Iowa state bystander. [volume] (Des Moines, Iowa) 1894-1916, 1894-11-09
BREyITIEs.

Paris dispatch: LIE Paris, comment
ing on the situation in Madagascar,
says an expedition aga le Hovos
| is inevita BILE. 1t adds. rance has
resolved to conduct the operations with
all desirable energy and make the
necessary sacrifices from the start.
| The chamber will be Immediately
asked to grant a credit of 30,0oo.0oe
francs for expenses
Mayor John P. Hopkins, of Chicago,
has begun suit for 100000 damages
| from John r. Tanner, chairman of the
republican state central committee,
! for libel. The claim is made because
| of the assertion by Tanner that the
mayor was .'levying blackmail on the
vices of the city" 1t was because of
| this assertion that Mayor Hopkins had
previously caused the arrest of Chair
man Tanner.
| A fire one day last week with a
loss of 100000, fully covered by in
surance, wiped out the beef-killing
and several other departments of the
Hammond Packing Company's plant at
| South Omaha, and resulted in the
death of two fremen, John Swanson,
; of the South Omaha fire department,
| and Hank Peters, Hammond fireman
Three hundred and fifty men are
! thrown out of employment.
At Terrell, Tex. recently while 100
! persons were standing on the wooden
awning in front of the Mississippi
circus, the awning fell. There were
| fully 100 persons underneath and the
falling awning struck them with fear
| full force, badly wounding fifty Of
/ them. Those whom the physicians say
will die are Miss Pearl Russing Mrs.
| Wordsworth, Mrs Sutton, Mrs. A. ].
Anthony, Mrs. A. l.. Roberts.
The ship Naenie Dutard arrived at
| Port Blakely, Ore, a few days ago.
| bringing the news that the ship Ivan
| hoe, which has been due over month,
sank September %, with all on board.
This was the ship on which ex-United
! States Minister to Bolivia Grant was
! passenger. The Ivanhoe carried
! crew of twenty, all shipped from San
Francisco Ed Griffin was captain.
The passengers on board We're: Hon.
Frederick J. Grant. editor of the Seattle
acknowledgements; Allen B. Folger,
Mrs. Matte T.. Bara, Mrs. Irene Null
len, physician, and Edward Allwardice,
a stowaway.
The country around Shreveport, La,
| was recently visited by disas-
trous storm. Cabins, outhouses, gins
and cribs and many residences were
blown away or overturned. Nobody
was killed. A dispatch from BRENNAN,
Tex, says a hurricane, accompanied
by hail and lightning passed over that
section. Dwellings, barns, fencing
and trees were blown away. A mum
Der Of people We're badly injured by
flying debris and falling houses and
trees, but it is believed no lives were
lost. Reports from the surrounding
country indicate that the storm was
general. The damage to crops was
very great.
The strongest earthquake shocks
ever feltin the City of Mexico occurred
recently, lasting five minutes. Many
houses and walls fell The streets
were full of fleeing people, many
wounded, and number of dead. The
electric and otner lights went out,
leaving the city in darkness All traf-
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filed with screaming, crying, praying
people. The scene was undescribab bic.
The people in the theatres, which were
all running at the time, were terribly
frightened and panics were only
averted by the police. The people in
the trains were most frightened OF all
All telephone connections were inter-
rupted Shocks were felt in nearly all
the towns
A bomb exploded in London recently
outside a house in Tilpey street, Park
lane, two doors from the residence of
the Hon. Sir Henry Hawkins, one of
the justices of the queens bench di-
vision of her majesty's high court of
Justice The front of the house was
much damaged and the windows on
the opposite side of the street were
smashed. The house was occupied,
but nobody was hurt. The work was
supposed to be that of anarchists, as
the justice was one who had sentenced
a number of anarchists.
A horrible murder -as discovered
near Paulding, o., a few days ago A
boy of and a girls, children of Samuel
Good, a prosperous farmer living two
miles south of town, left home for
school. Not returning at night, search
ing parties were organized. Their
little bodies We're found in brush
heap at daylight, the boys throat cut
from ear to ear, the girl decapitatc
and disemboweled with an axe. Al
attempt had been made to burn the
brush, but it was too wet 1t is though |
to be the work of half-witted neigh |
Dor boy.