Western appeal., 1888-02-04
ssrgned recently, with liabilities Of S4u0

600
HEsRY PnErRE of Tyler, hlinn. wa,
burned to death in his IN on the 9th
! and ten horses, seventeen cattle anc
twenty hogs were also cremated.
The Chamber of Commerce building 81
Peoria, Ill was burned on the Doth Loss
i $15O,OO0
i On the 28th Frederick Auschlag, youns
German of Los Angeles. CAL, confessed tx
the recent murder Of Charles B. Hitchcocl
and wife, near Garden Grove. Cal.
Mrs. BRIDGET NIHLL died on the 28th Al,
Hudson, Ill, aged one hundred years
On the Detroit, Grand Haven & Milwau.
kee road an express train was derailed OF
! the 2Sth at Durand, Mich, and one passen.
/ ger was fatally and SIX others were badly
/ injured.
The thermometer on the 2Sth registered
four degrees below zero at Winchester, Va
/ A CoLoRED man named Ben Edwards, who
assaulted Catherine Hayes, a white girl, wal
taken from jail at Amite City, La, on the
9th and lynched.
DENNIS CLIFFoRD's house at Tawas City
Mich, was burned on the 2Sth. and Clifford
and his wife, an aged couple, perished IL
the flames
IN the tri;ll of the election-workers at In.
dianapolis, Ind, the jury returned a yerdici
on the 2S5h finding Simon Coy and W. F. A
Bernhamer gu lty.
DEMOCRATS of the Eleventh Congressiona.
district of Michigan on the % met al
Marquette and nominated Bartley Breen
! of Menominee, to succeed the late Seth G
Moffatt. The Prohibitionists met the SAINT
day at Ishpeming and nominated S s
Steel, of Schoolcraf5.
FIRE destroyed the printing and bind.
cry establishment of II. W. Rokker al
Springfield, Ill, on the 2Sth. Loss $780,.
600.
Two COWBOYS. who attempted to G run
the town Of Buffilo Gap, D. T., were at
tackled by citizens on the 3Oth ult and shot
dead
| OTsEGo and Ingham counties voted fol
prob bition on the 31s5 ult., making sixteer
dry counties in Michigan.
On the 31st ult Joseph Thompson (col.
ored) and Connosky, a Creek Indian, both
condemned to death, were at large in Indian
Territory Seven persons had been killed
in attempts to capture them.
| ARKANSAS Republicans will meet in State
convention at Little Rock on the 10th OF
April to choose delegates to the National
convention.
On the 31st ult. Edward and Isaac West.
| fall, father and son, sentenced from Rock
Island, IL, were released from Joliet
prison after completing sentences OF
twenty years each for burglary
| By the breaking of the great ice-gorge at
st. Louis on the 31st ult damage to the ex.
tent of 100000 was done to shipping.
Toll MASON a convict, who had com.
| ,nitted seventy forgeries, was found dead
in his cell at Leavenworth, Kan, on the
3ls5 1t
TIRE in the penitentiary at Richmond,
Va, on the 31st ult. destroyed the buildings
leased by the Davis Shoe Company, of Bos.
ton. Loss 100000
JOHN HoEscH, aged twenty EIGHT years,
W declared insane in court at Louisville,
KY, on the 5ls5, caused by excessive smok
ing OF cigarettes
A STABLE of Company l. First Cavalry, al
Leavenworth Kan, was burned on the 31st
ults, and thirty horses were suffocated.
The Wisconsin Supreme Court decided on
the 31st ult. that the Legislature of 1885
extended to women the right to vote on
school matters only, and not at general
elections
AN express-train was wrecked by an open
switch on the 31st ult. at Urbana, O., and
two men were killed and others sustained
fatal injuries