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Western appeal. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1885-18??, 1888-09-01
THE EAST.

MARK L1EBERMAN's house and barn, with
eleven head of horses, were burned on the
oath at Wilmington, Del.
Miss DAISY BLANKLEY, aged twel We
years, won mile swimming race for the
amateur championship of the United States
for women at New York on the oath.
On the 25th one hundred and fifty Nor
mon converts landed at Castle Garden,
New York, and left for Utah in charge Of
six Mormon elders.
SODA and lemonade stands, cigar stores
and ice-cream and liquor saloons were
closed in Pittsburgh, Pa. on the 26th.
FIRE destroyed an oil train of ten cars on
the Pennsylvania road on the 9th near
Wayne, Pa, and two tramps who were
stealing a ride were fatally burned
The death Of Miss Sylvia Hardy, the
biggest woman in Maine, who travelled
with Barnum for years. occurred at Wilton
on the 9th. She was seven feet tall.
JOHN P. REMINGTON was nominated for
Congress on the 2sth by the Delaware State
Democratic convention in session at Dover.
In the Eighth district of Pennsylvania
the Democrats on the 2Sth nominated d.
b. Drummer for Congress .a.,-.g
NEAR Cape Henry, r. l., a barge sank on
the 2Sth, and the colored cook, Richard
Blizzard, with his wife and child, were
drowned. .........
New YORK Republicans in State CO aven-
ton on the 18th at Saratoga Springs h0nli-
mated Warner Miller for Governor, Colonel
S. V. R. Cruger for Lieutenant-G Governor,
and William Rumsey for Judge of the
Court of Appeals. The platform indorses
high license, denounces pauper immigra,
ton, approves the declaration of principles
adopted by the National convention in chi
cago, heartily indorses the Republican
nominees, declares against free trade and
condemns the course of Governor Hill.
A FIRE destroyed the Houck. & ComstocK
Manufacturing Works at Merchandising,
Pa, on the 2Sth. Loss, 100000.
The Pennsylvania Democrats met in
State convention at Harrisburg on she 2Sth
and nominated Henry Meyer, Of ALE
gheny, for Auditor General.
DURING a Republican pole-raising near
Morris, n Y, on the 2sth cannon dis
charged prematurely, killing John Dick
son, Albert Sergeant and Fred Sage.
Western appeal. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1885-18??, 1888-09-01
A Reliable Remedy.

ALLcocK,,s Porous PLAsTERs never fail
to give speedy proof of their efficacy as the
best external remedy for Weak Back,
Rheumatism, Lumbago, Sciatica, Colds,
Coughs, Sore Throat Pulmonary and Kid
ney Difficulties, Malaria, Dyspepsia, Heart,
Spleen, Liver and Stomach Affections,
Strains, and all Local Pains.
They have been in use for over thirty
years, and their value has been attested by
the highest medical authorities as well as
by voluntary and unimpeachable testi-
monials from thousands who have used
them.
! Ask for .ALLcocK's, and let no explana-
ton or solicitation induce you to accept .
substitute.
Western appeal. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1885-18??, 1888-09-01
FORESTS All AFlRE

