The American citizen. [volume] (Topeka, Kan.) 1888-1909, 1889-07-05
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a circular saw in a mill at Evansville,
Ind. the other day.
JOHN RATH was killed and his wife and
"a neighbor badly injured near Madison,
Wis, the other day by being struck by
train while riding on handcar.
TIE entire people of Arizona are up In
arms against the proposition to remove
Geronimo and his Apache murderers from
Florida to Arizona.
! The principal development on the 18th
In the Cronin case at Chicago was the
arrest of Lawyer Beggs. He was the party
alleged to have seen to the execution OF
the death sentence pronounced by Camp
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A COMBINATION OF the knit goods men
in the territory west of the Alleghanies
and north of Memphis has been practically
effected by a meeting or number OF
manufacturers at Chicago.
COMMENCEMENT day at the Lake Forest
University, at Lake Forest, ILL.,, was
regular jubilee becau Sc of the fact that
$780, 900 had been added to the endowment
and more was prom sed. There were four
teen graduates.
BEN MARKS and Eddie Horton, boys.
were recently drawn into the shute OF an
elevator at Lima, O., and smothered to
death.
GEORGE and Fred Saniskey, brothers,
were drowned recently in the river at
Des Moines, Iowa.
GREAT damage was done to winter wheat,
rye and corn in Winona County, Mimi,
recently by hail and rain.
COLONEL A NJ. SAxTON, one of the orig
inal settlers of St. Joseph, Mo-, died on
| the 9th He was born in Ohio, February
II, 1921. ..
THE publishers of the Chicago city d.
rectory estimate the present population OF
| the city at over O.0OO.
/ THE new quarters at the new military
post, Fort Logan, near Denver, COL, hay
been completed and accepted
| GEORGE P MURRAY has been given a
twenty years. sentence in Judge William.
sons court at Chicago for abduction and
criminal assau on Mamie Freeman, aged
fourteen years. Murray was foreman OF
the Legal News and was married, having
a wife and four children.
JAMES HARVEY, agent of a Chicago
dressed beef company, was arrested at
| Valparaiso. Ind, recently on the charge
of violating a new law prohibiting the
sale of fresh meat unless inspected on the
hoof within the county. He was released
|
johnson on the ground that the law re.
curing such inspection is unconstitu'
tional.
Both houses of the Michigan Legislature
have agreed to the Damon bill liking the
liquor license at $500.
| A PASSENGER train struck a cow twenty
miles below Cairo, Ill., the other day anC
was ditched. Six passengers were slightly
| o1J fofo ha6
The people of Albuquerque, N. M, have
raised $75, 600. to be given as bonus t.
the Atlantic & Pacific railroad if it will
build thirty-hve miles Of track this yea
toward the San Pedro mining camp.
Two attendants in the State Insan
Asylum at Rochester, Mimi, have beer
sent to the penitentiary for killing
patient.
The assassination Of DR.. Cronin was de
nounced in a mass NEE ing held at Chica
go on the nj ght OF the 2Sth.
ACCORDING to the figures of the jus
completed directories the population o
the twin cities (St. Paul and Minneapolis
is now close to half million.
A STORM swept over Southwestern Obi
on the afternoon f the % h. The south
bound train on the Ohio & Northwestern
run into a washed-ou bridge just south
west of Batavia, fatally and seriously in
} Turing several persons.
PART of the Burton block, Clinton an
, Van Buren, sire cts, Chicago, was burne
the other day. Loss, 5000, 900.
AN extensive prairie fire recent
ravaged Cascade County, Mont. No live
l were reported lyst
> The funeral of the wife of ex-Preside1
HAYES took place at Fremont, o., on tt
28th.
Q A REPORT from Blackfoot Mont, Of
i rich discovery in an artesian we'll, whole
! sale claim jumping and fears Of masst
: ere was totally ithout foundation. The
, was no claim jumping Of any consequent
> nor was there any unusual excitement
the Orc Elmo district.
s The Academy of Music. Cleveland, {
was burned the other night. 1t was Il
> oldest place of entertainment in the cit
THE crop prospects in the Northwe
have been damaged by hot winds. Co
IS tinuous rains are also reported to have i
: ficted considerable damage in Illinois.
" AN Indian giving his name as Olaf,
10 the Omaha tribe was taken from Jail
Bedford, Iowa, the other night al
= lynched by citizens. He had been caug
attempting an outrage upon the wife
. Frank Glasoman farmer.
, The Cronin grand jury on the Doth I
: turned indictments against Martin BurA
Patrick Cooney, John F. Beggs, Dan
" Coughln, Patrick O'Sullivan, Fra
- Kunze and Frank Woodruff. Alexand
Sullivan was not indicted.
% UNDER orders from DR.. McChesney, l
to dian agent at Cheyenne, a man nam
ia Waldron has been driven from the Sio
reservation by the Indian police. His
ID tense consisted of trying to persuade !
n, dams from signing the treaty opening t
reservation to settlement
IN A CLOUDBURST swept the mining car
D. of Hermosa, n NJ. recently, destroyi
c, half the place.
s THE SOUTH.
" A SPECIAL from Buckner, Ark, saws I'll