The Progress., 1888-10-13
DOMESTIC.

YELLOW FEVER made it's appearance. on
the 18th at Gainesville, Fla, six persons
being stricken.down.
HEAVY rain storms resulted on the 18th
In disastrous floods at Port Jervis, N Y,
and other points on the Delaware river.
FLOODS in the streams near Scranton.
Pa, on the 18th washed out the tracks of
the Lackawanna road SO that all traffic was
suspended.
WILLIAM BoHS, who gouged out his
wife's8 eyes, was sentenced on the 18th at
Long Island City, N Y, to twenty-six
years and eleven months imprisonment at
hard labor.
{, JACOB /. SEIxAs the oldest wholesale
rdry-goods merchant in New York City,
having started in business in 1887, was
forced to compromise with his creditors
'on the 18th. who expressed sympathy and
gave him time settlement at fifty cents
on the dollar. His Liabilities were $4OO, 900.
JOHN MURPHY, deputy postmaster at
Artesian City, Kan, was arrested on the
18th for robbing the United States Ex-
press Company Of $4,000 He confessed
the crime and restored S, 900 of the stolen
money.
The New York State Labor conference,
In session on the 18th at Troy resolved to
support no candidate who did not favor
the repeal Of the industrial conspiracy
laws.
In the Cherokee Nation on the 18th fight
took place between two Indians, Blue Hog
and Pigeon, in which both received mortal
Woun DIS and mulatto girl was shot dead
The affair grew out of contest for the
girl.
In st. Louis on the 18th Judge Barclay
decided that under the constitution and
acts of Congress none but negroes and
'Caucasians were eligible to citizenship in
the United States.
CHARLES H. HARRIS. agent of the Santa
Fe road in Coleman, Tex, ordered William
Attley, a drunken cowboy, out of the sta
tion on the 18th, and Attley shot him dead.
NEAR Lancaster, Tenn, on the 18th John
Smith, Jr., a railroad contractor, was seri.
ously shot by two men and robbed Of
81, 900.
The Sovereign Grand Lodge of Odd Eel
lows in session on the 18th at Los Angeles,
Cal, elected General Underwood, Of Ken
lucky, Grand Sire.
DURING the twenty-four hours ended on
the 18th there were 130 new cases of yellow
fever at Jacksonville, Fla, and Ia deaths
Total cases to date, 1888; total deaths, TO
A SAFE belonging to A. H. Mont, Of North
Baltimore, O., was robbed of $1,000 on the
18th.
z n Two freight trains collided on the 10Th
on the Burlington road, near Gales burg,
ILL.,, during fog, and three persons were
killed.
THE nineteenth annual reunion OF the
National Association Of ex-Prisoners of
War was held at Indianapolis on the 10Th.
Thomas NJ Mckee, of Washington, D. c.,
was elected president for the ensuing
year.
MRS. MARTIN, of Huntingburg, Ind, con-
Victed of infanticide, was on the 18th sem
fenced to Imprisonment for lite.
The nineteenth annual reunion Of the
Society Of the Army of the Cumberland be-
gan in Chicago on the 10th.
TuE triennial congress of American
physicians convened in Washington on the
10Th with some Of the most prominent
members Of the profession in this and
foreign countries in attendance.
WILL A. STRONG, ex-Secretary of the
State of Louisiana, charged with en-
bezzling So, 500, escaped from the court
room while waiting for the verdict Of the
juryfon the 10Th and had not been recapt-
nred
AT Atlanta, Madison and other towns in
Georgia several earthquake shocks oc-
cured on the 10Th. An hour before the
first shock there was a brilliant meteoric
1y3play, the stars in the western sky leap
isss like balls Of fire from place to place.
An unknown man recently left box in
railroad station at Paola, Kan. The box
was accidentally smashed on the 10Th and
q skeleton was disclosed. No clew.
Two MEN were killed by the explosion Of
a boiler in a sawmill at Point Mountain,
w. Va, on the 10Th.
REPORTS prevailed at New Orleans or
q hn fk,.1ff fhcal lofn fo1 Nov
shal, r. B. Peasants, was defaulter te
e the amount Of s53, 900.
MASKED robbers. on the 10Th entered the
house Of Isaac Hariger and wife, an agee
couple living near ligonier Pa, an6
robbed them of one thousand dollars il
gold which was in the house.