The American citizen. [volume] (Topeka, Kan.) 1888-1909, 1889-05-24
THE WEST.

LOCOMOTIVE engineers and hremen on
many Western roads are expecting an an"
nouncement of 10 per cent. reduction In
wages A strike of gigantic proportions
is not improbable.
The lines of the Wabash railway east
of the Mississippi river were sold before
Judges Gresham and Jackson at Chicago
on the 18th to Messrs. Ashley and Joy, rep
resenting 80 per cent of the bonds, and
acting in the interest of the Wabash
Western purchasing committee, for 3d.
900.
THE lower house Of the Illinois Legis-
lature has passed a bill appropriating 800"
600 for a monument to the late General
John A Logan.
The steamship Columbia, which arrived
at Astoria, Ore, on the 10Th, brought re-
port of the loss Of the Oregon Railway g
Navigation Company's magnificent side
wheel iron steamer Alaskan, which IS re"
ported to have foundered off Cape Blanc,
while on her way from Portland to San
Francisco
PASSENGERS on arriving trains at Ash
| land, Wis.,. on the 18th reported from three
to five inches of snow all over Northern
Wisconsin.
On July the State Treasurer will pay
the last dollar of the Iowa State debt
The Sioux Indians at the Yankton
agency will negotiate with the Govern"
ment for the sale of seven townships In
the north part of their reservation. The
tract will furnish homes of 100 acres to
1000 families.
DURING a severe storm the other even.
ing the home of Dayton Flagg, at La Prai.
RE. Wis, was struck by lightning. After
the fire was extinguished Mrs. Flagg was
found dead on the floor. Her little child
was badly burned but will survive.
By the bursting of mold filled with
liouid iron i'm the Union works, San Fran
cisco, recently, eleven men were badly
burned.
A FIERCE hail storm recently visited the
section between Dewitt and Clinton, Iowa,
doing great damage to crops and window
glass.
J.. 7. STEWARDS big packing house at
Council Bluffs, Iowa, was destroyed by
fire recently with all it's contents. Loss,
500, coo; we'll insured.
CHAIRMAN J. w. GOsHORN, of the Ma
tional Union Labor Executive Committee,
has called a committee meeting at Chl-
cago June 13 1t is stated that at the
meeting the Union Labor, the Prohlbltlor
and other reform movements VIII ettect
consolidation and that call for conven
ton will be issued for the inauguration O.
| a reform party.
. FIRMIN APIANO, an Indian, was hanged
at Tucson, Ariz,, on the 18th for the muir
! der Of Patrick Ford, prospector. I'M
was the first execution of an Indian II
i. Arizona under the recent d. ci~lon or IN
. Supreme Court, which gives to the Terri
9 torial courts jurisdiction over all the In
r dian criminals.
THE Standard Oil Company, in order
9 protect its property from tramps who haV
n caused numerous fires lately, has ordere
4 200 bull dogs, which will be distribute
}. throughout the Ohio oil fields.
"a The Railway Conductors convention
q session at Denver, Col, reelected Chic
). Wheaton and Secretary Daniels and A.
sistant Grand Chief Conductor G. v
ia wilkins, Of Chicago. 1t was decided
d hold the next session at Rochester, n.
{. BY the caving in of the roof Of IL.
8. Baldwin & Co.'s shoe factory, Detro
r. Mich, the other day, three workmen
I'd pairing the building were buried in Il
ruins and one killed.
A DISASTROUS wind storm swept ov
the vicinity of Tittin, O., recently don
N thousands Of dollars damage to buildin
90 = fences. Freight cars were blown fro
"A the track at New Riegel. Crops we
badly cut by the hail
he THE Cheyennes, of Dakota. have a
az pointed a council Of fifty and twel
10 Judges to treat with the Sioux lndl
Commission regarding the sale Of p'
nd Of their reservation.
om GREAT CaIhollc ue"lo">'Ia''o "
made at the laying of the corner stone
ng the LaSalle institute CDlca2o' 0"
10Th About 80 900 were present.
nd AN earthquake was reported in the m
Ter die portlon OF va loi ma oii the l'~H'