The Progress. [volume] (White Earth, Minn.) 1886-1889, 1888-05-12
DOMESTIC,

gist, on the 17th fatally sho5 Virgil Bar
mum, his brother-in- law, during q family
quarrel.
JAMES ARBAN and daughter, living near
ST: Louis, were killed by Missouri Pacific
engine while driving across the track on
the 17thL
NJ WALTER, sheriff of Sphinx County, D.
T.. was killed by lightning at Watertown
on the Eth.
TIE druggists in Iowa cities on the 18th
resolved not to take out liquor permits un-
der the new law, and the drug stores will
hereafter be "dry"
The New York Assembly on the 18th
passed, by vote of SO to 8, the bill which
substitutes electricity for hanging:
The Detroit Butchers Protective Associa-
zion on the 18th declared war on Chicago
dressed beef.
A HEAVY snow-storm prevailed on the 18th
IN Northern Michigan, and the straits were
solidly blocked with ice.
TWENTY families at Alma, Wis were on
the 18th driven from their homes by high
water: The loss to property was estimated
at 500, 900
SYNDICATE of q dozen Chicago capital
lists on the 18th purchased the street. rail-
way at Indianapolis, Ind, for 8 /, 900, OOOo
In the Chippewa (Wis) valley the snow
was three feet deep on the l7th
The barn of NJ J. Cole, near Hebron, Wis
was burned on the 18th, and tifty-two head
of cattle persisted in the flames
ALL the Burlington switchmen in the
yards at Kansas City quit work on the 18th
because the company would not reinstate a
discharged employee
OHIO removed the quarantine restrictions
on Cook County OILY cattle on the 18th.
MOSES FRALEY, the "bear" grain operator
nt St /io
losing about 5000, 600.
AT a sale in New York on the 18th of
American silks, manufactured bv the
Phoenix Manufacturing Company of Pater-
son, N. j., over three Thousand pieces were
disposed Of
The village Of Fremont, Wis, was under
water on the 18th, all the stores were
closed the goods having been removed out
OF danger, and many families were residing
in the upper story of their dwellings,
FIVE intoxicated Indians were drowned
on the 18th at Trempealeau, Wis, while
attempting to drag their canoes across a
raft of logs.
TWELVE stores and buildings were burned
at Braddock, Pa, on the 18th, and fifty
people were rendered homeless
TIE losses to lumbermcn by the floods in
Wisconsin and Minnesota were on the 18th
estimated at $25O,OOO
AT Nebraska City, Neb., Joseph NJ Brown,
an engineer who had taken the place of
one of the strikers, was attacked and fatally
dubbed by three unknown men on the 18th.
AN incendiary fire on the 18th partly de-
stroyed the stables of Senator Stanford at
Palo Alto, CAL, and several valuable racing
horses were burned to death or permanent
ly injured Loss, 100000.
IT was announced OH the 18th that an
organized gang of counterfeiters was flood
ing Eastern Tennessee with bogus gold and
silver pieces
The sWhite Caps" logged Bob Broom.
field, James Sellers and Mrs Wilson at En-
glish Ind, on the 18th, the charge against
them being that they had been guilty OF
immoral conduct
have been married to Mr.: W. J. Brown, of
Detroit. made her complaint against him
on the 18th. ~
The switchmen in the Chicago yards of
the Northwestern railway struck on the
18th because the company discharged two
yardmasters -.'
RUSSELL ?: HoYT, for twenty years sec.
Rotary and treasurer of the Mercantile
Benefit Association of New York, disap-
peared on the 18th, and his account is were
said to be $50, 900 short
CITlZENS OF Lexington, Mass, on the 10Th
celebrated the one hundred and thirteenth
anniversary Of the first battle Of the reyo
lutionary war. ILL.,. -. ri
FOUR HUNDRED brewers at Cincinnati
struck on tie 10Th because of the discharge
of several union men,
MISS BERTHA EvARD, a school Teacher near
Fort Wayne, Ind, was burned to death on
the 18TH by her clothes taking fire from the
stove s.,@ -.-.-..-.. -.-
HE entire business portion of Monmouth
Center, Me-, was destroyed by fire on the
10th.
ISAAC KIRKPATRICK and his wife, DO tn
colored, living near Gallatin, Tenn, were
taken from their house on the 10Th by a
mob, and the woman was hanged and the
man was shot TO death. They were sus-
pecte d of arson.
The jury in the suit of David S. Fother-
tngham against the Adams Express Com
pany for false imprisonment, on trial at ST.
Louis found verdict on the 10Th for
FoJheringhanl,. awarding him damages of
$4,000
FROM reports received on the 10Th by the
northeastern Hitler it estimated that the
shortage in the winter wheat yield, as COM