Hundreds Of People in Northern Michi-
gan Rendered HOmeless-FOr Nearly q
Hundred Miles Along the Northwestern
Road from Ishpeming the Forests Are
Burning; and Many Towns Are Threat
E Sned-Several villages Already Scorched
and Scores of Families Left without
shelter-several Lives Reported Lost.
3 NADEAN, Mich. Aug. 27-Forest fires
between Nadean and Bagley are causing
great loss. The fire was started by farm
ers clearing land at Nadean and the town
was only saved after a desperate fight.
At Carney the Menasha Woodenware
Company lost 500 cords Of slaves,
barn and forty tons of hay
Brown & Co. lost $4,000 in bark
and cedar posts. At Mnmford four
charcoal kilns and all the buildings were
sleveled to the ground; cattle and horses
were burned, and numbers of families are
left with only the clothing on their backs
special train took the. women and chill
sdren to Powers for-safety. The number of
buildings burned was twenty five Loss,
S15, Geo. without insur ance
IsHPEMING, Mich, Aug. 27.-For nearly
100 miles along the peninsula division of
the Chicago g. Northwestern railway for
est fires rage. Between Negaunee and
Stephenson there are at least fifty fires.
some small, but many large and doing great
damage.
The people Of Nadean fled to Powers to
escape the flames, leaving behind most Of
their household effects. Ballon's store
houses, a set of charcoal kilns and num-
Der OF freight cars loaded with coal and
bark were burned. A hundred thousand
posts and large piles of cordwood are
iYoc a low zic, cof n 5ic
also the village Of Stephenson. Fires are.
burning on both sides of the track, as
faras can be seen, and thick smoke GOV
ers every thing. One family at Mumford,
consisting of seven persons, is missing
Their house was burned and no trace of
them has yet been found. It is thought
that they were burned while trying to es-
cape. The house was surrounded on every
side by flames.
For several miles back from the railway
track is good farming country in which
numerous clearings have been made
by farmers. Nearly all Of the farm
buildings are burned and crops en-
tirely destroyed. The people barely
escaped with their lives, and many saved
nothing at all from their homes. Many
homeless people are crowding into Pow
ers, Bagley, Daggett, Stephenson and
other villages yet untouched. Several
hundred people are now homeless and the
fires are still spreading.
The weather continues dry and warm,
and nothing but a heavy rain can stop the
fires. When the flames approach all at
tempts at saving buildings are Intellectual.
Bad fires are burning at McFarlands hill,
Harvey, Campbell and other places. The
situation is very serious and apparently
growing worse.
A pail of smoke hides every thing from
sight, 1t is thought there will be heavy
loss of life, as the people in the country
lose their way and the fire surrounds
them Many families who have been made
homeless are endeavoring to escape to
spots that have previously been burned
over, but danger is found on all sides.
Western appeal. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1885-18??, 1888-09-01
WEST AND souTY.

