Western appeal. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1885-18??, 1888-01-28
AT Dubuque, Ia, an earthquake shocl
was felt on the 81 All


was felt on the 21sti
OvER two thousand people were present
at the reception tender ed to General Ere
mont at Los Angeles Cnl, on the 21st, on
the occss.onof his seventy fifth birthday
IN Wisconsin spirit thermometers on the
DIST registered IS degrees below zero 81
Chippewa Falls, SO below at GAINESVILLE, Sc
at Hudson, 50 at hartford, So at Princeton,
so at Sparta, 50 at Green Lake, and ex-
treme cold was reported in other portions
OF the State In the northern portions Of
Michigan it was 40 degrees below, and IN
Iowa from 80 to 40 degrees below zero. n
Minnesota and Dakota from 40 TO SO below
was also reported.
In a livery stable at Clyde, Kan, Johr
Brownlee was burned to death on the Dist
and nineteen horses and two cows also per
ished. z5ls
Four raftsnen were drowned on the 21sl
in the French Broad river. near Knoxville.
Tenn ~
THE death Of Mrs Eliza B. Garfield
mother of the assassinated PRESIDENT oc.
CURED at five o'clock on the morning Of the
21st at the family homestead in Mentor,
near Cleveland, Q. She was born in Rich.
mond, Chester County, n. 81, September
%, 1901 and was therefore eighty-si1
years, three months and twenty six dayf
old. She had been a widow for fifty-fivt
years She was the first mother to witness
the inauguration Of son as President
In Western Nebraska Q coal famine ex.
listed on the 21st, and coal trains on the
Union Pacific were being stopped an6
robbed. s5 .5s 4.s
BREWER ARENsDoRF, who was twice trlce
at Sioux City, Ia, for the Haddock murder
spent q fortune His defense cost him ovel
$175, 600, and he is now reduced to trav.
cling for q Milwaukee concern.
An Apache Indian at San Carlos, a T..
got drunk on the Dist, killed his wife ano
child, and was shot BY q sergeant Of the
guard
NELSON BARNABY's boarding house al
Tower, Mimi, was burned on the 21st, ane
ten persons persisted in the flames
The Iowa State Prohibition conventions
will be held in Des Moines February 8.
MRS ELIZA BALLoU GARFIELD's funera
| took place at Mentor, O., on the 23d, the re-
mains being placed beside those OF Presi
dent Garfield in the vault at Lake View
Cemetery. Cleveland
WILLIAM G. PORTER, aged one hundred
and five years. died at his home in Itch
field, Ill. on the 23d
GOVERNOR MARTIN, of Kansas, authorized
l oh1C oVtsLOlASAO OA Vic SOu U11U OlSCIcBi
prevailed in the extreme southwestern
part Of the State, owing to the failure Q:
the crops last year and the rigor Of til.
winter.
JOHN T. ALLEN, ex-Treasurer Of Texas
| died at Austin on the Esd, aged eight,
years He bequeathed $500, 900 to the city
for an industrial school for boys
MILWAUKEE brewers on the Oath informed
their employees that in q few days ever,
union man would be discharged.
In Dakota another blizzard was raging Of
the Oath, and at Neche the mercury wen
down to sixty below and the wind reached
velocity of forty miles an hour.
On the Oath the Ohio Wool-Growers' As.
sociation met at Columbus and adopted
resolutions condemning the proposition tt
place wool on the free list.
A FIRE in O. G. Kings shoe house at New.
lark, O., on the oath caused q loss of $780,.
600.
SANFORD TANNER, Of Freeborn. County
Mimi, rich bachelor, was contidencet
out of $22, 900 by sharpers on the Oath.
The Wool Growers Association of Indian;
met at Indianapolis on the Oath and con
demned the proposition to place wool OF
the free list.
ANTON HEEBE, who died on the Oath /,
Dubuque, was the owner OF the first brewer,
| in Iowa.