The Progress., 1888-02-04
DOMESTIC.

FIRE on the 24th in o. G. Kings shoe
house at Newark, O., caused loss of
100000
SANFORD TANNER, a rich bachelor of Free
born County, Mimi, was confidenced out
of $22, 600 by sharpers on the 24th
The total collections of internal revenue
for the first six months of the fiscal wear
ending June 80, 1888, were $62, ,443, sos.
being an increase of $4, $40, lO4 over the
collections during the corresponding period
OF the previous fiscal year.
AT The recent annual meeting of the
Chautauqua Assembly, held in Buffalo, N.
Y, DR. Vincent read report which gave
glowing account of the good results accom-.
plished by the assembly Secretary Dun
can reported that the receipts from all
sources during the past year were $780,
29l. 50 and the disbursem ents S11S 766 26.
The assembly receipts were $97, ,675. 90
and The disbursements were $3.50, ,517. S5;
receipts from tickets. S34 9711 IL
from privileges, $37. 467. 13; from
percentages, $3, 964. 4S; donation, $45, 400;
expenses of programme, $50. 1856. 55; other
expenses, $28. .O29 81; permanent improve
Sl2.9oS 2S. During the past four years the
tioating debt has been paid and the perma-
nent debt has been reduced to about S37.-
600 A recent decision of the Supreme
Court in a case brought to test the. right of
the assembly under the old camp meeting
leases gives the assembly full control of the
grounds.
The Indiana Wool-Growers' Association
met at indianapolis on the 24th and con-
demned the proposition to place wool on
thesfree list
. A COMMUNICATION was transmitted to the
United States Senate on the Oath from the
Commissioner of Internal Revenue show
ing that the amount of revenue collected on
liquors since the present system of internal
revenue taxation went into effect on Sep
tember ], 1862, down to June 3. 1887, was
$1,34S, ,626, ,O9O
Ira W. CoLBETH, mate of the bark D.
Chopin, of Boston, which was lost at sea
Christmas day, said on the 25 n that the
crew sufferedfearful hardships, being adrift
in an open boat for ten days without water
"A FIRE on the Goth in Barber & Co. IS
thread-mill at Allentown, Pa, caused loss
of $25O,OOO
MRS. A. J. ELLIS, of Kansas City, woke up
on the morning of the 255h to discover that
her twin children a month old had been
smothered during the night
A MEETING of prominen5 colored people
was held ut Pittsburgh, Pa. on the 25th to
arrange for National emancipation holi-
uay, anu ~ was %uectueu TO nOlu a cOnVen-5
tion at Washington July a.
LOCAL option was carried in Allegan
County, Mich, on the 18th by over ], 500
majority. This makes fourteen counties in
the State that have voted for local option.
The stallion Happy Medium, famous over
The whole country as a sire of trotters, died
on the 25th near Lexington, KY. He was
twenty -four years old and yalned at
$4,000
OWING to the depth of snow in the forests
north OF Eau Claire, Wis, deer We're dying
of hunger on the 25th and were easily
captured, and hunters were capturing large
numbers of foxes and wolves
a GANG of boys, aged from twelve to six
teen years, We're arrested on the 25th at
Lafayette, Ind, for committing numerous
robberies, md they confessed to belonging
to an organized gang for that purpose