Western appeal. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1885-18??, 1888-07-28
FROM WASHINGTON.

18th that for the year 1887 the product OF
gold amounted to $4,000, 900, and of silver
to 500, 257OO0. Coinage of the mints DURING
the calendar year, $50, 379, ISL.
THERE were 141 business failures in the
United States during the seven days ended
on the 10th, against $50 the previous seven
days.
IHE exchanges at twenty-six leading
clearing houses in the United States dur
ing the week ended on the 21st aggregat
ed s945, 772,3 SOL, against sos, 2l5,32S the pre-
Vlous week. AS compared with the CORE
spending week of 1887 the increase amount
ed to 1913 per cent
AT 9:55 o'clock on the evening of the 22d
total eclipse of the moon commenced and
continued four hours. 1t was generally
observed throughout the United States
IHE physicians of Samuel j. Randall and
relatives on the 23d positively denied the
report that he was suffering from cancer
of the stomach.
The Treasury Department on the Esd
issued new twenty dollar certificate On
It's face in the center is a yignet of the
late Daniel Manning.
ACTING SECRETARY OF THE TREASURY
THOMPSON sent communication to the
House On the 24th giving reformation of
Canadian discrimination against American
THE EAST.
The New Hampshire Republicans. siff
hold their State convention in Concord Sop
TENDER f.
LESTER HOWE died at Cobleskill, N. Y,
on the goth, aged seventy eight years On
May %, 1912, he discovered the now famous
Howe's cave, next in size to Mammoth
cave. All his children were married in
the cave.
GENERAL SHERIDAN's physicians report
ed on the Goth that his condition had not
materially altered in the last three days.
He was improving.
On the Goth Rev. r. p Roe, the we'll
known novelist, died in NeWburgh, N. Y,
of neuralgia of the heart, aged fifty years.
AT Monticello, N. Y, Jack Allen was
hanged on the Goth for the murder O: Ulsura
Ulrich last October.
THE Legislature of New York on the Goth
abolished the of machinery in penal in
situations, deCreelng that cOnvicts shall
make only and by hand the goods required
in the prison system.
The wife, daughter and two grandchil-
dren Of w. B. Jones were drowned by the
upsetting of boat on the 21st on pond at
Brookfield, Mass.
VIOLA and Victor Ramsey, twins, aged
nine years, fell into the Allegheny riverlat
White Rock Station, Pa, on the 21st and
were drowned.
On the 2lst new oil Juror was started
in the Pittsburgh region by the discovery
of oil in the abandoned territory around
Pithole, which was supposed to be worked
out years ago.
On the ed General Sheridan enjoyed his
best day at Nonquitt, Mass. He was happy
and restful in mind, his appetite and diges-
ton were satisfactory, and all his other
symptoms were favorable.
IN a three-mile race at Syracuse, N. Y,
John Teemer defeated Hamm, Hosmer,
Ten Eyck and Henley on the 23d, winning
$1,000 and q championship medal The
race was rowed in twenty minutes
JOSEPH GUILFoYLE, of Binghamton, N.
Y, after lying in q trance for two years,
awoke on the 23d. He remembers nothing
that happened during his long sleep.
SEVERAL skilled counterfeiters were ar
rested at Pittsburgh, Pa, on the 23d, with
$4,000 in spurious greenbacks on their per-
sons.
On the 23d Levi NJ Bates, a dry-goods
dealer of New York, failed for $780, 900
On the oath Selwynn Taylor, of Pitts
burgh, Pa, a prominent mining engineer
and coal expert, said he thought natural
gas was giving out, and that in two years
more the supply would be exhausted.
IN New York on the Oath Mayor Hewitt
refused to perform the marriage ceremony
when asked to wed negro to a white
woman.
HIRAM S1BLEY's will was probated at
Rochester, N. Y, on the oath. The value
of the estate is 100000
WEST AND SOUTH.
ALL over Arenac County, Mich, heavy
forest fires were raging on the Goth and
all the way between Deep river and Glad
win. Timber of all kinds had been de-
stroyed, fences had been burned and other
property damaged.
In the Eighth Iowa district George G.
Calkins was nominated for Congress on
the Goth by the Union Labor party.
In the Lake Superior Company's mine
near Ishpeming, Mich, a single blast on
the Goth dislodged mass of gold bearing
rock, weighing three hundred pounds, the
gold in which was valued at $4,000 to $780,
900.
HICKS CARMICHAEL (colored) was ex
ecuted on the Goth in Knoxville, Tenn, for
the murder of Deputy Sheriff Shipe
LINvILLE COMBS, aged eleven years, was
on the Goth imprisoned for life at Frank
fort, KY, for killing his three year old
sister.
A BOILER explosion on the 21st at the
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