The Progress., 1888-01-21

duce on an animal disease similar to ty-
phoId fever, by the use of germs found in
water used by typhoid victims
MINNESOTA.
Colonel Alexander Chambers, command
ing the Fourth Infantry at Fort Smelling.
died IN San Antonia, Tex, recently, Of pleu-
ro-pneumonia He came here for the benefit
Of his health
The members of Coopers' Assembly of the
knights of Labor at Minneapolis mourn the
absence OF their receiving secretary, W. P.
.Sisson, and with him all the funds of the
assembly.
| Minnesota has $50 saloons, against 3s4
one year ago The license revenue in 1887
was $230,O 600
Rev. DR.. S. g. Smith, who recently re-
tired from the pastorate Of the First Meth
odist Church at St. Paul, held his first sery-
ice as the pastor Of an independent church
recently His plan is to establish church
where pastor; and people can be on the
same plane. and where every body can
worship without regard to belief in any de-
nominational creed.
The saloon-keepers of St Paul are taxed
81, 600 for license. They are working on a
scheme to consolidate the business of
brewers to furnish the capital and give em
ployment to men now engaged In the busi-
ness G fzyF s. %N
The Itasca Lumber Company of Mime
apolis recently sold its entire stock to s. Z.
Martin & Co, of Chicago. There were 23,-
.OOO, 600 feet OF lumber, s, 900, 600 shingles
and $500 600 lath.
Governor McGill says that high license in
the State has proved a success
Charles Campbell, manager of the Duluth
Gas Company, abscondsd the other day
with So, 900 of the company's funds.
Herman Hearnes, Of Utica, Mimi. is af-
hlcted with q strange disease, under the
influence of which he has slept almost con-
tnuously for seven years
Squatters are rushing to the Government
land recently opened in Cass County. and
fully two hundred families have taken
claima
Senator Davis has Informed the Duluth
Chamber of Commerce that he viii in
trodHce q bill to make Duluth q port of
entry.
A blast fired in a sewer excavation near
the Bay View House in Duluth reoently
threw out several pieces OF rock, one of
which went through the roof of the Bay
View House The rock was picked up and
as it strongly resembles iron ore it was
carefully examined by experts, who said it
was rich in iron ore.
DAKOTA.
B. s. Holland, Of Bachelors Grove, was
frozen to death in the recent great storm
He had gone to Larimore to procure medi-
cine for hissick wife, and when returning
on foot he was lost in the snow and died
The Law-and- Order League and the sa-
loom keepers of Sioux Falls have made ar
rangementsfor testing the constitutionality
OF the Local-Opuon Law. and If the constitu-
honality of the law is esta blished the saloon
men will Immediately close up and assist
In enforcing the law. II not the city will is
sue license as heretofore
It is said $3.50, 600 will be spent prospect
ing for coal in Southeastern Dakosa this
year.
A gasoline famine is being experienced at
Watertown. 1t is said That great number
Of weil-to- do families use gasoline for cook
ing purposes The poorer classes are the
most affected by the famine
Ex-Governor Pierce has taken up his resi-
dence at Jamestown
Pierre is ready with $1,000 when the
passage by Congress of the Sioux Reserva-
tion bill llpermits the Illinois Central to break
into the coveted land
Rapids City parties have sent off for lot
OF quail for the purpose of planting them
in the country. They believe they VIII
Withstand the rigors Of the winter
At Yankton a few days ago Chief Justice
Trip decided the asylum case against the
plaintiffs, the old board, holding that the
Government had the right to remove them
and to fill the vacancies.
John D. Lawler assumed the duties OF
Territorial Treasurer the other day. Ex-
Treasurer Raymond turned over the funds
OF the treasury, amounting to nearly $780,
600 Twenty years ago Treasurer J. Z.
Gore turned over to his successor S85. the
amount of the funds in the treasury at that
time. This is Thought to be good show
ing Tor Dakota in twenty years.
Lackawanna is the name given to the
new coal fields In the Black Ellis They are
ten miles southwest of Hot Springs, and
cover an aren OF twelve square miles The
coal Is OF bitumtnods character, but there
are thin sTatas OF o hard, bright and ex-
trenely black coal which is believed to be
anthracite Il struck with a ha MINER ii
breais up into cubes, and is remarkably
clean s
The snow at Jamestown was twenty
inches deep on the level a few days ago and
ths drifts were enormous