The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1897-05-26
MINOR NEWS ITEMS.
For the Week Endins May ~.

Olaf Hansen, United States vice con-
sui. died i'm Copenhagen.
The Third national bank of New
York has decided to retire from bust
ness.
The First national bank OF Orleans,
Neb., failed with liabilities of over
| 100000.
A fire in Jersey City, y. j.. caused a
loss of 100000 and made GO families
homeless.
Fire at Hobokcn, n. j., caused loss
of $65O,OOO and $50 families were rem
dered homeless.
Gov. Black, of New York, vetoed the
! graduated inheritance tax law passed
by the legislature.
The one hundred and ninth general
assembly of the Presbyterian church
met at Eagle Lake, Ind.
Terrific wind and transforms in In
diana did great damage at Indianapo-
| lis, Kokomo and Wabash.
Cambridge university, by n vote of
1,713 TO CO... has rejected the proposal TO
confer degrees upon women.
The fourth annual banquet of the
Associated Press was given in Chicago,
lao members being present.
White caps shot and killed john
Mitchell and his stepbrother, Jack Cotf
man, near Mountain Grove, Mo.
L. S. Fleisher, n well-known real es-
tate man, was robbed and murdered
near his home in Pittsburgh, Pa.
Miss Grace Briggs is the first woman
to be graduated by the faculty of Union
theological seminary in New York.
Stephen Greene, of Massachusetts.
has been elected president Of the Amer
lean Baptist Home Mission society.
The Randolph county courthouse at
Beverly, w. Va, was destroyed by fire
with all the official records for 100
years.
George Hobson, clerk Of the courts in
Cincinnati for only six months, has
been found $23,464 short in his ac-
counts.
In Toronto the John Eaton COM
pany's departmental store and stock,
approXimating about S2jO,0OO. was
burned.
Richard T. Grant, teacher of Ian
guages, poet and writer. died rather
suddenly and in poverty at his home in
New York.
Col. f. b. Gray, of Madison, was
elected State commander of the G.. a.
II. at the annual encampment in Eau
Claire, Wis.
NJ. Lee, an aeronaut employed with
the Silver Plate shows, fell from his
balloon at McKeesport,' Pa, and was
fatally injured.
w. j. Mcconnell the noted temper
ance lecturer of Cleveland. o.. became
suddenly deranged while speaking at
Whitesvllle, Ky.
Failure is announced of the Miners
state bank OF Cripple Creek. Col. AS
signee Clark says he is informed thar
all creditors will be paid in full.
The Bcllinap savings bank at Laconia.
! n. H., has closed it's doors. About
81 100000 is due depositors. The bank
will go into voluntary liquidation.
The duke of Tetuan, minister of for
eign affairs, resigned as the result of
an incident in the Spanish senate, when
he boxed the ears of Senator Comas.
William Conn, Jr., shot and killed Jake
Galloway and fatally wounded Con-
stable Robert Broadus at Flatwood,
Ky. The trouble arose over woman.
y statue OF the late Cornelius Van
derbilt, the commodore was un-
vciied on the campus of Vanderbilt uni
versity, Nashville. Tenn. of which in
stitution he was the founder.
The Iowa supreme court has decided
that the courts are not obliged to rec
ognize requests of parents expressed
in wills as to the guardianship of chill
dren, but the court may exercise its
discretion to the child's interest.
For the first time in the history OF
Missouri a woman has been found guilty
at St. Louis of murder in the first de-
gree and will be sentenced 10 hang.
The woman is Pearl Waters, who de-
liberately killed Lillian Waddell, both
colored.