the property de-
stroved.
Charles and Andrew Smith were
killed and Robert Smith fatally in
jured by falling slate in mine at Ply
mouth, q.
NJ. V. Longsworth, a leading bust
ness man of Delphos, o., eloped with
Mrs. Mona Thorp, wife of one of his
employees.
The new and magnificent 81, 900, 900
temple of the odd fellows in Philadel-
phia was dedicated with appropriate
ceremonies.
The only male person ever born in
the white house, Robert Tyler Jones,
a grandson of President Tyler, died in
Washington.
Charles II. Hinman, secretary and
treasurer of the Northwestern Travel
ing Mems association, died in Chicago,
aged 81 years.
Ike King was hanged at Helenwood,
Tenn, for numbering w. A. Beck. 1t
was the first legal hanging in the
history of Scott county.
Civil service examinations for clerks,
storekeepers and gaugers will be held
in sixty-three of the principal cities
the latter part ofJune.
1t was said that frost in Michigan did
over 81 900 900 worth of damage in Allie
gan, Ottawa, Van Buren,, Barry, Muske-
gon and neighboring counties.
The thirtieth anniversary of the es-
tablishment in Lexington, Ky, of the
first colored school south of the Mason
and Dixon line was cele brated.
A cyclone struck near Luling, Tex,
unroofing several houses and killing a
small negro boy. Crops i'll the track
of the storm were blown out of the
ground.
Five of the Kurds who murdered
Frank g. LEM, of Pittsburgh, Pa, who
was attempting to ride around the
world on a bicycle, were discovered in
Armenia.
Fire destroyed the tobacco and cigar
factory in Havana known as the Flor
de Fumar, the loss being $3.50, 900.
Eighteen hremen were injured, two of
them fatally.
A Joint committee of members of the
last congress was sitting at the capitol
to assess the personal damages sus-
tanned by clerks in the Ford's theater