The Progress., 1888-02-04

Gator, fell dead in the New York City post
Office on the 24th.
ANTON HEEBE, who died in Dubuque on
the 24th, was the owner Of the first brewery
in Iowa.
The Louisiana Republican State conven-
tion, in session on the 25th at Baton
Rouge, nominated Ex-Governor 81. G. War
mouth for Governor ana q full State
ticket. A strong protection platform was
adopted and the Blair Education bill was
approved
r. H. NELL, chancellor of the University Of
Georgia, and for many years president OF
the Southern Baptist Association, died at
his home in Athens, Ga, on the 26th
GRANT MARTIN, aged fifteen years, and
Oracle Silvers, aged thirteen years, were
married on the 26th at Fairmount, Ill, with
the consent Of the parents f9each
On the 1f6th ballot on the 26th the Re-
publicans of the Eleventh Michigan Con-
gressional district. in convention at Ish-
peming, nominated Henry w. Seymour, Of
Sault Ste. Marie, to succeed the late SeJh G.
Moffatt
4, Ex-JUDGE JOSEPH NELSON, who became
famous for presiding in the Beecher- -Tilton
trial in 1875. died at his home in Brook
lyn on the 26th, aged seventy five years
AFTER a courtship Of twenty -one years
George w. Allen. of Jamaica, T. L, a
wealthy marble dealer, was married on
the 26th to Miss Kate Ludlam.
II MRS ANNA PARMLEE, who was born in Yer
mont April 20, 1854, died on the 26th near
Clinton, N. Y. Her maiden sister, Thankful
Stanton, died two years ago, aged ninety
nine years
"A NATIONAL anti-salnon4 Republican con-
ference will be held in New York City April
18 and 10 next
GEORGE CLARK, president of the ST Louis
typographical Union, died on the 9th Of
pneumonia, aged fifty one years
FOREIGN.
By an explosion OF gunpowder on tie
24th' at Brest, Russian Poland, eleven pa-
sons were killed and thirty injured
The London divorce court decided on he
24th that divorce procured in Amedca
was valid in England .
SANTOS SoLIzER, a Mexican, was lynded
on the 24th at Collins, Mex, for the sup
posed murder of Jacob Stafford
The discovery was made at Victoria,
B. c., on the 24th Of a powerful Chinese So
ciety whose object was to murder Assoc
head
ADv1cEs Of the s25th say that sixty-five
men lost their lives by an explosion in
the Wellington (B C.) coal mine OF these
twenty-six were white men and thirty-nine
Chinese.
The house of Alexander Beaton, promi-
nent resident OF Boulandere, N s., was de-
stroyed by fire on the 25th, and his wife
and grandchild were burned to death
IHE post-office at Anapolis N. S., was
robbed of $1O, 900 on the Goth
The Ontario Legislature convened on the
25th at Toronto.
IT was stated on the 26th that warrants
six Irish members of Parliament and
magistrates who were in hiding
The Greek Minister at London was on the
26th ordered to proceed to Washington to
induce the American Government to abolish
the duty on currants
IHE tenants of Donegal. Ireland, on the
26th resolved to resist the payment Of
rents, and were arming and threatening to
destroy all bridges in the country.
HEAVY snoW-storms prevailed throughout
Canada on the 26th, completely blockading
railways
THE French merchant steamer Suez was
run into off the mouth Of the Tagus by q
German steamer on the 9th and went
down in a few minutes, nineteen of the
officers and crew being drowned.
ADv1cEs of the 9th from Tonquin say
that eighteen French soldiers had been shot
for desertion.
A GREAT storm was raging on the 9th at
Vienna. Much damage had been done and
many persons had been injured.
A STATE banquet was given in Sydney. N.
s. W., on the 9th in commemoration of
the founding of the colony one hundred
years ago.
ADvIcEs of the 9th say that twenty-eight
persons lost their lives by the recent loss Of
the bark Lizzie Perry off the coast of Bar
BADGES.
LATER NEWS.
f-ITcHELL, Oak. i'll slip car load OF
rorn to the Governor of 4 ansas for the
suffer ers in that State.
SUSrAY evening last Bishop ireland Of ST.
Paul. delivered an address on temperance
theatre, Washington, D. q.
An incendiary fire started in the single
she'd OF the Laird-Norton saw mill at
Wlnona, Minn :. Sunday; two million
shingles and other property burned. Loss
SS 90, no insurance.
The Governor of West Virginia has been
appealed to by Logan county officials to
take cognizance Of the bloody fued existing
between the McCoys Of Pike Co., KY, and
the Hathelds of Logan Co., w. Va.
WM. HUGEs char ed with killing James
Howard at Milwaukee, Wis !, was ARE ted
at N " YORK City, on the 18th, and taken
back for trial. Hughes c aims the killing
was done in self defense.
AT Red Lodga, Mont, Jack Hartwick, a
bute her. Just released from Jail, got drunk
an terrorized the camp with rifle. A
deputy sheriff of PARK County, in the line
of his duty, shot Hartwick dead after sever
al exchanges OF shots.