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The true northerner., 1897-07-21
MINOR NEWS ITEMS.
For the weeL Ending July IT.

For the Week Ending July IT.
Mrs. Annie Gipson. aged los years,
died at Decatur, Ill.
The fruit crop of Missouri this year
is estimated 10 be worth over $20,000,-
600.
Anthony Edwards, aged 104 years,
joined the Grand Army of the Republic
in st. Louis.
Santa Fe railway officials report that
there will be yield of 100000 bush
els of wheat in Kansas.
Immense discoveries of gold were re-
ported just across the Alaskan bound
airy in British territory.
John Bridges, Charles Sweeney and
L. Montgomery, young boys, were
killed by the cars at Austin, Tex.
Juan Adams and her brother, who
murdered Alberto Mondragon, were
legally shot at Ciudad Porfirio, Mexico
Floods caused by a heavy rain did
great damage in the southern part of
Quebec and many people were home
less.
A new counterfeit ten-dollar silver
certificate of the series of 1891, check
letter ID, has been discovered in Wash
ington.
John Choun and Robert Hatfield
were killed and six other men were
badly injured in a railway wreck near
West Alton, Ill.
The remains of the tate Senator
Harris were inferred with appropriate
ceremonies in Glenwood cemetery at
Memphis, Tenn.
In a jealous rage Frank w. Phelan,
of st. Louis, fatally wounded Kittie NJ.
Wadsworth in a Chicago saloon and
then killed himself.
The Furniture Dealers National as
sociation at its final session at Grand
Rapids, Mich, elected A. j. Conroy, of
Cincinnati, president.
The trans-Mississippi congress met
at Salt Lake City, Utah, with delegates
present from every state and territory
west of the Mississippi river.
The Empire state express on the New
York Central railroad went from SYRIA
cuse to Buffalo, 149 miles, in 143 min
utes, beating all previous records.
The consolidation at Peoria, H., of
the Bank of Commerce, state institu-
tion, with capital of $500, 900, with the
Merchants national bank was an
nounced.
Earnest r. Taylor and Will H. Toll
bert, of Los Angeles, have started on a
cycling trip around the world. They
will be without funds and undertake to
return in IS months.
The annual school census of Rock
ford, ILL.,, just completed, shows that
there are 1856 inhabitants of Rockford
under 21 years of age, gain of 6s4 over
last year. In the whole city only 13 il
literate persons were found.
The true northerner., 1897-07-21
BUSINESS OUTLOOK.
Every Feature of Trade IL Said to He
Encouraging.


New York. July 17.-R. q. Dun & Co..
in their weekly review of trade say:
Excepting the great coal miners strike.
which may terminate at any time. there
is scarcely a feature Of the business out
look which Is not encouraging. the sea-
son considered. Crop prospects have been
improved by needed rain In some regions
and foreign advices continue to promise
large demand. In many home industries.
particularly In building, there is more ac-
tivity than In any year since 1892. and the
week has brought a better demand In boots
and shoes and in woolens. while the move
ment of freight, mainly iron ore, through
the Sault Ste. Marie canal Is the largest in
its history. With money markets un-
clouded there is nothing In sight TO hinder
rapid Improvement when uncertainty about
legislation has been removed. for the
miners strike could not last long II busi-
ness and industries should become active.
There is much less apprehension of fall
ure of fuel supply than there was during
the first few days. when prices rapidly ad-
vanced. and large quantities OF coal from
West Virginia have reached northern mar
kets. but some Of the miners In that state
have struck.
"The advance In wheat TO S1h cents was
not due TO the government estimate, which
was followed by a decline. but to foreign
advices and considerable buying for ex-
port. Demand is already felt from Aus
tralia Brazil and even Argentina. while
the promise for European crops is not con-
sidered bright. The disposition of farmers
TO keep back wheat for higher prices may
affect the outward movement.
Failures for the week have been 263 In
the United States, against 269 last year. and
27 iii Canada. against 80 last year"
The true northerner., 1897-07-21
ELECT OFFICERS.
Baptist Young People Choose John
Chapman President.

