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

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passed for the revocation of the withdraw
al OF lands made for the benefit of certain
railroads in Iowa and Minnesota The
Army bill was discussed.
FROM WASHINGTON.
THERE were 217 business failures IN The
United States during the seven days ended
on Inc 2th, against al the previous seven
days.
The chief of the Bureau of Statistics re-
ported on the 25th that the total number of
immigrants which arrived at the ports of
the United States from the principal for
elgn countries during the twelve months
ended June 80 was '539,S1S against 4S3, 116
during the same period in 1887
On the 2Sth Congressman Randall was
removed from Washington to his country
home at Wayne Station, Pa.
IHE exchanges at twcnty-six leading
clearing houses in the United States dur
li,s W. week ended on the 2Sth aggregat
eu eoloo@, oo7 against S943, 772, 361 the pre-
'lous week. As compared with the CORE
sponding week of1ss7 the increase amounts
ed to 4.6 per cent
HE first report of the Conoressiona,
committee which has been >investipatinp
trusts was made on the 30th alt If finds
that the form of combination adopted bv
most of the trusts has been devised for the
purpose of relieving the trust from the
charge of the conspiracy laws of the vari-
Gus States or of being Il combination to reg
ulate or control the production of any
commodity.
PRESIDENT CLEVELAND returned to
Washington on the 3lst ult. from his fish
ing tour off Sandy Hook.
THE EAST.
On the 9th Mrs. Belva Lockwood, the
Presidential candidate of the Equal Rights
party, opened the campaign in Brooklyn
N. Y. In her speech she said that it was
about time that women were regarded in
some other light than as petted dolls on
the one hand and domestic drudges on the
other.
The pugilist, John L. Sullivan, attempt
ed on the 9th to clean out saloon at
South Boston filed with 'longshoremen
but the bruiser was thrown to the floor
and severely pounded
THE paper mill of John De Varennes, at
East Lee, Mass, was burned on the 29th
Loss. 500. 600.
On the 18th Mrs. Nancy Eagerly, living
with her daughter in Wolfboro, N. H., Gel
ebrated her one hundred and fourth birth
day.
TESTIMONY taken on the 2Sth before the
Congressional Investigating committee in
New York showed that societies were Or
gained in Germany for the purpose of
sending eX-convicts to America.
On the 30th ult. BARLEY Campbell, the
Well-known playwright died at the Middle
town On " insane asylum, aged forty
five years.
The Commercial Gable and the Western
Union Telegraph companies advanced Ca
BILE rates to twenty-five cents per word on
the Both ult.
On the 3Oth ult P. K. Dederick, of Al
bany, N. Y, was robbed of $40, 900 in bonds
which he was carrying in his buggy.
THE little daughter of William ROLAND
and Mrs. Lizzie Mclaughlin were killed by
oil-can explosions in Pittsburgh, Pa, on
the 30th ult.
A. G. RADCLIFFE, of New York, mounter
of diamonds, disappeared on the 3lst ult,
taking with him diamonds belonging to
customers valued at $4,000.
IN the vicinity of Pittsburgh, Pa, six
thousand coal miners struck on the 31st
ult. against a reduction in wages.
On the 3lst ult. thirty horses belonging
to the Mutual Benefit Ice Company, and
valued at $4,000, were burned to death in
the company's stable at New York.
WEST AND SOUTH.
AT Byrnville, Ind, White Caps visited a
airy on the 9th and caused stampede OF
the congregation.
AFTER an illness of ten days General NJ.
r. Patrick, governor of the National Sol
diers' Home at Dayton, O., died on the
9th, aged seventy seven years.
WAHPEToN Cd. T.) citizens on the 9th
lynched Deputy Sheriff Elmer, who shot
Mollie Korbet, domestic in the family of
the sheriff, because she would not marry
him.
ADvICEs of the 9th say that seven men
were killed in an encounter between Hugo
town and Woodsdale citizens in Stevens
County, Kan. The trouble grew out OF
county seat matters.
On the 27th six of a gang of nine thieves,
who had been robbing Vigo County Ind. }
farmers, were arrested at Terre Haute
A GREAT many Chinese were on the 9th
reported to be entering Washington Terri
tory from British Columbia
A MOB hanged Eli Bryant (coloreD or
the 9Th near Starkville, La, for Grimm
ally assaulting white woman.
WHILE wrestling at Cincinnati on the
goth, Luke Muldoon threw Patrick Fla
herty and broke his neck.
JOHN Z. ANDERSON, of JohnstoWn, Neb.,
after nine days burial fifty feet under
ground by the caving in of a we'll was res
cued alive on the 2Sth.
For the week ended On the 18th the rec
ord of the base ball clubs in the National
League was as follows: Detroit (games
won), Al; New York, AZ; Chicago, As
Boston, 81; Philadelphia, "a; Pittsburgh
80; Indianapolis, IS; Washington, 49, The
American Association clubs stood: ST
Louis games won), 40; Brooklyn, so
Cincinnati, AZ; Philadelphia, 43; Balti
more, "a; Louisville, 2s; Cleveland, Is
Kansas City, %. In the Western Asso
citation the following was the order: st
Paul (games won), AZ; Des Moines, 80
Omaha, 81; Milwaukee, 80; Kansas City
81; Chicago, IS; Sioux City, 10; Mime
apolis, "a.
JOHN PHILLIPS, butcher, and Richart
Larkins, q blacksmith, were shot dead OF
the Goth by August Diedlouf for creating
disturbance at a Polish wedding in Chi
taoa