The Progress., 1888-02-18


mometer marked 20 to SO degrees below
zero in Minnesota; from 10 to is below in
Wisconsin; from 18 to 20 below in Chicago
and vicinity, and from 20 to 35 below in
Iowa
TIE American Newspaper Publishers As
sociation began its annual session at Indian
apolis on the 9Th
The Michigan Grand Lodge A O. o. W.,
in session on the 8th at Detroit, adopted
legislation prohibiting the admission to
membership of habitaal drunkards and
those engaged in the manufacture or sal q
of Intoxicating beverages
ADvIcEs of the 9Th say that John Clark.
wife and five children died near Leaven-
worth, Kan, from drinking water from a
well near which hogs dying of cholera were
buried.
MR. A. J. SMELL, a well-known citizen and
millionaire of Chicago, was murdered by q
burglar in his residence on the West side
about two o'clock on the morning of the
9Th
JOHN WILLIAMS, of Delaware, O., acct
dentally struck his son with an axe on the
9th while splitting wood, killing the boy
Instantly.
THE British steamships Algitha, Lufra
and Darien, all bound from England for
Philadelphia, were given up as lost on the
6th with their crews, numbering eighty
men. -" ..- .@g.'
On the 9Th two carloads of goods, be-
Heved to have been stolen from Baltimore
d Ohio freight cars. were seized in the house
of John Britain at Pittsburgh, Pa
OFFICIALS at Yankton, D. T., were on the
9Th sending out official deniaIs of TIL
ports that one thousand lives were lost in
the Territory in the late blizzard
INTEREST in the gold-mining enterprises
north Of Ishpeming, Mich, on the 8th was
increased by rich developments
A NEGRO arrested at Hinesv;lle, Ga. on
the charge of setting fire to several houses,
was taken from Jail on the 9Th by mob
and riddled with bullets
j. l. HUDsoNs mammoth clothing store
at Cleveland, o., was damaged by fire on
the 9th to the extent of 500, 900. III.
CASHIER EDWARDS, of the Cincinnati Met
ropolitan National Bank, said on the 9th
that after all claims were paid there would
be $500, 900 left for the stockholders
In the United States Court at Fort Smith,
Ark, on the 9th Judge Parker sentenced
Owen D. Hill, George Moss, jeff Hilder-
brand, En- anuel Patterson Richard Suther-
land, Jack Grow and William Alexander to
be hanged on April 81 for murder
The sixty-second anniversary of the BIRTH
day of the late Senator Logan was COM
memorated on the 9th by the dedication of
a memorial tablet in the Metropolitan Meth
odist Episcopal Church in Washington
which the Senator was in the habit of at
tending
TIE Builders National Association at its
annual session on the 9th in Cincinnati
elected J. l. Stevens, of Philadelphia, presi-
dent
Four dwellings at Kutztown, Pa, were
burned on the 9th, John Hopp, his daughter,
aged fifteen years, and his son, aged nine
years, perishing in the flames.
JOHN JANAUscHEK, farmer living near
New Prague, Mimi, killed his wife on the
9th, fatally wounded his ten-year-old
daughter and killed himself. A quarrel
over money was the cause.
THOMAS STEVENS and his wife, of West
Gardiner, Me-, we're placed in an insane
asylum on the 9th Their hallucination
was that their house was overrun with
monkeys.
AT indianapolis on the 9th William M.
Singerly was elected president of the State
Newspaper Publishers Association.
HE American Horticultural Society. in
annual session on the 9th at Riverside,
Cal, elected Parker Earl, of Golden, Ill.
President
CLEMENT A. DAY was hanged on the 9th at
Utica, N. Y. He was convicted of the mur-
der of his mistress, Johanna Ross Crow, of
whom he was insanely jealous
The following low temperatures were re-
ported on the 9th: Duluth, Mimi, "a de-
grees below zero; Pembina D. T., 81 be-
low; Crookston, Mimi. 81 below; Teche, D.
T.. So below; Moorehead, Mimi, A. below;
St Paul, Mimi, 80 below; Ishpeming,
Mich, 35 below: Sycamore, ILL, 80 below;
Watertown, Wis, 80 below; Des Moines,
Ia, 80 below .'.
ALBERT J. SMELL, son of the millionaire
killed by burglars in Chicago, on the 9th
offered reward of 500, 900 for the arrest
and conviction of the criminala
The Yankton I'd. T.) Board of Trade, in a
circular on the 9th correcting exaggerated
reports of casualties by the late blizzard in
Dakota, states that the number of deaths
will not exceed two hundred
In an address before the Interstate CON-
merce Committee in Washington on the
10th General Wilson said the United States
laws coddled Canadian railways at the ex-
pense OF our own, that Great Britain's pos
sessions were a constant mena ce to this
country, and that we were aiding in the
support of railways built for political and
war purposes 80. g :
AT Deerfeld, Wis, fire on the 10th de-
stroyed the principal business places of the
town. ----.
AN explosion on the 10th in tho Dupont
powder works at Wapwallopin, Pa, blew
four men to pieces and wounded forty
others, dozen Of whom were not expected
to recover. Nearly every building In tho
place was wrecked rN E,@,.
AT Mechaniosburg, Ind , on the 10th John
Buttery shot his step-sister, Rtta McMullen,
with whom he was in love, killed Frank
Moore, to whom she was engaged, and then
killed himself.
A GANG of counterfeiters, who had been
working off large amount of spurious coin
in the southwestern part Of Kansas, were
captured on the 10th at Wichita
DURING the seven days ended on the 10th
there were 237 business failures In the
United States. against 28O the previous
seven days
AN east-boun train on the Pennsylyania
road was wrecked on the 10th at Sala-
manca, N, Y, by an open switch, and three
persons were fatally injured and several
cars were burned
PATRICK JOHN HART was hanged ON the
10th at Helena, M T., for the murder Of
John Pitts. miner