Chattanooga, Tenn, July 1.-THE
principal business transacted at the
meeting of the Baptist Young People
Friday morning was the election of ofli-
GERS. The nominating committee made
it's report through its chairman, Rev.
o. S. c. Wallace. The report of the
committee was accepted without dis
cussion and the secretary instructed to
cast the ballot as a whole for the nom-
inees.
The head officers remain the same,
while the remaining ones are changed
to a certain extent. The officers elect
ed are:
President-John II. Chapman. Chicago.
Vice presidents-Rev. Curtis Lee Laws,
Baltimore; Rev. George b. Vosburg. Den
rca, Cal; Rev. J. II. Macdonald. Amhurst.
n. S.
Recording secretary-Rev. II. w. Reed.
La Crosse, Wis.
Treasurer-Frank Moody, Milwaukee.
Wis.
The true northerner., 1897-07-21
STAMPED TO DEATH.
A Mob's Vengeance Upon a COlOred
Brute I'm Tennessee.

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Brute I'm Tennessee.
Cincinnati, July 16.-1he CONNER
cial-Tribune's special from Florence,
Ala, says: Near West Point, Tenn,
Tuesday afternoon. Miss Rene Will
liams was found brutally murdered in
the woods near her home. The young
lady left her home early Tuesday morn
ing to pick berries. When she did not
return for dinner her friends went in
search of her. She was found dead and
tied to a sapling with a leather strap
around her neck. One of her eyes had
been gouged out and in her tightly
clutched hands were leaves and grass.
All around the ground showed that a
terrible struggle had taken place.
Thursday afternoon Anthony Will
liams, her murderer and ravisher, was
captured near Pruitton and at night he
expiated his crime in the streets of
West Point in the presence OF 500 peo-
pie. Williams was riddled with bullets
and burned in the streets of West Point;
his body being reduced 10 ashes. Before
a shot was fired, the negro was knocked
down and stamped to death. Then the
crowd fell back and those who had
pistols fired volley after volley at him.
The crowd then gathered wood and
building q fire over him watched the
ghastly scene until the murderer was
only ashes.
The true northerner., 1897-07-21
YOUNG POLITICIANS.
National Republican League In
Convention in Detroit.
Gov. PinEree Welcomes the Visitors
60 the state Address OF Presi-
dent wOOdmansee-Tele
from President Mckinley.

Detroit, Mich, July 14.-The tenth
annual convention of the National
League of Republican Clubs opened
in this city yesterday, nearly every
state being represented by delegates.
After prayer by Rev. DR.. r. j. Service
an address of welcome to the state was
made by Gov. Pingree, and Col. Henry
NJ. Duffield, of this city, welcomed the
delegates on behalf of Detroit.
Address of the President.
The president of the National league,
d. ID. Woodmansee, of Cincinnati, then
delivered his annual address.
After congratulating the league on the
fact that the debts OF the organization had
been paid. he recommended that the nation
al convention of the league be held upon a
fixed day OF the year and that the state
leagues throughout the union hold their
conventions on the same day. He contin-
ued:
II am justified in saying that the league
Is growing. In number of states a few
years ago our party leaders looked upon II
with suspicion. Now they recognize its
usefulness and gladly encourage and sup
port It, We have q number OF distinguished
statesmen who have hardly realized the
fact that there exists in this country the
National Republican league. Ny advice
10 them is to get In line and not overlook
the league men in this country, who, with
comradeship OF 100000 members. have
no axes TO grind. but naturally think more
OF their friends than they do of their enc
mics.
THE contest OF 1897 is already upon us.
In various states the conventions OF both
parties have assembled, nominated their
candidates. adopted their platforms and
the people are again asked to give voice to
their preferences. The old issues are
again before us. Democrats hope to win
because Of differences among republicans:
because. as they say, prosperity has not
yet arrived. and believe that our country
men are impressed with the fact that bet
ter times are upon us. and that in due sea-
son the prophecies OF republican leaders
will be realized.
Our party. true TO its promises. will
present to the people the Dingley tariff
law, a law that will take the place OF the
Infamous Wilson bill that contributed SO
largely TO our country's distress: law that
will provide revenues sufficient to pay the
The true northerner., 1897-07-21

