Western appeal. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1885-18??, 1888-07-28
THERE were seven cases OF yellow 1eve.

THERE were seven cases or yellow Ievez
at Plant City, Fla, on the 22d.
FRANK WILLIAMS was hanged at Black
foot, ]. T., on the 21st for the murder of
Charles Reed and Captain VIM near Carl
bou, December IL, 1885,
FREIGHT trains collided on the Norfolk &
Western road on the 22d, near Lynchburg,
Va, and both engineers, one fireman and
five of the crews were killed The prop
erty loss was 500, 600.
Two RoUGHs attacked Allen Collins. Of
Marietta, Ind, on the 22d and in defend
ing himself fatally cut both of them
MRS. OSCAR w. DoRAN, of Columbus,
Ind, was arrested on the 21st charged
with numbering her husband by pouring
carbolic acid down his throat while he was
asleep.
A BANDIT held up stage near San Luis
Obispo, Cal, on the 2lst, took all the val
tables OF the passengers, amounting to
$500, and also secured the express box con-
tanning $1,000, and mail packages
FIRE on the Dist in mine at Sunny
South, Cal, caused the death of six miners.
In flight on the 23d over the enforcement
OF prohibition at Harlan Court House, KY,
five men were badly wounded.
On the 23d Samuel Baldwin made a sue
cessful leap with a parachute from bal
loon four thousand feet above the earth at
Quincy, ILL.,
FIRE destroyed the town of Roslyn.
W. T., on the 23d, $50 houses being burned
and 800 inha bitants made homeless The
loss was $500, OOO
WISCONSIN Republicans will hold their
State convention at Milwaukee on the 22d
of August.
On the 23d eleven thieves attempted to
rob passenger train between Ashtabula,
O., and Geneva, but they were overpow-
cred, and nine of them were captured and
placed in Jail.
A LABOR Congress, composed of trades
unions, met at Dubuque, Ia, on the 23d
and formed an organization, elrcting James
White, of the Knights of Labor, president.
The object is to see all labor laws en-
forced
WHILE drunk on the 23d at Mobile, Ala,
lde Lambert, a white man, shot and killed
I. D. Hestle and two negroes He was ar
rested
FOUR naval cadets were dismissed from
the service at Annapolis. Md, on the 23d
for hazing. Their names are Richard H
Leigh, mississippi; George H. Shepard,
Wisconsin,; Bion B. Bierrer, Kansas, and
Charles W. Lyle, Virginia
NEAR Benham, Tex, Jack Walker (col-
struck the wife of a German in quarrel
over horse
REPRESENTATIVES, of organized bodies of
locomotive engineers and firemen and
sWltchmen met in convention on the oath
at st. Joseph, Mo-, to consider their COM
mon interests in general and the ''Q'
strike in particular.
AT ten o'clock on the night of the oath
rainbow was distinctly seen during a rain
storm at Princeton, Ind
RICHARD AIKEN, aged thirty-tive years,
had both eyes blown out by the accidental
discharge of a gun. on the Ath near YER
sailles, KY
The Wisconsin Union Labor party met in
State convention on the 24th at Oshkosh
and nominated the following ticket: For
Governor, DR.. Powell, of La Crosse: Lieu
tenant-Governor, n. E. Allen, of Beaver
Dam; Secretary of State, William Lock-
wood, of Ripon; Treasurer, Alfred Mann
halmer, OF, Manitowoc; Attorney General,
A. Ryan, OF Waukesha; Superintendent OF
Schools, E. B. Krackowitzer; Railroad
Commissioner, John E. Thomas, of Sheboy-
gan Falls; Insurance Commissioner, Ritz
ner Stevens, of Gre IN Lake
JOHN GRAYsoN and Lillburn Trigg were
fatally shot in a quarrel on the oath, at Alb
inguoH, Va, ana the mother OF Irlgg died
from the shock caused by her sons death.
DEMOCRATS Of the Seventh Illinois dis
trlct on the 24th nominated Owen Lovejoy
for Congress.
G. W. BLEwETT was on the 9th nomi
mated for Congress by the Prohibitionists
Of the Second Indiana district.
The shoe factory of Krippendorf, Ditt-
man & Co., at Cincinnati, was DESTROYED
by fire on the Oath. Loss, $4,000.
PRoHIBITIoNIsTs of the Tenth Illinois dis
trict on the Oath nominated j. H. Sedgwick
for Congress. 49,
Mrs. JOHN S. MARTIN died on the oath in
Chicago from hydrophobia, caused by the
bite Of little dog.