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The Progress., 1888-09-15
FIFTY YEARS AGO.

Qheem Wet toria's Coronation in Westmin-
ister, Abbey June 28, 1888.
Fifty yeanss ago, on the 28th of June,
1885, the croMn of these realms was
placed. upon the head of Queen Vic
toria. On the morning of that memor-
able day the sky was overcast for a
time. and between seven and eight rain
fell The procession, which a vast
multitude, bad gathered to see, would
have BEEN sh0rn of half it's splendor.
and attraction If the weather were un--
favorable:. Happily the sky cleared,
and. the,snn shone forth brightly before.
the procession left Buckingham palace
at ten O'Clock. The beauty of the day.
was ore; OF the charms of spectacle,
which had not been equaled since the,
entry into London of the allied sover--
eigns in, 1914. An incident occurred
beforestheend of the ceremony at Vest
minister abbey which in the days of
antiquity would have been hailed as al
good omen and which, in fact, has
proved e1nblematic of the brillianey off
a reign that is not only ore of the long,
est but is one of the most memorable in
our history. After the royal robe had
been thrown over her Maiesty,s
shoulders, after the orb had beenplaced
in her hand and the ring upon her
finger, after the Holy Bible, had been
presented to her and the Archbishop.of
Canterbury had pronounced aesolemn
Blessing, then, to use the words of our
reporter, "a CLEAN of sunshine which
now broke through the great south
rose window lighted right on her
/ Majesty's crown, which sparkled like
a galaxy and lent a still more, dazzling
brilliancy to the scene There are
men still living who were present not
only at the coronation of the Queen
but at that of her two predecessors ON
/ the throne. Yet the vast majority of
the people have no acquaintance with
such a ceremony now except at second
hand, and it is our fervent hope that
many years may elapse before another
coronation takes place at Westminster
Abbey. When the Queen was crowned
there were some old men whose memor-
| les might stretch back to the time when
George III. ascended the throne, yet
there were many more to whom such
an event as a coronation was not extra
ordinary and who had been present at
that OF George ~. seventeen years
and that of William w seven years
before. With the exception of the
coronation Of George Ill, no event of
that kind was more noteworthy than
that,of her Majesty since the success
sion to the crown Of these realms was
settled by act OF Parliament in tho
house Of Brunswick. London Times.
The Progress., 1888-09-15
Tired Of Life.

. CLEVELAND, o., Sept LA special to
the Press from New Lisbon, o., says: A
desperate suicide occurred here Thursday
morning. Several days ago Mrs. Thomp-
son gave birth TO a child and her husband
was telegrapheds for Wednesday night
he returned to town, but instead of going
home went to saloon, where he
got drunk. The conduct Of the husband
spreyed upon the mind of the mother so
much that she arose from her bed Thurs
day morning and went to a small stream
near the house, and, with the babe in her
arms, laid down where the water was but
two or three feet deep and drowned both
herself and the child.
The Progress., 1888-09-15
The News. Briefly Chronicled..

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The Faribault Rattan Works shipped to-
the Minneapolis exposition the other day
an exhibit OF baby carriages, twenty four
different styles The enterprise was start
ed about eight months ago, and up to the
present time has turned out nearly one
thousand: carriages, besides a lange num-
Der of express wagons for boys and doll
cabs for girls, 55
Ira. w. ngeGsln, st. Paul dry goods,
dealer, made voluntary assignment re-
Gently. The assets consisted Of the stock
and valuable fixtures and would amount to
about $15O, ,000 The liabilities would ap.
proximate $4,000.
Sherman Mathies and family, Of Fergus
Falls, Were returning from picnic rer
Gently, when the team ran away There
were six in the wagon, all of whom were
thrown out. Mr. Mathies had two ribs
broken and was otherwise, bruised Mrs.
Mathies and one little girl were also in
jured quite badly.
Mr. Rarbridge, a stone-cutter. working
on the Catholic academy at Rochester,
fell from the upper story the other day,
breaking his wrist and two ribs.
F. W. Vickery, Of Pelican Rapids, a plas
terer, fell from scaffolding on the First
National Bank building at Fergus Falls
the other day and broke his collar bone,
and was otherwise injured,
Miss Bertha Hancock, a girl of eighteen
years, was burned to death at Fulda the
other morning while assisting her mother
to prepare breakfast.
The farmers that have threShed in the
vicinity Of Owatonna report much
smaller yield of grain, especially oats,
than they even expected. In many cases
there is shortage Of one-half the crop Of
last year.
Albert w, son of Judge Barnum, Of Chi
cago, accidentally shot himself the other
evening at Alexandria, the charge
glancing up and cleaving the flesh from
the right breast and shoulder He would
recover.
William odman, q we'll known resident
Of Winona, died suddenly a few days age
Of anoDleyu
The Progress., 1888-09-15
WHIPPED BY LADIES.