Belle PLANE, Ia, July 14.-Near Bus
sey Aaron Johnson was returning from
visit to a neighbor accompanied by
Misses Della Nevins and Mabel Yoke.
The team become unmanagable and ran
away. The carriage was upset and the
occupants dragged over the ground.
Miss Nevins was killed instantly, Miss
Yoke died within a few hours and John
son only lived long enough feebly to ex-
plain how the accident occurred.
The true northerner., 1897-07-21

ONE of the best fire escapes recently
patented is small enough to be carried
in the pocket, and consists of a reel,
on which the rope is wound by crank
at one end, the fianges at the end of
the reel resting in hinged frame with
two handles on the under side, to be
grasped by the hand after the hook at
the end of the rope has been attached
to the window sill, the handles being
brought together by the hand to grip
the reel and make the rope unwind
slowly
The true northerner., 1897-07-21

A recent thunderstorm in the neigh
borhood of Berlin afforded an oppor-
tunity of measuring precisely the pow
er of flash of lightning. The expert
menters took as their basis the amount t
of iron fused by flash of lightning.
and, according to the statement which
they have published, the power of a
flash of lightning is on an average of
1000 horse power.
The true northerner., 1897-07-21
a BRUTAL NEGRO.
Mob Lynches Him for His Crime mt
EIbu, Ala.


Nashville, Tenn, July II. A Mont
gomery (Ala.) special to the Banner
says: Thursday Major Terrell, negro,
criminally assaulted Mrs. Martin
Thomas, n white woman living in the
country five miles from Elba. Ala. She
was alone in the ho1se with her six
months'-old baby. After the assault
the woman was struck in the head and
thrown on the bed beside her sleeping
infant. Fagots of pine wood were then
placed upon her by the brute and set on
fire. The flames attracted some pass
ers-by and they rescued the woman in
time to get her dying statement. The
baby was roasted. Terrell was arrested
and was being given preliminary
trial when mob broke up the court
and took him out and hanged him.
The true northerner., 1897-07-21

A NUMBER of states already debar
from Office any person who has Tough,
a duel or who has in any way assisted
in one. Law Notes, of Northport,
n. Y, suggests that the governors OF
the several states recommend TO their
respective legislatures similar pro.
vision in regard to persons who take
part in lynchings.
The true northerner., 1897-07-21

THERE are more criminals walking
the streets of Boston dressed in stylish
clothes than there are in all the pris-
ons of Massachusetts," That is the
statement made by an eminent Boston
lawyer, based upon the provisions OF
an act which was passed by the recent
legislature in its closing days and APP
proved by the governor upon June II.
According TO this statute it is an of
fense against the laws of the state To
wear for purposes of dress or orna-
ment or TO sell or to have in the pos
session the bodies or feathers of any
of the birds which are commonly used
in the adornment of ladies' hats.
The true northerner., 1897-07-21
GEN. FARNSWORTH DEAD.
The wcIi-Knovn Veteran Passes
Away mt Washington.

