Western appeal. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1885-18??, 1888-04-28

the fremont House, and a widely known
hotel man, died on the 2lst after pro-
tracted Illness
BELOW Ryan's packing -house in Dubuque
the leyee gave way on the DIST and the
water rushed in upon the flats, flooding
thirty houses and doing much damage
AT Hot Springs Ark, the four-year-old
boy OF William Stringer was attacked by a
game-cock on the 23d and go badly injured
that he died in a few minutes
On the 23d the ex-soldiers Mutual Assur-
once Company of the Northwest was or
gan1zed at Goshen, Ind, with q capital Of
5000, 1000
TIE death of Rev. George D. Croker, for
fifty years Baptist clergyman, and
from 1861 to 1885 chaplain in the United
States army, occurred on the 23d at Kan
kakee, Ill
UNION soldiers in favor of a law making
every soldiers honorable discharge his
pension certificate for life will meet in Gin
cinnati May ID
On the 23d General Rea, Commander-in-
Chief Of the G. A. r., said at st Louis that
in the past three months fourteen thousand
names had been added to the rolls of the
organization.
JOHN PARSONS house at Centerville, KY,
was struck by lightning on the Esd, and
Parsons, his wife and two children were
killed.
A HEAVY hail and rain-storm did great
damage at and around Mobile, Ala, on the
23d
SEVERAL miners were thawing out dyna-
mite in the oven of q stove at Baraga,
Mich. on the 23d when an explosion oc.-
CURED which killed three men and injured
two others
A r7rJ,rz n nrf7 oJrr
several thousand tons of hay at the Stock
Yards in Chicago on the 23i Loss, $780,
900.
AT Chippewa Falls, Wis, John Shay and
William Williams were downed on the 23d.
Each man leaves wife and seven children.
r. T. BoYDsToN on the 23d shot Miss
Lulu Frazier fatally at Cooper, Tex. and
then blew out his brains The postpone
ment of their marriage by the young lady
clused the deed.
DANIEL L. OBsToTT was arrested on the
Oath at Springfield, O., for embezzling 81
900 from his sister, The sister, brooding
over the loss, became insane, and her
mother died OF grief caused by her sons
crime
In the vicinity of Aberdeen, D. T., prairie
fires were doing great damage on the "a.
GEORGIA Prohibitionists met in Atlanta
on the 24th and elected delegates to the
National convention instructed to vote for
Clinton B. Fiske for President
On the Oath three Indians, camped near
La Crescent, Mimi, went to La Crosse and
got drunk, and while returning they upset
their canoe and all were drowned.
BILL THOMPSON, a desperate and horse
thief, was captured near Cisco, Tex, on the
Oath and riddled with bullets
The Florida Republicans met on the 24th
at Palatba and chose delegates to the
National convention. They were not in
structed. .....
On the Oath the Democrats Of the Six
teenth district of Illinois nominated George
W. Fithian for Congressman, and in the
Tenth district General Post (Rep) was
unanim ousy renonlinated.
NEAR Bessemer, Ala, Herman Posey (col-
oreD was lynched on the oath for as
saulting a little white girl.
FRANK LINCOLN and Jesse Gledder were
burned to death on the Oath at Butte City.
M. r., in fire that destroyed the Centen-
NAL Hotel s... -.~...-
JAMES SMALLEY, of Licking, Mo-, who had
become possessed of an insane idea that
his family would go to the poor-house,
though he was well off, killed his two
young children on the Oath and cut his
own throat