The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1900-05-30
THE NEWS IN BRIEF.


The Boer ENJOYS left Washington on
trip to several large cities.
The United States warns China that the
"boker'' outrages must be stopped
Fire at jamestown, Pa, destroyed IL
buildings, including the post Office
Senator Foraker will nominate Mckinley
at the republican national convention.
Queen Victoria's eighty-frst birthday
was celebrated throughout the British en-
pire.
Herbert Noyes a prominent Cleveland
co. business man, was fatally shot by two
footpads.
The discovery OF gold in the Mojave des-
ert, California. has started rush In That
direction.
The Illinois social labor party has nom
mated l.. Hoffman, of Jacksonville, for
governor.
T.. NJ. Arthur has been reelected grand
chief of the Brotherhood of Locomotive
Engineers.
Engineer Frank Shaw and Fireman Har-
ry Wetzell were killed in a train wreck at
Oakland. Cal
James M. Lynch. of Syracuse, n. Y, has
been elected president of the international
Typographical union.
Sheriff Tyler, of Grand county, Utah,
and Sam Jenkins, a cattle owner, were
killed by a band of outlaws.
The entire town of Frugality, Pa, with
its coal and coke interests, has been sold
to a company of capitalists
Ohio prohibitionists nominated a state
ticket headed by j. X. Montgomery, or
Greene county, for secretary or state
American exports to Germany increased
sl9,55S,S72 during the last nine months, de-
spite 10 per cent. decrease in provisions.
Boer sympathizers at Monsey, n. Y,
burned a British flag hoisted by an Eng
lishman in honor of the queens birthday.
Rev. DR. Richard Lea, the oldest Presby-
terrain minister in Pennsylvania, died at
his home in New Alexandria, aged 80 years.
Rousseau o. Crump, of West Bay City,
was renominated for congress by the re-
publicans OF the Tenth district of Mich
igan.
Fire destroyed the Home of the Good
Shepherd at Peoria, Ill. The sisters in
charge and the inmates had narrow es-
capes.
Louisa Chamberlain, a wealthy Boston
woman. rs years old, took as her fourth
husband w. A. Hutchinson, an actor,
aged "a.
agitation over the German meat Dill is not
well founded, as it may be materially
changed in the bundesrath.
The director OF posts of the Philippine
islands reports that with all expenses paid
there will be a profit of over $4,000 for
the IL months from May i, 1888.
Mrs Emil j. Pollock, while trying TO save
her little daughter from being mangled by
Northwestern train in West haywood,
ILL.,, was struck and instantly killed.
The American Baptist Publication So
ciety held its siXty-seventh annual meet
ing in Detroit. The annual report said last
year was one of the best in the history OF
: the society.
The engine attached to the west-bound
fast mail train on the Lake Shore road
went into a ditch at Westfield, n. Y, and
Engineer Reagan and his fireman, William
Leighbody, were killed.
Democrats nominated ID. II. Smith for
congress in the Fourth Kentucky district,
| T.. c. Reeves in the First Tennessee dis
trict and Clarke Kitchen in the Second
North Carolina district.
The vault of the Bank of Dover, MIMI,
was blown open by burglars and $500
taken, $500 of which was in silver. Robbery
was not discovered until morning, and the
burglars made good their escape.
Father John j. O'Donnel, a Catholic
priest of New York, ended his life about
six o'clock Friday evening by jumping into
the lower Niagara river. a few hundred
feet above the famous whirlpool rapids.
He swept into the rapids and down to
death.
Collector of Internal Revenue Lynch, Of
San Francisco, is making preparations to
| establish an office in Honolulu, the Ha-
waiian islands having been added TO the
district of California. The internal revenue
! laws go into effect in Hawaii on June IA.
All deputies at the Honolulu office will be
selected from the citizens of Hawaii.