Rensselaer Republican, Volume 18, Number 33, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 22 April 1886 — THE WEST. [ARTICLE]

THE WEST.

Henry H. Pouter has organized in Indians a company with $5,000.0(H) capital to operate the Chicago and Great Southern toad, which he recently purchased mider f foreclosure for $501,000. The directors are all Chicagoans Milo Coll, a young farmer of Kelloggsville. Ohio, died under suspicious circumstances. His wife reluc- , tantly consented to a postmortem, lrnt when the physicians arrived she went tip I stairs under pretense of taking a"nap, and there hanged herself. J. Q. Biggs, a clerk in the office of the Lake Erie Road at Bloomington, Illinois, stole 285 California and Western tickets, worth SIO,OOO or more. Those remaining unsold were found in his house. He was eaught by using a false name for registered letters. '■ .. ' :: • - ' A Republican Valley Railroad train was Wrecked near Oketo, Neb., two coaches leaving the track and plunging intoJtbe Blue River. Fortunately the cars burst open in their descent, permitting the rescue of the occupants. A little girl was killed, a babejfatally hurt, and fourteen other persons were more or less injured. ■! A St. Paul dispatch says: “Reports from the cyclone disaster at St. Cloud and Sauk Rapids, Minn., show that the loss of life will reach nearly if not quite 100. Bodies are being brought in hourly, but there is great difficulty iu identifying them. The remains in the majority of instances are blackened and mangled, and the scenes attendant upon their recovery are heartfending. Medical and other aid is pouring in from all directions- Reports from lowa, Missouri, and Kansas tell of destruction to life and property.” In several of the public schools at-St. Louis the boys struck for shorter hours the other day. At the Hodgen School the following notice was found posted on the building in the morning: “Boys of the Hodgen School: Strike Friday, April 16. By order of the Strike School Association.” The principal of the school made an investigation and found that the notice had been put up by two pupils in the j “Second-Reader” class. He gave them a 'sound thrashing, which had the effect of keeping their fellow-strikers from going ont. At the Madison School about thirty of the boys ran away and marched through the streets in the vicinity. They were out on a strike, they said, for shorter-hours, and less music in the schools. They wanted the afternoon session to open at I o'clock instead of 1:60, and to let out at 3 instead of 3:45 p. m. The girls took no part. in , the rebellion. There was also some trouble at the Clinton and Peabody schools Michael Eagan, a boy 10 years of age, committed suicide by hanging at his home in South Chicago. His father would not let him go with him to call on a neghlwr... The grand jury at St. Louis has indicted Martin Irons and other leading Knights of Labor, besides a telegraph operator, on charge of conspiring to tap the wires of the Missouri Pacific Road and secure messages passing let ween Gould and Hoxie. A Telegram from St. Cloud. Minn., says: “The fist of the cyclone's victims grows longer. -Mary TarbouL 32 y<&ra old, has died at Rice's Station, and Abner St. Cyt at Sauk Rapids. The funeral of the Catholics’ dead took place from the cathedral in this city with impressive ceremonies. All stores were dewed and the hells were tolled. The sky was overcast, threatening rain, as if to add to the gloom which has settled over the city. Others of the dead were buried later in the morning. Enough physicians from Minneapolis, St. Paul and other places are on the ground to give the injured the best attention. Relief' in the shape of beds, provisions, money and nurses is constantly coming ih from Minneapolis and St. Paul, but still more is - needed. A corrected list of the dead shows eighteen killed here, thirty-three at Sauk Rapids, ten ;it. Station and at Buckman. Several more will die. Two tag graves in the Catholic Cemetery each received ten bodies. Nearly aH the dead are now buried:” Among the freaks of the cyclone in Minnesota were wafting a suit of clothes from a SC Cloud tailor shop to Brainerd, sixty-two miles, and the cairying of a headstone from the graveyard at St. Cloud across.the Mississippi and landing it three

miles away in the heart of Sank Rapids. A aafc.wr tghrag- i-tWO pounds tciw carried 400 feet.. By the explosion of eight tegs of powder, which was being unloaded from » freight car at Cfintonvtlle, Wfs:,/SEreS men were killed and several wetohadly hurt, whihvfhe car was blown into. Kindling wood.'. George Smith, a veteran.ioqrnalifet, arid out* of the owners of t ha Slate HUiiiHier. died at sprin.gfieid. 111. ?