The Progress., 1888-02-11
FORK Legislature to supply funds to run the

SEVERAL CEDAR camps near PrentlSS Bay,
Mich, were closed on the 1st on account of
the great depth of snow, throwing out of
employment five hundred men
The Belgic, the fourth successive steamer
from China with smallpox on board, was
quarantined at San Francisco on the I'd.
SEVERAL business blocks, including the
post Office and Gazette Office, at Courtland,
O., were destroyed by fire on the I'd
On the I'd two carloads Of potatoes, corn
and food were sent to the Kansas sufferers
from Pierre, d. 7.
FIVE years ago the fve-year- son of
Captain W. E. Dickinson, of Commonwealth,
Wis, mysteriously disappeared. It was re-
ported on the I'd that negotiations for the
return of the boy for a ransom were pend
ing, and that $40, 600 had been demanded
by the kidnapers
The Merced canal in California. twenty
seven miles long, and built to irrigate over
$50, 600 acres, was formally opened on the
3D. .-...
A GAS expert at Pittsburgh Pa, reported
on the I'd that the gas discovered in Chi
cago was worthless; that it would be use
less to bore deeper wells, and that if Chi
cago wanted natural gas she must pipe it
from other points. . ...
AT Barnesville, O., on the I'd the boiler
of a portable saw-mill at Lafayette Bolan's
farm exploded, killing John Arnold and
| Charles Sullivan and fatally injuring four
other men.
HE Indianapolis Sentinel, the Democratic
State organ, was sold on the "a to a Fort
Wayne syndicate for $75, 5,OOO
The three hundred wire-workers of the
Cambria Pa} iron works, who struck
against ten per cent reduction returned
to work on the I'd at the old rates
JOHN GREENWOOD, charged with commit
ting murder seventeen years ago, was
arrested on the I'd at Livingstone, Tenn.
Mrs. HENDRICKS, the Philadelphia broker
ess, charged with swindling customers
there out Of 800, 600, was arrested at Mid
dletown on the I'd
ADv1cEs OF the I'd report the discovery of
gold in Alaska.
The report on the I'd of the Wisconsin
Fish Wardens shows that in 1887 the num-
Der of pounds of fish caught in Lakes Mich
igan and Superior was 7,556,746 value
$252, 2,27O.
DIR. W. B. FARNHAM, a Chicago dentist,
aged seventy six years, committed suicide
on the ID by taking tincture of aconite.
Poverty was the cause.
TIRED OF life made unhappy by loss of
property and domestic troubles Mrs George
Edwards, of Erie, Pa, cut her throat on the
I'd, dying of the wound and leaving a hus-
band and two children.
AT stone quarry near Paris, Ky, two
men had their eyes blown out on the ID by
premature blast
The General Executive Board of the
Knights of Labor reported that the order
had increased by fifty thousand members
since January.
"A hoY r. fof tfoc
OF the Thirty fourth Congress took place at
Washington on the I'd
DURING the seven days ended on the Sd
there were 2SO business failures in the
United States. against 269 the previous
seven days.
CARRIE Il. WHTTESDE, of California,
claimed on the Sd to be the owner of thirty
valuable lots in the city of Madison, Wis,
upon which many residences stand.
ERNST BRoCKoB, a thirteen -year-old boy,
died in great agony on the Sd III Chicago of
hydrophobia. He was bitten by dog a
month ago. ...= a. =
| The striking miners at Shenandoah, Pa.
| attacked non union workmen on the Sd, a
riot followed, and in the fracas three men
were wounded, two fatally.
The product of the Michigan copper
mines for January was 8, 152 TONS
| In the Federal Court at Indianapolis on
the Sd the motion for new trial In the
cases of Coy and Bernhamer, the convicted
tally-sheet conspirators, was denied, and
Coy was sentenced to the penitentiary fer
eighteen months and to pay fine of 500,
and Bernhamer for one year and a fine Of
$1,000 ...s
HENRY T1ERNEY, a seventy year-old miser
| living at Lincoln, I'LL, was found dead in
Ha 1oft
| of property.
The Assembly chamber of the New York
Legislature was declared to be unsafe on
| the Sd, a commission reporting that the
whole ceiling might collapse at any time
AT Fort Blakely, w. T., two saw-mills, the
| largest on Puget Sound, were burned on
the Sd at loss of $3.50, 900, with no insur-
ance. 49,.
HUBBARD HARRELI, q cOlored boy ten
years old, was made drunk by a party of
men on the Sd near Long View, Ca, and
| going to the home of his brother-in-law.
James Pope, killed three children
IHE three thousand employees of the Troy
IN. W steel and iron works accepted the
ten per cent reduction in wa5es on the Sd
The men had been out two months -
The granulating mill of the Austin pow
der works, near Cleveland, O., was blown
up on the Sd One man was killed, and not
vestige CT the structure remained, itf site
being simply marked by hole in the
| ground
ADv1cEs received in New York on the Sd
were to the effect that the outlook for
| spring business throughout the country was
never better, and that trade was constantly
| on the increase, with an easy money mar
| ket
JAMES CORNELIUS a negro boy fourteen
| years old, was hanged on the Sd at Minden.
La, for the murder year ago of Ernest
Wren, aged four years
| The elevator in H. H Hollis establish
| ment at New York fell on the Sd, fatally in
| juring three men.
The works of the American Paint & Oil
Company at Cleveland. O., were DESTROYED
by an explosion on the 3D.
IHE President on the Sd approved and
| promulgated a revision of the civil-service
! rules, which makes an office-holder who
levles political assessments or attempts to
| coerce the opinions of their subordinates
liable to discharge. Several other impor-
tant changes in the rules are also made.
&. By an explosion on the Sd in the mixing
house of the Standard Explosive Company,
Lear Toms River, N j., two men were
blown to atoms.
GOVERNOR OGLEsBY, of Illinois, was at the
State prison in Joliet on the Sd. and ac-
corded an intarviaIU tO Fio1dor, n Cob,,,,1,