The Progress., 1888-01-14

STATE MINE INSPECTOR McQUADEs annual
report on the 9th places the output of In
diana's coal mines in 1887 at 3,217,71l
tons, an increase over 1886 Of 217,71l
tons
FIVE HUNDRED school children in Akron,
O., were sick with measles on the 9th,
which had become epidemic, and business
there was almost entirely suspended on ac-
count Of the disease.
HALF-DoZEN structures in the business
section of Vandalia, Mich, were burned on
the 9Th.
Tom BUTTERFIELD, young farmer, who
was married a few days ago, was lodged in
jail on the 5th at Nebraska City, Neb..
charged with the murder of his father and
mother by poisoning them.
CALI. was issued on the 9th for the sixth
annual meeting of the United States Law
and Order League, to be held at Philadel-
phia February 21 and o.
The dinner given by President Cleveland
to the Cabinet on the evening Of the 9Th
was the first state dinner Of the season.
THE navigation building at the Brooklyn
Navy Yard was destroyed by fire on the
9th, entailing loss Of $780, 600. Many
valuable maps, plans and designs were
burned
TIE Wichita Board Of Trade, after a
thorough investigation, declared on the 5th
that not one death occurred from cold or
starvation In Southwestern Kansas during
the recent cold weather
HE reporter lin Washington who some
time ago sent sham internal machine to
Chief Justice Waite SO that he could write
up the story and sell it to the newspapers.
was on the 9TH fined $1OO for attempting
to obtain money by false pretenses
PREMATURE blast on the 9Th on the new
railroad near Laurel Run, Pa, killed four
Italians and badly injured seven others
DURING the absence of Mrs Isaac Parnell
from her home in Jacksonville, Fla on the
9th the house took fire, and her three chill
dren, who were locked in the building. per-
ished in the flames
BURGLARS entered the residence of Mrs.
Stack at Cumberland Mills, Me-, on the 8th,
and, being discovered, beat Mrs Stack so
horribly that she died in few moments.
DURING the seven days ended on the 9th
there were 256 business failures in the
United States, against $50 the previous sew
en- days Ir'
MRS LAURA ROBERTS, an eighty-year-old
lady living at Lima. O., slipped on banana
peel1ng on the sidewalk on the 9th, and in
IaIllnS DrOke ner neck.
FIRE supposed to have originated from
natural gas destroyed three fine residences
in Pittsburgh, Pa, on the 9Th.
AN old man in Attica, Ind, on the 9th fell
from bridge two feet into a spring where
the water was but four inches deep and
was drowned
Va, destroyed twenty houses and several
business blocks.
= Mrs. FLORA SAn1UELs, mother of a large
family and owner of grocery and jewelry
shop at Utica, N. Y, fled to Canada on the
9th. She was accused of forgery, and left
debts amounting to $5 OOO
DUN Il Co.'s agency on the 9th announced
fair business for the season at all points
reporting, but said the outlook was clouded
owing to the labor trOubles
IHE Union railway depot OF Atchison,
Kan, was burned on the 9Th. Loss, $685.
900; insurance, $4,000. -
NATHAN B. SUTTON was hanged at Oak
land, Cal on the 9Th for the murder of
Alexander MARITIME, a ranchman, in Septem-
Der, 1886
@AuNr KITTY" PENDERaAsr, over ninety
years Of age, was burned to death on the
9th in Dubuque, Ia, her house being de-
stroyed by fire.
DURING the six months ended on the 9Th
DR.. Reilly, Of Detroit, treasurer, has re-
ceived from various Irish National League
branches throughout the country and other
sources an aggregate of $429, 14S for the
benefit of the league in Ireland
TYPHOID fever epidemic was raging on
the 9th in the penitentiary at jackson,
Mich, with thirty-seven cases
In a collision of Nickel Plate freight trains
on the 9Th near Willoughby, O., fifteen cars
were completely wrecked and many others
damaged. E
PERSnMAI AMI pal xmxna.