The true northerner., 1900-06-27
THE NEWS IN BRIEF.


Chinch bugs are doing great damage
20 Kansas crops.
Florida democrats nominated William ..
Jennings for governor.
In a mine explosion at Champion
Mich. four men were killed.
The business portion OF Huntley. Minn..
was nearly destroyed by fire.
Count Mouravieff, Russian minister or
foreign affairs. died I'm st. Petersburg
Canada has been awarded first prize for
its display of timber at the Paris exposi-
ton
In fire at Buffalo. n. Y. Mrs. G. MI
landa and her three children were burned
10 death.
A transport left Cuba with l25 teachers
20 attend the summer course at Harvard
university.
Gen Joseph Wheeler has arrived in Chi
cago TO take command of the department
OF the lakes.
The Commonwealth Mining company's
mill at Pearce, AriZ., was burned, the
loss being 100000.
Mai. Schaefer. a retired army officer,
committed suicide in the cemetery at
New Prague, MINI.
Many cattle were killed and much prop
erty destroyed by a windstorm near
Blanchardville. Wis.
oliver Dalrymple says two-thirds OF the
stroyed by drought.
Traffic was resumed on all St Louis
lines Sunday and neither passengers nor
crews were molested.
The two daughters of John Ethridge
were killed by lightning in their home
near Charlotte, n. ..
The great forest fires In the Buachuca
mounsans in Arizona destroyed 100000
worth of fine lumber.
The Worlds Woman's Christian Tenn
perance union opened its annual meeting
in Edinburgh. Scotland.
Five persons were killed and great dam
age was done TO property by cyclone
in Beaver county. Okla.
The Kansas wheat crop is 100, ,OOO 900
bushels, and 10000 men have been inn
ported TO help harvest it,
AT Eldorado. Kan, Miss Jessie Morrison
killed Mrs. Olin Castle with. a razor and
then fatally wounded herself.
Charles Fultz. of Quincy, Ill, has in
vented a new match. Instead of wood he
uses the stems of prairie grass.
The statue of Washington, the gift to
Paris by the Daughters of the American
Revolution, arrived in that city.
John Whitehead, a farmer, killed his
wife and himself near Poseyville, Ind.
No cause is known for the crime.
A rainstorm in Indiana did great dam
age at Fort Wayne, Warsaw, Peru and
other towns in the Wabash valley.
Jasper Francis Cropsey one Of the old
est American portrait painters, died at
his home in Hastings, N Y, aged S.
Congressman j. A. T. Hull was renom-
mated by the republicans of the Seventh
Iowa district. There was no opposition.
The five hundredth anniversary of the
birth of John Gutenberg, the inventor Of
movable type, was celebrated in Berlin.
Mrs. Lois S. Hall, who celebrated her
one hundredth birthday anniversary on
May % last, died al her home in Canton,
Ill.
Rev. John Philip Conradi died at his
home in Baltimore, Md, aged So years. He
was the pioneer of Lutheranism in Amer
lea.
Perry Wagner, a convict in the peni-
tentiary at Rusk, Tex, was hanged for
the murder of fellow convict last Oc-
tober
Robert Lockhart, of Covington Tenn,
and Miss Katherine Cline, of Patoka,
Ind, were married by ong-distance tele-
phone.
The American derby at the Washington
Park race track Chicago, was won by
Sidney Lucas, a twenty TO one outsider,
in 2:4Ol5.
A monument to the memory of Samuel
Hahnemann, founder of the homeopathic
SClOol ol HeulCIHe, was uSulCdtSu III
Washington.
Joel Hunt, his wife and William
Barnes, negro farm tenants, were killed
near Corsicana, Tex, in a dispute over
division of crops.
A terrific windstorm struck east of
Blanchardviue. Wis. number of cattle
were killed. and everything in the path
of the storm was torn up.
A fresh note has been handed the sui
tan insisting on an immediate reply to the
demand of the United States for "a settle
ment of the indemnity claims.
A mob in Livingston parish Louisiana,
lynched Frank Gilmore, a white man, for
the murder of an aged woman who was
supposed TO keep money in her house.
Louis Kelman, a wealthy merchant OF
Ashmore. Wis, was found dead in his
store, death being caused by asphyxia-
tion. Doctors say 1t is a case of suicide.
Charles Mefford, an Iowa lunatic in
flcted serious wounds with an AK upon
Mr. and Mrs. James Fitzsmmons, Miss
Kate Fitzsimmons and James Drake at
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