The Progress., 1888-02-25
aonal Committee OF Minnesota, vice Sens

6Or Davis, resigned
LIE Delaware State Temperance ALI
ance in it's annual convention in Dover on
une 10th decided to go into politics. and
uelegates to the National Prohibition con-
vention In Indianapolis were elected.
II. Il LOCKE, editor Of the Toledo (O.)
btade. widely known as petroleum v.
NasDy," died in that city at 6:35 on the
morning OF the 18th. The immediate cause
ol e MS death was consumption of the lungs.
MI Locke was born September 20, 1888 in
vastal, n Y. His father, Nathaniel Reed
Locke, was soldier In the war of 1912.
ana IS yet living, at the advanced age of
ninety -four years, near Toledo. Mr. Locke
leaves wife and three sons
CHARLES s CARY, of Olean, N. Y, was on
the 10Th appointed Solicitor Of the Treas
ury by the President, vice Alexander Nc
cue, appointed ub-Treasurer at New York.
IHE Most Rev. John Babtste Lamy, for
nearly forty years Archbishop of Santa Fe,
n. NJ, died in that city on the 18th, aged
seventy -four years
A STATE League Of Republican clubs was
organized at Wheeling, w. Va, on the 10th,
WIN u N. Shlnn, of Fairmont, as presi-
dent ........
TIE seventy-seven Republican clubs Of
vermont organized a State League in Mont
pelier on the 18th with Ex-Governor
Proctor as president
The Republicans of Iowa will meet in
State convention! at Des Moines March 21
to elect delegates to the National conveu-
tion.
The Republican State convention of West
Virginia, to elect delegates to the National
convention, will be held at Fairmont
May 10
NEBRASKA Prohibitionists met in State
conven tion on the 10th at Lincoln and
elected delegates to the National conven-
tion at indianapolis
The Vermont Prohlbitionists will hold
their State convention June IL at Mont
pelier
WENHAM ROBERTSON, of Abingdon, Va,
died on the 10th, at the age of eighty-four
years He served one year as Governor of
Virginia in 1885,
CONTROVERSY having arisen. over the
birthplace of General Phil Sheridan, his
mother stated on the 10Th that he was born
in Somerset, O.. March 6, 1881.
FOREIGN.
HEAVY snOw-storms occurred on the 18th
in the west of England, Scotland and Wales
At Cabinet council in London on the
18th it was decided to instruct the Irish
executive to cease prosecuting newspapers
for publishing reports Of meetings of sup
pressed branches of the Irish Land League.
Mr.. PYNE, member of Parliament, was
sentenced at Dublin on the 10Th to three
months imprisonment under the Crimes
act ~ r..--...
SIX persons committed suicide in Berlin,
Germany, on the 10TH
MR.. LAwToN, the United States Minister
at Vienna, on the 10Th accepted from Harry
Farber, rich American. who is studying
law at the Vienna University, the offer Of
81, ,OOO, 600 to the American Government
with which to endow university at Chi
cago on the Vienna model
AN explosion in a mine on the 10th near
Camphausen, Germany, killed forty miners.
VIENNA advices of the 10Th say seven per-
sons were buried by an avalanche which
blocked the end Of the St. Gothard tunnel
A STRONG company was formed at Berlin
on the 10th under the ti5le of "The South
west African Gold Syndicate for the pur-
pose of developing the mineral resources of
the territory under Germany's protection.
A GRAND TRUNK passenger train from To-
ronto collided with freight near Hamilton,
Ont, on the 10Th, wrecking both engines.
hurting express and baggage oars down a
hfty-foot embankment and killing two men
FIVE men were killed on the 18th by the
falling of bridge in quarry in Carnar-
vopshire, Wales
SHOCK of earthquake in the lower Py-
renees on the 18th caused terrible panic
the inhabitants, but did little dam
age. %.-
"A PACKAGE containing gunpowder was
thrown into the house of Police Inspector
Kelly, at skibbereen, Ireland, on the 18th,
and an explosion followed which complete
ly wrecked the house .-.
LOUIS W. FLEURY, postmaster at Paso del
Norte, Mex, was arrested on the 18th for
robbing the mails Of $65, 900 in diamonda
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