The Progress., 1888-01-14

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In the Senate on the 9Th bills were introduce,
TO provide for worlds exposition at the Ma
uonal capital in 1892; to establish postal tele
graph systemi for the formation and admission
into the Union as State of Dakota, and t.
equalize bounties Petitions were presented
favoring National prohibition amendment
and against the admission of Utah as State
while it remains under Mormon control. Ad
1ourned to the 9th 90. In the House the list O.
committees was announced. Bills were intro
duced for the preservation of woods and forests
or the National domain adjacent to the sources
OF navlgable rivers, and authorizing Nationa
banks to take liens ON real estate for loans o.
money. Adjourned to the 9th
DOMESTIC.
TW public-debt statement on the Sd
shows the total debt to be ST., ,69l, 800. .7O5
cash in treasury, $69, 642, 879; debt less
cash in treasury, $1,225, ,598, ,4O2. De-
crease during December, $14, 5S4, $50. De-
crease since June 80. 1887, $53, $50, 1856.
OSCAR CoGER (colored) was lynched on
the Sd at Cherokee, Ala, for setting house
on fire.
IN drunken row on the Sd between thir-
ty Poles at Wilkesbarre, Pa, three men
We're fatally injured and all were more or
less seriously wounded.
IHE list OF veterans of the war of 1912
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veterans survive to the number of Ii, ,83l.
JAMES TUTT died at Brazil, Ind. on the
Sd OF glanders caught from a horse.
CHARLES SELP, aged thirty years. of
Columbus. Inds died suddenly on the Sd
from the effects of excessive cigarette
smoking.
JACOB H DELAPLANE a book-keeper at
the Portage straw board works in Circle
vile, O., disappeared ON the Sd, leaving his
accounts $12, 900 short
A MADISON (Wis) marble-cutter, Robert
M Bibbs, thirty five years old and married,
froze to death near there on the Sd while
Intoxicated
HENRY HooPEs, employed by R. j. Allen &
Co.. OF Philadelphia, was arrested on the
Sd for embezzling $4,000
IT was discovered on the Sd that ex
Mayor Cramer, of Hackettstown, N j., who
recently fled after defrauding several busi-
ness men, was betrothed to no less than
hfteen women, every one of whom he
swindled out Of money.
G: G. MILLER, leading politician of
Starke, Fla, was assasinated on the Sd by
some unknown person.
SENATOR PALMER, of Michigan, on the Sd
gave $40, 600 for the erection Of building
at Detroit. to be used by The q: A. R. of the
State ,, g.. ~
The coinage of the mints during Decem-
ber last was $5,762, ,675, of which So, 1885,
200 were standard silver dollars
The visible supply of wheat in the coun-
try on the Sd was 44,421 13O bushels; an
increase of 173, 400 bushels. The corn sup
ply was 6,O25, ,258 bushels; an increase of
265, S51 bushels
THERE are sixty eight collieries con-
trolled by the Reading Company in the
Schuylkin Pa) region, and sixty-two of
these were deserted on the Sd, the twenty
hve Thousand miners going on a strike.
Nearly thirty thousand men have already
been on strike In the Lehigh region for
over three months General Master Work.
man, Powderly advised that no strike take
place, and telegraphed to Reading that he
considered it inadvisable
AD1cEs of the 4th from Madisonyille
Tex, say that body Of armed citizens call
ing themselves refOrmers had shot and
hanged several men who favored maintain
ing saloons. and state of terror prevailed.
PHYSICIANS are puzzled by the peculiar
formation which, starting at the spinal col
umn and growing forward until it pressed
against the windpipe, and finally closing it,
caused the death by strangulation on the
Sd of the little daughter of Mr.. and Mrs.
Fred Palmer, of Algona, Ia 1t is the first
case of the kind on record.
THERE are 36,O81 pensioners of the late
war in Indiana, and during December last
81, 25O,OOO in pensions were disbursed
ALL the Reading (Pa.) Company's mines
. were stopped on the 4th, and twenty thou
sand miners were idle Some placed the
number of idle men as high as fifty thou
sand in the Schuylkill basin alone, which
with twenty thousand in the Lehigh make
the strike great one
THE Shoe makers Trades Union of New
ark, n j., decided on the 4th to withdraw
from the Knights of Labor.
On farm near Zollarsville, Pa, subter-
ranean fire was raging on the 4th Parties
making an investigation to discover the
cause found the ground so hot that they
We're oblig ed to abandon the work.
The December fire losses were $40, $685.
600, against $11 100000 for the same
month in 1886 The total fire waste for
1887 was $129, 264, 600. about SIS. 900, 900
greater than in 1856.
The Haddock murder indictments against
all the defendants, except the three who
have never abeen arrested, were dismissed
at Sioux City, Ia, on the 4th.
The business portion of Beaufort, n G.,
was destroyed by fire on the 4th.
CHARLES S. MOORE, one of the most noted
young lawyers in Washington, dropped
dead in the streets in that city on the 4th
A MURDERER named Baggott was lynched
on the 4th near Durango, A. T.
THE State Of Alabama on the 4th let out
all its convicts on ten-year contracts to
work in the coal mines near Birmingham
They number six hundred
TIE Los Angeles (Cal) furniture factory
was burned on the 4th Loss, 5000, 600;
insurance, 500, 900.
JAMES SMITH his wife and four children,
the eldest sixteen year old daughter, were
arrested at St Joseph, Mo-, on the 5th for
counterfeiting
JUDGE SHIRAs decided at Dubuque, la, on
the 9th that the patent Of Washburn &
Moen, wire manufacturers, was invalid
BIZ the fall Of q viaduct on the 9th In
Cleveland O.. eighty-five feet above the
ground, two workmen wese killed and -four
wounded.