A st. Paul Attorney Chastised In the
Streets Of that City.
Three st. Paul young ladies' Miss Belle
Ferguson, her sister Jennie and Miss
Ringwold- the law of their wrongs
into their own hands the other day, and
administered cowhiding to Mr.. j. n.
Hawthorne, an attorney whom the Fer
suson girls charge with having circulated
calumnious stories concerning one Of
Them. Mr. Hawthorne resisted with what
ever spirit he could muster, but the three
we're too much for him, and after brief
struggle he fed to his Office, bearing the
broken instrument of his fagellation with
him sas Sss5 sfg$s 55sSs ss{fE
The Progress., 1888-09-15
MINNESOTA STATE NEWS
ST. PAUL MEN swINDLEp.
= Smooth Talker Works on q Worthless
Draft and Disappears. i.

Draft and DIsappears.
a man calling himself e. g. Burns and
representing himself to be lawyer for
Savage g. Green, Of South Omaha, Neb.,
recently bought l3s steers from Cunning.
aam & Haas, Of St Paul. Burns is a very
,mooth talker, and presented draft on
Savage & Green for 3,S742O in payment
or the steers. He then disappeared and
sold the steers, realizing q nice sum by the
transaction, though he could afford to sell
hem for q loss, as the draft which he gave
proved to be absolutely worthless. Savage.
8 Green disclaimed having any such man
IN their employ, and knew nothing Of the.
s.ranaaction . ZlI Ez3
The Progress., 1888-09-15
MISCELLANEOUS.
You never hear tho boo complain
Nor hosr It weep nor wall;
But II It wish, II can unfold
A very painful tail.

Avery pain1ul tail.
The brighY oy in a Burling gton. Vt,
Sunday school, who said that a FREQ
WIFE Baptist was one who went into the
tank Of his own. accord, was sent down
to the foot of the class in theology
N 7. Tribune.
The sum of $1OO, which was de-
posted in q Hartford bank in 1924, has
grown to $2,621, and the person who
placed it there has been dead for sew
eral years, while the rightful heirs only
learned their good luck . few weeks
ago.
More than three hundred Italian
laborers sailed from New York for
home the other day, being unable to
obtain employment. Two brigands,
who had been confined ever since their
arrival, We're sent back by the same
steamer.
The famous cattle trail between
Texas and the North will soon be wiped
out. It was 600 miles long and one
mile wide, and when the originallsurvey
OF Colorado was made this strip was
left for the use of the cattle men,. The
railroads have now rendered it useless
"A tWo-year-old child died at At
lanta, Ca, over a year ago. A, short
time before its death the child,shair
was cut off and curl placed ina box
with some Of the child's playthings.
The other day, when the box. was
opened, the hair was found to have
grown over two feet.
"A Paris tradesman one night re-
Gently asked the old woman who came
around every morning to clean up5hiss
store if she liked to see people hanging,
and when she said no, told her she had
better not come around the next MORN
ing, then. She supposed it was joke.
until the next morning, when She
pushed open the door and found the7
dead body of a man hanging in the,
passage. He had put up on the shut
ters the notice: "Closed on account Of
death in the family
There is man in Palatka, Fla,
who imagines that he is a teapot. He
is perfectly sane on every other subject,
but nothing can convince him that he
is not a teapot. and an earthen one at
that. He sticks out one arm to repre-
sent the spout, bends the other to rep
resent the handle, makes a Kissing
noise to represent the escaping steam,
and then, if any one comes near him, is
/ very uneasy lest they hit him and break
off either his handle or his spout
Canadian girls, it is said, allow
their lovers six months to made a de-
cision- Il the youth is particularly
bashfi1l and the young lady is indulgent
she may give him a place on the sofa
and accept contributions of the sap OF
the maple with which he comes laden
to her. fresh from the forest for another
three months. But unless somewhere
in that time he asks her to be his own
he must seek other fresides. She
doesn't weep at the parting or make
any time over it. There are as good
fish! in the. sea as ever were caught, she
argues, and in that reason she finds
consolation for the misspent time.
Canadian girls are not only pretty, but
they are all trained to make good house
keepars
The Progress., 1888-09-15
Changes, in, a Milling Firm. !.

