The Manitowoc pilot. [volume] (Manitowoc, Wis.) 1859-1932, 1900-05-03
THE NEWS IN BRIEF.
For the Week Ending May 2.

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President Mckinley has signed the Ha-
| waiian bill.
Fire in mine at Toms Creek Va, suf-
| located six men.
| President Dole has been selected as the
| first governor of Hawaii.
Burglars robbed a bank at Coulterville,
H., securing booty of 5000.
! Robbers secured 5000 from the Mas
| sanutten bank at Strasburg, Va.
George Gordon, a desperate negro, was
hanged at Albin Miss, by a mob
An official report shows the government
lost 81, 600, 900 by Capt. Carriers frauds.
Forest fires in Jackson cocnty, Wis, de-
stroyed over 5000 acres of blueberries.
Swanson and Gardner, lumber towns in
Wisconsin, were burned by forest fires.
Five men were killed and three injured,
one fatally, in boiler explosion at Tifton'
Ga.
Kiowa and Comanche Indians are dying
of starvation on their reservation in Okla
homa.
Exports of American liquor have de-
creased 40 per cent during the last nine
months.
Canada's frontier militia is ready for a
call to arms in preparation for an expected
Fenian raid
Mrs. Maria Hook and Sadie Hill, a grand
daughter were burned to death at juno
tlOn CITY, WIS.
Mrs. Sarah Boston. of New Brunswick.
fourth birthday
Mrs. Susan Simmons Winans, first white
child born in Chicago, has just died in
Santa Ana. Cal.
f. c. Benedict gave his daughter 81, COX, 900
when Thomas Hastings married her at
Greenwich, Conn.
Miss Minnie NJ. Wray. of Lincoln, Neb.,
commits suicide before mirror in the
Palmer house, Chicago.
SPANS new national party threatens to
involve the nation in a civil war that may
overthrow the monarchy.
The transport Sherman arrived in San
Francisco from Manila with 753 soldiers
of the Fourteenth infantry.
Mrs. Jennie M. Drinkwater Conklin,
widely. known as a writer of books for
girls, died at New Vernon, N. j.
In April the total number of pieces Of
money made at the Philadelphia mint
was 1881 ,100 the value being $12, 4S0.
John Watson and William Brown, both
white. and sonnie Grain. colored, were
hanged at McMinnville, Tenn, for murder.
The state convention of the fusion pop
ulists was held in Indianapolis and dele
gates to the national convention were
named.
The Christian poll .cal party was
formed at Rock Island, ILL.,, and will NOM
mate candidates for president and vice
president
w. D. Dickinson, a popular young farm
err of Sharon township, o., shot Miss Edna
Wilkinson and killed himeslf. Jealousy
was the cause.
w. f. Miller, formerly head of the no.
torious Franklin syndicate" was sem
fenced in New York to ten years impris-
onment for swindlng.
Congressional nominations: Illinois,
Twelfth district, j. G. Cannon (rep), re-
nominated. Indiana. Thirteenth district,
Harvey A. Wiley (pop). Seventh district,
Justin *. Whiting (dem.).
Samuel c. Seele y, former bookkeeper OF
the National Shoe and Leather bank, New
York who, in completely with a depositor
of the bank named Baker, robbed it Of
1854, 900. was released from Kings county
penitentiary Tuesday.
Nominations for congress: Fifteenth
Illinois district, b. r. Marsh (rep), re-
nominated; Eighteenth, Thomas NJ. Jett
(rem.) renomnated; John j. Brenholt
(rep); Eighth Michigan district, Joseph
w. Fordney (repD, renominated; Fifth,
William Alden Smith (rep.), renominated;
Ninth, r. P. Bishop (rep), renominated;
First Missouri district, j. T. Lloyd (rep.),
renominated.