Western appeal., 1888-03-03

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cars and rwo Pullman and two passenger
coaches Loss, $1OO, 600 One man was
killed and eighteen persons were serious Y
injured
REPUBLICANS of Kentucky will ho.d their
State convention at Louisville ON the I'd Of
May to elect delegates to the National con-
vention.
DEPUTY SHERIFF COY, of Brownsville,
Tex, was attacked at E. Cuero ranch by
i've bandits on the 25th, and he killed four
OF them and badly wounded the other
On the 25th freight trains collided on the
Fort Wayne road at Bourbon, Ind, and two
boys who were stealing a ride were killed
2. 2. MMLER's three children were burned
! to death on the 25th at Annandale, Mimi
They were alone in the house when it took
fire.
On the 26th one OF tue most severe storms
OF the season raged through Minnesota,
Northern Wisconsin, Eastern and Central
Dakota and Iowa, with the mercury away
below zero.
AT Cedar Hill, Tenn, wind-storm on the
25th swept away houses, barns and fences
and did other damage.
THE Georgia Republicans will meet in
State convention at Atlanta on the 18th of
April to elect delegates to the National con-
yention
OWING to the strike of the engineers but
very few passenger trains on the Chicago,
Burlington & Quincy road We're running on
the 9th, and freight traffic was entirely
suspended.
OFFICIAL returns on the 9th Of the
special electlon held recently in the Elev-
enth Congressional district of Michigan
give Seymour Rep.) a plurality of 4O2.
IHE boiler of @ petroleum tank exploded
on the 9th on a crowded ferry boat at
Vallejo, Cal, and between thirty and forty
lives were lost and over twenty others
were injured.
AT Shreveport La, the Tllley Hotel was
destroyed by fire on the 9th, and r. G..
Craig, a Cincinnati commercial traveller,
perished in the flames
BURGLARS fatally shot Charles Baum, rro-
prieuor OF the Baum House at Miamisburg,
O., on the 9th and robbed his safe of $500
The death of Colonel.E. B. Cash of Colum-
bia. S. c., noted for having killed four men
in duels, occurred on the 9th, at the age of
sixty-six years.
On the 9th John A. Beal. thirteen-year-
old boy who murdered his mother near
Eaton, O., about a year ago, was sentenced
to the penitenta ary for life.
FIRE destroyed the State Deaf and
Dumb Asylum of Missouri at Fulton on the
9th, causing a loss OF $5OO,OO0
NEARLY the entire business portion of
Wellington, ILL.,, was destroyed by fire on
the 2Sth ult
AT F lirhaven, Mimi, the Miller residence
was burned with three children, aged thir-
teen, ten and seven years, while the parents
were absent on the 2Sth ult
On the 2Sth ult John Prince, an old
bachelor who lived alone on farm five
miles from Washington, Ind, fell in the
fire in fit and was burned to death
In the sculling race on the 2Sth ult at
Jacksonville, Fla, for the championship of
America, the contestants being Teemer,
Hamm and Mckay, the former won in
2O:O2
SAM PRICE, white man who killed the
sheriff, and B IL Reamus (colored), who shot
farmer named Jackson, were taken out Of
jail at Clinton, KY, on the 2Sth ult by
about fifty men and lynched
AT Spanish Camp Tex, a negro cabin
was set on fire on the 2Sth ult. by whites
and the occupants Were deliberately shot
down as they ran from the burning house
Five were killed and one severely wounded,
while two were burned to death in the
cabin. Another negro was caught and
hanged to a tree. The butchery was the
outcome of a suit for the possession of land
recently decided in favor of the negroes.