An important change has been made I'M
the firm OF. Washburn, Crosby & Co, mill
ers, Of Minneapolis, the old firm dissolv--
ing and new firm taking charge of the:
business under the name Of Washburn,
Martin & Co. The new firm is composed
of w. D. Washburn, G. J. Martin, James
s. Bell, John Washburn and A. V. Mar
tin. W. D. Dunwood, of the old frmr re-
tired.
The Progress., 1888-09-15
MERCHANTS. rake French Leave.

The other night Messrs. Kalle & Calvin,
West end dry-goods menat Duluth, loaded
their stock of goods on. a. special train and.
had them transported to superior These
gentlemen came from Dakota to Duluth last
winter, but had not met with success, and;
it was understood that business ern barrass--
ment caused their sudden departure
The Progress., 1888-09-15
Gonditlon of Banks ~

Examiner Kenyon at St. Paal recently
received the report of the Bank Examiner
showing the condition Of the savings
banks Of the State for the year ended July
81 The number Of institutions is seven;
total resources, 4640,2O9n; increase Of
deposits, 1898, 724 2s; increase of surplus,
81, ,2592S; increase Of bonds. $3.50, 000 The
loans have decreased s34, 900, and the cash.
on hand $37, 600. g5f
The Progress., 1888-09-15
LATER NEWS.

NEAR FOstOria, o., on the 1st am oil tank
holding $500 barrels of oil burst of its own
weight. The oil caught fire from a black
smiths shop, and two men were burned to
death. 81 4. .
The farmers on the public land strip near
Paladora, n NJ, having lost many horses
and cattle recently, suspected band Of
CAM ers, and finding evidence of guilt, forty
armed vigilantes, surrounded the camp on
the 1st and demanded. the surrender Of the
thieves. The answer was vollaY, where
upon a attic took place in which all of the
outlaws, II in number, were lilled. The
vigilantes had three. men killed and nine
wounded
A FIRE broke out In toy and fireworks
warehouse in BaltimOre Md, on the End,
the flames spread rapidly, and before the
fire department could get control, S, SOC, 900
of property was, destroyed Seven fremen
were killed.
On the morning of the lst near
Brooklyn, n. ". Miss Mary Carew,
| eighteen years old, was assaulted and out
ragged by negro, who made his escape.
W. II. WEBB, a laundry man in Winnie
peg killed his wife, on the End, in the pres
ence Of his four children, Ly shooting her
through the head
4 The otfiaial report from Jacksonville
| Fla, says that there were % new cases of
yellow fever on the 1st. Two deaths
occurred. Total number of cases A4; !;
deaths 80; under treatment 1862
The American House at West Superior,
Wis, caught fire from a lamp explosion,
1early on the End and was destroyed. The
guests tn at escaped barely did so without
clothes. After the fire had been quenched
the charred bodies of three men we're found.
NEAR Guide Rock, Kas., John Baker,
while feeding a threshing machine was acci-
IDENTIFY cut on the hand by the band cutter,
q boy. In: rage he grabbed the boy and
! deliberately fed him into the threshing ma
1 chine. Before the other men could inter
fere half Of the BOY body had disappeared.
i They took Baker and hung him to the straw
carrier.
!. FIVE shocks Of earthquake were felt in
England on the 2nd. The spire of the
i Cathedral in the town Of Christ Church
was destroyed and several buildings dam.
4 aged.
4 SIX section men were killed near Boon
/ vile, Mo-, on the End by q freight trair
i jumping the track
DURING service in q church at Jumet,
Belgium, on the End, platform collapsed
Three persons were killed and q large mum
Der injured.
NINETY indians signed the government
treaty at the Crow Creek agency on the
1st.
The Progress., 1888-09-15
A Towns Founder Dead.

