The Progress. [volume] (White Earth, Minn.) 1886-1889, 1888-03-10
DOMESTIC.

TIE annual encampmenJ of the 6. A. r
Department of Nebraska, commenced at
Lincoln on the 2Sth ult
GOVERNOR GREEN, of New Jersey, on the
18th ult vetoed the Local Option High
L:oense bill
AT Clinton, KY. Sam Price. a white man
who Killed the sheriff, and Bill Reamus
tcolored), who shot q farmer named Jack
son, were taken out of Jail on the 2Sth ult
by about fifty men and lynched
HE motion for new trial in the Cow
Bernhamer election conspiracy cases was
denied by Justice Harlan on the 2SSh ult.
at indianapolis, and the convicted men
would have to go to prison
HORACE MURRAY was convicted on the
26tn ult at Kalamazoo. Mich, of assaulting
the nine-year-old daughter of his uncle,
and was sentenced to fifty years in the
Jackson penitentary.
NEGRO cabin at Spanish Camp, Tex. was
set on fire on the 2Sth ult by whites and
the occupants were deliberately shot down
as they ran out of the burning house. Five
were killed and one severely wounded,
while two were burned to death in the
cabln. Another negro was caught and
hanged to a tree The butchery was the
outcome of suit for the possession of land
recently decided in favor of the negroes
JOHN PRINCE, an old bachelor who lived
alone on a farm five miles from Washing
ton, Ind, fell in the fire in fit on the 2Sth
ult. and was burned to death -.
ZEPH DAVIS, a young lnulatto who brutally
murdered Maggie Gaughan, white girl.
aged fifteen years, in Chicago few days
ago, was captured on the 29sh ult and con-
fessed his guilt He killed the girl because
she repealed his criminal advances
The Union Square lheater at New York
was totally destroyed by fire on the 2Slh
ult, and the Morton House adjoining was
badly damaged Six iremen were severely
injured Total loss, $4,000!
TIE first death at the Iowa Soldiers
Home at Marshailtown occurred on the
26eh ult, John Peck, aged dfty-six years,
passing quietly away.
The law enacted by the last Legislature of
Wisconsin, permitting drunkards to be SEN
fenced to tho inebriate asylum, was on the
18th ult declared invalid by the State Su-
preme Court
The monthly statement of the Reading
railroad. issued on the 2Sth ult, shows a
decrease in the net earnings for January of
1872, 600 over the same month in 1887,
caused by the strike. H.
MBs HEAroN NANCE, aged thirty-five
years, guest at the Leland Hotel in Chica-
60, committed suicide on the 29th ult by
shooting: No cause was known for the
deed
Az 4 result of recent fires at Buffalo. N.
l.. the. local board of underwriters on the
10Th ult raised the rates twenty per cent,
taking effect at once
The strike of engineers on the Chicago,
Burlington Il Quincy road still prevailed on
the 10Th ult, and only few passenger trains
were running. t .
THERE was a pig breach in the strike in
the hshigh Pa.) region on the 295 ult., and
many assemblies K. OF L had notified the
strikers to return to work. The Lehigh &
Wilkesbarre Coal Company had ordered
the mules back to the company's mines, and
In short time twenty thousand strikers
would he at work
HENRY D. RIEPpE, proprietor of the Ma
tonal Hotel at Rutherford, N. j., was noti-
fed by lawyers in Berlin on the 295h ult
that he had fallen heir to an estate valued
at$1, 100000
WILLIAM KELLY and James Wynn lost their
lives on the 29Jh ult. by being buried in {,
sewer excavation at Kansas City. Both leave
families.
The safe of Mogle & Gilbrath, jewellers, at
Greenshurg, Kan, was blown open on the
29th ut and robbed of 81, 700 in watches,
jewelry and money
THREE robbers stopped a train on the
2eth ult. on the ST. Louis, Arkansas &
Texas railway near Pine Bluffs, Ark, and