The Progress. [volume] (White Earth, Minn.) 1886-1889, 1888-05-26
DOMESTIC

passed.
DOMESTIC
THE public-debt statement on the LIST
showed the total debt to be 81, 7O6, S:333 1915;
cash in treasury, sl1O,244 1863; debt less
cash in treasury, s1,1Sl, 652, $50. Decrease
during April, $9,235,3 800. Decrease since
June 30, 1887, S91, 105, 1881.
NEAR Alliance, O., Peter Whitefeather, a
retired farmer, aged sixty five years, was
KILLED by a horses kick on the list.
LEWIS w. MCGLAUFLIN a heavy San
francisco grain dealer, failed on the 1st for
100000, with the Bank of Nevada as his
largest creditor
OF $50 applicants for liquor licenses at
Philadelphia on the 1st $3.50 were refused
licenses.
"A PETITION to Governor Oglesby for the
pardon OF Anarchists Fielden. Schwab and
Neebe was in circulation in Chicago on the
Ist.
DURING the forty Weight hours ended at
moon on the 1st nearly ten Thousand immi-
grants were landed at Castle Garden, New
York.
TIE general conference of the Methodist
Episcopal church began in New York on
the LIST, Bishop Bowman presiding.
JIM HARRIS (colOred), who assaulted Mrs,
Simmons at Vicksburg, Miss, was lynched
on the 1st.
IN Pittsburgh, Pa, SOP out of III saloons
closed up on the 1st, when the Brooks
Liquor law went into effect ,.- ---
WILLIAM Il. DUTTENHOFER, ttax-collector
OF Columbia borough, Pa, was on the LIST
~adjudged defaulter in the sum of $4,000
AT jackson, Miss, on the list General
Wiz Adams, the postmaster, and John
Martin, editor of the Nelu Mississippiu1,.
fought duel in the street, both being
killed
at Trenton, KY.
THE great strike of the engineers and fire.
men of the Chicago, Burlington & Quincy
railroad system, which was inaugurated
February rs, was on the 1st said to have
been officially declared lost
THE surface buildings of the Eclipse
mine at Little Cottonwood, U. T., were
burned on the I'd. Loss, 100000.
HE total lOgcut Of the Duluth CNinn,)
district during the past season was 27O, OOO,-
900 feet
A FIRE on the I'd destroyed Conrad Zieg
ler's slaughter-house and fifty head of cat
tie at Allegheny City, Pa.
The address of the Methodist Bishops.
read at the general conference in New
York on the I'd, showed that in four years
45O,OOO souls had been brought into the
church and the membership increased from
l,769,54 to 2,093, 935. The Bishops are op-
posed to high license and in favor of total
prohibition of the liquor traffic
GENERAL MARTIN BEEN, a prominent Chi
cago lawyer, committed suicide by shoot
ing himself on the I'd at Stanton, Neb,,
where he was visiting Family troubles
were the cause.
AT Helena, M. T., on the I'd John T. Rand
killed his wife and child and himself.
TWO CHILDREN of Farmer Henry Rincho,
near Canton, O., were burned to death on
the I'd.
GEORGE MARTIN, a miner, who shot and
Killed Deputy Marshal Kelly at Warrior,
Ala, was lynched by a mob on the 3D.
SIX consecutive days of rain were report
ed on the I'd from Mason City and other
Iowa points.
The little hamlet of Mcintyre, Pa. was
wiped out by fire on the Cd.
1T was reported on the I'd that a mail
pouch on the Northern Central road had
been robbed near Baltimore of $4,000 in
registered letters.
A STORM Of wind on the Sd demolished a
two-story store building at Tacoma, Ia,
burying in the debris and killing farmer
Leonard Wilson. Several houses were un-
rooted. ----~
ALLAN o. MEYERS was convicted on the
I'd at Columbus, O., of contempt of court in
publishing Objectionable articles during the
tally-sheet forgery cases, and was fined
S2O0 and sentenced to three months I'M
prisonment.
THEODORE F. DWIGHT, Librarian of the
State Department at Washington, rendered
his resignation on the Sd, and it was &C
cepted
THE first convention of the National
Pure Food Association was held in New
York on the Sd.
The strike Of the Edgar Thomson steel
works at Braddock, Pa, was declared off
by the Knights of Labor on the Sd, the men
resuming work at the old rates.
GENERAL JOHN M. SCoFIELD was on the
Sd elected Commander of the New York
State Commandry of the Loyal Legion.
The Second National Bank at Xenia, O..
closed it's doors on the Sd, owing to the
failure of Hoover & Allison, merchants.
THE Chamber of Commerce of New York
on the Sd held its one hundred and twenti-
eth annual meeting. .
A FIRE on the Sd in the yards of the Chip
pewa Lumber Company at Chippewa Lake,
Mich, destroyed ten million feet of lumber
Loss, $4,000; insurance, 100000.
AT Columbus, O., on the Sd George Ter
wiliger and George Whitaker were in
stantly killed and Simeon Coleman fatally
hurt by the falling of the wall of new
brick building.
THE Iowa State Pharmaceutical Associa-