The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1897-06-09
MINOR NEWS ITEMS.



The Fortieth Legislature of Illinois
adjourned sine die.
The month of May just passed was
the coolest on record.
A scow blew up in the river in Chica-
go and six men were killed.
Mrs. Maria Pruett (colored) died at
Chillicothe. o.. aged 1O4 years.
The Hubbard Mining company at
Mankato. Mimi. failed for 100000.
Vice President Garrett A. Hobart cele-
brated his fifty-third birthday Thurs
day.
Maj. j. Miller Ropes, u. S. A. (retired),
dropped dead at Salem, Mass. He was
81 years of age.
James Il. Ireland celebrated the hun
dreth anniversary of his birth at his
home in Skillman, Ky.
The stone firm of Dolese g. Shepard
in Chicago went into a receivers hands
with liabilities of S730,000.
At Arlington and other portions of
Texas many houses were destroyed and
crops ruined by tornado.
The gold production in South Da-
kota in 1896 was 235, Alb fine ounces, a
| gain over 1895 of 4s,226 ounces.
Joseph Howard. Jr., of New York,
has been elected president of the Inter
national League of Press clubs.
William NJ. Boggs, paying teller of the
First national bank at Dover, Del, con-
fessed that he was $35, 900 short.
The new armored cruiser Brooklyn
sailed from New York for England to
participate in the queens jubilee.
James T. Lloyd (dem.) was elected to
congress from the First district of Mis-
souri, to succeed the late r. p. Giles.
John G. Carlisle, secretary of the
| treasury under Grover Cleveland, has
opened law office in New York city.
A tornado in the vicinity of Gadsden,
Ala, blew down fences, trees and build
ings, causing much damage. No lives
were lost.
Three men named Bottcher, Black
stone and Holinque were killed while
| trying to cross a glacier near Prince
William sound.
The greatest fire that ever visited AL
eXandria, Va, broke out in Bryan's fer
| tilizing mill and did damage to the ex-
tent of $450,00O.
William ii. Crawford, one of the most
widely known breeders and owners of
trotting horses in the country, died in
Chicago, aged SO years.
NJ. V. Monarch company, distillery
corporation of Greensboro, KY, as
signed to j. A. Lyddane. Liabilities.
! 100000; assets. $4,000.
A cablegram from London states that
Lady Henry Somerset has been reelected
president of the British Woman's Tenn
perance association for the eighth
time.
At Morristown, n. j., David Wilson
! (colored) was hanged for killing his
wife. The murder of Mrs. Wilson was
! the first to occur in Morristown for 60
years.
At Galveston, Tex, II. S. Towne, wife
and sister went bathing shortly after
squall Mr.. and Mrs. Towne were
drowned, while the sister narrowly es-
capped.
William p. Clark, ST., died in Indian
apolis at the age of 81. He is supposed
to have been the oldest newspaper man
in the country, having seen continuous
service for IS years.
a cyclone swept over a territory 90
miles long and Il half mile wide in
Genessee county, n. Y, doing great
damage to property and killing Mrs
Charles Cook and her little boy.
The state central committee of the
populist party of the state of Washing
ton have issued a manifesto to the eff
feet that hereafter the party will stand
by itself and fight its own battles.