Western appeal., 1888-03-10
Brothers, destroyed property to the walt
of 5000. 600.

of 5000, 900.
On the Chicago, Burlington Il Quincy
road the strife OF engineers was practically
unchanged on the 4th. The trains were
moving VITA some regularity. and several
freights were put in mo ion. The idea was
gaining ground that the strike would ex-5
tend TO many other roads, on the ground
that they had been extending aid to the
Burlington. IS
4 PREMATURE explosion Of dynamite on
the 5Jh in mine at Ishpeming, Mich, in
stantly killed five mem ohm Williams,
Alfred Lucas, Eric Matt.son. Charles Rusk
and William Gerdle.
j. B. SNYDER was arrested in Colbert,
Tex, on the 5 b for robbing United States
mails He had drafts amounting to $l46.-
.575 and numerous money orders
AT Goldthwaite, Tex, nineteen business
houses We're destroyed by fire on the 5th.
On the 9th Rev. j. a. Asbury, a prominent
Methodist minister, while officiating at a
funeral in Petersburg, Ind, fell dead in his
pulpit of hears disease
On the Cincinnati Southern road pas
senger train was wrecked on the 5gh at
Oakdale, Tenn, and four persons were
killed
AT Columbus. O., Steube, the ta1ly-sheet
conspirator, who assaulted Prosecuting
Attorney Huling, was sentenced on the 81 ii
to four months in Jail and to pay fine of
twenty-five dollars
THE Lsgis'a ature Of Virginia adjourned
sine d on the 5th
The town OF Deep Creek, Va, was almost
entirely destroyed by fire on the 5sh.
No MATERIAL change was reported on the
9th in the strike on the Chicago, Burling-
ton & Quincy road, and from the stand
point OF the Brotherhood there seemed to
be but title encouragement of a speedy
discontinuance Of hossilities and peace
able adjustment of the vital questions at
Issue.
LOUIS E. FISHER, Of St Paul, editor of the
Northwestern Newspaper Union, died on the
9th. Mr. Fisher assisted, in 1854, in GET
ting out the first daily paper ever published
in that city, the Pioueer.
The Republicans Of South Carolina will
hold their State convention at Columbia
on the 1st of May to elect delegates to the
National convention.
ILLINOIS Republicans will meet at Spring.
field on May I'd to select nlidates for
State off :ers and delegates to the National
convention.
TEXAS Republicans will meet in State
convention at Fort Worth on the 24th of
April to elect delegates to the National con
vent;on.
In Chicago the Democratic Association of
the Northwest was organized, and j.. NJ
Weston, of Michigan, was elected president
By the mistake OF dispatcher two heavy
freights on the Iowa Cen:r colIided on
the 9Th near Hampton, Ia, piling nineteen
cars and the engines in heap Of ruins
Brakemen Williams and Ferguson were
fatally hurt
CINCINNATI has Eeen chosen as the place
for holding the National convention of the
Union Labor party and May Is as the time
At Nineveh, o., Johanna Yocum fell into
the fire in a fit on the 9th and was burned
to death.
A CYCLONE which recently passed over
the southwes ern part Of Opelousas, La,
destroyed six dwellings, and in every case
the inmates were injured and the household
effects ruined.
Six business buildings at Ligonier, Ind.
were burned on the 9Th.
The proposition made in behalf of the
Brotherhood strikers to submit their
troubles to arb b;traton was on the 9th d :
c!ined by President Perkins, of the Bur
ington road. He said his company was
getting all the men it needed to run it's
trains and had nothing to arbitrate