On the 23d Nicolo Femmenetta was
hanged at Buena Vista, Col, for the muir
der of Michael D. Casey at Granite in
March last.
AMONG the negroes on the rice planta
tions on the Santee river near Columbia,
S. c., black measles of a virulent type pre-
vailed on the oath. Fifty deaths had oc-
CURED, and the disease had become cpl
demic, creating panic.
JACOB MoxTER, of ST. Louis, prominent
dealer in pianos, sat down to one Of his in
struments on the oath, played the 'Dead
March, and then blew his brains out.
Business trouble was the cause.
THREE persons were struck by lightning
and killed at colored religious meeting
on the 9th at Carter's Wharf, Va.
In the drying house of the Grand Pow
der Company, near West Berkeley, Cal,
ton Of powder exploded on the 9th, kill
ing two white men and three Cinnamon.
A FIRE at Clinton, Ind, destroyed a
dozen business houses on the, Oath.
FREDERICK OBERKAMPF,t the Chicagc mail
box robber, was on the oath held for trial
in SC, 900 bail
JACOB PEAvY killed Frank and Elan
Hall (brothers) with an axe in a political
dispute on the 25th at Nashville, Ind.
For the week ended on the 18th the per.
centage of the baseball clubs in the Ma
tional League was as follows: New York,
1858; Chicago, SIS; Detroit, .526; Boston,
.515; Philadelphia, $40; Pittsburgh, .472
Washington, $3.50, Indianapolis, $50. Ameri
can Association: st. Louis, .694; Cincin
natl, .617; Philadelphia, 593; Brooklyn
.5S5; Baltimore, .4O2; louisville, .391
Cleveland, $50: Kansas City, $40 West
ern Association: Des Moines, 1857; st
Paul, $50; Omaha, $50; Kansas City, .513
Milwaukee, ASS; Sioux City, AL; Chicago
400; Dayenport.; .31S.
In cotton mill at Bremond, Tex, the
boiler exploded on the 18th, killing w. L
Wooton and his two sons.
The engineers, fremen and switchmer
on the Peoria, Decatur & Evansville
Evansville & Indianapolis, and Evansville
& Terre Haute railway went out on strike
on the 26th on a complaint that the master
mechanic was gradually removing tn,
Brotherhood men.
CHARLES w. WALDRoN, one of the own.
ers of the Waldron Bank of Hillsdale
Mich, absconded on the 27th, taking with
him money and securities variously esti
mated at from 500, 600 to $4,000.
The recent freshet in Louisiana sweep
away over one hundred houses, left twelve
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hundred people homeless and destitute
caused the death Of sixteen persons, and IN
the inundated districts, covering four hum
bred square miles. not a head of stock was
left alive. The loss to the State was esti-
mated at 81, OOO, COO
JAMES B. REILLY was on the 9th nom
mated for Congress by the Democrats of
the Thirteenth district
ALL the creeks and rivers in Southern
Indiana had on the 9th become great
owing to severe storms and destructive
torrents, flooding cornfie1ds, sweeping
away fences, stacks of wheat and hay, and
carrying off great deal of valuable hard
wood timber.
On the 27fh the striking engineers, fire.
men and swltchmen on the Mackey sys-
TEN of railroads in Indiana, who went out
recently, returned to work at the terms
dictated by the road.
On the 9th the forest fires in Northern
Michigan were extinguished The reports
Of property losses were said to have been
greatly exaggerated, and no lives were
known to have been lost
On the 9th John Virts was driving
along the river road at Tifin, o., with his
sister, when the horse Jumped over
thirty foot embankment, Instantly killing
them all
The existence Of yellow fever at Jack
sonville, Fla, during the month ended on
the 9th showed the following record:
Total cases, 107; deaths, II: discharged as
cured, %; under treatment, 81; many of
whom were convalescent.
On the 2Sth DR.. Nathan Field, of Jeffer-
sonville, Ind, founder of a religious sect
akin to the Second Adventists, died, aged
lightweight years.
The death of Rev. Jesse Pratt, the Oldest
Baptist minister of Arkansas, occurred at
Little Rock on the 2oth from grief over the
waywardness of son.
In duel on the road in Washington
County, KY, on the 2Sth Peter r. Head,
wealthy farmer, was shot dead by his son.
in-law, Samuel Morton.
CONGRESSIONAL nominations were made
on the 2Sth as follows: James McCabe, by
Ninth Indiana district Democrats; j. E.
Reber, by Eighth illinois district Prohibit
tionists; j. C. Burrows (renominated), by
Fourth Michigan district Republicans; A.
E. Morrison, by Seventh Iowa district
Democrats; D.J. Burchett, by Ninth Ken
lucky district Republicans; d. L. Brinton,
by Third Maryland district Republicans,
and Charles B. Smith (renominated), by
Fourth West Virginia district Repub-
licans.
THERE were ten new cases of yellow
fever and three deaths at Jacksonville,
Fla, on the 2Sth.
THE State conference of farmers and
Labor organizations in Minnesota in ses-
sion at St. Paul on the 2Sth nominated Ig-
natius Donnelly for Governor.
A PASSENGER and freight train on the
Cincinnati, Hamilton & Dayton road col
lided on the 2Sth on crossing at Column
bus Grove, O., seriously injuring six per-
sons and wrecking both engines and thirty
cars.
HERMAN KLEIN & Sons stocking factory
at Cincinnati was destroyed by fire on the
18th. Loss, 500, ZOO.
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COLONEL GEORGE l.. PERKINS,

COLONEL GEORGE l.. PERKINS, of
Norwich, Conn, for fifty years treas
urer, and still so, of the Norwich s.
Worcester railroad, was one hundred
years old recently. This is his longev-
ity recipe: " Early to bed and early to
rise, cleanliness, industry, economy,
cheerfulness, contentment; avoid the
use of tobacco, use stimulants only as
medicine with advice of a physician;
pass saloons, keep the taste simple, and
eat bread freshly made from whole
wheat flour, and you will sleep well and
be surprised thata harp OF q thousand
saAiagS' can keep in tune SO long"
Western appeal. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1885-18??, 1888-09-01
At Liberty.

