Western appeal. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1885-18??, 1885-06-20
Mitchell, baggageman, and Geo. Thompson
brakeman, were injured but not fatally.

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brakeman, We're injured but not fatally.
a disgraceful prize fight between Wilson
colored man of st. Paul and a man from
Chicago styled in sporting circles, Cardiff,
took place on Sunday about five miles
below st. Paul. Cardiff won in nine
rounds. About 600 persons went down by
boat from st. Paul to witness the fight.
A Washington special says the Minnesota
Democrats who came on in search of the
good things Of this earth have become
good deal Disguised with the DELAY and
most of them have gone home. Mr.
Donnelly and ex-senator Wilkinson.
however, still remain.
A cyclone struck passenger train on
the 18th which was running on the Mil
Waukee q st. Paul road from Sioux Falls
to Sioux City. There were three coaches
and a baggage car, all of which were thrown
from the track and large number Of
passengers injured
The first annual encampment of the
Grand Army of Southwestern MINI. took
place at Lake Shetek, near Currie, MINI,
TINS week. Gems. j. I'll. Baker, and S. p.
Jennlson delivered addresses, and visitors
came by the thousand Three DAYS were
passedin camp.
A court martial has been ordered to con-
vene at ST. Paul on the 9th to try Col.
Bend of the state militia. The charges
grow out of Col. Bends refusal to parade
on Decoration day and his subsequent
correspondence with Adjutant General
Mccarthy.
William Won Ruden, who shot aud killed
John Lehman in Steele county about three
weeks ago, has been convicted at Ovation
ma, OF manslaughter in the second degree
and sentenced to five years in states prison.
Won Ruden claimed to have acted in self
defence
The Minnesota State Pharmaceutical con
vention held its annual session at ST.. Paul
on the 10Th and 18th insts. S. W. Melendy
OF Minneapolis, was elected president, W. S.
Getty OF st. Paul, secretary, and j. c.
Henning of Saltwater, treasurer.
Geo. Casper with two of his sons took
refuge during a storm in barn five miles
north Of Estelline, D. T. and the barn was
struck by lightning. Casper and his team
OF horses were instantly killed and his two
sons severely injured.
Burglars made unsuccessful attempts to
break open couple of safes in Albert Lea,
Mimi, day or two ago but were arrested.
There seems to be a regular gang of vii
lains paying especial attention to Minnesota
at present.
a Sfrop ctoT OF
VINO invented the money order swindle
whereby he made twenty or thirty thous-
and dollars out of the government has been
arrested at Harrison River, British Column
bia.
James j. O'Gorman, formerly partner
in the firm of P. H. Kelly & Co., of st.
Paul, died at his home in Saltwater, Mimi,
on the 18th. He had been sufferer from
asthma forfifteen years.
Spaulding, who shot Constable Wash
burn at Monticello, Mimi, last fall when
the constable attempted his arrest, has
just been tried and convicted of murder in
the first degree.
A survey for the extension of the Wis
consin Central railroad from Abbotsford
to Merrill is being made, and the prospects.
are that it will be built before another
season Of snow.
w L. Wilson who held the position of
appraiser of customs at st Paul has been
removed and Capt M. j. o. Conner
appointed in his place. The salary is
$4,000.
Fuller reports from the tornado in Wes-
tern Iowa on Sunday last show 10 persons
killed, about rs injured, and over half a
million dollars of property destroyed,
c. W. Smith, Superintendent of Schools
OF Hennlpln county, died while riding in a
hack in St. Paul on the 18th Embolus of
the lungs was the cause of the death.
Minneapolis rejoices in a policeman
named Cornelius Burke who is accused of
burglary. He was arrested but pending
the examination fled.
Two unknown men were killed Wednes-
day night by Milwaukee and ST. Paul
train at Winona junction, three miles
from Lacrosse.
At the special election held at Bismarck.
u. L., for Mayor on the 18th, Justin Bragg,
DEM, was elected over E. H. Williams by 80
majority.
The summer meeting of the Wisconsin
conference of Unitarian and Independent
societies will be held at Arcadia, June .25 to
%, 1885.
The Lake County Touring mill, located
at Madison, D. T. burned Oh the 18th, with
400 barrels of flour and 5000 bushels of
wheat
While engaged in rifle target practice at
Fort Keogh near Miles City, Mont, pri-
waite VIM. Hart shot and killed CORPORAL
O'Neil.
The annual summer meeting of the
Northwestern horticultural society will
be held at Lacrosse on the oath inst.
Thomas W. Jaycox, of Aberdeen, D. T.,
special agent of the general land office at
Washington has been removed.
The survey Of the st. Paul, Brainerd &
northwestern railroad is completed from
Brainerd to Red Lake Falls.
The Milwaukee & st. Paul road received
the gold medal at New Orleans for the finest
railroad exhibit.
The Norwegian Lutheran Synod has
been holding its annual session at Norway