Western appeal. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1885-18??, 1888-07-21
the establishment Of civil government In
the territory northwest of the Ohio river

the establishment Of civil government In
the territory northwest Of the Ohio river
commenced at Marietta, O., on the 18th.
THREE men and three women were
drowned while crossing the Arkansas
Eriver near Fort Smith, Ark, on the 14th
by the upsetting Of boat. Their names
were John Logan, Jess Morris, Tom Davis,
Sallie Jackson, Mary Pettis and Carrie
Davis All leave families.
JOSEPH Sour, of Charleston, s. c., in a
| fit Of insanity on the 18th killed his wife
by driving file into her head and then
| cut his own throat.
| CONRAD JACKSON (colored) was executed
at Waco, Tex, on the 10Th for the murder
of John Talley, 9 prominent white planter
| one year ago.
| The bark Magnolia, from Rio Janeiro,
was quarantined at Ship Island, Miss, on
the 18th, the captain and four of the crew
having died Of yellow fever during the
| voyage.
WHILE bathing on the 18th in Wilkes
lake, near Battle Creek, Mich, Frederick
Gleason, aged twenty years; John Williams
| son, aged eighteen years, and Louis Burn
am, sixteen years old, were drowned.
AN express train went through bridge
on the Fort Worth road near Clarendon,
Tex, on the 10Th, killing the engineer and
| fireman.
LEE EANEs tried to drive his mule over
Hannibal Turner at Danville, Va, on the
10th, and in the quarrel which followed
both Eanes and his brother Gus were fatal
| ly shot by D. E.. Davis.
FIRE destroyed the Brush electric light
plant at New Orleans on the 10th. Loss.
100000
AT meeting Of the Grand Council of
the Independent Labor party at Detroit on
| the 18th Harrison and Morton We're in
dorsed. President Cleveland was de-
nounced for his free-trade ideas and for
his pension vetoes.
On the 10Th fire at Brewton, Ala, de-
| stroyed about half the town, consisting of
sixteen stores.
A FIRE on the 10th at Ozo Cal, nearly
destroyed the entire town.
On the 10th eighty five head of cattle be-
longing to DR.. Bates, near Jonesboro, Ind,
were poisoned by paris green which boy
carelessly sprinkled on the grass.
PRoHIBITIoN1sTs of the Seventh Illinois
district On the 18th nominated A. II. Han
sen for Congress.
fought duel on the street atStanton, KY,
on the 18th, and Rose was fatally wounded
and Hall instantly killed.
In the Eighth Indiana District the Dem
ocrats on the 18th nominated E. T. Brook
shire for Congress.
| On the nth Murray Lewis (colored) was
hanged at Greenville, Miss, for the MUIR
der of his mistress.
AT Benkleman, Neb, on the 18th a wind
storm tore the Presbyterian church from
it's foundations and destroyed twenty
frame buildings. No lives were lost.
The arrest on the 18th of three An
archists-John Hronek, Frank Chapek and
Frank Chebowa, followed the discovery of
a plot to blow up several large buildings
in Chicago with dynamite and to murder
Judge Grinnell, Judge Gary and other
prominent persons engaged in the prosecu.
ton during the celebrated trial.
| CHIEF ARTHUR, of the Brotherhood Of Lo-
connective Engineers, in an interview in
Chicago on the 18th said they had been
beaten in the Burlington railway strike,
and that it would be better now to declare
the strike off and for the men to seek en-
. ployment where they could get it.