Washington, July 15.-Gen. John f..
Farnsworth died at his residence in this
city Wednesday afternoon. aged II
years.
IGen. Farnsworth was a Canadian by
birth, but in early life removed to Michi-
gan. where he was educated and admitted
10 the bar. subsequently, he went 10 Chi
cago and was elected to and served IL con-
gress as a republican from 1857 10 1861,
when he became colonel Of the Eighth Illi-
nois cavalry. Later, by order of the war
department, he raised the Seventeenth Illi-
nois regiment and was commissioned brig
adler general In November. 1862, but owing
10 injuries received in the field was COM
PEELED TO resign from the army in March.
1869. He then went 10 ST. Charles, ILL.,. and
from 1863 10 1873 was again a member of
congress. Since the latter date he has
been engaged in the practice of law in
Washington.l
The true northerner., 1897-07-21
Excited Over Rich strike.

jamestown. Cal, July l7.-This town
and the entire country is excited on
account of the rich strike in the Tansey
mines, operated under the lease by
Colby and Beckwith. The mine is To-
Gated on the mother lode just this side
of Sonora. The workmen struck n
pocket and in ten hours they had taken
S31,0 900 in gold from the pocket, and
there is more TO follow.
The true northerner., 1897-07-21
Ten EYck wilma.

Henley-on-Thames, July 17.-E. IL.
Ten Eyck, the American oarsman. won
the finals in the great diamond sculls
Friday. His opponent was H./ t.
Blackstaff, of the Vesta Rowing @iub,
The Englishman had previously won
his semi-final heat in record time from
DR.. Mcdowell, the Delaware Boat club
man. Ten Eyck represents the Wau-
chusetts club, of Massachusetts,.
The true northerner., 1897-07-21
Big Debt Wiped Out.

New York, July 1.-THE American
Baptist Missionary union and the Amer
lean Baptist Home Missionary society
have succeeded in wiping out their joint
debt of $4s6.O0O. Including John ID.
Rockefeller's gift of $780, 900. which was
contingent on the raising of S25o,00o
more, the societies have collected $780,
Oa1.45. The subscribers to the Sgpd
number nearly 5.0O0
The true northerner., 1897-07-21

For displaying transparencies or
decorations on bicycle frame is at
tached to the upper brace Of the wheel
and fitted with a joint so it will bend
back over the rider, the device being
enlarged to any size desired by pulling
out the telescope joints, and when not
In use the frame can be drawn to-
gether SO that it only occpies a small
space on the wheel.
The true northerner., 1897-07-21
Turkey Yields.

Constantinople, July II. - Tewfik
Pasha, the foreign minister. informed
the ambassadors Friday that the sultan
had agreed in the principle of the de-
mands of the powers and was prepared
to accept their views on the peace con-
dftione
The true northerner., 1897-07-21
THE TRUE NORTHERNER.
PAW PAW, MICHIGAN.

AUSTRALIAN exploration claims two
more victims. The bodies of Messrs
Jones and Wells, the missing me bers
of the Calvert expedition to western
Australia, have now been found after
many months search. Evidently the
unfortunate men perished from thirst
and exposure
The true northerner., 1897-07-21
Frozen fo Death.

Port Townsend, Wash, July IA
Word received here says that three men
ramed. Blackstone, Bottcher and Mol
lique were frozen 10 death in Alaska
while endeavoring to carry mail from
Sunrise City across the glacier to
Prince William Sound.
The true northerner., 1897-07-21

A STOVE has been invented to cool
rooms in summer. Salt, small guam :
tity of ice and patent chemical are
used, and the stove becomes so cold
that, if hand be placed upon it, the
skin will instantly blister. AS salt is
cheap, the chemical not dear, and as
the stove can make its own ice in the
oven, the device is one that will be
likely to come into general use in
warm climates
The true northerner., 1897-07-21

THE epidemic of suicide which has
broken out at Brussels seems to have
attacked even the inmates OF the pris-
ons, and during the last few weeks so
many prisoners have committed suicide
that the Belgian minister of the in
terror has issued regulation accord
ing to which NO prisoners is in future
to be left alone in a cell.
The true northerner., 1897-07-21
For n New Bridge.

