The American citizen. [volume] (Topeka, Kan.) 1888-1909, 1889-05-31

of police, has been appointed by Mayor
Cregier, of Chicago, to be inspector or
police, vice John Bonfeld.
A RAILROAD official at Chicago states |
that he does not anticipate any strike on |
the Western roads this year.
THREE men died Of congestive chills In
one night on claims near Oklahoma City.
A MAIL route has been established be-
tween Guthrie and Lisbon, in Oklahoma
In the Pacific Derby at San Francisco
on the 231 the Gar made mile and one
nalf in 2:36, the fastest Derby ever run IN
America, beating the record OF 2;SoS
made by Ben Ali in 1886 and that OF =. d
Todd at Chicago iR 1874
THE workingmen of Minneapohs were
taking steps to start line OF herdlcs In
opposition to the street car line. CapltaI-
lists were behind the scheme.
THE directors of the Chicago gas truss
have appointed committee to investlgaUe
the feasibility of supplying Chicago Win
natural gas.
By a premature explosion of dynamite
near Homer, Mich, Conner James ana
Harris James were killed. The explosion
occurred on the latter's land. The two
left home to blow out stumps and had
%xentv-five pounds of dynamite. TheH
bodies were found five rods from the ex-
plosion.
FREDERICK SCHULTZ has sued August
Michel for s., 500 damages at Minneapolis,
Mimi. for covering him with coat OF req
and black paint while he slept and aIter'
ward calling in fifty other boarders TO
lanph at the sight He was awakened oy
their shouts Of laughter.
DR.. LAWS, president of the State Uni"
versitv at Columbia, Mo-, has resigned.
THE lower house of the Illinois Legisla-
ture has defeated an election bill proVlo-
! ing for a system similar to the one In use
in Australia.
Hon, ELIJAH M. HAINES, ex-Speaker or
the Illinois House and prominent figure
in State politics. died recently. He was
the author of several works on indian
lore.
TANK of naphtha in the Chicago, Mil
waukee e. ST. Paul railroad yards ex'
ploded recently at Chicago, blowing q
man fifty feet, killing two horses and DO
ing other damage.
The Belle Prairie convent near Little
Falls, Mimi. took fire recently. Th'
twenty-four children had narrow es
cape, being saved with great difficulty DJ
the Sisters in charge.
The Iron Mountain railway, part
the Missouri Pacific system, has given no
tice that all unnecessary Sunday trall
service, both passenger and freight VII
be discontinued on that road and that onl.
trains conveying livestock or perlshaDl
freight will be permitted to run on oun
day.
TIE house of one of the jurymen in tn
trial of the alleged Socialists at Mon
l Belgium, was damaged by the explosio
iC
o that 1t was placed in the house by SON
j, one who wished to intimdate the jury
man.
THE Atlas line steamer Alvena sale
from New York for Greytown Nicaragua
on the 25th, carrying the first batch
u men and machinery for the constructic
> of the interoceanic canal At GreytoW
the engineers Of the surveying expedite
of 1878. VINO have remained in Near
% qua in the service of the construction con
: nanv will meet the Alvena passengers al
supervise the labor.
Y. THE Canadian Government announc
or that an order in council has been pass
90 reducing the clearance fees charged
l. American vessels entering and leavil
IN Caeadian ports on the great lakes to
IN cents for vessels of any tonnage.
CLEARING house returns for the we
ended May % showed an average increa
v, Of 23.4 compared with the correspondil
th week of last year. In New York the
u. crease was 29.5
SEVERAL warehouses at Lubbock, Ge
st many, burned the other day. The
n ragged furiously and defied all efforts
D. put it out The loss was estimated to
two million marks
MINISTER LINCOLN presented his c.
dentials to Queen Victoria on the 25th.
on THE British man of-war Surprise "
tc run ashore at Syracuse the other d
after collding with and sinking
n steamer Vesta. The man -of-war was
les ~ vvater