Western appeal. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1885-18??, 1888-07-07
THE NORTHWEST.
Brief Mention Of News Of General
Interest.

Brief Mention Of News Of General
Interest.
4 ILLINOIS. 9
4 At Danville recently August Wilmer, q
German, committed suicide by hanging. No
cause was known.
recent rain storm caused much dam
age to crops in Mclean, Piatt, De Witt and
other counties. Every creek in the cen
trail part Of the State was booming.
At Hoopeston the other day Fred Nanny
while bathing was seized with cramp and
drowned
Miss Nellie Nolan, aged sixteen years.
was found in an alley near her home in
Lincoln few nights ago, lying uncon-
scious on the ground. She had been as
saulted by unknown persons and left for
| dead.
a team of horses ran away near Isabel
recently, throwing out Elmer Richeson, q
prominent and wealthy farmer, and fatally
injuring him.
William Questell, while blowing in his
] field near Carmi the other day, was stunned
by a thunderbolt and his team was killed.
A recent boiler explosion at Hogue's
mill, twenty miles west of Ehingham, killed
| Engineer Kane and an employee named
Lobe and badly injured others. The boiler
was blown three hundred feet
Near Arthur a few days ago Thomas
| Wells, while pulling weeds, was bitten on
| the finger by rattlesnake and probably
injured fatally.
Charles Sutton was instantly killed at
Jeffersonville the other night while firing
anvils to celebrate the result of the Chi
cago convention.
Ten cars of a Santa Fe freight train
were derailed and smashed at Laura the
other night. William Starr was injured,
and tramp stealing ride was killed.
Miss Neohala Avery, thirty five years
old, committed suicide at Macomb few
days ago by taking strychnine.
The geological attractions of Lincoln
| Park, Chicago, have been enhanced by
fine collection of animals purchased from
the Barnum & Bailey show by the park
commissioners
Prof. Forbes, State Entomologist, has
discovered that the .sbill bugsn that in
fest swamp-land are damaging corn on
low ground
BY the explosion of boiler recently in
mill near Vandalia Sam King and Dan
Logue were killed.
Sweet q Fallonsbee's livery stables at
Quincy were damaged by fire the other
day to the extent of 81, 500
The Burlington employees in Chicago who
| struck on February % are represented as
| still bravely battling on in the hopes of
bringing the road to terms.
! A valuable deposit of sulphide of lead,
assaying 1857 pure metal, and estimated
to contain million pounds of the ore, was
| discovered near Galena few days ago
IOWA.
Thomas Burns, of Dubuque, aged TWEEN
| ty, one years, attempted to lift a large
stone to show his strength the other day,
and the effort cost him his life. He sus-
tanned a fatal rupture
A large addition is to be built to!the glu-
| cose works at Marshalltown The company
expects to use six thousand bushels of corn
a day.
dog in Davenport the other day seized
young sparrow that had dropped to the
sidewalk and was instantly set upon by
half a dozen of the grown birds with fe-
roclty that not only made him drop his prey,
but sent him off bowling with the blood
tloWng from several places where their
sharp bills had struck him
Governor Larrabee has reappointed the
entire board of curators Of the State His
torical Society.
The Woman's Christian Temperance
Union of the Third Iowa district, is session
recently at Waterloo, elected Mrs. Hinman.
OF Belmond, president; Mrs. Hanchett, of
Waverly, secretary, and Mrs. M. L. Smith,
treasurer.
George Lucas, a Dubuque politician, COM
mitted suicide the other day while drunk
A freight train on the Iowa Central was
derailed near Mason City recently, and
Engineer Smith and Fireman Galby were
hurt, the latter fatally.
The annual Sunday school convention
of the Des Moines district of the African
Methodist Episcopal church was held re
Gently in Davenport. The jurisdiction in
clues Iowa, Dakota and a portion of Hi
nois.
There was recently caught in the Bayer
river, near Dunlap, a monster turtle, which
had the inscription g L. II. Reese April,
1917 cut in it's shell.
There will be twenty professors and in
structors for the coming year in the vari-
GUS departments of the Iowa College at
Grinnell
Mrs. Broadway, the wife of farmer liv-
ing near Maquoketa killed herself and her
four year. old daughter the other day by
setting fire to the bed upon which they lay,
burning down the house.
The other afternoon at St. Donalus,
little son of Michael Welsh, farmer, shot
and fatally wounded his two-year- old
brother while playing with a revolver.
Mrs. George Marshall, aged sixty EIGHT
years, who believed she had cancer, COM
mitted suicide with revolver a few days
ago at Council Bluffs.
WISCONSIN.
William E. Hill, who was station agent
for the Sault Ste Marie railroad at Wier-
hauser, was sentenced to one years i'm
prisonment recently for stealing SIG.
Three prisoners in the Superior Jail over
powered the Waterman the other night and
escaped.
John Eustase, a woodsman, died from
the effects of a sunstroke at Carter's home
stead, sixteen miles from Florence, few
days ago. He was well known in that vi
entity.
Odin T. Renning, the son of a prominent
resident of Milwaukee, was drowned while
bathing the other night.
The first load Of iron ore from the new
mines near Wausau was shipped away the
other day, one car going to Appleton and
one to Milwaukee. The occasion was made
one of general rejoicing by the citizens
Mrs. Sophia Eickmeirsdied at Sheboygan
a few days ago, aged ninety years. She
was married in 1928 to her husband who is
now living. He is cabinet-maker, and
several years ago constructed collins for
himself and wife and has kept them in his
shop since then
John Keller, an employe at the st.
Charles Hotel at Manitowoc, hanged him
self the other afternoon from the rafters