The Iola register., 1890-05-09
THE WEST.

lHE MdgneGlC barge was SUNK recently
near Sault Ste. Marie, Mich, after collis-
ion with the tug Continental, on which
fire had broken out and which in the
confusion struck the barge. ..
THE Willard tract comprising sew
enty acres on the lake at Chicago just
north of Jackson park, has been sold
for $500 The noteworthy feature
was the fact that Willard paid but S175
for the entire tract, having entered the
land in the SOS at cost of $3.50 an acre.
AT Marengo, Wis, recently two small
sons of Anton Foraker were crushed to
death under pine tree which Foraker
was cutting down. ......
The picture of "The Rag Pickers" by
j. Bufferdinger, of Munich, valued at
$1,000, has been stolen from gallery in
Chicago.
OLE SANDBERG and his eleven-year-
old son were poisoned recently at Fergus
Falls, Minn., by eating wild parsnips.
The boy died but his father recovered.
HIGH water at Rock Island, Ill,
washed away 50, 600 yards of earth of the
new power dam of the Government ar
senal island and did other damage to
the amount of $4,000. ...
Two Finn laborers were dashed to
death recently by fall down shaft 100
feet deep, near Negaunee, Mich.
An Indian named Anasticio Ugo, who
had been arrested for horse stealing,
was taken from box car at Banning,
Cal, by vigilantes and hanged to tel
egraph pole.
CONDUCTORS on roads centering at In
dianapolis, Ind, are smarting under
wholesale discharges. Itseems sneak
of spotter obtained free transportation
from conductors by giving the Masonic
sign of distress. He then reported the
conductors who showed him the favors
and they were discharged.
McABEE and Corcoran, two aldermen,
and four others have been indicted for
election frauds in Chicago. .-.
MARCUS MoILLER THRANE. who organ
lied the first labor rmovementin Norway
and was imprisoned in 1850 for advocat-
ing republics in all Europe in his paper
in Christiana, Norway, died at Eau
Claire, Wis, recently, aged seventy-two.
c. L. BILLINGsLEY, wealthy con-
tractor of st. Paul, Mimi, has been
crushed to death by the overturning of
a house he was moving. ..
The Salvation Army at Des Moines,
Iowa, has been arrested for parading
contrary to orders.
THE stage running from Bowie to
Thomas, Ariz., was stopped by two
Mexicans. The express matter was
taken and the passengers compelled to
surrender their valuables. .a.f.
CHARLES f. WRIGHT, who shot and
killed Sheriff Marshall and Deputy
Thurber at Bensonia, Mich, last Au-
gust, has been sentenced to life impris-
onment for the crime.
By an explosion of natural gas in
cracker factory at Fort Wayne. Ind,
the building was wrecked and one man
fatally hurt.
A MISPLACED switch at Castroville,
Col, caused the wrecking of freight
train and the death of fireman. The
engineer stuck to his post and was not
hurt.
STRIKES in Chicago planning and iron
HILLS anu reaper workS were declared
on the I'd for the eight-hour day. The
master carpenters, it was reported. were
ready to make the concession.
AT Chicago George Sleaver is seeking
to establish common law marriage with
Alice NJ. Case in order to get divorce
recorded. This is the first instance
where man has sought to establish the
fact of such a marriage, though several
women have done so.
PASSENGER tickets from Kansas City
to st. Louis were selling as low as $3.50
on the I'd. ~
By collision at a railroad crossing at
Lima, O., recently an engineer and two
tramps were killed.
DANIEL DUSTIN is the new assistant
United States treasurer at Chicago.