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

Brief Mention of News of General
Interest.
ILLINOIS.
At Danville recently August Wilmer,
German, committed suicide by hanging No
cause was known.
age to crops in Mclean, Piatt, De Witt and
other counties. Every creek in the cen
tral 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
I 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,
prominent and wealthy farmer. and fatally
injuring him.
William Questell, while blowing in his
field near Carmi the other day, was stunned
by thunderbolt and his team was killed.
A recent boiler explosion at Hogue's
mill, twenty miles west of Efingham, killed
Engineer Kane and an employe 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 a 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 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 a
| fine collection of animals purchased from
| the Barnum & Bailey show by the park
commissioners.
Prof. Forbes, State Entomologist, has
discovered that the "bill bugs'' that in
fest swamp-land are damaging corn on
low ground.
BY the explosion of boiler recently in
a mill near Vandalia Sam King and Dan
Logue were killed.
Sweet & Fallonsbee's livery stables at
Quincy were damaged by fire the other
day to the extent of $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 a million pounds of the ore, was
discovered near Galena few days ago.
IOWA.
Thomas Burns, of Dubuque, aged twen-
ty-o 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 fatal rupture.
A large addition is to be built tosthe glu-
cose works at Marshalltown. The company
| expects to use six thousand bushels of corn
a day.
A dog in Davenport the other day seized
ayoung sparrow that had dropped to the
sidewalk and was instantly set upon by
half dozen of the grown birds with 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.
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. Human.
OF Belmond, president; Mrs. Hanchett, of
Waverly, secretary, and Mrs. NJ. L. Smith,
treasurer.
George Lucas, Dubuque politician, COM
mitted suicide the other day while drunk
A freight train on the Iowa Central was
derailed near Mason City recently, and
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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 portion of Hi
nos.
| There was recently caught in the Bayer
river, near Dunlap, monster turtle, which
had the inscription " L. H. Reese April,
1871" 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 a farmer liv-
ing near Maquolxeta 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 revolver
Mrs. George Marshall, aged sixty eight
years, who believed she had a cancer, COM
mitted suicide with a 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, woodsman, died from
the effects of a sunstroke at Carter's home
stead, sixteen miles from Florence, few
days ago. He was we'll known in that vi
entity.
Odin T. Renning, the son of 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 a cabinet-maker, and
several years ago constructed collins for
himself and wife and has kept them in his
shop since then. tx
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