The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1900-05-02
THE NEWS In BRIEF.


For the week Enuiuk April oO.
Half the business portion OF Croveton.
Tex. was burned.
Confederate Memorial day was observed
In the southern states.
Two thousand coal miners at Spring VAL
ley. ILL.,, went on strike.
Burglars robbed a, bank at Coulterville.
ILL.,, securing booty OF 5000.
Robbers secured 5000 from the Mas
sanutten bank at Strasburg. Va.
A. s. Hallidie. inventor of the first cable
car system. died In San Francisco.
An official report shows the government
lost s.. 600. 900 by Capt. Carriers frauds.
The Turkish torpedo boat Schmayl blew
up I'm Beyrout and % lives were lost.
Mysterious murders of young girls and
boys occur in many parts OF Germany.
Forest fires In Jackson county. Wis. de-
stroyed over 1900 acres of Dlueberries.
William Edmunds i'm a drunken rage IA
tally shot his wife and himself i'm Chicago.
Unusually hot weather caused an out
break of yellow fever at Vera Cruz. Mex.
The little town of Laurel Forge. Pa.
was almost wiped out of existence by fire.
Lorin F. Wolcott celebrated his one hum
dredth birthday at his home In Sparta,
Ill.
Exports of American liquor have de-
creased 40 per cent. during the last nine
months.
Charles Herbert Allen. the newly-ap-
pointed governor of Porto Rico. arrived at
San Juan.
The democrats have nominated II. ID.
Harrington for congress in the Twentieth
Ohio district.
Mrs. Maria Hook and Sadie Hill, grand
daughter, were burned TO death at juno
ton City, Wis.
The statement that Germany has de-
~. HaI t. fa1
authoritatively.
Six thousand passengers for Cape Nome
are booked for May sailings and all berths
are preengaged.
Mrs. Sarah Boston. of New Brunswick,
N. j.. celebrated her one hundred and
fourth birthday.
Mrs. Susan Simmons Winans first white
child born in Chicago, has just died in
Santa Ana. Cal
DR.. Irvine defies Bishop Talbot and re-
fuses TO retire from the Huntington Q'a.)
Episcopal charge.
President and Mrs. Mckinley arrived in
Washington at eight clock Friday morn
ing from Canton.
j. w. Cardoni and Lillian Weixelbaum,
two variety actors, were drowned near
New Haven, Conn.
At Hays City, Kan, 16-year-old Peter
Goetz was sentenced to 20 years in prison
for killing his father
The Fifth Avenue hotel and Madison
Square theater. New York, sold Thursday
at auction for 81, 1880 900.
Miss Minnie NJ. Wray, of Lincoln. Neb.,
commits suicide before a mirror in the
Palmer house, Chicago.
Massachusetts, republicans in state con-
vention declared for Secretary of the Navy
Long for vice president.
The queen arrived at Windsor castle Fri
Il mt arrG rgffp fa1 A
royal train at every station.
The transport Sherman arrived in San
Francisco from Manila with 753 soldiers
of the -Four teenth infantry.
David II. Mercer has been nominated for
a fifth term in congress by the republicans
of the Second Nebraska district
Nebraska republicans have nominated
John r. Hays for congress in the Third
district and w. 5. Morlan i'm the Fifth.
John Watson and William Brown, both
white. and Sonnie Grain. colored. were
hanged at McMinnville, Tenn, for murder.
American contributions to aid the starv-
ing In India will reach S3,500,000. England
has contributed less than one-third as
much.
w. ID. Dickinson popular young farm
er Of Sharon township, o., shot Miss Edna
Wilkinson and killed himeslf. Jealousy
was the cause.
in Orange Free State are being burned
whenever evidence is found of friendship
TO the federal cause.
Adolph Landauer filed personal petition
in bankruptcy in the United States court
at Milwaukee. Liabilities are stated to be
S39l 1881, and assets $2S9, 94i99
DR.. Theodore Herzl, originator of the
scheme TO assemble all the Jews of the
world in Palestine, says money in plenty is
at hand and the project only awaits salts
factory charter from the sultan.
Wharton Barker. populist leader. predicts
that Bryan will not be nominated although
Mckinley would prefer him for an OPP
ponent Mr.. Barton believes that the peo-
pies party has good fighting chance.
Large crops OF winter wheat are expected
in Illinois, Michigan. Kansas, Missouri and
Nebraska from a decreased acreage. The
Indiana crop will be small and Ohio farm
ers say they will reap less than was sown.
The Masons and Builders association of
Chicago, claiming to represent $500 build
ers and contractors, wrote to the mayor
demanding adequate police provision to in
sure public safety from assault and other
interference. They say 10000 men and
SIS, 000 600 capital are idle.