The Progress. [volume] (White Earth, Minn.) 1886-1889, 1888-04-14
DOMESTIC.

The Burlington Railway Company was on
the 9th rapidly filling the places vacated
by the striking switchmen, and the direc-
tors of the company declared that it was
their determination, regardless OF conse-
quences, to firmly resist any attempt to
take the management of the road from the
hands of it's owners
HE third annual convention of the Inter
national Cattle Association was opened at
Denver, Col. on the 2Sth
HE session of the International Council
OF Women in Washington on the 2Sth was
devoted to the general subject of industries.
Mrs Low said that woman s influence in the
Knights of Labor was being felt wherever
women of character had Joined the order,
Mrs. Leonora M. Barry, organizer of the
Knights of Labor, said they were building
around the working-girls wall to defend
and protect them from the humiliations
which heretofore they had been subjected
to. and were taking the little girls from the
factory, the workshop and the mine and
educating them.
HE passenger committee of the trunk
lines at New York on the 2Sth granted
rates OF one fare for the round trip to ex-
curs1onists to the Republican, Democratic
and Prohibition National conventions.
HE barks Emigrant, Vesuvius and Mabel
Stoddard, salt-laden for Gloucester, Mass.
were on the 29th given up as lost, and for
ty-tive men were supposed to have per-
ished.
JAMES A. MINER. a LAWYER, confessed on
the 18th at Austin, Tex, to- the commits
sion of nineteen forgeries The lowest term
In prison he could be awarded was thirty
eight years DE-,
A SPARK from pipe dropped into a key
in cfn -
Gap, Pa, on the 2Sth, and the explosion
which followed killed three men and three
others were injured
A MEETING will be held at Jackson, Miss.
May "a. for the purpose of organizing the
state Immigration Association, with view
to securing for Mississippi share of the
immigration now moving Southwark
THOMAS P. MILLER & Co., private bankers
At Mobile, Ala, failed on the 2Sth for $780,
600, with assets Of about $4,000
MISS SARAH BROWN was shot and killed
by J. w. Hill at his residence in Trenton.
Mo-, on the 2Sth Hill was handling shot
gun and didn't know it was loaded
THROUGHOUT Georgia and Alabama an
enormous rainfall had ON the 2Sth resulted
In great damage to property. Several per-
sons had been drowned.
JOHN WOOD, Texas negro, was lynched
on the 29th at Denison, Tex, for abducting
Amelia Wilson, white girl
A FIRE on the Goth at Aurora Ill, de-
stroyed the Chicago, Burlington & Quincy
paint shop. pay-car and five other cars,
causing loss of $175, OOO
MOB of strikers attacked freight train
on the Burlington road in Chicago on the
18th, throwing fifteen cars from the track
and badly injuring some of the employees
Two of the rioters were arrested All the
sw1tchmen, engineers and fire1nen in the
local yards of the Chicago, Milwaukee e.
et Paul road struck, rather than handle
Burlington cars.
MRS JOHN GARL1cK stepped off the ele-
vator before il stopped in Cincinnati
store on the Goth, and her head was caught
between the car and the floor and her
death caused instantly.
AUGUST KRAKOW shot and Instantly killed
his wife in Chicago on the goth and then
killed himself. thus ending long years of