The People's vindicator., 1881-02-26
Cook County (Ill.) Poor-house at Jenerson'
twenty light cases being reported.

Cook County (1ll.) Poor-house at Jeferson'
twenty -eight cases being reported.
IT is reported that an entire family OF
several persons were found frozen to death
in their cabin near Burns, Minnesota, on the
line OF the Winona &St. Peters Branch OF
the Chicago T. Northwestern Railroad.
MARTIN DokLEY and wife, living on
Big Run, near Willa,nstown, Va, died re-
Gently within few hours of each other, IN
great agony, with undisputed symptoms OF
trichinosis. They had eaten .: raw pork a
few days before. A portion of the 1Heat was
examined, and found to contain large NUM-
bers of the fatal worms.
A VERY palpable shock of earthquake
was experienced along the Hudson River,
New York, on the morning Of the 4th.
Tue Alamosa, coach from del Nortc
to Alamosa, Colo., was robbed on the night
of the 81 by two men,, five miles from Del
Norte. Four mail pouches and treasure
pouch were taken. The passengers were
not disturbed. The amount in the pouches
Is unknown. g..
PROF. RILEY announces that, by a
singular coincidence, both the thirteenth
year and seventeenth.year locusts are to ap-
pear the coming summer, but providentially
both will not afflict the same localities. The
ravages Of the former will be limited to
Southern Illinois, Missouri excepting the
northwestern corner), Louisiana, Arkansas,
Indian Territory, Tennessee, Alabama,
Georgia and South Carolina; of the latter, to
Wisconsin, Ohio, Pennsylvania, New York,
Maryland, Virginia and North Carolina.
These insects, he says, never fail to put in
their appearance at the regular period.
The latest advices from Apia, Samoa,
state that King Malistoa died Of consump-
ton on November 8, and the Islands are now
in state Of anarchy, On his dephbed
Malistoa appointed his nephew, thesVice-
King, as his successor, and named the Prime
Minister Matufa as next in succession, but
the people were not disposed to quietly sc-
quiesce in this arrangement. d, r.. ...
A L1FE-1NsURANCE conspiracy has
been unraveled at Evansville, Ind. Julius
A. Coleman, a prominent young lawyer, in
duced Charles H. Lucas to insure his life for
$4,000 and make 4 feint Of having been
drowned in the river. The preliminaries
were duly carried out, but before the insur-
ance money was paid over the company in.
tercsted got wind of the fraud and caused
the arrest of all parties implicated. Lucas,
his wife, and an accomplice who testified to
having, witnessed the drowning, have con.
fessed their part in the affair, and according
to their statements Coleman was the origi'
nstor of the scheme,'a he was to have beer
! the principal beneficiary. H. la. B.. Z
A DESTRUCTIVE fire occurred Or
Second Street, St. Louis, on the night Of tht
5th, the principal losses being the extensive
wholesale grocery house of the Greeley
Burnham Company, o. II. Peckham & co.,
candy manllfactory, the Mound, City Pain
4 Oil Company's establishment, and s. B
Sale 4 Co.'s grocery house. The fire origi
mated in the Greeley -Burnham building ant
was caused 1v the lyreaking down Of plat
form on which was stored . large quantity o
matches. The losses aggregate half mill
ion dollars, nearly covered by insurance.
JOHN J. BERRY, tate cashier Of th'
Bank 81 Bergen County, at Hackensack, N
j., has been sentenced to five years in State
prison for epbezzlement. ',r,...,..
i The fund of the Irish Land Leagu
has been deposited in France. IN the name
Of Pa1nell, Davitt, Dillon and sEgan. III
latter has gohe to Paris to escape the opera
tion of the Coercion act. 4r " -
THR King of Ashantee has declared
war against England, and stores and ammu
milton have been ordered to the Cape Coas
from Madeira. n,n. -. =
i EVERY railroad in Minnesota, with tn
exception of the Chicago through lines, wa
blockaded by snow on the 7th. The drift
were packed so solidly that they could onl
be removed by shovelers. ',oa .m.-.
'a NEW ORLEANS suffered from an ir
, undation On the 7th.,the high water and Sc
we're gale causing abreak in the canal levet
BY which . district comprising 100 square
was Submerged. The Mobile Railroad wa
washed, away in several places some mile
out of the city, causing an. entire suspensio
: Of traffic. = 91;a .H +
: THE Spanish Ministry has resigned
in consequence of the Kings refusal to SAM
!, tioa a certain bin in reference to th
finances, and new Cabinet has been al
lpointed with sasasta ss Minister Of the II
, tettor and President Of the Council. Es|,
n'A FrRE at Walnut, lows, on the Roc
)! Island Railroad, destroyed seventeen bus
b ness houses and residences, with most {
:, their contents, d, L-.,.,, ..,r