The Progress., 1888-10-06


i from yellow fever at Jacksonville, Fla,
during the twenty four hours ended on the
i 9th. Total cases reported to date 2,368:
total deaths, 237
| JAMES M. STONE and wife were struck
and killed by a fast express train at Ken.
nedy, N. Y, on the 9th, as they were
driving across the track.
| A BARK-RIGGED English war ship ar
| rived on the 9th at Provlncetown, Mass,
flying a yellow flag at the forepeak
The stables at the Chicago West-side
driving park were burned to the ground
during the races on the 9th.
ONE new case of yellow fever occurred on
the 9th at jackson, Miss, and one death.
Total cases, II; total deaths, 5. The wild
excitement in the country continued. At
Decatur, Ala, the scourge was abating.
The Commercial Bank building and sew
eral other structures at Delphos, o., were
burned onthe 9th
IN political quarrel on the 27th at San
Francisco one man was shot dead and
| three others were fatally wounded.
TWO MEN were killed on the 9th near
Mayfield, KY, by the fall Of gravel bank,
and two others were fatally injured
AT the fair grounds at North Easton,
Mass, Prot. Allen made a balloon ascen-
! sion on the 9th accompanied by Mr.. and
Mrs. Edward T. Davis, who were married
in the basket just before the ascension.
The balloon landed in cedar swamp near
EastOn.
A MAJORITY report Of the Utah Commits
sion recommending an amendment to the
constitution prohibiting polygamy was
fled with the Secretary of the Interior at
Washington on the 27th.
I AFARMER named Miller from Chesaning.
Mich, who was going to Vernon, O., with
his family and 5000, the proceeds of the
sale of his farm, was swindled out of the
entireisum by q couple of sharpers on the
9th at Toledo, %.
Guy, the legally-elected Governor, with
an armed force, marched into Tishomingo,
the capital of the Chickasaw Nation on the
2Sth, ousted acting Governor Byrd and
took his seat. It was feared that trouble
would follow.
FIRE on the ssth destroyed the Ohio
Falls oak leather tannery at Louisville, KY.
Loss, S125, 900. S.
made on the 2Sth in Elk County, Pa, in an
unworked district.
DURING the twenty-four hours ended on
the 2Sth IS new cases of yellow fever de-
veloped at Jacksonville, Fla, and deaths
from the disease were reported Total
cases to date, 2,453; total deaths, 242
DURING the seven days ended on the 2Sth
there were 220 business failures in the
United States, against 22S the previous
seven days. Total number of failures dur
ing the past nine months, 1880, against
9, ,95S during the same period last year.
IHE village OF Romeo, Wis, was de-
stroyed by fire on the 2Sth, only four houses
B being left standing. .g{ tfE
The furniture house Of F. O. Wilkins &
Co.. in Chicago, was destroyed by fire on
the 2Sth. Total loss about 100000. One
man perished in the flames. i
FREEZING weather was reported on the
2Sth in Northern Minnesota, killing frosts
from the southern portions of Michigan
and Wisconsin, and light frosts in the
Northwest as far south as Southern Mis-
souri, In Western Pennsylvania fierce
snoW-storm was raging.
A STRIKE on the 2Sth among ninety boys
in Baltimore glass and bottling factory
caused the establishment to shut down,
throwing seven hundred people out of en-
ployment
M HINDs,z a4capitalist of South
Bend, Ind, was gored to death by bull
on the 2Sth on his farm near there
The general council Of the Sioux Com
A,Aio'AoAOAo "lOiA dL LOW6T
Brule Agency, d. T., dissolved on the 2Sth,
and the commissioners left for the East,
their efforts to make treaty being unsuc-
cessful. 5
ULSTER BELLE paced mile on the 18th
at Poughkeepsie, n. Y, with running
mate, to beat her record of 2:1S, which she
+. lowered to 2:1411
AT Fleetwood Park, New York, without
preparation either Of herself or of the
track, Maud S. made a mile on the 2Sth in
2:1212 and another in 2:1234, John Murphy,
her driver, weighing 153 pounds.
A BRooKLYN (N.Y.) } girl discovered on the
2Sth that the man she married recently is
a negro. He oiled his face and represented
himself as Spaniard.
MARTIN MAHADY and Christopher Ga
briel were killed on: the 2Sth by the falling
of roof at Scranton, Pa. Two canvas
men of Forepaugh's circus were run over
and killed while loading train at Pitts
burgh, Pa, and James Stone and Clarence
Baker, of Mud Creek, n Y, were run
over and killed by train while RETURN
ing from a fair.
IT was discovered on the 2Sth that a
clerk in the American National Bank Of
Chicago had stolen IS, ,000
The cashier of the National Union Bank
iOf Fall River, Mass, was on the 2Sth found
to be $50, 900 short in his accounts.
PERSONAL AND ,POLITICAI.
CANDIDATES for Congress were nomi-
n ate1 On tho OSth 90 follo,r,o /. Tl1;no;e