Quincy, H., July 1.-THE railroad
bridge which spans the Mississippi here
and which is controlled by the Chicago,
Burlington & Quincy is soon to be torn
away to the waters surface and re-
built with steel at cost of many thou
sands of dollars. Work will begin about
August /. The bridge is TO be the
longest on the river
The true northerner., 1897-07-21

THE latest figures for gin and rum
imports into barbarian Africa have a
dizzy look. In 1894 Gambia received
22, 36S fallowns, Sierra Leone 242, 6s6,
the Gold Coast 1,S02, 500. Lagos 1,s63,
6s1, the Niger Coast Protectorate ., 619,
15s. The countries that supply the
stuff are, of course, the same countries
that send the missionaries, Great
Britain, the United States, Germany,
France and Holland.
The true northerner., 1897-07-21
Their Sentences. Commuted.

Springfield, ILL.,. July 16.-On the
recommendation of the board of par
dons Gov. Tanner has commuted the
sentences of Jesse Sogers and Scott
Price. who were to have been han. I'd
Friday, TO life Imprisonment. ~
The true northerner., 1897-07-21

CASHIERS of banks and corporations
who handle large sums of money daily
are to be protected by means Of a new
ly patented window, which consists of a
steel plate hung over the window on
pulleys with the ropes reaching down
TO the floor, where they connect with
lever which can be sprung by the
foot to drop the window instan tly
whenever there is danger, without the
action being seen bv an outsider.
The true northerner., 1897-07-21

FRUIT can be picked from large trees
without bruising by means of a new
device which is formed of single
piece of wire bent into a circle with
the two ends Of the wire-pointed to en-
ter the end of pole and the opposite
side of the circle bent to form several
fingers to pull the fruit from the tree
into a cloth bag which is sewed around
the oirnla
The true northerner., 1897-07-21

Salt Lake City, Utah, July 1.-THE
Mississippi congress yesterday
adopted resolutions favoring the an
nexation of Hawaii, the construction OF
the Nicaragua canal, recognition of
Cuba as a nation, and the free coinage
Of silver
The true northerner., 1897-07-21
Hanged at an Early Hour.

Hartford, Conn.,, July l4.-Thon,as f.
Ripple was hanged at 1896 o'clock this
morning. Ripple was Scotchman, II
years old. He killed his wife at their
home in New Haven on January 81. 1s9c.
In a drunken fight
The true northerner., 1897-07-21
Physician Kills Himself.

ST. Cloud, Mimi, July 17.-Dr. A. o..
Gilman, the oldest practicing physician
in ST. Cloud, and known to the medical
fraternity all over the state, during
temporary alteration instantly killed
himself at $3.50 Friday evening by plac-
ing the muzzle of a double-barreled
shotgun TO his head and discharging It.
The true northerner., 1897-07-21

A NEW sash fastener for windows has
a cog wheel set in the side of the win
dow frame to revolve as the window is
raised or lowered, the teeth of the
wheel meshing into grooves in met
strip on the side of the sash, and the
wheel being loosely mounted on a
shaft, with one side flattened so it will
slide into a slot and prevent its turn
ing, thus locking the window at any
hairbt
The true northerner., 1897-07-21

CALCIUM carbide is being tried in
France as a remedy against the phyl-
lozera The residuum left from the
manufacture OF acetylene is used,
mixed with calcium phosphate. Wnen
wet with water it disengages phosphor-
cited hydrogen, which is a powerful
destroyer OF insect life
The true northerner., 1897-07-21
Wisconrin Sfnfe Enir

Milwaukee, July 1.-THE State Ag-
ricultural society will hold its fair as
usual this year in Milwaukee from
September 20 to 25. Notwithstanding
the belief thatcertain legislation passed
al Madison last winter would affect this
vear's fair.
The true northerner., 1897-07-21
To wheel Around the world.

Los Angeles, Cal, July 17.-Earnest
r. Taylor and VIII ii. Tolbert, of Los
Angeles. have started on a cycling trip
around the world from this city. They
will be without funds and undertake
TO return i'm IS months.
The true northerner., 1897-07-21
Not Guilty.

