The American citizen. [volume] (Topeka, Kan.) 1888-1909, 1889-05-17
THE WEST.


larger towns high license was the issue,
and in most cases the salooH CaAuAu0Oo"
were defeated.
WHILE crossing the Michigan Central
tracks at Kalamazoo recently street car
was run into by a switch engine. The re"
suit was the horrible mangling to death
of six of the passengers all ladies' Two
other lady passengers were injured wnlle
the only two male passengers escaped
unhurt.
MAT RAsr and August Young were
crushed between two sections OF PACKET
train at Champion, Mich. recently.
Young was instantly killed and Rast died
| in half an hour.
TWENTY-FIVE acres of ground closely
| bnilt M with small dwelling houses were
swept by fire in the suburban village OF
Moreland, near Chicago, on the oth ana
seventv families were rendered homeless
TIE National Association of LUMBER
Dealers held it's twelfth annua meeting at
Chicago on the 9Th. There were abous
fifty members present.
THE town of Spaulding, Mimi, OF 5OO In
habitants. was half destroyed by ire on
thu 7th. Three hundred people were rem
dered homeless No lives were lost
WH1rECAPs have notified Rev. George
Jacob Schweinfurth, who Is WorsnlpeU
as Christ by the Beekmanltes OF ROCK
ford. Ill, to leave the city in ten days. II
he does not go they say they VIII OreaA
into his house. take him to the WOODS Tar
and feather him, and roast him alive
THE Northwestern Miller reports the
-four market improving.
RrspoNs1RrE parties from Samedor,
; Mont. report that large party of Pine
Ridge Sioux led by Grasshopper, have
come into the Tongue river agency for the
rnrnose Of getting up a sun dance among
; tbe Chevennes. An outbreak was feared
IT has been decided to hold the next con-
. vantion Of the Y. NJ. G. A. at Kansas City,
I Mo- ,
l ABOUT !, 200 employees in the great Pull
Q man shops at Pullman, H., have been lalo
off temporarily because of lack OF orders
J. THE Florissant (Col.) outlaws have been
9 captured. They gave their names as d III
9 Hunter and A. Floyd. A hitherto re-
: snected citizen named A. NJ. King, living
eioht miles north of Florissant, Is lmpAl'
d Gated in the robbery.
o THE Whitecap warning received DJ
o Schweinfurth, the Beekmanite leader o
II Rockford ILL.,, has resulted IN the lnsur
n ance companies canceling all policies OF
his home known as Heaven" and Tn
n structure is now at the mercy OF tn
a Whitecaps and the elements. =,
NEAR Wingate n. NJ, on the Atlantl
l. b Pacific, a quarrel arose between lou
9, Zuni Indians and four cowboys but 10
the time being nothing serious happened
l. Later on the quarrel was renewed, "nel
re pistols were drawn and pitched oattl
r. ensued. resulting in the killing OF all fou
n Indians and the serious wounding OF ON
g. cowboy. The whites were arrested
ID THE lake steamer Chemung, OF the sam
IS. line as the Owego, has made the trip 1rol
Buffalo to Chicago in tfty-four hour
beating the Owego's record,
=. THE condemned Bald Knobbers, job
IN Matthews. Dave Walker and Bill Wake
90 were executed at Ozark, Mo-, on the lot
under distressing circumstances, the a.
~ paratus not being properly adJuste
y necessitating the dropping Of Bill Walk
no q second time.
- HpEAT damage was done to fruits, ga
III den truck and flowers about Belvidel
I'LL. the other night by fierce hail al
ma rain storm.
: RAND of robbers recsntly ambush
Paymaster Wham and al escort OF eleV
fla soldiers on their way 10 Fort Ihomi
"a Eight of the escort were wounded, |
biS robbers securing $4,000 and escaping
ora the mountains.
AN Ind an Territory special says the
"a. fusal Of Chief j. b. Mayes to convene
Of Cherokee Legislature at Tahlequah v
CIV produce a hitch in the purchase OF
OOO 6.OOO 600 acres known as the Cherol
nj Strip by the Ulited Sta es. There
great opposition to thu sale and excl
lle- ment was running III.
me A YOUNG man has died Of yellow fe
/ of in Wood County, o. He was rec entity II
bv the South.
Rev. DR.. CLUTE has been chosen pr'
ars1 dent of the Michigan State Agrlcult'
an College al Lansing Mich. lie was pa
Of the Unitarian Church at Pomona