The true northerner., 1900-04-25
THE NEWS IN BRIEF.
For the week Ending April ea.


Robert Alan Mowbray Stevenson. the
artist. is dead in London.
Spain. fearing American aggression, Is
fortifying the Canary Islands.
The sultan of Turkey promises TO pay
the American indemnity claim.
Mrs. Glass killed herself and two chill
dren In Chicago by asphyxiation.
Prairie fires were doing immense dam
age in Minnesota and North Dakota.
During the fiscal year just ended $4,000
Italians have landed In this country.
Ex-Congressman David G.. Colson was
acquitted OF murder at Frankfort, Ky.
The New York democratic state conven-
tion will be held i'm New York city June 5.
Elmer Harris II years old, fell dead in
Hamilton, o., at the end of boxing bout.
Charles III. Allen, the new governor OF
Porto Rico, has gone TO assume his duties.
Francis Il. Lossier (dem.) was elected to
congress from the Fourth Virginia dis
triCt.
The signal corps has 1851 miles of wire
In operation and 160 telegraph offices in
luZon.
Harry Williams was hanged at Toronto.
Ont, for the murder of j. G. Varcoe,
grocer.
j. III. Raymond resigned as president OF
the University of West Virginia because OF
politics.
Sidney Powers shot and killed his di-
vorced wife in Elgin, ILL.,, and then killed
himself.
American coal production for 1899 esti-
mated at 25O,5S9,6 $50 tons, an increase OF
17.5 per cent.
N. j. IIaines, founder of the piano firm
of Haines Bros, New York, died suddenly.
aged 76 years.
During the present decade the United
States has produced half of the world 5
copper supply
At Brownville, Neb., Charles Smith shot
and killed his wife and himself. Domestic
trouble was the cause.
Homer Crawford. a negro, was hanged
in Hawkinsville, Ca, for the murder of
Johnson Pate (colored).
Engineer George Crane and Fireman
Frank Reynolds were killed in railway
wreck near Aurora, Ind.
The president has appointed Frank w.
Hackett. of New Hampshire, TO be assist
ant secretary of the navy.
Mrs. Caroline L. Haskell, who gave
large fortune for education and religion,
died In Michigan City, Ind.
James r. Willard, Chicago broker, has
filed a petition in bankruptcy. He owes
SS45,0 600 and has not dollar.
The distress from famine among the peo-
pie of India is spreading, and 5,5OO,OOO per-
sons are now receiving relief.
The Alaskan winter was the coolest on
record. The temperature ranged from IL
to SO degrees below a Dawson.
Riley Powell (colored) was hanged at
Cairo, H., for the murder of Elmo Erie at
Charleston, Mo. in October. 1899
The new Philippine commission must de-
termine the ownership of realty in the
archipelago, much OF which is i'm dispute.
The strife between Rear Admirals Samp-
son and Schley is settled, Schley taking
precedence over Sampson and 10 rank next
TO Dewey.
Benjamin Northup. well-known news
paper man, formerly managing editor OF
the Mail and Express, died in New York.
aged A years
Sir William Wedderburn. an authority
on Indian affairs declares the English
government IS responsible for the awful
famine in India.
Andrew Cordiff, living near Hopedale.
o., found his intended bride, secured
through a matrimonial paper, was his
missing daughter.
At Tazewen. w. Va. John Peters (col-
ored). who assaulted Miss Katie Richie a
white girl 16 years of age. after brutally
beating her, has been lynched.
Count De Toulouse Lautrec, French
nobleman, arrested in Chicago,
charged with having forged Cuban gov
eminent bonds for many thousand dollars.
The supreme court or Indiana mas de-
cided that shares in national banks must
be taxed al their marketable value, with
out regard to debts which holders may
owe.
The republicans have nominated Edwin
Wright for congress in the Fourth Ohio
district, Colon Melville in the Seventeenth,
and John j. Esch in the Seventh Wiscon-
sin district.
1t is reported in Milwaukee that an east
ern combina tion is TO build connecting
line of 100 miles between the 500 and the
Green Bay and Western railroads to fur
nish a new lake port for seaboard traffic.
The percentages of the baseball clubs in
the National league for the week ended
on the 22d were: Philadelphia, LOCO:
Brooklyn, .667: st. Louis, .G67; Chicago,
.S23; Pittsburgh. 1888; New York, 1888; Bos-
ton, 200.
The Emmanuel Holland Reformed church
burned at Muskegon, Mich. Nicholas
Carey, driver OF a hook and ladder truck,
was killed by the falling of the rear wall,
and Ben Peterson, who. with Carey, was
on a ladder. was seriously injured.