Western appeal. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1885-18??, 1888-06-16

Il. In the Western Association the FOL.
lowing was the order: Des Moines (games
WON, IL; Omaha, Is; Kansas City, 10;
Milwaukee, Is; st. Paul, IA; st. Louis, IA;
Chicago, 10; Minneapolis, IL.
DANIEL LYON, Thomas Purcell and Fred
Mock, three laborers, were killed on the
9th by the caying in of a bank at Omaha,
Neb.
A FIRE destroyed several large factories
and number of dwelling houses at Gin
cinnati on the 9th. Loss, 100000
REPORTS from Michigan stated on the
10th that heavy rain storm had done great
damage. ALI the country from the Wiscon-
sin line to the upper range and the whole
width of the peninsula suffered. Houses
were undermined and swept away, culverts
and bridges were destroyed, and miles of
fences and sidewalks were ruined
On the 9th Mrs. Annie Roush, living near
Selait, w. Va, celebrated her one hundred
and first birthday. She possessed the use
Of all her faculties.
GREAT excitement prevailed on the 9th
at Greenfield, Mo-, over the discovery that
lad named George Static, who was
thought to have committed suicide, was
hanged by his inhuman mother.
NORWAY, Mich, was almost destroyed by
fire on the 9th. Thirty buildings were
burned, including the main business SEC
ton. Many families were homeless Loss,
S3OO, O0O
JAMES FOSTER, (colored) was taken from
Jail at Henderson, XIV, by a mob on the
18th and hanged for criminally assaulting
little girl.
In Detroit on the 18th John MUNICH
thaler, keeper of candy and cigar store
in Detroit, shot and killed his wife and
then killed himself
DISPATCHES of the 18th say that recent
severe rains had caused the greatest flood
ever known in Northern Minnesota.
Along the banks of logging streams tribu-
tary to the st. Louis river millions Of
acres of land were overfowed Sixty-five
families were forced to leave their homes
at Crookston by the rise of Red Lake river,
and many lost their effects. At Cloquet
only the tops of houses were visible
PETER SHANNON, aged sixty years, of
Portland, Ore, shot and killed his wife,
aged tifty-five years, on the 18th, and then
killed himself, from fit of jealousy. They
had been married only year.
On the 18th Colonel Ahner Taylor was
nominated for Congress by the Republicans
of the First district of Illinois.
A NATIONAL organization of the Colored
Young Mems Christian Association was
completed at Louisville, KY, on the 18th,
Charles L.. Morris, of that city, being
chosen pres dent.
THE d ath of Mrs. Mary Sheridan, widow
Of the late John Sheridan, and the mother
of General Philip II. Sheridan, occurred at
her home in Somerset, O., on the after
noon of the 18th, at the age of eighty seven
years and two months.
MoLLIE GARFIELD was married to j. Stan
ley Brown, formerly President Garfeld's
private secretarv, at the Garfield home
stead in Mentor, O., and her brother Harry
married Be Mason, eldest daughter of
Hon. James Mason, famous as railroad
lawyer.
JOHN TINKE and Henry Prayer, the first
clerk and the second only known by a
card in his pocket committed suicide at
Cincinnati on the 18th by shooting them
selves.
HEAVY seizures of opium were made by
the United States customs authorities at
St. Louis on the 18th.