The American citizen. [volume] (Topeka, Kan.) 1888-1909, 1889-04-26

AN order has been granted in the equity
sassion of the Illinois Supreme Court as
solving the Brush Electric Company anu
appointing ex-Mayor O'Brien, OF chicago,
receiver. The company Is entlrely Soi'en'
and has assets of 5000 OOO.
TIE one hundredth birthday OF Ed
vord r Little was celebrated in Marcel"
1,,s +ovnship. Cass County Mich, recent
". The old man is still hale and active
coNnucrOR HUGHES aud Engineer Con-
verse Of the freight train which telescopeo
. diractor,s car at Lorenzo, ILL.,, the other
dav and caused three deaths, have been
.rraeted and placed in the Joliet jail
II il renorted that man named NC
Pbarson. formerly of San Francisco, mas
GET himself up as monarch of one OF the
Alantian islands. A revenue cutter mas
hoan ordered to arrest him and turn MIN
ovor n the civil authorities at San Fran
c;cco a. during his "reGn" he had caused
three natives to be hanged.
A PACKAGE containing a1o,OOO In golu
hoe disaDneared from the cthce OF tn0
| the Northern Parific Express Company az
Rrajnerd. Mimi There was no cleW as 70
| who took it. -,
| A TORNADO passed over nkley, Ill.,
-, tho 1qtn. No one was hurt, but many
buildings were unrooIeL
/ FIVE persons persisted In the cabin OF
river raft boat which sunk the otner nlgnU
| near Buriin gton, Iowa. A woman In Cne
cohin ssvDd her life by finding corner
not submerged where she kept her heau
| until the roof was broken in ana she was
pulled out.
WHILE a:temp ing TO ford Ephralm
creek in the Cherokee Strip on the 1SCh
boomer, his wife and four children were
swept away and drowned.
THERE was a report at Purcell |. l., on
the 10Th that United States marshals heu
fred into a parry Of boomers attemptlhS
To ford the Canadian river and enter Okla
homa before the legal date. Seven DOOM
ers were wounded, two fatally, the re
mainder. numbering Tn r Y, Icing taKel
prisoners. There were reports elseWher'
; IF serious conflicts with cattiemen.
: SYLVESTER GRUBB was hanged at Vim
: J cannes. Ind. on the 10 for the murder o
his sweetheart September Is last.
Two SIN Ill boys were drowned at ROCK
Vile. Ind the other evening "ntle Ooa'
ing. ~
9 THE two hunlred:h anniversary OF tn
= founding of the first paper mill III ALneTlc
will be celebrated at tIOAD' IouSh' as
September, 1879
THOMAS M. DANsBY merchant
Cleveland County, and Reuben W. Dal
den. a planter o. Union County, cohvlcte
in the Federal Court at l. tile ROCK, AtH
, of ohstructing the Congressional electlt
? November 6, were sentenced by Juo'
:, Brewer. Dlrden to imprisonment Tor "
- wears and Dansby to pay tine or SOoO al
i costs. The testimony disclosed that Da
den had driven negro from the polls al
= that Dansby had interfered with voters
"a THREE men tiel from suHocatioh at
fire which burned a cheap lodging hou
on Cadillac square, Detroit, Mich I
"a | other day.
~ SERIOUS fires were reported at Depel
Wis. The loss by he burning Of the Nj
n' sanwinkle factory and adjacent proper
!" amounted t. - 5000 Bucknee, near A
Melton. was wiped out, which. win I
., losses near Marion. amounted to 10 w
% The ste, mer Umatilla arrived at
Francisco on the Doth, having on bos
Lieutenant Loui, Ripley and twenty N
injured men OF the United States steam
- Vandaliu and Trenton.
:" Two street cars were wrecked
- strikers at MnneH p dis, Mimi, Oh the
-, and the traffic stopped
- THE Central Iowa train was wrscl
~ four miles west Of Abingdon, ILL.,, on
-. goth. The train went through orlo
setting fire to the mail car. Ohe man
~, killed ami eight wounded