The Progress. [volume] (White Earth, Minn.) 1886-1889, 1888-03-24


were on te ooh ordered cancelled by East
ern insurance companies.
A BLIZZARD prevailed on the Goth in por-
lions OF Dakota, Minnesota, Iowa, Illinois,
Missouri, Kansas and Colorado. The snow
was unusually heavy, and was driven by a
fierce wind, blockading railway trains.
The thermometer was "a degrees below
zero at some points
The wall of a new BUILDING at Joliet. Ill,
fell on the Goth, killing two men and in
Jurlng several others, two of them fatally.
ADvIcEs of the Doth from some of the
counties In Western Kansas, part cularly
CLARK. We're to the effect that the farmers
We're suffering for the want of food coal
and clothing. Six persons We're known to
have died from freezing
DANIEL BURTCH, a plantation manager at
Franklin, La, was shot and killed on the
ooh by his stepson, Malcolm Cook, aged
eighteen years.
EIIHu GREGG, anotorious horse-thief, was
found dead in the mountains Of West Vir-
ginia on the 20 h with bullet-hole in his
breast The man was over eighty years
old, and he had been known as desperate
criminal for fifty years.
The employees in the passenger and ticket
departments of the P ttsburgh g. Lake Erie
railroad were suspended on the Goth pend
ing an investigation OF Their accounts by
the auditor and his clerks Crooked work
was suspected.
IT was stated ON the Goth that owing to
the closing of the South Carolina phosphate
mines many negroes were starving:
IHE town OF Weeping Water. Neb, was
almost destroyed by fire on the Goth
II. d. LYMAN, OF the American Surety
Company OF New York, stated on the goth
that in the past year there had been fifty
three embellishments in the country.
amounting to $3,84O,5 $40, and that the
criminals were all in Canada
WILLIAM SHOWERS, who brutally slew his
two little grandsons at Lebanon, Pa, last
September, was on the 90 b found guilty of
murder in the first degree
The steamer Mirana, en- route from Jog
gins, N. S., for New York with an enormous
raft composed of twenty-seven Thousand
logs, lost her tow during a heavy storm,
and 1t WAS feared on the Goth that it would
get into the track OF the European steam
ers.
AN explosion of gas on the 21st in the
Nottingham mine at Plymouth, Pa, killed
four men.
New York on the 21st from Cape Hayti, re-
seventy vessels were wrecked and twenty
one sailors were drowned
A NEW town is being established near
Trussville, Ala, by Eastern capitalists in
terested in the iron business Additional
furnaces will be built, and heavy invest
ments be made in property
HE business portion Of the town of o.
we'll. Ind, was. destroyed by fire on the
Dist
E. L. PACKER. one Of the largest lumber
dealers of Pittsburgh, Pa, failed on the
Dist.
A DISPUTE over politics In saloon at
Opelousas, La, on the 2ist ended in the
fatA sho citing of three men. -..
The collections of internal revenue for
the first five months of the present fiscal
year amounted to $51, $50, $40, being an
increase of $3,S54. 742 as compared with
the corresponding period of last year:
COMMODORE GHERARDI, in command Of the
New York navy yard, was On the 21st in
structed to send q vessel after the enormous
raft supposed to be adrift in the path OF
ocean steamers.
In a match game of three-ball billiards at
Boston on the 21st Harvey McKenna, of
Detroit, made run of 2,497, beating the
worlds record
In portions of Colorado on the 21st the
thermometer registered from 20 to 81 de-
grees below zero, the latter record being at
Robinson, whare the cold was so intense
that the people feared to venture from their
houses.
The escape of naphtha into sewers at
Rochester, N. Y, ON the 21st caused explo-
sions in several streets, blowing up the man
holes and creating great cons ernation. The
flames accompanying the explosion burned
three mills, and four men We're killed BY
falling walls
A FIRE at Pittsburgh, Pa, on the Dist de-
stroyed the dry-goods establishment of
Fleishman & Co. and the toy-store of Yeager
& Co., causing loss of $2OO,OOO
THREE tra1n-men were fatally injured on
the 2lst by collision on the St Paul road
at Jackson Junction, Ia
The Pacific Coast Steamship, Company's
steamer San Vincente was burned to the
waters edge off Pigeon point on the 21st,
and out of the crew of nineteen officers and
men eleven were lost
HURD, WAITE & Co., dry-goods dealers at
Brooklyn, N. Y, failed, on the DIST for
$175, 600
IT Was said on the Dist that the Standard
Oll Company was preparing to construct an
pipe line to Chicago for the trans
portation of oil for fuel, and would build
thousand tanks at Lima, O., for the storage
Of the product of the Northwestern Ohio
field
IT was announced on the I'D that gold
and silver in large quantities had been
found on the HiaWasser river in North Caro-
lima. Six thousand acres had been ex-
plored.
The years product of -four at Minneapolis
was on the 22d reported at 6,616, 700 bar
rels
Mrs. MARIA BURTON, of San Diego, Cal,
On the 22d won Ler suit for property in
lower California valued at 81, 100000
Two LADIES were fatally injured on the
22d by collision on the Ohio & Northwest
ern railroad near Cincinnati.
Two MEN were killed on the 22d in riot
ut Glenmary, Tenn, which had it's origin
in a quarrel between white and colored
OWING to excessive competition. the Mon
tauk Fire Insurance Company of Brooklyn,
N. Y, on the 22d decided to discontinue
business