Charles F. Rice, the original proprietor
Of the Park Rapids town site, died at, his
home in Park Rapids the other morning.
of typhoid fever. Mr.. Rice was born in,
Cattaraugus County, N. Y. Besides being
the founder Of: Park Rapids the deceased
was a prominent factor in the early history,
Of Riceville, Ia.,, and Dell Rapids D. T.
The Progress., 1888-09-15
Must Part With Them.

a rather peculiar case came up in the
office Of the department. Of the poor at Min
neapolis the other day. "A woman less than
forty years old went to Superintendent
Curtiss and told him that she had ten chill
aren whom she was unable to support, and
she desired if possible to have them placed
in good families where they could be cared
for The Oldest child is sixteen years old
and the youngest three months. Superin-
tendent Curtiss promised to see if places
could be found for them.
The Progress., 1888-09-15
Valuable Property in Dispute.

Suit has been, brought against MorrH4D
Cutler, the first pioneer OF Waukesha,
Wis, and the richest man there, by his
sister, Mrs. George Head and others
to secure all Of the; Fergus Falls property
which Mr. Cutler has previously claimed
and which is worth several hundred thou
sand dollars
The Progress., 1888-09-15
Over an Embankment.

A wreck occurred at an early hour the
other morning about half mile east Of
Wadepa. As a through freight, west
ward bound, reached that point wheel
On an empty stock car broke and let seven
cars down the embankment, where they
lay in a badly mixed up condition, and it
was some time before the wreck was
cleared up. Trains were delayed for sew
eral hours. No one was hurt.
The Progress., 1888-09-15

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The following Congressional nonina alton.
were reported on the 29th: Iowa Fifth
district, Daniel Kerr (Rop j, renomina atafl.
Michigan, Second district, w. Stearns
(Dem-); Fifth, E. Barkwith fDem. i.
Missouri, First district, w. q. Hatch.
(Dem.); Seventh, r. q. Norton DEM.
Pennsy lyania, Twenty third district, j. A..
Langft (Dem.); Twenty-second. e. IS.
Munroe
MISS MARaARET FENN1cAL, one Of the
smallest women in the world, died on. the
29th at Carlisle, Pa. She was hfty-hve
years old and only thirty four inches in
height
The Kansas Union Labor party held q
convention at Wichita on the Goth and
nominated full State ticket, with P. T.
Elder Tor Governor The platform de-
mands woman suffrage, pension to sol
diers, reduction OF official salarles and that
the State publish school books and fur
nlsh them az cost. I, ssf \.
The Union Labor State convention held
these nominations: For Auditor General.
Thomas H Windle; Supreme me Judge, W. Il
Bird. a platform was adopted demanding
free homesteads and favorlng q uniform
series OF school books to be published by
the State.
CONGRESSIONAL nominations were made
on the 3Oth ult as follows: Wisconsin,
Fifth district, L. B. Caswell rep j, re-
nominated. Missouri, Twelfth district.
John w. Hanna (Rep.). Virginia Fifth
district J. D. Blackville (Rep.); Sixth, r.
McAullfe (Rep.). Indiana, First district,
Frank B. Posey (Rep). Michigan, Fifth
district, Charles E. Belknap (Rep) Ohio,
First district, O. J. Cosgrove DENY !.
Second, Q. w. Gerard Dem.). ni1nais,
Eighth district, John Mclaughlin (Union
Labor).
Mrs. NANCY JONES, aged lone hundred
and six years, died on the 36th ult at Gal
weston, Tex.
CONGRESSIONAL nominations We're made
| on the slst ult. as follows: Lewis w Tur-
pin by Fourth Alabama district Demo-
Gratis; Samuel Craig byTWenty-tirs Penn
sylvanla district republicans; Daniel
Campbell, by Eleventh iowa district Union
LaDorltes, and Mlchael Healey by First
llllnols district Union Laborites.
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FoHEAtINs
IHE Pope on the 2Sth appointed Rev. DR..
John 5. Foley as Bishop Of Detroit.
IN an ADDRESS at st. Thomas, Ont, on the
18th Hon. Mr.. Lanrier, leader Of the Lib
eral party in Canada, said that the un-
friendly course OF the Dominion Govern
ment during the past twenty-five years
had 1rrltated Americans, and that it was
high time that that policy should be re-.
versed
FIFTEEN men of the crew Of the steamer
Bratsburg, from Sydney to Montreal with
! coal, were drowned on the 28th near
Matam, Can, by the stranding Of the boat.
ADvIcEs of the Goth from London state
that the shortage in the wheat crop Of the
old world would be about 80, 900, 600 bushels.
A HEAVY rain, accompanied by gale,
prevailed over England on the 29th, doing
great damage to crops.
Morning journal and courier., 1888-07-17

