The Progress., 1888-01-28

train at Scales Mound, Ill j on the 18th, two
coaches rolling down an embankment and
dozen persons were badly, hurt
IHE American. Shipping and Industrial
League, in session on the 18th at Washing
ton, adopted resolutions demanding i'm
mediate provision for coast defenses,
restoration Of American shipping. building
ssand harbors. Joseph Wheeler, of Ala
bama, was elected president,
The National Tobacco Association at it's
session In Washington on the 18th elected
George w. Heime president No action
was taken on the tobacco-tax question
SEVEN persons were drowned on the 18th
In Sand lake, near, Ennis, Tex, by breaking
through the ice while skating
JAHIEs GRINDER, of Rochester, N T., fatally
beat his wife with a hatchet on the 18th
and then committed suicide They have
nine children, 81
F. PARKER and s Fulton, two Nova Scotia
men who took rooms at a New York hotel,
were found dead on the 18th, having blown
out the gas ffsEg ~ u.
HYDRoPHoBIA epidemic was raging on
the 10Th in Oxford, N. j., caused by severe
cold weather, many dogs showing signs Of
the disease <E && sat .$sE3
FRANK SMITH, his wife and five children,
pershed in the IRE that destroyed their
home at Harrod, O., on the 19,h.
MRS HUDSON, an old lady living near
Vandalta Ill, while in u fit on the 10Th fell
ih the fire and was burned to death.
TIE overdue steamship Britannia with
eight hundred immigrants on board, ar
rived In New York on the 10Th. ~
In glass factory at Butler. Pa, two en-
ployes We're caught in a grinding machine
on the 19th and ground to death.
Ice formed at Jacksonville, Fla, on the
18th, but no injury was done the orange
CROP
THREE men broke into hall at Kansas
City on the 10Th, gathered all the Bibles,
song-books and printed sermons OF Sam
Jones and Sam Small, who were holding
their revivals there, and burned them in
the stove. &9ss. .sstyff EE, -lt s.
The coroner on the 10Th found 81, 600 in
gold hidden in the hut of William Price,
who died recently of starvation at Girard, O..
MISS MARY A. Brown, of Norristown, Pa. j
was on the 10Th swindled out of $50, 900 by
Philadelphia woman who conducted a
'.ladies'' bank. III 70 frg.- =. : Est..:z.s
The killing of two American prospectors
and wounding of two others by Apaches ON
the Yaqui river was reported on the 10th
from Nogales a. T. stsx3T@s xt4 I ~ =
+. ANOTHER great storm was raging on the
18th In Dakota, Minnesota, Nebraska and
Iowa, with the mercury far below zero
IHE Committee on Appropriations in the
House OF Representatives at Washington
made ready on the 10Th the annual Pension
bill tappropriates $50, ,275, 500 stf4.s
i A PARTY OF masked men attempted on the
1Stn to rob an express train on the Wabash
railroad, east of Kansas City, but were
foled by officers who had received notice
of the intended attempt.
MINNIE RAY, daughter of a prominent citi-
sen OF Colorado Springs, Col, threw her
self In front of "a train and was killed on
the 10Th She had deceived her father in q
small money matter and was overcome by
remorse Esi&>.r'sSft e4ESf
Ed CoFFEH, who recently out his throat
when refused parco on by th Pennsylvania
board, confessed at Pi tsburgh on the 10th
that he killed Mo Jacoby, for whose mur-
der Frank Small was hanged a few weeks
ago.
IT appeared on the goth that Mrs Celia
Hendricks, the "woman's bank" tinancier
of Philadelphia, had swipdled friends and
acquaintances out of 100000
GOLD was discovered on the Goth, of high
grade and paying quantities, near Omaha,
Neb. w s5-STsT'
JAMES MARTIN, hero of a score of bat
ties and an inmate Of the Soldiers and Sill
ors' Home, was frozen to death on the Doth
near Erie, Pa.
AT a meeting in Chicago on the Goth the
price OF barbed wire was increased twenty
i've cents per one hundred pounds
A LARGE boiler in K,stner & Gogan's -four
mill at GAINESVILLE, Wis, exploded on the
2Oth, completely wrecking the structure
and killing two men.
! A VEIN of coal six feet two inches thick
was discovered on the Goth at Colfax. Nc
Lean County, Ill r
DEEP snow in the Michigan woods has in
terfered with numbering operations, and
many mills had shut down on the Goth.
A ST. PAUL paper stated on the Goth that
235 persons perished in the recent blizzard.
AT Reading, Pa, faith-cure convention
was causing great excitement on the Doth.
and many cases Of alleged cures were re-
ported.
W. JIM Goapos, manufacturing chemist
at Cincinnati, failed on the Goth for $780,
OOO ~ 81
NEAR Little Rock, Ark, two farmers BY
the name Of Baker and Hit quarreled on
the Goth while dividing their land between
q son and daughter Of each, who were
about to be married, and stabbed each
other fatally with bowie knives
The new law passed by Congress relating
to permissible writing and printing on sec
ond. third and fourth-class mail matter
went into effect on the Goth. fssk; $s3s
ii AT Fort Keogh, NJ. T., the Thermometer
registered IS degrees below zero during the
recent blizzard At the same point on one
occasion last summer it stood l3O degrees
above zero
A MENINGITIS epidemic was on the Doth
depopulating Asheville, N. O., at the rate of
dozen deaths day, all attempts to check
1t proving futile. Many inhabitants were
leaving town.
DURING the seven days ended on the 2O5h
there were 276 business failures In the
United States. against 312 the previous
seven days Fs8s fs sg:
JAMES e. NowLIN was hanged at Cam
bridge, Mass, on the goth for the murder
Of George A. Goldman, his employer, jan
uary 1887.
In Carney's tunnel, near Greensburg, Pa
an express train struck and killed two un.s
known mnn on the Goth.
TEE Illinois corn crop OF 1887 was the
smallest since 1868. the total being 129,-
sOO0, 900 bushes
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