The American citizen. [volume] (Topeka, Kan.) 1888-1909, 1889-04-19

ABOUT fifty persons were overcome by
suffocating black smoke from fire which
broke out in Sanger, Rockwell g Co.'S
factory at Milwaukee, Wis, on the 10th.
Twenty Of the victims had to be carried
home In patrol wagons.
ONE man was fatally and four seriously
burned In foundry at Youngstown, O.S
nv the explosion of molten metal in cast.
ing form. -
JuDaE THAYER, of the United States dis.
trict court at st. Louis, has decided that
the tops of mail boxes are not receptacles
for mail, and taking papers from them II
no criminal offense.
THE Braman beef bill to require the in
sanction of beef on foot before being killed
was defeated in the Ohio Senate by vote
NJ IA to 16 The bill originated In the
House and passed that body by an almost
unanimous vote.
TIE Michigan House has passed bill
prohibiting the sale or giving away Ok
cigarettes.
/ AN order to reduce wages on the street
car lines in Minneapolis resulted In
ntrike on the lit,
Mr. BEDD1NGER. another Dakota prairie
fire victim. is dead. This made six deaths
In HYDE County caused by prairie nres.
The total loss in Hyde County was $4O,OOO"
MISS BEECHLER, who has just been on
trial ut Omaha for the killing OF ID. w.
King, Jr., expects to sail for Europe soon
HARRIET's tailoring concern at Detroit,
Mich. an establishment for manufactur-
Ing ladies' silk garments, was robbed the
other morning and about $4,000 worth OF
silks stolen.
OFFICER O'BRIEN is at the point of death
At Chicago as the result of an injury re-
ceived at the Haymarket riot O'Brien
has a piece of the bomb in his side.
THE United States grand jury at Por1
Townsend, Wash, have found twenty -hV'
Indictments against William Harmed
special deputy collector, eleven agalns
Herbert F. Beecher, ex-treasury agent ant
twelve against Quincy A. Brooks Tor steal
Ing from the Government.
: FIFTY persons in the gem ral offices
, the 20" system at Chicago have been dis
charged in order to curtail expenses.
THE Ohio Senate committee to investi
gate Railroad Commissioner Capellar re
ported finding him guilty of questionaol
conduct both as an officer and in priVat
life.
MEREDITH STANLEY, OF Cincinnati
|. Jumped recently from the bridge on tn
: Cincinnati Southern railroad over tn
Kentucky river, a height of 2S5 feet Wit
the exception of coughing up little bloc
: he was unnjured- He did it to beat Stew
Brodie, the New York jumper.
: FRANK RINGo, the well-known base ba
catcher. committed suicide at Kansas Cit
= recently after a protracted spree.
. AN uproar was caused in the Wester
4 hut 6iSROVprU
a secret rate existed between the st. Pa
road and the Armours. The other roat
y were forced to make the same rate, as IL
contract had three years to run. The Il
q ter-State Railway Association threatene
prosecution, which general manag
- thought mere buncombe.
JOHN D. JENNINGS, a millionaire mar
IL times over, died the other night in b
apartments at the Southern Hotel, Oh
~ cago. He was seventy five years old.
o. had long been one of the largest holders
Chicago real estate and was familiar
50 known as Corner Lot Jennings"
III RECENTLY an attempt was made
wreck passenger train on the Clevelan
- Lorraine & Wheeling railway near Tipp
y canoe station, o. A heavy log chain W
Ia wrapped around the rails and three
- four cross ties were piled over the raj
~ The express train passed over the chain
~ safety and came to Q stop before reachi
the ties.
" JOHN JACKSON, a capitalist and pre-
on dent of the elevator on Biddle street,
70 Louis, hanged himself the other morniI
NJ The suicide was due to the hopeless cone
" ton of his business affairs
:, By an accident on the Cairo Short Ii
III near Belleville, ILL.,, recently, thirte
an loaded cars were smashed to splinters a
'u' about $50, 600 worth of merchandise {
!, stroved. Brakeman Samuel Patten v
Wy fatally and Brakeman Pat Brown seriol
gu " injured. Engineer Tobn and Firem
ted NoDIo
THE steamship Alameda arrived at
Francisco on the 18th. bringing full p
ticulars of the terrible hurricane Of Ma
t VI 16. 16 and II at Samoa. She also brou
O"' several cadets from the wrecked steaI
Trenton. The disaster to the war yes!
"" was due to the fee bleness Of the machine
the British corvette Calliope escaping
deadly reef by the sheer force OF
,oo powerful engines. The Samoans &C
~ nobly in rescuing those in peril and car
OnS for them afterward. The German cru
On Olga. which had been beached, was foe
no otter the storm and reached Sydney,
W., safely, where she was docked for
pairs
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