The Progress. [volume] (White Earth, Minn.) 1886-1889, 1888-09-01
tributed to the use OF beer drawn through
pipes and soft . drinks from bottles

tributed to the use OF beer drawn through
pipes and sssoft y drinks from botties
rinsed with shot.
IT was discovered in New York ON the
sd that registered package containing
$4,000 had been stolen while in transit
from Portland, Ore, to the Chemical Ma
tional Bank Of New York. ..57.
Bra storm on the sd In AMuskingum
County, O., bridges and. culverts were
washed away and crops sustained consid-
cradle injury. 4
PRESIDENT CLEVELAND on the 23d sent q
message to both houses. ofs Congress ask
Ing Tor legislation authorizing him to issue
proclamation forbidding the transporta-
ton OF foreign goods in bond across the
United States in retaliation for discrimi-
| nations against American fishermen by
Canadians
| THREE murders were committed on the
Ssd at Pineville, KY. George Carron and
railway boss got in q quarrel and fatally
snot each other, and two Italian laborers
quarreled about a woman and one stabbed
the other to death.
NEAR Monticello, Ga, on the Esd, at a re-
ligious association meeting, fight oc-
Cured between the Tyler and Malone fam
lies. Thirty shots were fred, and James
Malone and Sam Tyler were instantly
killed, Ed Tyler mortally wounded and sew
eral others severely injured.
HORACE CHRIsTLER, a farmer living near
Topeka, Kan, was murdered on the 23d by
neighbor, John Carter, over trouble aris-
ing from their joint possession Of corn
planter.
II. b. MARSHALL, postmaster at St. Clair,
! Pa, disappeared on the 23d His accounts
were 81 800 short.
A PAPER-MILL at Menasha, Wis, caught
/ fire on the Esd, and when the fremen
| turned water on the immense revolving
| bleach in the heating-room an explosion re-
suited and ten tons Of boiler debris were
hurled into the crowd of spectators, kill
ing fourteen persons outright, fatally in
juring seven and wounding many more.
/ FIVE HUNDRED witnesses who were
taken to Greenville, S. c., to testify against
the ''moonshiners" were said to be in a
starving condition on the 23d, the United
States Court being short of funds to pay
1 them fees.
DURrSG the seven days ended on the oath
there were 157 business failures in the
United States, against ISL the previous
seven days
championship of the United States for
women took place at New York on the 24th
and was won by Miss Daisy Blankley, aged
! twelve years. i,
"A FIRE on the oath at Clinton, Ind, del
strOyed dozen business houses
| ELEVEN head of horses, together with
Mark L:eberman's house and barn, were
burned on the Oath at Wilmington, Del.
Six new cases of yellow fever were re-
ported on the Oath at Jacksonville, Fla,
and two deaths. &s'
| AT a colored religious meeting on the
! oath at Carter's Wharf, Va, three persons
We're struck by lightning and killed. if
| a HEAVY shock of earthquake occurred
at Stevenson, Ala, on the oath, alarming
the colored residents so that nearly all of
them rushed into the streets.
ATOM Of powder in the clearinghouse Of
the Grant Powder Company, near West
Berkeley, CAL, exploded on the Oath, killing
two white men and three Cinnamon.
Two SISTERS, Belle and Jessie Ferguson,
OF St Paul, Mimi, severely horsewhipped
and dubbed j. NJ. Hawthorne, a young
attorney, on the Oath because he made un-
pleasant remarks about them.
LOUIS COHEN, a Nogales a. T) mer-
chant, was murdered by thieves on the
24th, who carried off one thousand. dollars.
JACOB MoxTER, "a prominent dealer in
pianos in st. Louis, sat down to one Of his
plan os on the Oath, played the ''Dead
March, and then blew his brains out.
Business trouble caused the rash act.
BLACK measles of a most virulent type
prevailed on the oath among the negroes
on the rice plantations on the Santee river,
near Columbia, 8. c. Fifty deaths had
occurred, and the disease.had become epi-
demic, creating panic.
NATHANIEL a L1TH, JR, deputy collector
of the port of Ogdensburg, N. Y; William
j. Cummisky, janitor of the Government
building, and John w. Stone, prominent
attorney OF that city, were arrested on the
gath on charge of stealing and disposing
of struggled opium. sssstss
DR.. j. W. LEWIS, of Hartford, Conn,
was on the oath elected president of the
American Microscopiss ~ Society at Cleve-
land.
OBERcAupF, the Chicago mail-bo rob.
Der, was on the 24th held for, trial in s., 900
bail
NEW YORK coal agents on the 24th in
creased the price of coal from twenty five
to fifty cents ton, according to distance
Of shipment
PERSONAL AND POLITICAL.
MISUNDERSTANDING ABsALoM BAIRD, In
spector- General of the army, was on the
goth placed on the retired list, and Colonel
Roger Jones was appointed to succeed him.
with the rank of Brigadier- General
SAMUEL MORSE, aged one hundred and
four years, died on the 10th at Portland,
Me-. sil.s
ROBERT M. HARDI.RY was renominated
for Congress on the Goth by Seventh Penn
sylvania district Republicans.
A coLoRED woman named Mrs. Phoebe
Clark died in Detroit, Mich, on the Goth,