The Progress., 1888-01-28
] NORTHW WESTERN NEWS.
interesting Items Gathered from
Various Localities.
ILLINOIS. sIii,

ILLINOIS. "
William Deatharge, aged one hundred
Il years, died at his home in Morgan County
i the other day. He was an early settler and
4 the oldest man in that region
Thomas Houston, an old citizen Of
4 Logan County, wss drowned the other
i eight in Sugar creek at Lincoln. =
William johnson, a Rockford grocer, was
i gwen small fine the other day for slap
ping customer, Mrs. Lizzie Ganoung.
i syl sBassett, of Shelby vile, who murdered
his brother Albert, was recently sentenced
I to eighteen years in the penitent tiary. II
4 Thomas Hetty, a pioneer, who about 1841
cago, and who boasted Of having killed
game within a short distance of where
4 Cook County courthouse now stands, died
the other night at Freeport aged ninety
I two years Es7.a ),
A high grade of iron ore has been discov-
cred in the Embarras river hills, two miles
4 east OF Charleston, and a company is being
formed to market It
Two miners at work In q coal mine near
q Fairmountwere crushed to death recently
by mass of slate falling upon them.
r N Dodd's drug store and 8. w. Hickox's
grocery store at Springfield were burned a
few days ago Loss, $35, ,OOO
a semi-annual dividend of 312 per cent
4 payable March, /, has been declared by the
Illinois Central Road. s,ts
4 The twenty years pastorate Of DR.. Good
win at the FIRST Congregational Church in
4 Chicago was celebrated the other night by
q sociable and reunion.
4 DR.. F. w. Phillips, superin tendent of the
q illinois Institution for the Blind, died at
: Jacksonville few afternoons ago
i Governor Oglesby has pardoned Charles
3. Huston, a ytwo-year man, because he had
his arm crushed in an accident at the peni-
tentiary. {f&tl.5{
The village of Maroa was visited by de-
sIuctiye fire the other morning, which
swept away $25, 900 worth of property.
Rockford boasts the only woman station
agent in the State The Chicago & North
western Railway Company has appointed
Mrs a b Whitmeyer to fill that position,
made vacant by the death Of her husband
E8lE 81 IOWA. Il TEs1s
Martin l. Mcclure, dealers in Wholesale
cigars at Marshalitown were closed the
other morning on nortgA Ages for SIS, 900.
Estimated liabilities So, 600. a %5
Governor Larrabee has reappointed W. l.
Alexander as Adjutant-GeneraL
Dwight L Moody and Major Whittle will
make an evangelical campaign in Burling-
s ton. t.3tEt5 5 Els C$,:*{ z !.
. T. j. Jones and c. s. Porter, medical
students at Des MONIES, were recently sem
tenoed to six months each in the peniten-
tiary for robbing grave tsi
! The mon who have been charged with
completely in the Haddock murder at
Sioux City are already scattering to differ
ent parts Of the country. Koschnilxki, or
Bismarck, has gone with his family to San
: Francisco, whence he was brought by Chief
Nelson Harry Sherman has disappeared
and John Arensdorf, the principal, has gone
to Milwaukee. where he has a chance to
take charge of brewery OF the original
ten indicted, only three are in Sioux City.
It is said that John Arensdorf will return
4 to Sioux City as the agent of the Philip
B<sS Brewing Company. .- g
snperinteAdent Wilcox has perfected ar
rangements for the North Iowa orator1cal
contest, to be held at Mason City in March.
Henry Schmidt, who murdered Miss Peek,
was hanged at West Union the other day.
In his speech from the scaffold the con-
demned man said that Ellison T. Smith in
stigated the crime, and had also offered
him $500 to kill Abram Leonard
A fire a few nights ago burned out the
Martin & Schulein building at Sioux City.
leaving nothing but the walls standing.
Loss $50. 900 t5k
Frank +. Thul. book-keeper for the King
Iron Bridge Company at Des Moines, was
recently indicted for embezzlement and
i forgery. He confessed to having robbed
his employers of $1O, 600
Many of the farmers throughout Iowa are
heavy losers from peculiarly fatal disease
among their cattle In some instances en-
tire herds numbering as high as twenty
have died within few hours
In the recent blizzard In this State the
two sons of Byron Cleveland, of Manchester,
were frozen to death, and John Olney met
q like fate ut Marathon ifr tr5
i A collision on the Rock Island railroad
occurred a few days ago near Ottumwa, be-
tween passenger and freight train, re-
suftsng In the deaths. of three persons and
the miliming of four others Arthur E.
French, the stat on telegraph operator. had
been held in So, 900 bonds for causing the
disaster through negligence.
4 5Fs 81 WISCONSIN,
The State Supreme Court has reversed the
decision Of the superior court of Mtlwau-
kee and ordered Judgment for $181, ,64O63
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