JEFFERsoNy1LLE Ind, Aug. 2z.-John
Reno, notorious express robber and road
agent, was yesterday released from the
Indiana prison north, after serving a term
of three years for counterfeiting. There
was a fine attached to the sentence, but
he took the insolvent debtors oath and
was released. He is nots in Indianapolis,
hut will probably be heard from again
soon. Reno's last exploit before being
sent to the InIfana prison was robbing a
county treasury in Missouri He escaped
and came to Indiana. He had been en-
gagged in many stage and express robber-
les, and was notorious before the James,
boys were thought Of.
Western appeal. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1885-18??, 1888-09-01
LATER.

THE Union railroad depot, Chicago on the
corner Of Canal and Adams, was slightly in
jured by fire on the 29th.
JOSEPH BREED, cashier of the Hartford,
Conn.,, national bank committed suicide on
the 10Th in the bank building by cutting his
throat.
MR.. MAYNARD, assistant secretary of the
treasury, on the 29th refused to allow an Eng
lsh built yacht now in Mexica to be repaired
at San Diego, CAL, without payment of duty.
VIM ANIME brakeman on the Wisconsin
Central railroad was shot and killed at Ash
land, Wis, on the morning OF the 10Th by
saloon keeper named Dan Richie
THE report from Jacksonville, Fla, for the
Thirty-four new cases were reported for the
q hours ending at p. M, and four deaths.
Total cases 1853; total deaths %. Grocery and
drug stores are the only business places that
are kept OPEN.
WHILE boring for water at Mayyille, Dak.,
on the 18th, gas was struck alta depth of 100
feet This is the third time gas has been
found in that vicinity.
THE west bound passenger express on the
Union Pacific railroad was wrecked near
Kimball, Neb., on. the 29th. The train was
running at the rate Of 40 miles whenit struck
broken rail Three sleeping cars, one Of
them special occupied by Claus Spreckles
the sugar king, were thrown down u twenty
foot embankment. Many passengers were
seriously hurte
Cor. MARCUS d. SIMPSON, assistant commits
sary general of the army competed his 9th
he's n I q oath NIacad
on the retired list.
A CONSPIRACY to release the Peter Bennett
robbers from the Jail at Bangor, Me-, was
discovered by Deputy Jailer hathaway on
| the 18th.
| EIGHT business houses at Lancaster, Wis,
valued at $4,000 were destroyed by fire on
| the morning OF the 29th.
THE Alaska Commercial Company's steam
| en- ST Paul, arrived at san Francisco, CAL, on
| the 18th from Gunalas'Sa with 100000 seal
skins, the seasons catch on st. George and
| ST. Paul Islands. The aggregate value of the
cargo is s2,00O,OO9
ONE hundred armed Sioux Indians crossed
| the Union Pacific railway in Wyoming terri
tory on the 29th. They were on their way to
| the Shoshone reservation. They all had on
war paint.
| Two women, Mary Ann Mcnamara and
Julia Perry, had q prize fight at Chicago on
the 18th, according to the regular rules OF the
/ ring.
| ON the 2sth,. the barn OF A. G. Renly, a,
Spring Valley, Ind, was burned and with il
seventeen high bred horses and colts, valued
| a. $4,000.
| PoNY PoE,.a negro, was lynched at Belle
fontaine, Miss, on the 18th. He had made q
criminal assault upon three women y few
] days Previous
Western appeal. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1885-18??, 1888-09-01

) "HoNEsT JOHN" an old apple man
of New York, was buried the other day
with great ceremony. For forty years
he sold apples at the corner of Cham
bers and Center streets, and was we'll
known to everybody in that locality
Twenty years ago John found some
$50, 900, the owner of which he also
found. From this he received a silk
hat and the name Honest John, y
and retained both till the day he died.
He leaves an estate valued at $25, 900.
Western appeal. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1885-18??, 1888-09-01

