Western appeal. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1885-18??, 1888-03-24

against six more Of the Indianapolis Qnd.)
election conspiratoTs. and warrants were
issued for their arrest
I In tenement house in Chicago an incen-
diary fire on the 18th caused the death Of
two persons-Sarah Dalton, thirty-six years
of age, and her daughter Lucy, aged four
years
On the Santa Re system the strike ended
on the 18Th and the engineers and fremen
returned to their posts This move was
made in accordance with request Of Chief
Arthur The Burlington road was having
very little trouble. Judge Dundy decided
at Omaha that Union Pacific engineers were
liable to arrest and imprisonment for rec
fuslng to handle Burlington business
On the 18th Convict Carlin, who escaped
from the penitentiary at Saltwater. Mimi,
last fall, and who was recently captured in
Chicago and taken back, announced him
self as the murderer Of Amos j. Smell. the
Chicago millionaire, and for which murder
William Tascott is under Indictment
On the. Chicago Burlington Quincy
road the strike was practically over on the
18th. Passenger and freight trains were
running regularly, and nearly all connects
ing lines were handling Burlington freight
TIE death of John P. King, United States
Senator from Georgia in 1888, occurred in
Augusta on the 10Th, at the age Of eighty
nine years.
LEvEEs on Caldwell, Caution and Eagle
Bend plantations, fifteen miles below
Shreveport La, broke on the 10th, and the
lower country for the distance Of eight miles
was all under water.
FREIGHT trains collided near Cisco, Cal,
on the 10Th, and six men were killed
THOMAS KENNEDY died on the 18th at In
dianapolis, aged one hundred and four
years
GEORGE WASHINGTON MAINS. aged ninety
five years, a veteran soldier of the war OF
1912, who achieved distinction at the bait
tie of Lundy's Lane, died on the 10Th at
Findlay, O.
A FIRE on the 10th at Jacksonville, Fla,
destroyed half dozen storessand ware
houses Total loss, $125, 600
DAMAGES from storm, ice and high water
were reported from various points in the
West on the Goth. In portions of Dakota
and Minnesota the heaviest snowfall of the
winter prevailed, and in Western Kansas
and Nebraska heavy storms of sleet and
snow had damaged fruit and livestock
The suspension of the Commercial Nation
al Bank of Dubuque, Ia, was announced on
the Goth. The loss to the stockholders
would be 100000. but it was said depos
itors would lose nothing.
IHE Democrats OF West Virginia will hold
their State convention at Huntington
August 16 to n nominate State ticket
On the goth the only visible sign remain
ing Of the great Burlington strike was the
retention of their headquarters in Chicago
by the Brotherhood The contest itself was
declared to be over, despite the rumors of a
combination OF switchmen and brakemen
to help the engineers and fremen. The
boycott on Burlington freight, which was
the great stroke relied upon by the engin-
GERS to win their demands, had been COM
pletely raised.
KENTUCKY Democrats will meet in Lex
ington on the 10Th Of May to elect dele
gates to the National convention.
RICHARD H. GREENWOOD, treasurer of
Daviess County, Ind, was found on the
2OJh to be short in his accounts to the ex-
tent of $14, 1873.
REPUBLICANS Of Minnesota will meet In St
Paul May 16 to elect delegates to the Ma
tional convention in Chicago.
JAMES W. TATE, Treasurer of Kentucky
since 1857, was on the Goth declared to be
a defaulter to the extent of 100000 He
had left for parts unknown.
DEMOCRATS of the Nineteenth Illinois dis
trict on the Goth renominated r. W Towns
bend for Congressman.