The Progress. [volume] (White Earth, Minn.) 1886-1889, 1888-03-10
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| places rushing from their houses in alarm.
AT Kansas City on the 29th ult the roof
of the nearly completed Midland Ho>ei col
lapsed, burying a score of men in the ruins.
Frank E lison was killed and a dozen 9th
ers were badly wounded
| THOMAS FoRsYTHE who confessed that he
had murdered County Treasurer Hill by
cutting off his head, and that he had
robbed him of Sc, 900, was taken from Jail
at Carthage, Tex, on the Goth ult and
lynched
The Fusion City Council at Salt Lake City
was sworn in on the 29th ult The four
GENTLE councilmen who took their seats
were the first Gentle members who ever
sat in the council chamber:
AT Salamanca, N. Y, fire on the Goth
ult. destroyed the opera-h house, the post
Office and other business buildings, causing
| heavy loss.
JOHN A. BEAL, boy thirteen years old,
began life senten ce at Columbus, O., on
the Goth ult for the brutal murder of his
mother eight months ago.
The will OF Mrs. Jason Downer, of Milwau-
kee was probated on the 295h ult Among
other things it provides for home for
superannuated Presbyterian ministers
Her total estate was about 5000, 600
JOHN W. DAWSON, a farmer living near In
oAoAAoPoAS, 1uS, dSeO SeVeuUy-Sl4 years,
married his seventh wife on the 1st
OVER three hundred Milwaukee ship car
penters struck on the LIST because the en-
ployers would not concede ten hours pay
for nine hours work
A TRAIN on the Southern Pacific road went
through bridge on the 1st at Hondo, Tex.
and three men were killed <.'F
ADv1cEs Of the LIST say that four negroes
were drowned near Aberdeen, Miss, by the
upsetting of canoe ~ -
The M2nistee Mich Salt l. Lumber CON-
pany failed on the lst for $1,000, 900.
The assets were said to be over that amount.
| POTTER & STYMER's immense furniture
| factory in New York City was destroyed by
ire on the 1st Loss 81 100000
A NATIONAL convention of veterans of the
war was commenced in Washington on the
LIST, its object being to secure the passage
OF a bill by Congress giving to every vol
unteer soldier of the war pension at the
rate OF one cent per month for each day of
| his service.
A FIRE the LIST destroyed the entire
business portion OF Suffers Creek, Cal
The building at Hartford, Conn, occu-
pied by the forming Post and the Connecticut
| Catholic was burned on the LIST
For tae third time in three years the wife
of James McElmore, living at Texarkana,
Tex, gave birth on the 1sJ to tripleta All
| were alive and doing we'll
OSCAR F. BECKwITH. aged seventy-eight
years, who murdered Simon Vandercook in
1882, and who had been six times SEN
| fenced to death, was hanged in Hudson,
N. Y, on the LIST
JUDGE GRESHAM on the 1st refused writ
of error in the Indianapolis Gnd.) t,lly-
sheet frauds, for which Sim Coy was SEN
fannp6 tn ha INV
months and pay a fine of 800 and W. F.
Bernhamer for one year and to pay q fine
Of 81, 200. --,s
The worst snowstorm of the season was
raging on the 1st in Minnesota, and all the
railways were blocked.
NLL the railways in the upper peninsular
OF Michigan were blockaded on the I'd bv
one OF the severest snow storms ever known
there. -S-&---
AT Goldsmith's mine, Walkerville, NJ T.,
three miners were killed on the I'd by fall
| ing down shaft a distance of two hundred
feet
ADv1cEs of the I'd say that hundreds of
Hungarians were leaving Connellsville, Pa,
| and adjoining coke re sions for their native
land Scarcity of work was the c use
DIR. NcGLYNN was on the 81 granted a
permanent inj motion at New York restrain
incorporating the anti-Poverty Soce Y.
A FIRE in Hampton, Va, on the I'd de-
stroyed the house of Thomas Jones (col-
ored), and two small children persisted in
the flames
AT Clinton, Ia, Mrs Frank Brown and
her babe were fatally burned on the I'd by
| their clothing taking fire from an exploded
kerosene lamp s.l-'
NEWTON, Kan, was swept by cyclone on
the I'd, many buildings being destroyed or
partly wrecked. A man was killed and two
women severely wounded. The financial
loss was placed at $50 OOO Great damage
was also done in the surrounding country
EMMA LANCE, a sixteen-y ear old Chicago
girl, comm tied suicide with poison on the
I'd because her mother punished her. -
AT prayer-meeting in the First Presby-
terrain Church in Detroit on the evening Of
the I'd Rev. DR.. G. M. Waldron, venerable
and retired pastor. dropped dead while
making prayer.
DURING The seven days ended on the I'd
there were POP business ia lures in the
United States, against 1873 the previous
seven days ny. "a o~. r,#. 0. r
HE paper stock of Barnes Brothers, at
Detroit. Mich, Was destroyed by fire on the
I'd, and also the two fve-story brick build
| ings they occupied. Total loss, $15OOOO.
A STATEMENT the I'd shows that the
reduction of the public debt during Feb
ruary amounted to $7,756, $685. and since
June 80, or the first seven months of the
current fiscal year, aggregated $40,
or. The net cash in the Treasury was
$92, 987. 796, or $7,5OO,OOO more than
the previous month. ~. H. 81
SEVERAL barges and canal-boats loaded
| with hay were burned at their wharf in
! Brooklyn on the III. Loss, 100000
The Secretary of the Treasury at Wash
ington was advised on the I'd of an organ
lied movement for the emigration of Ger
man convicts to this country, and imme-
diatey took steps to guard against the land
ing OF all such passengers
POSTMASTER MCLEOD, of Palmyra, No.,
found 800 short in his accounts recently,
com mitted suicide on the 3D.
DURING February there was net de-
crease of $11 ,O43, 7S3 in the circulation
and a net increase of Sc, O33, 743 in the
| money and bullion in the United States
Treasury.
The Ohio House on the I'd passed meas
ure to close saloons on Sunday throughout
| the State by vote of 70 to 20
AT Terre Haute, Ind, on the I'd ex-Coun-
! ty Treasurer Edwin R. Stropes, of Greene
(nnntv Hvas ctodo tbo nl,o