: New YORK will hold big tobacco
exhibition next winter. There are $780,
900 retail tobacco dealers in the United
States and 100000 workers interested
in the manufacture of smoking and
chewing tobacco. A French machine
will be exhibited which will make
cigarettes without the use of paste and
automatically rolls, sorts, counts and
puts the cigarettes into boxes. A
novel exhibit will be a collection of
pipes covering period of one hum
dred years, from the stone calumet of
the Indian to the jewel-inlaid meer-
schaum of the Vienna exquisite.
Western appeal. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1885-18??, 1888-09-01

The great Eiffel tower in Paris will
have on its first floor, about $50 feet
from the ground, four restaurants,
each with store-room and kitchen
built into the supporting iron frame
below. An enormous elevator, capable
of holding one hundred persons, will
save customers the trouble of climbing
the stairs ...........
Western appeal. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1885-18??, 1888-09-01

! REV. GEORGE C.. LoRO1ER, D. D., of
Chicago, has inaugurated at Cottage
City, Mass, what will be known as the
Vineyard Literary and Scientific Col
lege. This association will, it is said,
number thousands from the Baptist de-
nomination all over the country. -Four
new buildings will be erected near the
Baptist Temple there, and the first an
nual session will be held next summer
with term of six weeks.
Western appeal. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1885-18??, 1888-09-01

! DEAF printers have been regarded
as valuable men at the case their
attention being less easily distracted.
With Edison's new photograph, how
ever, tubes are fitted to the compost
tors ears and connected with the in
strument. which is set to talking or
stopped by pedal arrangement. The
monograph talks off a sentence into
the printers ears, and when these are
full he stops the machine until he has
transformed the words into type. The
next step will be to connect the tubes
with the subscribers ears and dispense
with the printed paper entirely.
Western appeal. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1885-18??, 1888-09-01
FoREIGN INTELLIGENcE.

ONE thousand houses were burned few
days ago at Orenburg, Russia, and ten
thousand factory operatives were made
homeless by the fire.
EIGHT HUNDRED workmen at Teng-Leon,
China, were drowned by recent inunda-
ton.
CHOLERA broke out on the Portuguese
transport India, while bound recently from
Macao to Mozambique, and within forty
eight hours there were thirty-eight cases,
twenty -four of which proved fatal.
DISPATCHES of the Oath say that the
forces of the Congo State had recaptured
the Stanley Falls station.
On the 25th American veterans in Lon
don held memorial meeting in honor of
General Sheridan.
IN Ireland on the 9th John Redmond,
NJ. p, W. Redmond, M. P, Edward Walsh,
editor of the Wexford People, and Father
Kennedy Catholic priest, were arrested
on the charge of offenses under the crimes
act.
AT Steinwarde, Germany, seven ware
houses containing cotton, rice, sugar and
saltpetre, valued at 100000 marks, were
destroyed by fire on the 9th, and six per-
sons persisted in the flames
MINISTER OF FISHERIES UPPER, of Can
ada, stated on the 9th that he regarded
the Presidents message proposing retalia-
tion as a campaign document, and asserted
that Canada could stand retaliation better
than the United States
On the 2Sth fifteen men OF the crew of
the steamer Bratsburg, from Sydney to
Montreal with coal, were drowned near
Matam, Can, by the stranding of the boat.
Hon. M. LAUR1ER, leader of the Liberal
party in Canada, in an address at St.
Thomas, Ont, on the 2Sth said that the,un-
friendly course of the Dominion Govern
ment during the past twenty-fiv years
had irritated Americans, and that it was
high time that that policy should be re-
verSed,
Western appeal. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1885-18??, 1888-09-01

; The grave of Wendell Phillips, at
Milton, Mass, is unmarked But a
monument is soon to be erected by
Mrs. Green, the sister of the dead
orator. 1t will be rough, weather.
stained granite boulder about five feet
in height, and in the front center will
be placed a sunken tablet bearing an
Inscription.
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JOHN D. GlLLETT DEAD.
The Cattle King of Illinois Expires a
MackinaW City.

