The Progress., 1888-09-22
DOMESTIC.

Joseph Breed, the suicided assistant cash
aer OF the Hartford Comm National Bank,
was on the 18th found to be $1OS, 500. He
lost the money in private stock operations
REPORTS of the 11th from Mississippi
stated that owing to excessive wet weather
the cotton was rotting in the fields, and
the crop was likely to prove failure.
z, NEW YORK was on the 11th flooded with
counterfeit five dollar and one dollar silver
certificates. The quantity of these bills
circulated led to the belief that an expert
gang OF counterfeiters were at work.
By an unprecedented rise in the river
augusta, Ga, was on the l1th experiencing
the worst flood ever known there. The wa
ter in the streetsiwas over five feet deep.
and all business was suspended boats be-
ing the only means OF navigation, The
loss would reach 81, 100000.
The Grand Council of the Improved Or
der OF Red Men, q benevolent organization
with a membership of eighty.two thou
sand, convened in annual session in Chi
scago on the 18th. Thirty three States were
represented
WHILE resisting arrest on the 18th at
EMuskogee, Ind, Dan Barnot, noted des.
|perado, was riddled with buckshot by
Marshal Tyson and posse
In several Virginia counties wind and
rain- storm on the 18th did great damage to
the corn, cotton and peanut crop.
= CAPTAIN ANDREWS, who was trying to
Gross the Atlantic in the Dark Secret, a
twelve-foot dory, abandoned his boat in
mid ocean and arrived in New York on
the 11th in the Norwegian bark Nora. ss'ss
+: AN express train on the Southern Pa
fcific railroad was stopped by three rob
lbers on the 11th at Parker's Mills, A. f..
fbut they secured no bOOtV a..
JOHN KITCHENS, of Dawson, Ga, nearly
seventy years old, was kicked to death on
1.-THE 91lth in a fight with his son Perry.
The convention of the National Protec-
tive Association of Spirit Distillers of the
united States met in New York on the
I11th.
\ ALARGE part Of the business district of
Huntington, N. Y, was burned on the 18th,
causing a loss Of 100000.
! TWENTY-EIGHT new cases and four deaths
was the yellow fever record at jackson
willie, Fla, flor the twenty four hours ended
son the 18th. Total cases to date, 743; total
deaths, 1O0
:! A FIRE on the 18th at Potoka, Ind, de-
Fstroyed the best portion Of the village.
J. EHE Liquor-Dealers' National Protective
i Association, in session in New York on the
y1ssth, elected j. M. Atherton, of kentucky
president. ID
MRS THOMAS MYERS and daughter, aged
twenty years, were run down in the East
port (Me) harbor on the 18th by schooner
!and both were drowned. 4
IN his address at the Grand Army en-
,campment at Columbus, Ga, on the 18th
4Commander-in-C Chief Rea said the total
membership of the order was 361, 1862, a
gain of 33, $50 during the last year Dur
ling the year 4, 433 comrades died There
was expended in charity $3.50
A NEW and dangerous counterfeit stand
ard silver dollar was in circulation In New
Y ork on the 18th. 5sst
4, AN incendiary fire Son the 18th at juno
'tion City, Kan, did damage to the extent
of sl25, COO, Two young men lost their
dives.
1 The lossfof life by the freshet at Au-
,gusta, Ca, was on the 18th placed at
twelve.
The California Dried Fruit Association
was formed on the 18th at San Francisco
by many OF the largest fruit-growers of
the State.
4 !, HEAVY frosts were reported in many
parts OF Wisconsin on the 18th, freezing
tcranberries and damaging the corn and to-
.bacco crops.
The outbreak Of yellow fever at Decatur,
ALA, had on the 18th caused the greatest
excitement among the people. who were
leaving the town in large numbers.
j AT Princeton, Ind, on the 18th Sylvester
Grubb shot and mortally wounded Miss
Downey because she had declined his
escort to the fair at that place.
u j. B. BULKELY, of Millerton, Pa, was
driving with his wife and two children on
the 18th when his horses became fright
ened and ran away. Mrs. Bulkely and the
children were killed and Mr.. Bulkely was
fatally injured.
a., a5@. AT the g. A. r, encampment in Colum.
bus, O., on the 18th William Warner, OF
Kansas City, was elected Commando In
Chief and Milwaukee was chosen as the
place for the next annual gathering
By the upsetting Of boat on the 18th
on the Hudson river at Hastings, N. Y,
five persons were drowned.
FoREsT fires in Northern Michigan had
moi been checked on the 18th. West OF
:Standish two families were surrounded by
The flames and perished The properly
loss was great.