The Progress. [volume] (White Earth, Minn.) 1886-1889, 1888-03-24
DOMESTIC.

OoHN IdoMHY, VI ClaTkSDurS, w. va, went
home drunk on the 18th and began to
abuse his wife, who esponded by striking
him on the head with potato-masber, and
killing him
TIE last spike was driven on the 18th in
the construction Of the California & Oregon
railroad, which is completed to Ashland.
Ore 1t had been building twenty-one
years
In quarrel on the 10Th at Farmersville.
La, Judge J. q. Tremble and James A.
Ramsey, prominent citizens, shot each other
dead.
ABOUT two hundred men employed in the
railroad yards at Columbus, O., went on a
strike on the 10Th.
MISS NEz VAN zANDT, of New York City,
was on the 18th sen fenced to a months
imprisonment in the penitentiary for
viciousy killing two canary birds
ADv1cEs Of the 10Th say that several per-
sons were killed and others were injured
by cyclone which passed through por-
lions OF Indian Territory and Arkansas and
large amount of property was destroyed
FIVE men were instantly killed on the
18th by an explosion in saw-m1u at Til
ton, Ga.
WHILE digging for gas ON the 10Th at
Marion. Ind, an oil well, with capacity
of about one thousand barrels daily, was
struck
AT Ballston Spa, NJ Y, on the 10th s. s.
Crandell, formerly lawyer and real-estate
broker. shot and killed his wife, his mother
in-law, Mrs. s. S. Stone, and his step
daughter, Julia Buckley, and then blew out
his own brains The tragedy resulted from
disputes over money matters
THOMAS BREWER held two sticks of fyna
mite in one hand in a nine at Ishpemins.
Mich, on the 10Th and Lit his pipe with the
other hand AS result he was blown into
fragments ..-..-
WAGON containing two men and two
women was struck by train ON the 18th
near Lexington, KY, and the four persons
were killed &a2 ss7.-.a1.. .
The National Prohibition Bureau began
Its second annual convention on the 18th
in New York City.
ABIIzzARD, accompanied by very heavy
fall of snow, prevailed generally through
out the Northwest on the 18th
A GAs-PIpE bomb was found on the 10Th
In 1ue OF the new opera-house building
at Marshalltown, Ia 1t was taken by Off
GERS to the outskirts of the city, the fuse
lighted, and the explosion was terrific.
trees in the nelghborhood being reduced to
splinters 81" Iii
CHRIS CARTER, serving term in the New
Hampshire State prison, confessed on the
10Th that in his lifetime he had stolen
about one Thousand horses
In portions Of New Jersey the heaviest
snosv-storm in seventeen years prevailed on
the 18th, the snow being six feet deep on
the level In Vermont two feet of snow
fell.
SoLoN MCPHERSON, well-known carpet
dealer. was found dead in his store in Chi
cago on the 18th. The deceased was one of
the old settlers in that City
The Missouri Supreme Court ON the 10th
decided the LocalO Option law constitutions
al The law is exceedingly severe, amount
ing to prohibition.
The gross earnings Of the New. York Gen.
trail road the pasI year were $35, 297, O55,
and the net earnings $12, 9O8, 1872 The
surplus is 81, $40. 376
The indications on the Goth were that the
1883 crop Of winter wheat in Texas would
be double that Of 1887.
TIE Executive Committee of the Rated
Service Pension Association on the ooh ia
sued q call for aNational convention of vet
Grams to meet in New York March 1.
IT was announced on the Doth that four