Not all are delighted with the notion of a summer school. Secretary Hines of the board of education recently received the following note: "Do not send any more notices or documents of summer school to my address. Permit me to rejoice in all your eff forts to elevate and civize the barbarians and un- terrorized teachers of Connecticut While the lamp
 holds out to burn the worst of people may return know how to teach well enough without going to school "-Norwich Bulletin.
Morning journal and courier., 1888-07-17
ALARGE PUROHAsE.

one Hundred Acres of Hked Granite
 Quarry Bought at Stony Creek.
 Hon. Samuel Baboock, of MiddletowD, and e Springfield man have bought up section of one hundred acres of the red granite quar- ry at Stony Creek. Work is starting up again. It is a valuable stone, looking much like the red sienite or Aberdeen granite when polished. Some of the columns in the Con- necticut Capitol at the foot of the staircase on the west side are of this Branford granite, and there are still larger ones near by, the effect being very fine.
 MT. Patterson has contract from the new owners of the quarry and has just got out four magnificent columns for the extension of the Capitol at Albany. which are being pol- ished at the Westerly works. They weigh aftsen tons each, are nine feet long and four Eset in diameter, as large, proRably. as any J
Morning journal and courier., 1888-07-17
BASE BALL.
What the Players Are DOing Here and
 There.


 In spite of the great reputation of the De- troits for hitting the ball, not one of their number has batting average to-day of 300. The team has fallen of greatly in batting of late.
 The Washingtons, after dickering with Sutton, White of Louisville, and Shaw, con- cluded that the latter was all of the old blood needed in the Senatorial ranks. The friends of the home club were willing to re- ceive Sutton into the fold, for many of them believe that he is capable of doing good work. However, he cannot be chased with either Donnelly or Schoch in their present form, and Walter Hewett changed his mind just in time to prevent trouble. Donnellys work in Detroit is highly commended, and almost any club in the country would be glad to have him. He is playing stronger game all around than at least four third basemen, and there would be public lndig- nation meeting at the mere suggestion of laying him off.-The Sun.
 Sutton has signed with the Roehesters.
 Weidman will join the Jersey Citys. Syracuse wants to release Higgins.
 The New York World very truthfully says of Glasscock: eff the Giants fail to be any where near the top of the lander at the end of the season it will be no fault of Jack Glass. cock. In accordance with his avowed belief that maiming and slugging will win more games than batting and fielding, he has put the spikes to two of the Giants thus far dur ing the present season, and as the two clubs have yet nine games to play, it IS pretty safe to say that others will be spiked by MT. Glasscock before October IS. This may be good ball playing, according to MT. Glass cocks ideas, but the public yet hold to the belief that there ought to be some distinction between a dog pit and ball field. It is safe to say that man who is capable of wilfully maiming a fellow player in 8 ball game IS totally incapable of feeling ashamed of him- self, and f. is not likely that MT. Glasscock will be troubled with any qualms of con- science. Yet above all this the fact remains that self-dcfense is the first law of nature, and if by the end of the season Mir. Glasscock does not meet with broken jaw, which will be quite as accidental in it's way some of his spiking feats, it will be because other players have too much heart and humanity to resort to tactics which Fiji Islander would blush for"
 Rhines, of the Binghamtons, has been sold to the Jersey Citys. With him in the box the Jerseyites expect to take the pennant.
 Umpire Lynch has been compelled to take a rest, owing to an injury received at Pitts- burg by being hit in the chest by foul ball.
 Umpire Kelly was struck in the foot by ball on Saturday. He will be laid up for several days.
 Brown is playing great ball for Boston, and President Stearns of Detroit says he is worth half dozen Cores.
Morning journal and courier., 1888-07-17

polished granite columns in America. These were got out of single great block twenty feet long. The feldspar in this granite i'm parts peculiar lustre in the polishing, which produces fine effect. The purchase made by the new owners includes the best part of the formation. It is one mile north of the Shore Line railway and is all above ground so far as worked, the rock rising sheer on the east side two hundred feet above the woods. It is proposed to have @ branch railway built by the Consolidated running direct into the quarry. That would greatly facilitate busi- ness, and by little dredging of the harbor the water would be made deep enough for vessels to load at the wharf and thus secure the advantage of cheap water carriage. The stone offers the most favorable lines of cleav- age, so that blocks still larger if desired can readily be uuarried,