The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1888-07-06
NORTHWESTERN NEWS.
Interesting Items Gathered from
Various Localities.
ILLINOIS.

Interesting Items Gathered from
Various Localities.
/ ILLINOIS.
| John Hutehings, Of Harvel, was struck
/ by train while walking on the Wabash
railroad track the 9th er day and was killed.
He was eighty years old
/ Miss Eunice Christopher, teacher liv-
| ing near Devon, was found drowned in a
welLnear the house the other day. 1t was
supposed to be a case of suicide.
A whirlwind near the railway station at
Litchfeld few days ago inflicted damages
| to the car works and private property. No
| person was injured.
| DR.. Newton Bateman, president of Knox
/ College, at Galesburg for thirteen years,
| rendered his resignation recently, ill-health
| being the cause
Miss Mable fowler, of Village Grove,
while walking through an oat field on her
fathers farm the other morning was bit
| ten by a rattlesnake just above the ankle
Antidotes were given, but her limbs and
body swelled alarmingly and her skin
| turned spotted, and her recovery was
| doubtful.
| Mr.. McHenry's barn at Metcalf, was
struck by lightning the other night and
burned. Loss, 5000
Jessie Newbury, a lad sixteen years of
age, had his arm drawn into plunger in
| the Excelsior factory at Lincoln the other
morning and ground to pieces.
| At Danville recently August Wilmer, a
German, committed suicide by hanging. No
| cause was known.
| no 81 IF Jno E,,;r
church at Waukegan was a the other
| day by DR.. Clinton Locke, OF Chicago. The
structure is to cost $780, 900.
| A 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 aga, 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, a
prominent and wealthy farmer, andfatally
/ 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 Effingham, killed
Engineer Kane and an employee named
Lobe and badly injured others. The boiler
was blown three hundred feet.
IOWA.
The spectacle Of three vagrants chained
| to a telegraph pole like so many wild boasts
was witnessed in LIE Mars recently. They
had been sentenced to work out their fines
on the Streets a thing which they stubborn
ly refused to do.
In Hazel Green township few evenings
ago Mr.. Rothbaker, an old man, undertook
to whip his boy, a lad Of twelve years, but
the boy ran. The father gave chase, cap
tured him and knocked him down and cut
off his head with an axe.
A peculiar disease is epidemic among the
4 swine in the vicinity of Mason City, and
/ many hogs are dying. The first symptom
is the drying of the tongue, and soon the
entire head is affected.
While bathing in the Des Moines river
the other day at Boone Ralph Reed, a four
/ teen-year old boy, was drowned.
/ Uncle Barney Strain, resident OF
Onawa for many years, bid farewell to his
adopted country few days ago and started
| for Ireland, after an absence of forty years
Several residences in the suburbs of Ma
| son City were broken into and Freight
Agent Crippen, of the Milwaukee road, was
robbed of 5000 during circus parade the
/ other day.
A cremation company has been formed
in Des Moincs to consume the carcasses oil
dead animals and all offensive refuse in the
city.
AT Des Moines Miss Pritchard sustained
injuries while carrying water up stairs
and applied to Christian scientists for re-
lief Her condition a few days ago was
such that should she recover she would be
permanently lame.
/ 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. lie sus
tanned a fatal rupture.
Alarge addition is to be built to the glu
cose works at Marshalltown. The company
expects to use six thousand bushels of CORE
a day.
A dog in Davenport the other day seized
a young sparrow that had dropped to the
sidewalk and was instantly set upon by
half a dozen of the grown birds with a fe
rocity that not only made him drop his prey
but sent him off bowling with the blood
flowing from several places where their
| sharp bills had struck him.
The Woman's Christian Temperance
Union of the Third Iowa district, is session
recently at Waterloo, elected Mrs. Human
of Belmond, president; Mrs. Hanchett, oil
Waverly, secretary, and Mrs. III. L. Smith
| treasurer.
/ Governor Larrabee has reappointed the
entire board of curators of the State His.
torical Society.
| WISCONSIN,.
Seventeen-year locusts have appeared al
Madison.
Andrew Berg, living near Medford, shot
his wife a few mornings ago and then him
self. He was dead and she would probably
recover.
J. w. Robinson, of Melrose, died a few
afternoons ago from accidentally taking a
dose of carbolic acid He was seventy-five
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