The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1900-05-16
THE NEWS IN BRIEF.
For the Week Ending May IA.

Eor the week Ending Mny Ia
Fire wiped out the main portion of Ever
est, Kan.
Granny Ray (colored). rs years of age.
died IN Cincinnati
Loss by crop failures in India is esti-
mated at si25. 000
cyclone damaged nearly every build
Ing in Jerseyville. Ill.
Fire destroyed 1000 houses at Fukin.
Japan, and is lives were lost.
In an explosion I'm coal mines at Toms
Greek, Va, six men were killed.
George Gordon. desperate negro, was
hanged at Albin, Miss. by a mob.
French troops seized Ksarigil, giving
them control of Moroccos frontier.
Mrs Joseph Cramer and her child were
killed in a runaway at Winamac. Ind.
Three persons were killed and two Sc
riosly injured during a severe windstorm
in st. Paul.
The democrats have renominated W. 5.
Cowherd for congress in the Fifth district
of Missouri.
Mrs Hannah Newell Barrett, of Boston.
celebrated the one hundredth anniversary
Of her birth.
The Illinois social democrats have NOM
mated James Beattie. of Spring Valley,
for governor
Lord Salisbury in a London speech said
that the cause OF home rule i'm Ireland
was hopeless.
Oklahoma republicans in choosing ma
tional delegates indorse Mckinley and ask
for statehood.
1t is said the Ashantees are determined 10
throw off British rule and are able to raise
$4,000 warriors.
The American flag has been hoisted over
the island of Tutuia, Samoa, amid great
native rejoicing.
Senator Butler, of North Carolina, has
been reelected chairman of the populist
national committee.
Detection of Chicago city employees tam
pering with water meters disclosed frauds
amounting TO 100000.
William Lorimer has been renominated
for congress by the republicans of the
Second district Of Illinois.
The steamer Quito sailed from New York
for Bombay with 200,0 900 bushels of corn for
the famine district in India.
Will Lee, a negro who attempted TO as
sault Mrs. S. II. Dlefenbach, was hanged
by mob at Hinton, W. Va.
In a railway wreck near Clifton, n. NJ,
Engineer Schlottman, Fireman McAfee
and four tramps were killed.
Martial law has been proclaimed in Bar
celona and Valencia, Spain, on account Of
the anti-taX demonstrations.
Memorial day plans IN Chicago compre-
bend the strewing of flowers on the water
in honor of the country's sailor dead
The car has abolished deportation to ST.
IBERIA of Russian conVicts and has forbid
den sentencing prisoners without trial.
A peasant named Mencci, in a fit Of in
sanity, murdered his entire family, con-
sisting of nine persons, at Arezzo, Italy.
The American pavilion at the Paris ex-
position was on Saturday turned over to
the authorities and formally opened TO the
public.
Appropriations at this session of con-
gress will be $500, 900 900 less than two years
ago, largely due 10 military and naval de-
creases.
Winslow p. Burhans and Elmer A. Smell,
prominent young men i'm Ionia, Mich, were
drowned in Grand river by the upsetting
of a boat.
After the adjournment of congress Pres
ident and Mrs Mckinley will go TO their
Canton home to remain the greater part Of
the midsummer.
Gus Wilson (colored) killed Alexander
Whitney, a society leader in a street car
in Augusta, Ga, and was taken from ofli-
GERS by a mob and hanged.
In Chicago Charles IL. Gilbert shot and
killed Roman a Kelly, whom he had be-
friended, and who threatened him with a
knife In order 10 get more favors.
At Sparta Wis. Elmer Benjamin. aged
20 shot and killed Mrs. Emma Priest, aged
IS. widow lady. Young Benjamin accused
Mrs. Priest OF alternating the affections Of
his father from his family.
In notable public address at Birming-
ham Joseph Chamoe rain declared that the
empire wall not permit the continued oX-
istence OF the Boer republics, and that they
must become colonies of the crown.
Mrs Netue X. Craven has been indicted
by the grand jury III san Francisco Oh a
charge OF felony, namely, perjury, Tor her
testimony gwen before that body I'm re-
lation to her claim Tor a widows share
OF the James .. Fair estate.
r. l.. Morse, OF cedar Rapids. Ia. left
Nashville, Tenn, Saturday on horseback
for San Francisco. Mr. Morse Is 10 years
old. He says ne prefers his adopted meth
cd OF travel to railroad train and ex-
poets to make his 2,0OO-mile journey in 30
days.