The Cattle King of Illinois Expires at
Mackinaw City.
MAcKINAw CITY, Mich, Aug. 27.-John
D. Gillett, the cattle king of Illinois,
father-in-law of Governor Oglesby
of that State, died here of a
complicated kidney and heart trou-
BILE He leaves widow, one son, J. F.
Gillett, and six daughters, Mrs. Oglesby,
Mrs. David T. Littler, Mrs J. E. Hill, and
Misses Jessie, Amy and Nina Gillett. At
the time of his death he owned 10000
acres of land in Logan County, ILL.,, had
100000 of stock of five Central Illinois
banks, and was president of the First
National bank Of Lincoln, Ill. His
fortune is estimated at s2650,O00. He
was noted as successful breeder of fine
beef cattle and one Of the first to export
beef cattle to England.
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FOUR BABES AT a BIRTH.
The Wife of u Polish Laborer at Duluth
Gives Birth to Ouadruplets.

The Wife of u Polish Laborer at Duluth
Gives Birth to bankruptcies.
A Polish woman by the name of Ce:slack,
wife Of a laborer on the Ohio coal docks
at Duluth, gave birth the other morning to
bankruptcies, two boys and two girls. She
was attended by neighbors, no lohs sician
being present. The children, while small,
were all well formed and seemingly healthy,
and both they and the mother were doing
well. The girls weigh four and three
fourths and six and one-fourth pounds, and
the boys five and half and five pounds,
respectively. Neighboring women had
taken charge Of three of the babes until
the mother was able to care for them. Mrs.
Ceislack has given birth to three children
before. on one occasion to twins
Western appeal. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1885-18??, 1888-09-01

SOME coincident collator has made
the discovery that General Grant was
buried on the second Saturday in Au-
gust, 1885, and that General Phil
Sheridan was buried on the second
Saturday Of August, 1888.
Western appeal. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1885-18??, 1888-09-01
SEVEN MILLION ACRES OF CORN

SEVEN MILLION ACRES OF CORN.
That Is the Showing for IIlinois-The
Yield Will Be Enormous.
SPRINGFIELD, ILL.,, Aug. 27.-Figures per-
fccted in the State Agricultural Office
show that the area of the present corn
crop in Illinois is over 7,O0O,0O0 acres and
that the August prospect is - per cent.
higher than has been known at this date for
ten years There has never before been
such a prospect. AS an Illustration it is
shown that many fields in which corn was
sown broadcast for fodder will actually
yield a paying crop of good corn. One of
these near Springfield is good for eighty
bushels to the acre and has had no cultiva-
ton. The oats crop will be l51,0OO0OO
bushels, or 100000 bushels in excess Of
any former crop in the State The wheat
crop is estimated at "a, 100000 bushels, or
1900, 600 bushels less than last year.
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A CANADA lawyer recently drew up
a will in his own handwriting and when
1T was opened the other day he was I'M
able TO tell whether the amount left to
one of the heirs was $4,000 or $40, 900,
the chirographY was so bad.
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-tss.a ata sEf54.s 80 .i-H
A Faithful Guide.

Experience, with unerring finger, indi-
Gates the remedies which man should use.
and credulous abjure her guidance, and are
misled by scharlatanism and bombast. For
many years Hostetter's Stomach Bitters
has been achieving victories over disease,
which are recorded in testimony from thou
sands of the debilitated, nervous, dyspeptic,
bilious and malaria prosecuted.
Western appeal. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1885-18??, 1888-09-01

The King of the Belgians hates to-
bacco, never wears gloves, and goes
bareheaded as much as possible. He
is fond of bathing, but does not swim.
Geography and languages are his
favorite studies, and he has travelled
in almost every Asiatic country.
Western appeal. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1885-18??, 1888-09-01

A LIBERAL estimate, says the Boston
Globe, of the total number of
''Quakers" in the United States at the
present time places the figure at 1O3,-
600. This computation is based upon
figures furnished recently by clerks of
all the yearly meetings in America.
Western appeal. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1885-18??, 1888-09-01

HENRY MOORE and Mrs. John W.
Norton, the couple who caused such a
sensation by clipping from St. Louis re-
Gently, are said to be living together as
husband and wife in private board
ing-house at Toronto.