Warren sheaf., 1900-08-09
THE NEWS IN BRIEF.
For. the Week Ending Aug. q

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Fire completely wiped out the village OF
Sopp's Arm, N. F..
President Mckinley has returned to Cam
ton, O., from Washington.
The police throughout Germany were ar
resting anarchist suspects.
A large part of the business section Of
Convoy, O:,wassdestroyed by fire. 4,
s3s The population of Milwaukee. Wis. Is
S5315, gain of 80,S47 in ten years.
The town of Gilman, Col. was burned,
making homeless upward of 200 people
E& Crop reports from the western grain belt
indicate that the harvest will be large
W. Irwin Shaw, United States consul at
Barranquilla, Colombia, died of cholera.
James Byrd, 40 years old, was hanged at
FGreenville, Miss, for the murder of his.
mistress. -
=. Middle-of- -the-road populists In Iowa will
hold their state convention in Des Moines
August q.
Robert Dunlap. head Of the big hat man
ufacturing firm, is dead at Monmouth
Beach, N. J. e
Baltimore, Md, for killing Sadie James,
his mistress. Is,
Nikola Tesla has discovered an electric
cure for consumption which meets remark
able success. 8s.3s5 .s s5fss b . -
Dowie elders were prevented from leav-
Ing train at Mansfield, O., where mob
awaited them.
Grant Reed (colored) was hanged at
Madison, Va, for the murder of his wife
and her father.
John w. Trowbridge, widely known
newspaper illustrator, died at his home in
Englewood, N. j.
In the last fiscal year 341 Ill immigrants
arrived in New York, which is the greatest
number since 1S93
A mail pouch in transit from the gem
eral post Office to substa ton in New York
was robbed of $4,000.
Sir William Vernon Harcourt estimates
the cost of the South African war as ap-
proximately $40O. 100000.
cloudburst flooded canyons and valleys
and caused disaster along the banks Of
many rivers in Arizona.
President Mckinley and the king of Port
ugal exchanged cOngra tulatOry messages
over the new direct cable. ,-,
big building at Scranton, Pa, was
wrecked by an explosion and IS persons
were injured, three fatally.
Five dead is the result of. feud that
has existed between the Dooley and Har-
ris families at Doe Run, Mo.
Johnny Nelson Chicago cycIist, defeat.
ed Jimmy Michael in a 20-mile race in Bos.
ton by five yards. Time. 3:03 Is.
North German Lloyd steamers running to
New York have been chartered by Ger
many to convey troops to China.
Seventy-one Chicago couples were mar
ried In st. Joseph, Mich, breaking the
Sunday record Of the Gretna Green.
The wife and two children of J. A. Nor
ris died from eating toadstools in mis-
take for mushrooms near Harvey, III.
The census office Thursday announced
the population of Louisville, KY, at 2N.731.
an Increase of 1902 over the census of 1890.
A big rise in the price of brooms is said
to have resulted from the action of com-
bination controlling the broomcorn supply.
A tornado Saturday devastated the coun-
try for miles around Hatton, N. D., running
crops and severely injuring several peo-
pie.
Receipts of Klondike gold at Pacific coast
points so far this season are about $780,
000 against $780,, 900 at the same time last
year.
Over 5000 Roumanian Jews are en- route
to Canada. The majority are penniless.
Their ultimate destination is the United
States
John McCurdy, an old resident of Chi
cagO and well known in business, musical
and masonic circles, died at his home, aged
| 66 years.
Col. John Mason LOOmis. civil war vet
eran, and for so years leading lumber
| merchant of Chicago, died at the age Of
rs years. ~
One million dollars is the amount secured
by F.. L. Swazey, the absconding Kansas
City cattleman, before he started for South
America. rHs -
Reuben Miller aided the defense in the
Powers trial when he swore that the bullet
which killed Goebel was not fired from the
statehouse.
Secretary Of War Root has ordered an
election of delegates in Cuba and named
November as the date of the constitu-
tiOnal convention.
Fire at Cleveland, O., destroyed one of
the mills of the Cuyahoga Lumber COM
pany, causing loss of 100000 John Zahm,
an employe, was fatally burned.
Richard Harding Davis. just back in New
York from South Africa, says that the
Beers mayyet win, holding them in better
shape than before Roberts great sue
ceSSes.