Chicago, July 17.-For the second
time Charles w. Spalding. ex-treasurer
of the University of Illinois, was found
by jury in this city not guilty of en-
bezzling endowment bonds of the in
stitution.
The true northerner., 1897-07-21

IN 2s years Harvard university has
received in gifts of money and build
ings an aggregate of So 209, 703, the
cash gifts amounting TO 81, S39 703, or
an average of $780, 900 year, Ii this
is maintained Harvard will receive
s2s, 200, 600 from gifts OF money alone
during the coming century.
The true northerner., 1897-07-21
RESERVOIRS BREAK.
Great Damage md Loss of Life I'm
the Duchess Valley, n. Y.

the Dutchess valley, y. \.
Pcaghkeepsie, N. Y, July 15.-The
two large reservoirs in the Fishkill
mountains which supplied water to the
towns of Matteawan and Fishkill burst
their walls a. two o'clock Wednesday
morning, and the water that was re-
leased swept through the Duchess vnl-
ley, causing ruin and death. Five
bodies have been taken from the wreck
age left in the wake of the flood, and
there are known TO be two and prob
ably three more. lying somewhere be-
meath the piled debris, which is all
that remains of three houses that were
swept away by the torrent.
The true northerner., 1897-07-21
Garner stone Inid.

Fond du Lac. Wis, July 1.-THE cor
ner stone of the new masonic and odd
fellows hall. which is being erected at
a cost of $4,000, was laid at Oakfield
Friday afternoon. Prominent members
of the order were present from all parts
of the state. Grand Master n. G. Grif-
fin had charge of the ceremonies.
The true northerner., 1897-07-21
Kentucky Gold Democrats.

Louisville, KY, July 15.-The ma
tional democrats of Kentucky met in
state convention in this city and nom
mated John Il. Hinman for clerk of
the court of appeals, and in their plat
form denounced the free coinage of
silver and indorsed the platform adopt
ed at indianapolis last year.
The true northerner., 1897-07-21
Coroner says 1t Was Not Suicide.

Los Angeles, CAL, July 15.-Acci-
dental self-poisoning by an overdose of
morphine, taken to relieve pain, was
the verdict of the coroner's jury as to the
cause of death of Nicholas G. Creede,
the mining king.
The true northerner., 1897-07-21
Frank butler Hanged.

London, July ia dispatch from
Sydney, n. S. W.. says that Frank But
Ter, the Australian Bush murderer, was
executed Thursday. lie confessed to
having committed four murders.
The true northerner., 1897-07-21

Berlin, July 17.-Duke Charles The
odore, the Bavarian royal oculist, is
going to Keil TO examine the injury TO
the eye of Emperor William.
The true northerner., 1897-07-21
Reef Expensiye in AIasIxn.

Vancouver, Il. C., July ia party
of Vancouverites have chartered a
steamer and intend to ship rs TO 100
oxen to the Clondyke in the Yukon
country. where beef fetches fabulous
prices.
The true northerner., 1897-07-21
Don't Believe II.

Washington, July 17.-At the Jap
anese legation here no credence is Civ
en- to the report that the Spanish and
japanese governments have entered
into an alliance against the United
States.
The true northerner., 1897-07-21

Detroit, Mich, July 16. - The Repub-
lican National league yesterday ex-
pressed confidence in NJ. j. Bowling, of
Renville, Mimi, by reelecting him as
secretary. Frank j. Higgins, of Jersey
CITY, n. j., is the new treasurer. Oma-
ha was chosen as the next place of
meeting.
The true northerner., 1897-07-21

Detroit, July 15.-Leonard j. Craw-
ford, of Newport. KY, was on Wednes-
day afternoon elected president of the
National Republican league. While the
contest for the presidency had all the
appearance of a close struggle. the re-
suit can scarcely be said TO have been
in doubt.