The Columbus journal., 1880-12-22
News ofthe Northwest.
ILLINOIS.


The notorious Lizzie Barton has
at last been captured in the western
part of this state, with the horse and
buggy she stole from the hitch-rack
in Clinton, some time ago.
A disease of the lungs is carrying
of the hogs in great numbers at
Orion, Henry county. One farmer
I son IA of town has lost about one
hundred head.
Over eight thousand five hundred
arrests have been made and recorded
by the police of Springfield since
January.
A farmer in Towsnda, Mclean
county, owns mare that was foaled
MAY 5. 1916, and can still eat corn.
A Methodist minister of Nirden
won bet of s. on the election, from
dentist of the same place.
There have been sixty-fiye cases
of measles in Naples from the pres
ent epidemic.
WISCONSIN.
Levi Calkins, a weil-to-do but
but rather eccentric citizen of Yer
non county, is in jail for fifteen
days, for performing his own mar
riage ceremony with Hannah De-
ten sheep had been killed outright,
ard eleven 40 badly injured that il
was necessary TO put them out OF
weir misery by knocking them in
the head. Besides these there were
twenty-five or more bitten and torn.
The sheep were all of fine quality.
Mrs. Renfro, of Cape Girardeau'
was accused Of theft and fled to
Cairo. She was arrested, but at
tempted TO jump in the river. On
her way back to the Cape she tried
to throw herself under the cars. An
examination of the charge against
the woman proved her TO be innO-
cent.
DIR. Jacob Geiger, of St. Joseph,
was assaulted on the streets of that
At the time of the $4,000 fire in
Duluth, last week, the velocity of
the wind was forty miles an hour,
the thermometer was Is degrees be-
low zero, and the fire engine froze
solid. Many people had their feet
and ears frozen while working TO
to save property.
The woods of Todd county are
gaining an unenvisble reputation for
the murders therein committed.
One man who. had shot six deer was
killed in the woods. last week, by
party of hunters who coveted the
game. .-
MISSOURI.
A gang of dogs made an attack on
Mai. VIM. Gentry's flock of sheep
near Sedalis, the other night. and
when the onslaught was discovered
terest of the Sisters of Mercy, had
successful run of nine days and
cleared LOO. .....
a malignant type of diphtheria is
now prevailing at the Hennepin
county poor farm.
MINNESOTA.
The scarcity of cars is still vex-
ing question with the millers at
Minneapolis. 1t was reported one
day last week that the three Wash
burn mills contained fifteen thous-
and barrels of -four, and that at one
time the mills were stopped, as
there was room for no more -four.
All were going at last accounts, but
the millers think the worst is yet to
come. E-
they are in place it will add much
TO the beauty of the building.
An ingenious beggar recently left
his shoes and stockings outside the
door of a railroad Office in Des
Moines while he went to crave for a
pass for "a poor weather-beaten
tramp" A glance convinced the
division superintendent that those
feet were accustomed to being shod,
and slight investigation revealed
the ruse.
IL is estimated that the coming
year will be historical in the sctiyi-
~ of railroad construction within
the borders of Iowa, and that the
total mileage of new roads will be
not less than one thousand miles.
Several yOung men of Harlan have
been arrested for the seduction and
prostitution of a girl of 4 years, and
the girl has been sent to the reform
school at Mitchellville.
A fair at Independence, in the in
be laid of in town lots.
Iowa.
Something over year ago a
young girl left Dubuque at the sum-
mons of her lover, TO go To the far-off
country of New Zealand, 10 marry
him. She made the long journey
snd has just returned toDubuque un-
welded. After reaching New Zes-
land her lover showed such an in
disposition to marry her that the
girl declined TO hold him to his
promise.
The stone-cutters have resumed
WORK at the capitol at Des Moines,