The Progress., 1888-10-13

HE boiler of McHamilton's saw-mil
near Blair, Neb., exploded on the 10th, kill
ing Fireman Henry Alexander and En-
gineer Henry Morrell and inluring others
IHE First Presbyterian Church at New
Brunswick, Nj, was burned on the 10Th
Loss, US, 600; insurance, $31, 900.
The Society Of the Army of the Cum
perland IN session on the 2Oth in Chicago
elected General w. s. Rosecrans president
and adjourned to meet in Chattanooga
Tenn, next year.
ADy1cEs Of the 10th say that the tota
salmon pack in Alaska was seven thou
sand cases. The winter was setting in al
Silver Bow basin, and mining operations
had been suspended a free gold deposit
fifteen feet in width, had been developed
at Berner bay.
EsTIMATEs on the Goth from thirteen
western States, representing seventy
seven per cent OF the crop, indicated the
total production of 2,015, ,0OO, 600 bushels Of
corn this season, or $50 00O, 900 bushel.
more than the 1887 crop
MRS. JOHN CLICK, aged eighty years
who lived ut Peru, Ind, was burned te
death on the Goth, her clochinR catching
fire from pipe she was smoking.
A NUMBER of cases Of yellow fever de.
veloped on the Goth at Decatur. Ala, caus.
ing the widest excitement Stores were
being closed, and the people were fleeing
from the town. Three cases were officially
reported at jackson. Miss.
DURING the twenty-four hours ended on
the 10th there were 131 now cases of vel
low fever at Jacksonville, Fla, and Is
deaths. Total cases to date, 1,464; total
deaths, 1856
IT was reported from Trinidad, Col, on
the goth that an organized band Of thieves
had stolen several hundred cattle from the
Panhandle ranges and shipped them to
st Joe, Mo-, where they were sold.
IT was stated on the Goth that the circu-
lar Offering $40, 600 reward for the arrest of
Tascott. the murderer Of Amos J. Smell,
in Chicago, would be printed in all Ian.
guages and sent to all parts Of the world.
The United Typothete in session on the
10th in New York elected Andrew McNally,
OF Chicago, president.
The rolling-m mills at South Chicago start
ed up on the 10th, after being shut down q
month. and eighteen hundred men were at
work again.
& A PHILADELPHIA firm on the Goth con-
tracted to build fifty locomotive engines
for the railroads of the Argentine Repnb-
lie.
HENRY F. HARDING stole $1,000 from two
banks in New York on the Goth. in broad
daylight, but she was finally captured and
the money recovered.
IN quarrel on the Goth over the rent Of
house between two farmers living near
5Muncie, Ind, Jackson Hunter shot at Mr..
Fleming, missing him, but killing his son.
JAMES BEDELL, realestate clerk for the
law firm Of Shipman, Barlow, Larocque &
3Choate, of New York, was on the Goth
discovered to have been CARRYING on a sys-
tenn of swindling for five years, during
which time he had raised 1854, 900 on forged
bonds, mortgages, ETC.
OWING to the yellow fever scare La
Grange. Tenn, quarantined against the
world on the Goth.
The American Surgical Association in
session at Washington on the goth elected
DR.. D. w. Cheever, Of Boston, as president
Mrs. WILLIAM B. MURPHY was found
dead on her husbands grave at Kansas
City, Mo-, on the 2lst, having committed
suicide.
AT Hawthorne, Wis, on the night Of the
21st a gang Of Italian railroad laborers
murdered their foreman, G. F. Hubbard.
The cause OF the trouble was not known.
Charles STREGGE, mill employe in
Wausau, Wis, fell upon rotary saw on
the. .21st and was cut in two.
AT Crystal Falls, Mich, Frank Morence
was fatally stabbed in the back on the s1st,
and the murderer, a stranger, escaped
DURING the twenty -four hours ended on
the 2lst there were 11S new cases Of yellow
fever at Jacksonville, Fla, and Il deaths.
Total cases to date, 1.528; total deaths, 1876.
UNKNOWN men entered pay-car of the
Lake Shore road at Buffalo on the night of
the Goth, administered ether to the occu-
pants, and decamped with $4,000
On the Fleetwood Park track, at Phila-
delphia, onithe 21st, the famous PAGER John
StOn went a half mile in one minute and
half second, beating allprevious records
for that distance.
DURING thesseven days ended on the 21st
there were A228 business failures in the
United States, against 217 the previous
seven days. "a
HENRY BAUER, Of Center, Wis, while
cutting corn with mower on the 21st fell
in front of the knife, was cut on the leg,
and bled 10 death.
JAMES E. BEDELL, clerk of New York
law firm, was arrested in that city on the
21st charged with swindling clients of the
firm out of about $500, OOO
The Sovereign Grand Lodge of the Inde-
pendent Order Of Odd Fellows, in annual
session at Los Angeles, Cal, voted on the
2lst to hold its next years session at Co.
lumbus, 0.
A CYCLONE passed over Mammoth
Springs, Fulton County, Ark, on the 21st
doing considerable damage to crops Sew
eral people were injured.
y THROUGH an operators carelessness two
Baltimore & Ohio freight trains collided
near Belleville, O., ON the 21st, doing dam
age to the amount of $40, 600
PERSONAL AND POLITICAL.
J. L. CURTIS, of New York City, candi-
date of the National American party for
the Presidency, issued his letter of accept
ance on the 18th. He said the party was
forced into being by the evils of unlimited
floods of bad immigrants; foreigner
should not vote until twenty one years a
citizen; that none but the American flag
should be known to our people, and that
none but Americans should fill the public
Offices of the country.
Rev. DR. TRAyELLI founder of the