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



Robbers secured $4,000 from the bank at
Jansen. Neb.
Della Fox. the actress. has been commit
ted to an insane asylum
On June the one millionth pension cer-
tificate was fled and paid.
Near Montgomery. w. Va, II men died
from eating poisoned provisions.
Gen. Elwell/s. Otis Is slated for COM
mand of the department of the lakes.
An Iowa boy has invented a gun which
Is said TO fire s,s40 bullets a minute.
Wheat crop I'm Kansas promises TO be
the greatest In the history of the state.
The Building Trades council at Kansas
City. Mo-. ordered 5000 men to go on strike.
At Miles City. Mont. the Northern Pa
cihc express Office was robbed OF a 5000
package.
The school census of Indiana shows a
population OF 1888. 4S3. a decrease or 5.49I
In year.
At the opening OF the Chilian congress
the president said Chill was at peace with
all the world.
Rev. Edward Edmunds, the oldest Bap-
list clergyman In Boston, died there,
aged S5 years.
Princess Aribert of Auhalt, granddaugh-
ter of Queen Victoria, has arrived in New
York incognito.
Capt. Arlie Morrison, Frank Campbell and
William Medlar were killed by lightning
at ST. Clair, Mich.
A Philadelphia messenger boy has de-
livered message from American school
children TO Kruger.
Railroad crop reports point TO a heavy
harvest in Iowa, Nebraska, northern Mis-
souri, and northern Kansas.
Michigan republicans will hold their
state convention In Grand Rapids June
"a to nominate state officers.
DR.. II. l.. Mundy, aged As years, a dentist,
was found dead in his office In Kansas City,
Mo. He had taken morphine.
The enumeration for the twelfth census
began. and IL Is to be completed in 80 days.
The cost will be over SIS, 100000
The bank at New Lisbon, Wis, owned
by w. Fl. II. Cash, was robbed of several
thousand dollars by burglars.
Chairman Hanna has invited members
OF the first republican convention to at
tend the Philadelphia meeting.
Judge James Scammon died at Kansas
City. He was one OF the most prominent
members Of the bar In Missouri
Congress has appropriated s35, 900 for geo.
logical surveys in Alaska this year, and one
OF three parties has already sailed.
Gov. Roosevelt announces that he has
granted the extradition of Neely, de-
manded by Gov. Gen. Wood. of Cuba.
The United States transport Sherman
sailed from San Francisco for Manila
heavily laden with commissary supplies.
Robert B. Roosevelt, of New York.
says the Paris exposition Is the worst
fake and fraud ever perpetrated on man.
kind"
David Ward. pioneer capitalist, lumber.
man and owner of a fortune of upward of
s25, 900, died at his home in Pontiac,
Mich.
Smith Afford was tarred and feath-
cred at Bridgeton, N. j., after the death
of his wife. whom he is said TO have
abused.
The peoples congress at Cape Colony
adopted resolutions demanding independ-
ence in order that lasting peace may be
assured.
The exports for the fiscal year just
closing to Hawaii. Cuba, Porto Rico,
Samoa and the Philippines show great
increase.
BY the death of Thomas E. Miaco in New
York six theaters and large fortune are
left to his 15-year-old daughter Edna, his
sole heir.
amid the boxer uprisings in China re-
port that several missionaries have. been
murdered.
A negro known as Dago Pete was
lynched at Tutwiler. Miss, bv q mob OF
negroes for criminally assaulting a coll
ored woman.
Rev. John c. Lowrie. d. D., one OF the
foremost missionary workers in the Pres.
byterian church, died at East Orange,
N. j., aged 92 years.
British-Americans in Chicago and else
where organize to fight the democratic
party should IL persist I'm It's attitude OF
sympathy for the Beers.
Ex-Mayor John Steketee, of Grand Rap
Ids, Mich, and for many years vice consul
for the Netherlands, of which country he
was native, died suddenly.
Subscriptions are being received for a
monument in Erie, Pa, to Capt. Charles
V. Gridley. commander of the flagship
Olympia in Dewey's fleet at Manila.
Lieut.. Col. Webb c. Hayes, Thirty-first
volunteer infantry, son OF ex-President
army, his resignation having been accept
ed by the president
Mr.. and Mrs. John l.. Halden, for no
other reason, apparently, than simple
WEAKNESS of life, went to the lake shore
at Edgewater, a Chicago suburb, took
poison, and died lying side by side.
Two children were dragged from a burn
ing house on the truck farm OF r. Steer
Bicksloe, near Media, Pa, at night by their
eight-year-old brother, who, driven out
by the flames, was unable TO save his moth
er and a baby.
Nominations for congress: Illinois,
Twentysecond district. G. w. Smith
(rep.) renominated; Indiana, Sixth dis
trict, ID. w. Mckee (dem); Kentucky,
Eighth district, G.. G.. Gilbert (dem.), re-
nominated; Missouri, Fourteenth dis