The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1900-05-09
THE NEWS in BRIEF.
For the week Endinw May =.


out by fire.
A tornado wrecked many houses At Will
ponville Neb.
Snow fell and Ice formed In Ashtabula,
o., and vicinity.
The business part of Glasgow, KY. was
swept away by fire.
Granny" Ray (colored), lis years of age.
died I'm Cincinnati.
One Colorado railroad claims loss of
100000 In recent floods.
Entertainment OF G.. A. r. encampment in
August will cost Chicago 100000.
George Gordon, desperate negro, was
hanged at Albin. Miss, by a mob.
Ex-Congressman David Ii. Culberson
died In Jefferson, Tex, of the grippe.
The post office department has appoint
ed over 20 postmasters for Porto Rico.
The Seamans Friend society has placed
LOGS libraries on American naval vessels.
Churches. theaters. schools and clubs at
Marshalltown, Ia, closed because of small
pox.
Twenty-seven Illinois and Indiana the
atrical managers have united for protec-
ton.
An attempt was made by unknown per-
sons TO blow up part OF the Paris EXPOSE
ton.
Ten union labor pickets were indicted by
the grand jury in Chicago for melting
riots.
A celebration OF the fourth centenary OF
the discovery of Brazil took place in Rio
Janeiro.
The republicans of the Sixth Illinois dis
trict have renominated Henry S. Boutell
for congress.
The post office department will issue an
order forbidding use of the mails by "di-
vine healers."
Ohio socialists nominated a state ticket
AaI lNxrS CO. Of Nall for
supreme judge.
Former United States Senator Mailman
Thomas Wiley died at Morgantown, w.
Va. aged IS years.
Alaska miners lynched a comrade ac-
cused of murder to save trouble of guard
ing him as a prisoner.
The state G. A. r. encampment at jack
sonville. ILL.,, elected Joel NJ. Longnecker.
OF Chicago. commander
An unknown negro about 20 years old
was lynched near Geneva, Ala, for as
saulting l2-year-old white girl
John r. Mclean. brother-in-law Of Adj
miral Dewey. has abandoned the latter In
his candidacy for the presidency.
The date of the meeting of the Ohio DEM
ocratic convention has been changed to
June IL and 10 instead of June and T.
The village of Grantsburg. ILL.,. was al
most wholly wiped out by fire. only the
AT Bamberg, 8. c.. Rev. w. E. Johnson
killed his neighbor as the result OF a quarrel
growing out of the painting of a fence.
ModJeska, the actress, announces she
will visit Poland next year despite the de-
cree of exile promulgated by the czar.
John Green and Charles Brown were
hanged at New Iberia, La. for the murder
of Young Sorrell at oliver Station, La.
The trials Of the Kentuckians accused
Of lott In he hal cina inr
have been set for the second Monday in
July.
The United States asks England TO ex-
plain boarding of American vessel by
British warship in neutral waters off east
Africa.
Benjamin Douglass founder Of the r. G..
Dun & Co. mercantile agency, died sudden
" at his home In Santa Barbara, Cal, aged
"a years.
Fire insurance companies lost $2S6,S54 in
Illinois risks during 1899, losses reaching 50
per cent. of premiums, with 80 per cent. for
expenses.
Sophia Everson, q years old. and her
cousin, Melville Wilson, Is years old, were
accidentally smothered to death in bed in
st. Louis.
c. f. w. Medley, postal clerk at Ha-
vana, Cuba, was arrested at Rochester. N.
Y, on a charge OF ernbezzlng S36. 900 from
the government.
The Standard OH company has in
creased the wages of 5000 employees in
all parts of the country ten per cent. and
reduced their hours.
Counterfeit $40 bills were discovered in
Philadelphia. They are of the series OF
1880, check A, plate number Z. Tillman reg
lister. Morgan, treasurer.
Prominent lawyers uphold the opinion OF
Judge Lochren, of Minnesota, that Porto
Rico is now under the operations of the
United States constitution.
The Mississippi Valley Hay Storage COM
pany's building and the lumber yards of
Homer & Lehman were burned in st.
Louis, the loss being $350,0O0.
The republicans renominated George e.
Foss for congress in the Seventh Illinois
district and the democrats renominated
Champ Clark in the Ninth Missouri dis