Western appeal. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1885-18??, 1888-03-10

bI0lneIs Qeeer0yed property 20 the vail
OF 5000, 600.
on the Chicago, Burlington q Quincy
road the strife Of engineers was practically
unchanged On the 4 I'll The trains were
moving VITA some gnlarity. and several
heights were put IN mo Ion The idea was
gaining ground that the strike would ex-
tend to many other roads. on the ground
that they had been extending aid to the
Burlington
APREMATuRE explosion Of dynamite on
the 5Sh in 8 mine at Ishpeming, Mich. In
stantiy killed five men ohm Williama
Alfred Lucas, Eric Mattsson. Charles Rusk
and William Gerdle.
Il ]. j. SNYDER was arrested In Colbert,
/ Tex on the p Il for robbing United States
malls He had drafts amounting to $146.-
$50 and numerous money orders. g
AT Goldthwatte, Tex, nineteen business
houses were destroyed by fire on the 9TH
s On the 9th Rev ]. a. Asbury, prominent
Methodist minister, " lille officiating at q
funeral In Petersburg, Ind. fell dead il his
pulpit OF heart disease #
& On the Cincinnati Southern road pas
Esenger train was wrecked on the 9Th at
oakdale. Tenn. and four persons were
killed &
An Columbus o. Steube, the tally-sheet
conspirator, who assaulted Prosecuting
Attorney Hulfng, was sentenced on the 9th
to four months in Jail and to pay a fine of
twenty five dollars
TEE Legislature Of Virginia adjourned
sine d e on the 9th.
The town of Deep Greek, Va, was almost
entirely destroyed by fire on the 5sh
No MATERIAL change was reported on the
9th in the strike on the Chicago Burling-
ton & Quincy road, and from the stand
point OF the Brotherhood there seemed to
be but Il tie encouragement OF a speedy
continuance Of hossilities and peace
able adjustment Of the vital questions at
Issue. 4ss2
6 Lou1s 3. FISHER, Of st Paul. editor8o of the
Northwestern Newspaper Union, died on the
9th. Mr. Fisher assisted, in ] 854. in get
ting out the first daily paper ever published
In that city, the Pionee,.
s. The Republicans OF South Carolina will
hold their State convention at Columbia
on the 1st of May to elect delegates to the
Nation i convention.
ILIINoIs Republicans will meet at Spring
field on May I'd to select candidates for
State officers and delegates to the National
convention
Texas Republicans will meet in State
convention at Fort Worth on the 9th of
April to elect delegates to the National eon-
vention.
In Chicago the Democratic Association Of
the Northwest was organized, and j. NJ.
Weston, of Michigan, was elected president
BIZ the mistake OF q dispatcher two heavy
freights on the Iowa Gensral collided on
the 9Th near hampton, Ia. piling nineteen
cars and the engines in heap Of ruins.
Brakemen Williams and Ferguson were
fatally hurt ss5sg
CINCINNATI has been chosen as the place
for holding the National convention OF the
Union Labor party and May Is as the time.
AT Nineveh, o.. Johanna Yocum fell into
the fire in a fit on the 9th and was burned
to death
A CYCLONE which recently passed over
the souJhWes ern part Of Opelousas, La,
destroyed six dwellings,, and in every case
the inmates were injured and the household
effects ruined
SIX business buildings at Ligonier, Ind,
were burned on the 9Th.
The proposition made in behalf Of the
Brotherhood strikers to submit their
troubles to arb ration was on the GIL, a &
c.ined by President Perkins, Of the Bur
ington road. He said his company was
getting all the men it needed to run its
trains and had nothing to arbitrate