The Progress., 1888-12-15

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The New York Graphic was purchased
on the 2sth BY Henry stoddard In behalf
Of 9 syndicate. It would be made Repub-
! lican.
The Michigan Supreme Court on the 28th
declared unconstitutional the newspaper
law Of libel enacted in 1885,
ERNEST WUNscH, button manufacturer
OF Newark, n. j., committed suicide on
ne 2Sth from despondency over the elope-
ment OF his wife with son Of Hon. Joseph
Chamberlain, M. P.
BANDS of Russian and Italian miners
fought on the 28th in the streets Of Mount
Carmel, Pa, number on both sides being
stabbed, three fatally
EARLY on the morning Of the 29th ult q
band OF armed men stormed and broke into
the jail at Wytheville, Va, and rescued
Wayman Sutton, sentenced to be hanged
the next day for murder.
AT Ozark. Ark, on the Doth ult John
W. Watson, a planter, gave his sick wife
dose Of carbolic acid by mistake, and she
died after an hour Of agony.
"A DRUNKEN riot on the goth ult. in the
negro quarter of Savannah, Ga, caused
the killing of one man and injuries to some
other persons, black and white.
THREE men hitched hand-car to a
freight train on the esth at Tifin. O. The
car was wrecked and all the men were
killed
GEORGE COBB, school teacher near
Nevada, Mo-, outraged and murdered Ella
| Wray, aged twenty one years, on the 28th,
and after being arrested Cobb committed
suicide with poison to escape lynching.
| A LOCKOUT in New York and New Jer-
sey breweries took place on the 2Sth, and
no union men would hereafter be en-
ployed.
ALFRED WILDER, a young man, was ar
| rested at Olean, N. Y, on the 2Sth for
making and passing counterfeit nickels.
A LODGE of Good Templars was formed
on the 2Sth at the Tuscarora Reservation
| near Lockport, N. Y, with thirty-s;x
charter members. This was the first time
that temperance lodge Of this character
had been formed among the Indians.
THERE were 264 business failures in the
United States during the seven days ended
on the 30th ult., against 253 the previous
seven days. The total failures in the
United States since January 1 to date is
1885, against S, 739 in 1887
In the Titusville (Pa.) oil district eighty
three new wells were opened during No
| vember.
| ALL the coal mines on the Mon nongahela
| ga river shut down on the Both ult. for
an indefinite period. The cause was be-
cause there was too much coal in Cincin.
natl, Louisville and other river markets.
over six thousand miners were thrown out
of employment
DURING the twenty -four hours ended on
| the 3Oth ult. there were new cases OF vel
low fever at Jacksonville. Fla, and no
deaths from the disease. Total cases TO
date $50. total doaths d0Q
The McClary Manufacturing Company's
building, the largest stove and tin-wor1-
ing establishment in Ontario, was COM
pletely destroyed by fire on the Both ult.
Loss, $1,000
JAMES WooD (colored) was hanged on
the 3Oth ult. at Aiken, S. c., for tae mur-
der OF another negro, and John Henry
Myers was hanged at Placerville, Cal, for
the murder Of John Lowell, ranchman,
last March.
WHITE CAPS at Sardinia, O., on the
night of the Both ult. whipped Mrs. Annie
Jester and her grown daughter.
FIRE was di covered on the Both ult. in
No. 3shaft of the Calumet and Hecla cop
per mine at Calumet, Mich. All but eight
OF the miners escaped, and these, mostly
Cornishmen, perished. Indications point
ed to the fact that the fire was of incen-
diary origin.
The log cut at Minneapolis tMinn:) mills
for the season ended on the 3Oth ult. was
333. .000, 900 feet.
THOMAS B. BAKER of the new Baker
Theater in Chicago, made an assignment
on the 30th ult to w. W. Charles, with Ii
abilities Of s15O,O00.
TRAINS arriving in Kansas City on the
3Oth ult from the west were fifteen hours
late, being delayed by a severe storm of
snow which extended over the entire
western and southern portion of Kansas
The annual report IN the Both ult. of the
Inter State Commerce Commission esti-
mated the railroad mileage of the country
on June SO 1888, at l52, ,7Sl miles, of wn ch
2,3l2 were completed within the preceding
six months.
AN explosion of dynamite on the Both
ult, on the Kentucky Midland railway
near Lexington killed four men and dan
gerously injured several others.
A LARGE vein of coal was discovered on
the Both ult on the farm Of John T. Davis,
near Chamberlain, D. T.
Il AT Glasgow, Mo-, on the Both ult. Mrs.
Emma Jackson, aged twenty years, at
tempted to whip her brother, aged fourteen
years. because he refu sed to bring her a
bucket of water. The youth Immediately
procured gun and shot ber dead.
WILL ScHRIEBER, aged twenty two years,
teller of the First National Bank of CO.
lumbus, Ind, fed to Canada on the 3Oth
ult. with $500 of the banks funds.
w J.. WILLIAMS, star route mail car
rier, was shot dead from ambush near
Moulton, Ala, on the Both ult. and the
mail il-pouch cut open and robbed. Regis
tered packages taken contained about s40O.
Tue treasurer of Sphinx County, d. T.,
was on the 50th ult said to be short in his
accounts to the extent Of 100000. His
whereabouts were unknown.
PERSONAL AND POLITICAL.
SENATOR QUAY said in Washington on
the 26th that the Republicans would have
a majority Of nine in the next House Of
Representatives He did not believe the
Governors Of States would give certifi-
Gates Of election to any one not entitled to
the same.
The official canvass on the 26th of the
electoral vote of Florida gives Cleveland
49, SOL; Harrison, &c, $50; Fisk, 4O3; Cleve-
lands plurality over Harrison, Il, 9O4
TIE official canvass on the 9th of the
vote for President in Indiana at the recent
electinn G howe the ffo1ln1uino ,ae,,lt,. %