The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1895-04-26
MINOR NEWS ITEMS.
For tho Week Ending April -.

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sine die.
The Minnesota legislature adjourned
sine die Tuesday.
cyclone swept away twenty houses
at Matties Landing, Ala, and killed
three persons.
June IL has been selected as the time
for holding the populist state conven-
ton at Des Moines, la.
Almost the entire portion of Du-
quesne borough, opposite McKeesport,
Pa, was destroyed by fire.
Henry A. Shirley and James s. Amer
ton, English capitalists, were drowned
south of San Antonio, Tex.
Two Americans named Thoerner and
Kiogel, who are walking around the
world, arrived at Monte Carlo.
Mrs. Bette Wamack, lO4 years old,
died at Vicllsburg, Miss. She was born
near Charleston, 5. c., in 1871.
The body of Edwin Forrest is TO be
removed to mausoleum at the Edwin
Forrest home near Philadelphia.
The Kentucky republican state cen
trail committee has postponed the state
convention from May 20 to June 5.
In the Delaware conference of the A.
NJ. +. church at Philadelphia Bishop
Rnley decided that smoking is a sin.
The execution OF the famous bandits
Feliciano Mariavos and Mauricio RI
vera took place at Guadalajara, Mex
leo.
Elijah Stewart, aged ~ (colored).
hot iS 20 fat oil Of loo
and then fired a bullet into his own
head.
Fire in the manufacturing and whole
sale house of Lanpher, Finch & Skin
ner in st. Paul resulted in loss Of
$125, 900.
The Seth birthday of Mrs. William
Mckinley, Sr., mother of the governor,
was cele brated with family reunion
at Canton, o.
Rev. DR.. William II. Furness, the
oldest living graduate of Harvard uni
versity, cele brated his ODD birthday at
Philadelphia.
Citizens of St James, Mo-, presented
sixty acres of land and large build
ing to the Woman's Relief Corps of the
soldiers home.
The Nicaraguan government was adj
vised of the arrival of the three British
warships at Corinto to enforce the
British ultimatum.
Saloon license in Elgin, ILL.,, has
again been fixed at 81 ,OOO though half
the council favored $700. The mayor
decided the tie vote.
George III. Kicker, - years old, editor
of the Bristol Comm Herald, commit
ted suicide during fit of dependency
by cutting his throat.
At San Jose, Cal, Albert Anderson
broke into the room of Mrs. Alice T.
Blair at midnight and stabbed her to-
death. Then he killed himself.
The Virginia Fat Midget" mu-
scum character. died at Peru, Ind. Her
name was Mrs. William Taylor and she
was feet tall and weighed over 400
pounds
Prof. Edward A. Spoth died at Round
out, \. Y, in his 18th year. He was
well known in the musical world as the
composer of religious, classic and con-
cert music.
Sam Nolan, 9-year-old boy of Fort
Worth. Tex, committed suicide Sun
day night by blowing out his brains
with "a shotgun because his mother
leased him.
Thornton Parker (colored) was hanged
at Westchester, Va, for assault on Mrs.
Melton, and Frank Fuller (also colored)
was hanged at New Orleans, La, for
numbering Henrietta Gardner.
Mrs. William BARLEY, of Hartshorn,
d. T., took dose of arsenic and forced
her 7-year-old daughter to swallow
like quantity of the drug. The mother
is dead and the little girl is dying.
The cranberry marshes owned by
the Pine River Cranberry association
at Pine River Wis. were burned over
Sunday night. The crop, SO far as
this season is concerned, is ruined.
The Wisconsin supreme court has
handed down decision by which the
validity of the law which provides that
life imprisonment works absolute di-
vorce without further proceedings is
esta blished.
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