Western appeal., 1888-02-18
offered arewara Of $50, 900 for the ares.

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and conviction of the criminals
JUDGE PARKER sentenced in the United
States Court at Fort Smith, Ark, on the Och
Owen D. Hill. George Moss. jeff Hilder-
brand, Emanuel Patterson, Richard Suther-
land, Jack Crow and William Alexander to
be hanged on April ~ for murder.
THE Mississippi Republican State conven-
tion to elect delegates to the National con-
vention Will be held at Jackson on April A.
TENNESSEE Republicans will hold their
State convention at Nashville May l6 next
JOHN BUTTERY, of Mechanicsburg, Ind, on
the 10th shot his step-sister, Eta Mullen,
with whom he was in love, killed Frank
Moore, to whom she was engaged, and then
killed himself
On the 10th gang of counterfeiters, who
had been working off large amount of
spurious coin in the southwestern part Of
Kansas. We're captured at Wichita.
RAILROAD COMMISSIONER N T. SMITH, of
Dakota, said on the 1Osh: AS far as
learned the following is an authentic sum-
mary Of the loss of life in the recent storm:
Beadle County, 8; Bonhomme, 10; Coding-
ton, 3; Jerauld, 6; Clark, Q; Edmunds, 6;
Brown, 8; Hand, z; Kingsbury, S; Lincoln,
20; Sphinx, A. Turner, 1S; Yankton, 3; total.
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In Chicago on the 10th the Republican
Subcommittee of the National Committee
arranged the preliminary details for the
National convention, and chose General
Fitz- -Simons for sergeant-at-arm and May
or Roche as chairman of the executive and
finance committee Mr.. Clarkson. chair
man of the subcommittee, said he had
already received over two thousand appli-
cations for tickets
On the 10th Conrad Rautebach, a life con-
vict received at the Columbus (O) peniten-
tiary eight years ago, was pardoned by the
Governor, it having been shown that he
was innocent
KANSAS Prohibitionists will hold their
State convention, to name Presidential
electors and candidates for State offices, on
June 13 next
FIRE on the 10th destroyed the princi-
pal business places of Deerield, Wis.
PATRICK JOHN HART who murdered John
Pitts, a miner, was hanged on the 10th at
Helena, M. 7.
A TRACTION engine exploded on the 10th
in the woods in Liberty township, near
Wabash, Ind, causing the death OF three
men.
A BILL was introduced in the Maryland
Legislature on the II tn making it a penalty
for registered voters to fail to vote.
WILLIAM KELLY, aged seventy seven
years, died in Louisville, KY, on the 11th
He was the inventor of;the Bessemer proc
ess of making steel, and the first importer
of Chinese labor into America.
COUNTY TREASURER HILL, Of Pamela Coun-
ty, Tex, was murdered on the l Lh and his
Office robbed of Sc, ,OOO
In the business center of Ionton, O.,
fire on the 10Th destroyed the opera house,
pos5-office, Merchants block and six stores,
causing a loss of 100000
FooTE SCHULZE & Co., boot and shoe deal
ers at St Paul, Mimi, were burned out on
the 18th, causing a loss of $25O,OOO
On the 18Th General Harney, at Pass
Christian, Miss, celebrated the seventieth
anniversary of his appoin tment to the
army.
MISS CARRIE SHELLEY, while carelessly
handling gun on the 18th near Newton,
ILL.,, shot and killed Edward Joy. The
couple were soon to have been married.
REPUBLICAN clubs of Wisconsin will meet
in Madison March Is for the formation of a
State League.
a sKIFF was submerged by the swells of
steamer a short distance below New
Orleans on the 131h, and seven of the
eight persons on board were drowned
AT Colfax, La, a colored family of five
persons died from poison on the 18th In
stead of soda Rough on Rats had, by mis-
take, been put into pot Of green's.
The death of P. H. Rock occurred in Osh-
kosh, Wis, on the 18th, at the age of one
hundred and two years.
In Southern and Central Dakota another
blizzard ragged on the 18th. At Aberdeen
the mercury suddenly dropped from 25
above to II below zero
A FIRE destroyed the business portion of
Angosla, small town in Carroll County,
O., on The 18th