The American citizen., 1889-03-01
THE WEST

CH1FR JUSTICE JOSEPH II REED, of the |
Iowa Supreme Court and Congressman
elect from the Ninth Iowa district mas re-
signed his judicial position to take e1tect
February %. Judge Harvey, of Decatur
County, is likely to be elevated to the ou-
preme Bench.
ASSISTANT GENERAL SUPERINTENDENT
Nd. Roof of the Northern Paclhc rail-
road. died the other dav from The effects
of injuries received at Tacoma, Wash. 1.
john w. STREET, inventor of the i'm
proved cattle car died recently at chicago
aged fifty 1.-TWO.
A CAREFUL estimate at CEebOygan,
Mich, of the logging stock Tor the coming
season shows that the cut will reach l4O,-
900, coo feet Of lumber. Mill men look tor-
ward to a very busy season.
JOHN LEE was hanged at Alexandria
Mimi, recently for killing his rival IN
| love affair in cold blood after a spree.
| John Moe, his partner i'll or me, was
| granted a communication at the last moment
THERE is some anxiety among farmers
| and miners in California OIL account OF the
| absence of rain in the valleys ana snow IN
| the mountains.
THREE buildings in GIucKman q deiieT'S
block, at Chippewa Falls Wis, were de-
i
loss on the buildings and stock was about
| $40 900. Partly insured
The steamer Mariposa from Australia
and the Samoan islands arrived at San
Francisco on the 10th. Among her pas
senpers was John c. Klein, the American
newspaper correspondent who figured in
the Berlin dispatches as having led the
natives in the recent battle with The Ger
mans. but who claimed 20 have witnessed
the fight as non cont atant iii his ca
pacity as correspondent.
The new Owings block, corner OF Dear
born and Adams street, Chicago, one OF
the largest buildings in America, collapsed
| on the morning of the 1Tth. Ten floors feI
one after the other.
THE Typographical Union has taker
charge of the composing room OF th'
Chicago Globe Publishing Company. Ihl
ACQUISITION makes every newspaper othct
in Chicago a union office.
Mrs. OLIVER f. FRIEND her stepfather
William f. Howard; her mother, Emil,
Howard; Orrin A. Halstead and Georg
Halstead, the parties charged with con
spiracy In the Electric Sugar Refining
COMPANY frauds, have been arrested an
placed in jail at Ann Arbor, Mich.
A GANG Of Russian Jews engaged i
| Illicit distiltng in Chicago have been AZ
rested and the revenue officers are afte
several saloonkeepers and others.
ALBERT and George Avery, Of Houngs
| | town, O., were trampled to death nea
{ Rawlirs, Wyo., recently by mad cattle
THE Chicago, Burlington 4 Quincy roa
has reduced its passenger service in low
. to the extent of 5000 miles a month, an
t is preparing to shll further reduce it. Til
r object is to cut down expenses in the san
Q proportion that the Railroad Commi,
sionefs OF Iowa have curtailed tE
a revenues by enforcing a low schedule
x rates. Other Iowa roads. it is stated wi
D. take the same step.
y Rock RAPIDS, Iowa, was devastated /
= Gre on the 18th. Loss, $1,000.
: THE convention of the American TAR
" Reform Association began al tha Madisc
or Street Theater, Chicago OH the l9Jh. II
$ secretary real a letter from Presidel
A Cleveand.
n The Cincinnati. Ind annapolis & !
~ Louis car shops at Cincinnati burned {
- - the 19,h. Loss, 5000 900.
~ THE election for the late Con2resSm,
no Burnes' seat in the Fourth rict Of Mi
4. souri, came off on the 18th. Returns inC
Sc Gated the election Of Booher ami Wilso
u- Democrats, for the short ana long teri
d. over Posegate, Republican.
re BISHOP G. |. BEDELL, Of the Protesta
Episcopal ocese of Northern Ohio, W
- has been i'll for over a year, has be
aa stricken with paralysis at Nee. France