Western appeal. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1885-18??, 1888-07-07

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Brief Mention Of News Of General
Interest

glBrief Mention Of News of General
Interest
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AZ Danville recently August Wilmer 4;
German, committed suicide BY hanging. No:
sIscause was known
"a recent rain. storm caused much dam
4 age TO crops In Mel lean, Piatt, De Witt and
4 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
II Miss Nellie Nolan, aged sixteen years,
was found in an alley near her home in
Lincoln few nights ago, lying unc0n-
scions on the ground She had been as
saulted by unknown persons and left for
dead
- team of horses ran away near Isabel
4 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 q thunderbolt and his team was killed.
q recent boiler explosion at Hogue's
mill, twenty lies west of Efingham, killed
Engineer Kane and an employee named
Lobe and badly injured others The boiler
was blown three hundred feet.
Near Arthur q few days ago Thomas
Wells, while pulling weeds, was bitten on
the finger by rattlesnake and probably
injured fatally.
q Charles Sutton was Instantly killed at
EJeffersOnville the other night while firing
anvils to celebrate the result Of the Chi
q scago convention. 9 s2 ss
Ten cars OF Santa Fe freight train
i were derailed and smashed at Laura the
4 other night. Wi lillian Starr was injured,
and tramp stealing ride was killed.
Miss Neohala Avery, thirty-fve years
old, committed suicide at Macomb few
days ago by taking strychnine.
4 The geological attractions of Lincoln
4 Park, Chicago, have been enhanced by a
4 fne collection of animals purchased from
the Barnum & Bailey show by the park
commissioners.
Prof Forbes, State Entomologist, has
4 discovered that the e bill bugs that in
i fest swamp-land are damaging corn on
il low ground.
BY the explosion Of q boiler recently in
Q mill near Vandalia Sam King and Dan
Logue were killed
Sweet & Fallonsbee's livery stables at
i Quincy were damaged by fire the other
4 day TO the extent OF q, 500.
The Burlington employees in Chicago who.
struck on February22 are represented as
still brayely 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 a few days ago.
IOWA.
Thomas Burns, of Dubuque, aged TWEEN
/ ty one years. attempted to lift large
stone to show his strength the other day,
i and the effort cost him his life He slls-
tanned q fatal rupture.
A large addition is to be built to!the glu-
cose works at Marshal town The company
expects to use six thousand bushels of corn
q day.
a dog In Davenport the other day seized
young sparrow that had dropped to the
/ sidewalk and was Instantly set upon BY
hall dozen OF the grown birds with a fe-
roclty 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
toricaI 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 u Smith,
treasurer. s5s#
George Lucas, Dubuque politician, COM
mltted suicide the other day while drunk
/ Is freight train on the Iowa Central was
Ederailed 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 q portion of Hi
| nois.
river, near Dunlap a monster turtle, which
| had the inscription s L. H. Reese, April,
l847,' = 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 liy-
ing near Maquoketa killed herself and her
| four-y ear 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, a 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 cancer, COM
mitted suicide with revolver few days
i ago at Council Bluffs.
WISCONSIN.
William E. Hill, who was station agent
| Tor the Sault Ste. Marie railroad at Wier-
hauser, was sentenced to one years inn
prisonment recently for stealing SIG.
Three prisoners in. the Superior Jail over
powered the watchman the other night and
escaped.
John Eustase, q 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 VII
cinity.
Qdin 7. Renning, the son Of q prominent.
resident OF Milwaukee, was drowned while
| bathing the other night.
The first load OF iron ore from the new
mines near Wansau was shipped away the.
other day, one car going to Appleton and
one to- Milwaukee,. The occasion was made
one ofgeneral rel oicing BY the citizens.
Mrs. Sophia Eickmeirsdied at Sheboygan
q few days ago. aged ninety years. She
was married in 1923 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 employee at the ST..
Charles Hotel at Mani owoc, hanged him
Il self the other afternoon from the raftfrs