Rensselaer Republican, Volume 20, Number 5, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 6 October 1887 — EVICTIONS IN IOWA. [ARTICLE]

EVICTIONS IN IOWA.

The Outrnge* in Ireland Om Our Western Prairies By Aliens. The general land offiee is in receipt of information that a British syndicate, which is said to have purchased a large tract of land in lowa from the McGregor Western railroad company, is mercilessly evicting settlers, the title to the land being in dispute in the state courts. A settler writes: “Women over sixty years old, sick in bed, have been taken by six men and carried into the driving storm. Delicate women have had their hands tied with cord 3 till their flesh was bruised and then dragged, shrieking, from their homes, Children have been born prematurely at sight of the band of evictors. Strong men have been run down by rn Qians on horseback and then handcuffed' and dragged from their little posessions. I might go on and multiply instances where the sheriff, with a writ of ejectment in one hand and a British contract in the other, gave these poor people their choice between these two evils which they would take.” Affidavits of the cruelties practiced are being collected, says this writer, for use at Washington next winter, and will be read in both HouS< s of Congress. They are-ex pec led to create a sensation when tin: people £u,ily to.realize what the native American pioneers are suffering at the hands of the new invaders.’