The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1897-08-18
MINOR NEWS ITEMS.
For the Week Ending August II.

For the Week Ending August II.
L. l.. Rogers. OF Philadelphia. has
been elected president Of the National
Hay association.
Fire destroyed the greater part of
the Russian town of Matislaval. Two
hundred houses were burned.
Senior Canovas, the recently assassi-
mated Spanish premier, was buried with
high honors at Madrid Friday.
John II. Gentry paced mile in 2:02R
at Poughkeepsie, n. Y, on Tuesday.
The last quarter was made in 0:29A,
the fastest of the season.
James Crawford Embry. bishop of
the African Methodist Episcopal church
in South Carolina, died Wednesday at
his home in Philadelphia.
The republican state convention of
Kentucky on Tuesday nominated
James G.. Bailey, of Mogofiin county,
for clerk of the court of appeals.
Bud Brooks and Grady Reynolds, con-
victed at Jefferson, Ga, of the murder OF
Merchant NJ. c. Hunt, were sentenced to
be hanged Friday, September "a.
Frank c. Conroy, the Ogdensburg
IN. W wife murderer, was executed
by electricity in the Clinton prison
near Dannemora, n. Y. on Tuesday.
Six prisoners made their escape from
the county Jail at Green Bay, Wis,
early Friday by saving the bars in
the steel cage in which they were con-
fined.
treaty has been completed between
Peru and Spain providing that any
question arising between the two gov
ernments shall be submitted to arbi
traton.
Thomas and Peter Drew were
drowned near Spottsville, KY, Thurs
day morning while going across Green
river to their farm. Peter Drew was
n son of Thomas Drew.
Herbert A. Willis, the Taunton muir
derer, who was shot in an attempt to
escape from the Massachusetts state
prison last Tuesday, died in the hospital
at that institution Friday.
1t is stated that the Spanish govern
ment at Madrid has issued an order that
all claims for tobacco by American
manufacturers have been allowed and
the tobacco can be removed.
Willie and Mary Vogel, aged four and
ten years, respectively, were drowned
in Blue river ut Crete, Neb., Thursday.
They fell from narrow walk and were
carried over the mill dam to the rocks
below.
The final session of the grand lodge
Knights of Pythias of Iowa closed
Thursday night. c. c. Dowell, of Des
Moines, was elected grand chancellor.
The next session will be held at Council
Bluffs.
A special from Nasbie, Letcher coun-
ty, Ky. states that Caleb Lane shot and
killed his brother-in-law, Robert Stan
ley, for logging hogs. Lane fled to
Virginia, but was captured and lodged
in Wise county Jail.
Mr.. j. A. Knowlin. live stock COM
mission merchant of Kansas City, has
bought in Oregon $4,000 sheep, which
are now being driven overland to Kan
sas, where they will be fed next winter
and marketed the following spring
Officers rounded up a gang of post Of
flee robbers at Ontonagon, Mich, after
a hot fight in which Deputy Sheriff
Sherman received a serious bullet
wound. Two burglars were captured
and third escaped, though badly
wounded.
Mr.. Pom Kwang Sob, president of the
privy council of Corea, and eX-minister
to this country, died at his residence in
Washington at $3.50 o'clock Friday
afternoon of acute consumption ag-
gravated by over eXertion. He was 4S
years old.
The state central committee of the
Iowa national democrats met at Des
Moines Wednesday afternoon and COM
pleted the work of organization and
outlined the plan of campaign. Head
quarters will be opened in Des Moines
about August 20.
The steamer Mexico, en- route from the
Yukon river, struck on a reef off Sitka
and went to the bottom. Her ESQ pas
sengers were saved. Many valuable
specimens collected by naturalists for
the Columbian museum at Chicago. to-
gether with $50 tons of freight, were