The Progress. [volume] (White Earth, Minn.) 1886-1889, 1888-06-23

OF relig on or prohibiting the free exercise
thereof, and that every State shall establish
and ma ntain u system of free public schools.
....In thc House the Legislative Executive
and Judicial Appropriation bill was discussed.
AT the evening session fifty private pension
bills were passed. =ts-
DOMESTIC.
The first Prohibition convention ever
held in Georgia nat at Columbia on the
22d. The object of the convention is to or
ganize more perfectly the prohibition move
ment in the State
EUGENE CHALFANT, who was bitten some
weeks ago by a spitz dog, died of hydro
phobia at New Albany Ind, on the 22d
IT was reported on the 22d that E. B.
Bradley, general teller of the Union Ma
tional Bank Of Chicago, was defaulter to
the extent of $4,000. He had fed to Can
ada.
TWO FREIGHT trains on the Rock Island
road collided near Iowa City, Ia, on the
22d, and locomotive and twentysfour cars
were demolished.
DAVID MOORE and Willard Hall (both col
ored) and George Graham were hanged on
the 22d at Greenville, Miss, for murder.
The National Association of Labor Stats
:ticians in session on the 223 at Indianapolis,
Ind, re- elected Carol D. Wright, of Massa-
chusetts, president
The cut worm was on the ed making a
clean sweep OF corn and certain kinds of
garden vegetables over large portion of
Pike, Dubois, Daviess and Spencer Coun-
ties, Ind.
The eighth biennial musical festival at
Cincinnati began on the evening of the 22d
A PARDON was issued on the ed by Gov
ernor Martin, of Kansas, to Charles B.
Rotrock, who killed his wife number of
years ago while under the influence of
liquor, under the agreement that Rotrock
shall forever abstain from the use Of liquor.
The third annual convention Oh. the
Butchers National Protective Association
assembled in Philadelphia on the I'D.
The works of the Belmont Iron Com
pany, at Philadelphia, were burned on the
ED, causing a loss 100000
The largest oil we'll in the Lima (O) dis
trict was opened on the 3d. The flow
through an eight-inch pipe was six thou
sand barrels a day. 80
The prospect for the winter wheat crop
in Illinois and Iowa was on the 23d consid-
cred decidedly unfavorable
JAMES w. SCHooIER (colored), of Nicho-
lasville, KY, was on the 23d admitted to
practice before the Court of Appeals of
Kentucky-the first instance of the kind
on record
THE dead bodies of John F. and Charles
&. Fuhrmann (brothers) were found on the
23d in hotel room in St. Louis. The police
believed that the men committed suicide
by poison, but no cause for the act was
known.
A RECEPTION was given to the members
Of the Northern and Southern PRESBYTERIAN
general assemblies on the 23d by Mr.. and
Mrs. Wistar Morris at their residence in
Overlook, near Philadelphia. President
and Mrs Cleveland were present.
WHILE drunk on the 23d at Cleveland, O.,
William j. Mcfarland shot his wife and
little daughter and then shot himself All
were fatally wounded.
The Michigan State convention of the
Woman's Christian Temperance Union
commenced on the Esd at Coldwater
The license judges in Philadelphia COM
pleted their work on the 23d, granting 1851
licenses, against 5 ,773 granted last year.
A FREIGHT train on the Rock Island rail
road went through bridge on the 23d near
Randolph Point, Mo-, crashing into ravine
twenty-five feet deep, and five mon were
killed
The annual parade of Sunday school
children at Brooklyn, N. Y, took place on
the 23d. It was estimated that sixty thou
sand children were in line
MAYOR ROCHE, o. Chicago, on the 23d re-
ceived an appeal for help from the Missis-
s1ppl river flood sufferers. It was repre-
scented that territory fifty two miles in
length had been inundated, the crops de-
stroyed, the residents driven from their
homes and large number of families were
dependent upon charity.
A CYCLONE swept over Brownton, Tex,
on the 23d, and the Methodist, Baptist and