Western appeal. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1885-18??, 1885-07-04
HISTORY OF a WEEK.

murder of Lucy Graham, a six-weeks-old
infant she was nursing. She soaked the
child in pot of concentrated I've. The
only theory for the crime is that the
prisoner killed the child to escape the duty
of nursing it. This is the second crime OF
the same kind she has committed within
two years. She appeared to be totally
unconscious of what was going on during
the trial, and twice went to sleep in the
dock, with her head resting on her hands.
The e. A. R., in session at Portland elect
ed Samuel s. Burdeu of Washington com
mander in chief. Ex-Gov. Selden of Maine,
was chosen senior vice commander in
chief, and Comrade Lewis Of Atlanta JUNIOR
vice commander. The candidates for COM
mander and chief, other than the success
full one were John w. Burst of Ill and
John A. Reynolds Of New York. The con-
test made good deal of bad blood in the
Illinois delegation.
When Buffalo Bill applied to Secretary
Lamar for permission to take Sitting Bull
around the country as part of the show,
the secretary consented, and said he wished
that he would also take Red Cloud and DR..
Bland. So far as Sitting Bull was con-
cerned, the secretary thought it would
have a good effect upon him to let him
travel, sec the country and mingle with
the people,
It is stated on reliable authority that
Mr.. Walker Blaine, son of Hon. James G.
Blaine, is to be married this summer
to Miss Elite, the beautiful and accom-
plished daughter Of ex-Gov. D. D. T. Farms
worth of Buckhannon, W. Va. The ac-
quaintance was formed while Miss Farms
worth was attending a musical school in
Boston.
James D. Fish, the president of the Marine
National bank of New York has been SEN
fenced to ten years imprisonment in states
prison at Auburn, for misrepresentation Of
the funds of the bank. The Communication
for good conduct will reduce the term to
six years and six months. Fish is now IS
years old.
Capt. E. T. Johnson has just been &C
quilted at Greenville, Tenn, after two
weeks trial for the murder of Major Edwin
Henry, Major Henry held improper rela-
lions with Capt Johnson's wife. The
and Johnson killed Henry.
Thomas James member of the Illinois
House Of Representatives is under arrest
for criminal assault upon 12-year-old
girl employed as page in the house. The
assault took place in one of the committee
rooms in the State house.
The American Steamer City of Toxic
which phys between San Francisco and
Japan has been wrecked off Yokohama and
will probably prove total loss. The YES
sci and cargo will make loss of uarter
of a million.
Vice President Hendricks is making
Ground up'' of New England. After adj
dressing the students at Yale and Harvard
he was rendered banquet at the Parker
house, Boston, where he made quite po-
litical speech. Fl.
Hon. Charles Francis Adams is seriously
i'll at his residence in Quincy, Mass. He
has been in very poor health for the past
two or three years and has now, it is said,
completely lost control of his mental
faculties. .. .
The car drivers and conductors on the
West Side, Chicago..are on a strike to the
number of 1000. The company discharged
16 Of the employees and the others struck
to compel their reinstatement.
S. W. Tallmadge of Milwaukee makes an
estimate Of the total wheat yield Of the
country, placing it at 331, 0,0O0 bushels.
The yield of spring wheat will, he thinks,
be 12l 100000 bushels
A riot occurred Sunday afternoon in the
Polish Catholic church at Toledo, Ohio, two
men being killed, the result of the differ
ence of two factions regarding the officia-
ting priest.
The marble statue of the late President
Garfield presented by the State of Ohio to
the National Statuary hall at Washington
has been unveiled without ceremony.
J. G. Mackin the Chicago politician who
was accused of stufing the ballot box last
fall has been sentenced to five years in the
penitentiary for perjury.
Mrs. Dudly, the woman who shot
O'Donovan Rosa in New York has been
acquitted on the ground Of insanity
John Mccullough, the actor, has been
placed in the Bloomingdale insane asylum.
Baltimore, Md, has been damaged $4,000
by a rain storm.