The west Tennessee star. (Bolivar, Tenn.) 1888-1888, 1888-08-17
THE WEST


IRON molders at Cincinnati struck in
several foundries on the 9th, refusing to
work with non-union men.
THE picnic given by Chicago Socialists
and Anarchists at Sheffield, Ind, was at
tended by about 5000 people. The affair
was for the benefit of the monument of the
dead men and for the relief of the widows
and orphans. Quite a sum was raised.
SIX men on the Pennsylvania road near
Altoona, Pa, were recently engaged upon
a light trestle when a heavy car of bridge
stone in running a flying switch became
uncomfortable and left the rails where the
bridge began and landed upon the trestle,
throwing the workers into the river fifty
feet below. Two of them were fatally
hurt and three crippled for life.
VoGEsoN g. KEEPS flour mill, Evansville,
Ind, was destroyed by fire the other night.
Loss, $4,000.
CHARLES LEES planning mill and other
property was destroyed by fire at East
Saginaw, Mich, on the Sth. Loss. 500, 600.
ANDREW SALINE, a ranchman near Fort
Lewis, Col, and the sixteen-year- son
Of William Roberts, a neighbor, were
found burned to death the other day, their
place having caught fire at night.
THE third annual convention of miners
and mine laborers began at Cleveland, o.,
on the Sth. National District Master
Workman Lewis in his address defended
strikes.
THE trouble with the Apaches on the
San Carlos reservation in Arizona is ended
and no further difficulties are expected.
THE brakemen on the Duluth (Minn.) &
Iron Range railroad, who have been get
ting $55 per month, are on strike for S65,
stopping the fifteen ore trains run between
the mines and its two harbors.
A MIXED train on the Fairfield branch of
the Cincinnati, Indianapolis, st. Louis &
Chicago railway, was thrown from the
track, near Morgantown, Ind, recently by
broken rail. The conductor and several
passengers were seriously injured.
THE death of a man named HOpp at Bat
tie Greek, Mich, recently gave rise to rU-
mors of Asiatic cholera. An investigation
was being made.
E. H. STEELE, formerly proprietor of the
Big Boston clothing store at Minneapolis,
Mimi, has assigned, with liabilities in the
neighborhoOd of S150,00O.
INDIANA Republicans on the Sth nomi-
mated General Alvin z. Hovey for Govern
or. The nominee was born at MountVernon,
Posey County, Ind, September 6, 1921,
| and served with distinction in the civil war.
THOMAS HAINEs, defaulting cashier of
the Atlantic & North Carolina railway, has
been arrested in Chicago. The amount OF
his theft is unknown.
JEALOUSY caused Shelby F. Parke, a
wealthy citizen of Perryville, Ind, tC
shoot and kill DIR. H. H. Peyton recently.
THE Michigan Assembly of the Knights
Of Labor have declared strongly for Henry
| Georges land tax theory.
THE cattle south Of Decatur, ILL.,, have
been quarantined because of an outbreak
of Texas fever.
WILLIAM GUY the present chief of the
Chickasaw Indians, has been reelected
over William Bird, a full blood. The
adopted citizens supported Guy.
THE old crucible steel works of the Cleve.
land (O.) Steel Company were started NJ
| on the 9th under new management for tn,
! hrst time. An hour later the place was il
| ashes, sparks having ignited the walls.
BY collision between two trains a
/ Darling, o., on the 9th, one engine anC
/ several cars were ruined, but no one wa'
hurt
! THE Locomotive Brotherhood met at st
/ Louis on the 9th to consider the Burlington
/ strike.
| THE steamer Northern Belle, from Oden
/ Mich, reports that small sail boat, thre,
| coats, hats and photographers outfit wer,
/ found on the shore at Burt Lake.
/ a BRAKEMAN named Jones was seriously
/ maltreated by a number of Italians who
/ insisted ON riding in the ladies' coach re
] tEAAllN On All0 AJulullAt koONtA A1AlDAO ~ AZ
lantic railroad near Marquette, Mich.
maxwell, alias Brooks, was executed
at st. Louis on the 10th for the murder o
/ C.. A. Preller at the Southern Hotel, pri
| 6, 1885. On the same scatfOld with Max
we'll Henry Lsndgraf pershed for Tn.
murder of his sweetheart, Annie Fisch
/ March 3, 1885.
MICHIGAN Republicans have nominated
| the following ticket: Governor, Cyrus G
| Luce; Lieutenant Governor, James $
/ Mcdonald; Secretary of State, Gil Bos
| mum; Treasurer, George l.. Maltz; Auditor
| General, II. II. Apliu; State Land Com
missioner. Roscoe ID. Dix; Attomey-Gen en-
eral. Stephen V. r. Trowbridge; Stat
| Superintendeut Public Instruction, Joscpl
| Estabrook; Member State Board Educa
tion Perry +. Power.
Hon. H. NIBLACK, Of Indiana has ac
cepted the appointment as a member o
the advisory committee of the Natona
Democratic Committee. He viii be asso
ciated with ex-senator Mcdonald.