Western appeal. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1885-18??, 1888-08-04

THOMAS CARNEY, who was the war Gov
ernor Of Kansas, died suddenly at his
home in Leayenworth on the 2Sth of APP
oplexy, aged sixty four years.
A CYCLONE passed near Paramount ILL.,,
on the 10Th, destroying property in the vi
cinity.
THE National Labor party will hold their
convention in Chicago September II.
THREE OF the men charged with the Chi
cago Burlington & Quincy dynamite con-
splracy, Bauereisen, Cooling and Koegel,
had hearing at Aurora. Ill, on the 3Oth
ult., and were held to the grand Jury.
| In the basement of the new Commercial
Bank building at ST Joseph, No., a dyna-
| mite bomb was found on the 30th nit
AT Nebraska City, Neb., the thermome-
ter registered 10S degrees in the shade on
| the 3Oth ult., and there were two cases of
sunstroke, one fatal. At Sioux City, Ia,
] Ito in the shade was recorded, and there
We're five cases of prostration by heat.
MASKED men entered the house of Con-
rad Doup, farmer in Knox County, O., on
the 30th ult., and robbed him of 81, 900.
! IRE dead bodies of Henry Heesch and
wife were found in their residence in
Chicago on the Both ult. Heesch had killed
his wife with a knife and then hung him
self.
| NEIL anu AuCn (UIOGuCTS) were
I drowned while boating in the river at
Abilene, Kan, on the Both ult
/, DIR. RobERT MORRIS, the most distin-
guished Mason in the world, died on the
31st ult. at LaGrange, KY, of paralysis,
aged seventy years.
| NINE cases of sunstroke occurred in Chi
| cago on the 31st ult., and four persons were
struck by lightning.
On the 31st ult. Dr. Ernest Weissen-
berger, professor of Heidelberg Uni
versity, who has been observing the gas
wells at Findlay. O., said that the EARTH
crust was very thin there that a tempera-
ture of 8, 500 degrees existed 5000 feet be-
low the surface, and that the earth would
before long burst out with volcanic erup-
tions.
A FIRE at Mansfield, O., on the 31st ult.
burned out the building of p Bessman &
Co., wholesale grocers. Loss, 100000; in
| surance, $4,000.
FREMONT EMMoNs, who murdered Bertha
! Schultz at Pawnee City, Neb., because she
would not marry him, was lynched by a
mob on the 31st ult
| THE following Congressional re-nomina-
| tions were made by the Republicans on the
31st ult: Indiana, Twelfth district, James
B. White; California, Third district
Joseph McKenna; Fourth, W. W. Morrow;
Fifth, T. G. Phelps.
THE Republicans of Florida held their
| State convention at Ocala on the 3lst ult
and nominated V. S. Shipman for Governor
| and H. W. Chandler (colored) for Secre-
tary of State.
On the 3lst ult. lightning struck four
horses belonging to E. NJ. Cooper, of
Anderson, Ind, killing all OF them The
horses were standing under walnut tree.
There was not q mark of violence to be
seen on any of them except that every hoof
was stripped entirely off each one.
PRoHIBITIoN1sTs of West Virginia met in
State convention at Parkersburg on the
31st ult. and nominated u full ticket, with
Thomas r. Carskadon, of Keyser, for Gov
ernor
BELL Boy, the famous trotting stallion,
was sold on the 31st ult. near Lexington,
KY, to G. c. Seaman for $50 the high
est price ever paid for a horse at auction.