Iowa state bystander. [volume] (Des Moines, Iowa) 1894-1916, 1894-08-17
BREyITIEs.

minutes.
( Washington dispatch: The Jap
anese minister has filed formal pro-
| test against the delivery to China of
10000, 600 rifle cartridges by Connec-
| ticut company. The general manager
| Of the Colt Iron Company, of Hartford,
telegraphed the state department ask
| ing them to reserve their decision till
| the company could be heard from.
! Washington dispatch: A letter of
| congratulation and greeting from Pres
! ident Cleveland in the name of the
| United States to President Dole OF the
| Hawaiian republic, recognizing it as
| the legitimate government, has been
mailed to the latter. 1t is denied that
the president at any time contemplated
unreasonable delay in recognizing the
| Hawaiian republic.
A mine underlying part of the
western portion of the city of Scranton,
Pa, caved in for a distance of
three blocks, affecting property to the
extent of $3.50 900, and causing excite
| ment which almost verged on a panic
| among the residents of the locality.
| The cave-in was caused by robbing the
! pillars which supported the roof of the
| mine. The land sank from one inch to
| four feet. Twenty-eight houses We're
wrecked, but no one was injured
| In riot at Milwaukee at For
est Home and Eighth avenues and
Mitchell street, resulting from the at
tempt of the police to prevent mass
meeting called to protest against the
action of the board of health officers in
placing small pox patients in the isola-
! ton hospital, about thirty men were
| injured and eleven arrests made. There
were about 1000 people in the mob,
and they used stones, bricks and clubs
| on the police, but We're finally dis
persed.
4 conference of Kolb leaders gave
| out an address to the people of Ala
bama reiterating the charges of fraud
in the recent election, declaring there
is no doubt the state ticket headed by
Kolb was elected, and calling upon the
people to meet at their respective court
houses to act upon this great crisis and
insist that manhood, patriotism and
love of liberty shall find expression in
their course The address continues:
1--WE don't advise fighting or lawless-
ness, but crisis has al 1sen 4.4aki;.g it
| necessary that the sovereign power
shall assert itself. compel unworthy
! servants to submit to it's power and
| recognize it's authority The commit
! tee also urges the organization of law
and order leagues to uphold the will of
the people.
A Rock Island express train was
| wrecked near Lincoln, Neb., re-
Gently, number of rails having been
! removed, it is believed, either by South
Omaha strikers or robbers The trestle
! at that point is sixty feet high. When
| the loosened rails were struck they
spread and the train bumped along the
| ties of the trestle fifty feet, then the
engine fell into the creek below, fol-
| lowed by the baggage car and smoker.
| Goals from the engine set the wreck on
| fire. which communicated to the
! trestle, and soon all was consumed.
| The smoker was telescoped in the
| descent, and most of those in it were
| pinioned, unable to escape. The list
of fatalities, as furnished by the cor
| oner. is twenty-four, including ten un-
known men. Eleven persons We're
! injured.
| Attorney General Maloney of the
state of Illinois has filed petition for
leave to begin proceedings in quo war
| ranto to dissolve the charter of the
/ Pullman Palace Car company on the
4 ground that it has violated a special
| act of the legislature bringing it into
| existence. The petition sets forth that
| the charter. as granted, allowed the
| company to purchase. control and con-
| vey such property as is necessary to the
/ successful prosecution of it's business:
that the company has far exceeded its
! privileges. owning vast amount OF
real estate in the town Of Pullman and
| in Chicago and vicinity, which is in no
wise necessary to it's business, from
which it derives large revenue in rents
1 and has in many other ways assumed
powers in no wise contemplated in the
act creating it.
A few days ago the Coxeyites were
driven from Virginia into Washington
| by the Virginia militia. There were
400 commonwealers on the bridge
which connects the District of Column
bia with the state of Virginia. With
the troops of Virginia at one end and
the District police at the other, they
could move neither one way nor the
other. The hoboes were in sorry
plight. Finally permission was given
IS the assistant secretary of the navy
for them to encamp on Observatory
| Hill until the authorities can determine
what to do with them.
Cholera Spreading in Holland.
AMSTERDAM, Aug. 10. Two cases of
cholera We're reported Yesterday
| Storage passengers bound for the
! United States are subjected to five
/ DAYS quarantine At Maastricht five
/ additional ceases of cholera and one
| death were reported.
Death from Traction Engine
WATERLOO, Ind, Aug.1a A trac-
4 ton engine broke through a bridge