The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1900-05-23
THE NEWS IN BRIEF.


For the Week Ending May ~.
The president has signed the free homes
Cholera is spreading In the famine camps
OF India
William Pulchou. aged lo2 years. died
at Findlay. o.
The ruler of Morocco Ahmed Ben Mussa,
died in Tangiers
The national congress of mothers opened
In Des Moines. la.
Nearly 10000 immigrants, mostly from
Italy, are on their way west.
An American corn kitchen was inaug-
urated at the Paris exposition.
Fire destroyed one-half of the business
portion of Grand Meadow, MINI.
In railway wreck near Guadalajara,
Mexico, ii workmen were killed.
Mrs. Lucy Washington (colored), living
near Wabash, Ind. is 10 years old
Smallpox is prevalent in every state
and territory in the United States.
ST. Mary's college at Belmont. n. c., was
destroyed by fire, the loss being 100000
Henry Huffmaker died at Knoxville.
Tenn, at the age of los, leaving a widow
aged IS.
AT Talladega, Ala, Gilbert Curry, young
negro, was hanged for the murder Oh PinK
Dobbins.
A blow in a friendly sparring contest
killed William Stowe, aged IL, at Bates
vile, Ind.
During the last ten months the exports
of merchandise exceeded the imports by
$i55, 495, al.
Sam Hinson (colored) was hanged by a
mob near Cushtusha, Miss, for an at
tempted murder.
Simon w. Cramer accidentally shot and
killed his wife in Paulding, o., while at
tempting TO kill rat
Mrs. Frances Hitler, of Wilmington,
Mass, who years ago built burial casket
costing $4,000. is dead.
Walter Gordon and Beauty Ingram (col-
ored) were hanged at Eutaw, Ala, tor the
murder OF Tom Buntain.
German commercial interests are amazed
at the growth of American trade and pro-
pose to Increase the tariff.
The census office is TO handle the statis-
tics of the 75,O0O,000 people of this country
with intricate electrical machines.
Representatives of English wheat buyers
are contracting with Kansas farmers for
the entire crop at so cents a bushel.
Capt. Charles E. Clark, of Atlantic
City, has been presented with medal for
saving ga persons from drowning.
Victor Lipecki, an amateur actor, died In
Chicago from lockjaw caused by an acci-
dental wound received during play.
Fifteen hundred mules consigned to the
British army are on the steamship Ca
rintha, which lies upon a reef off Hayti.
OF 1892 communes in France, republic
ans won 24,s32: reactionaries, S,519, and ma
tionalists, 1873 in recent municipal elections.
Charles w. Knapp has been elected
president of the Associated Press. and
Charles s. Diehl secretary and general
manager
]. e. Hutchinson. editor of the Guthrie
(ky) Graphic, and Virgil Marshall,
freight agent, were fatally shot in sa-
loon fight.
Grand Master Workman John w. Par
sons and the other general officers of the
Knights of Labor have been suspended
from Office.
Democrats of Kentucky will nominate
Beckham TO run for governor in case an
election is necessary after the contest is
settled in court.
Walter Williams, deputy coroner. shot
and killed William NJ. Downer in Denver,
Col, and then killed himself. Domestic
trouble was the cause.
On the two thousand one hundred and
first ballot Wood w. Skiles was nominated
for congress by the republicans of the
Fourteenth Ohio district
Nominations for congress: Nineteenth
Ohio district, Gen. Charles Dick (rep.),
renominated; Fifth Iowa district, Robert
G. Cousins (rep), renominated; Second
Alabama district, A A. Wiley (dem):
Eighth North Carolina district, Spencer
Blackburn (rep.)