The Progress., 1888-09-22

| THE Fort George Hotel was burned at
Lake George, n. *, on the 18th. Loss,
! $50 600. n
THERE were four deaths from yellow
fever at Jacksonville, Fla, on the 18th and
forty four new cases. Total cases report
ed to date, 7S7; deaths, l04
JACoBs & PRocToR's Grand Opera House
and the adjoining property at Syracuse, N.
q, were destroyed by fire on the 18th.
Loss, $500, 900. sss3.
NEARLY the entire business portion OF
Berne, Ind, was destroyed by fire on the
18th.
IN fifty-mile race on the 18th from Sill
yer City, N. NJ, to Deming, between 3
horse and bicycle, the former won in three
hours and forty minutes. The bicycle time
was four hours ard fifty minutes.
FRANK CoRPREY and Miss Minnie Tafay.
were drowned on the 14th in the Schuyl-
kill river ct Philadelphia by the overturn-
Ing OF their row boat.
The drought and forest .lres in Arenac
County, Mich., continued unabated on the
18th, and the panic-stricken inhabitants
were preparing for flight. Lumber camps
had been destroyed, and the damage al
ready to timber, standing and manufact-
ured, was estimated at 500, 900.
"A PAssENGER train on the Baltim ore 6y
Ohio railway jumped q switch on the 14thl
at Aukingtown, O., and ran into freight
train on the side track, and the boiler OF
the freight engine exploded. Two persons
were killed outright and thirty-two others
were more or less seriously injured. The
majority of the victims were members Of
the g. AR, who oEwere returning from the
Columbus encampment s$s.
DURING the seven days ended on the 18th
there were 1A business failures in the
United States, against 157 the previous
seven days. The total Of failures in the
United States January to date Is I, ,O07,
against 6. 675 in 1887. 5..5. 4
The Roanoke river was on the 14th re.
ported to have risen thirty-seven feet
above high-water mark, flooding North
hampton and Halifax counties, NC, de-
stroying the entire corn and cotton crops
| In the lowlands, at an estimated loss of
$500, 600. drowning cattle. tearing houses
from their foundations, and, it was feared,
causing much loss Of human life
MRS. ELIZABETH LANGL1ER and her five
year-old daughter. of Boston, were burned
to death on the 18th by the upsetting of q
kerosene lamp
FRITZ SHEEN, German farmer living
near Hillsboro, ILL.,, died on the 18th after
forty-eight hours illness, and the doctors
pronounced his case one Of genuine Asiatic
cholera.
AT Winfield, O., on the 18th Richard
Jones. while sick with typhoid fever, cut
his throat in the presence Of his wife and
mother because they would not permit his
children to see him.
WHILE the paying teller Of the Third
National Bank Of Buffalo, N Y, was at
lunch on The 14th sneak thief purloined q
package containing S2, 049
CHARLES L.sBoDENDIECK, pronoun ced
Anarchist, was caught manufacturing
bombs in Chicago on the 18th.
ALEXANDER GoLDENsEN was hanged on
the 18th at San Francisco for the murder
OF Mamie Kelly, a fourteen-year-olds school
girl, because she refused to accept his at
tention, and Dock Dangan, negro. was
hanged at Columbus, S. c., for the murder
of William F. Coke, white boy.
AT Hampden Park, Springfield, Mass,
on the 14th Johnston paced a quarter of a
mile IN 29I seconds, beating all previous
records for that distance.
FIRE on the 14th at Washburn, Wis.
wiped out the enulre business section. de-
stroying thirty buildings at loss of $780,
FoRTY-THREE new cases and twelve
deaths was the yellow fever record at
Jacksonville Fla, fer the twenty-fou1.
hours ended on the 14th Total number Of
cases to date, $50; total number of deaths
to date, 116
A MAN named Wise was lynched on the
18th in the Turtle mountain district Of Da-
kota for horse-stealing.
CHARLES KLEIN, night watchman at
Fort Wayne, Ind, in a rage OF jealousy
against his wife, shot her fatally on the
18th and then killed himself
HEAVY frost in the section surrounding
Mason City, Iowa, had on the 18th killed
the grass and damaged corn severely, re-
ducing the average acreage, it was esti-
mated, by twelve bushels.
YELLOW FEVER broke ont on the 18th at
Hendersonville, N. G., among the refugees
from Jacksonylll lles s. 81
By the upsetting Of asboat on the 18th at
Cary, ILL.,, Walter Graham and his two Sis
ters, Maria and Sarah, were drowned
Their home was ID Chicago.
PERSONAL AND POLITICAL.
The President on the 18th nominated