The Progress., 1888-01-14
There were five murders, thirty-three
suicides and forty violent deaths In MIL
waukee during 1887.

There were five murders, thirty-three
suicides and forty violent deaths In Mil,
waukee during 1887.
MICHIGAN.
u. ID. Colbarth, dealer in apricultnra1
implements at Mason, committed suicide
sne other day by cutting his throat
The State Board Of Agriculture has ar.
ranged for institutes at South Haven ian.
uary 24-25; Grand Rapids, January 26-27.
Maple River, January 81 and February /:
Ithaca, February %; Harrisville February
6-9; Cassopolis February 1914; Adrian,
February l4-16: Tecumseh, February
1917 -. :,
A stabbing affray in which six Pole 8 were
engaged occurred at Detroit few davis ago.
three OF the men being fatally injured.
The State Swamp-1and Board appropri-
ated fifteen hundred acres recently to aid
IN the Improvement of Grand river from
the jackson city limits to the junction of
Portage river. ab0 ut four miles distant
At Vermontville the Central Touring mills
We're burned the other morning. together
with one Thousand bushels of wheat I,oss
$l6, 900; partly insured.
Rev. J. 7. Robe, OF Kalamazoo. died few
days ago, aged eighty years. He was the
pioneer Methodist minister of Kalamazoo
County, preaching the first sermon there In
1867, and he organized most Of the early
Method1st churches in Southwestern Mich
1gan and Northern Indiana
Ralph Jones. eleven years old of jack
son, while coesting the other day was car
rled under street car and fatally injured.
Ihe hrst train crossed the international
bridge at Sault Ste. Marie the other after
noon. Many prominent people were on
BOARD The train was given grand send
on on the Canadian side and met with an
immense reception on the American side.
Through trains are now running.
A fire at Vandalia the other day DESTROYED
several buildings, entail1ng loss of S25 :
900; insurance, $4,000.
The Executive Committee of the Grand
Army Association of Michigan, in session at
Adrian recently, indorsed the pension leg;s
lat1on now before Congress, and voted to
pledge one thousand veterans to the Ma
tonal Encampment at Columbus.
Senator Palmer has $780, 900 worth of
Percheron horses on his farm near De-
trolt, and he has just sent an agent to Da-
mascus to purchase some Arabian stock
for him. Senator Palmer's farm consists of
657 acres and log cabin which cost
$l2,O 900 His speeialties are Percheron
horses, Jersey COWS and Blenheim spaniels
MINNESOTA.
fire at Fergus Falls recently DESTROYED
the high school building. Loss, S35. 600:
insurance. $4,000.
The Northwestern elevator at Ada was
burned the other afternoon, together with
thirty thousand bushels of wheat Loss.
$25.OOO.
John Crosby, of Minneapolis, president of
the National Millers' Association and senior
member of the big flour milling firm of
Washburn, Crosby & Co., died the other
morning of paralysis of the heart.
The Church Hotel at Owatonna owned
by MI. Albro, was burned the other morn
ing. The fire was caused by the explosion
of gasoline stove.
+. s. Mortimer, owner of the Mortimer
Apartment House. burned at minneapolis
recently, has assigned on account of the at
tachment of his insurance Assets include
500, 900 real estate, said to be heavily incum
bered, and insurance $47, 500; liabilities,
$40, 175, due local creditors
An investigation by the Adjutant- General
shows that the State funds have not been
tampered with
Eugene Lucy, for the murder Of James
Gates at dance at Henning, was sentenced
by Judge Searle at Fergus Falls the ,other
day to imprisonment for life in the States
prison.
General E. B Alexander, of St. Paul. died
at the residence of his son-in law. Colonel
G. N. Lieber, in Washington, the other
evening, aged eighty-six years General
Alexander graduated at West Point in 1923
Timothy Barrett, whose brother testified
to seeing him kill Thomas Olafson, was
found guilty of murder in the first degree
at Minneapolis few days ago.
The saw and planing-mill of J. N. Howes
at St Hillaire. was burned the other after
noon. Loss, $4,000
The Rum River Boom Company will put
in sorting boom at st. Cloud to handle
thirty million feet of logs
Duluth wants crematory A prominent
citizen has offered to donate the site.
While working on the ice palace at St
Paul a few days ago Ernst Hoenspet fell
from the top of the turret, a distance of
sixty five feet, and landed at the bottom in
a bed of chopped ice. He was fatally in
jured.
Coffee John, the proprietor of Min
neapolis restaurant, on bet of $40, recent
ly ate 500 oysters in two hours He ate
l25 raw, 125 stewed and $50 steamed, and
finished with thirteen minutes to spare
DAKOTA.
The fourteen skeletons said to have been
found in an Indians hut in Dakota have
dwindled to one Indians corpse found in a
beaver-hole.
Deadwood talks of raising the liquor IL
cense Of that city to 81, 900 per year.
Bishop Walker, of Dakota, denies the
story that he will soon marry Mrs Kate
Noel, daughter of Judge Wakeman. The
Bishop says that it is against the tenets Of
the Episcopal church to ever solemnize
marriage with divorced person.
Three railroads are surveyed to Dead
wood and asking the right OF way through
the gulch.
The Mandan Bachelors Club, seventy-fiye
members, has opened correspondence
with Colonel Pat Donan with a view tohav-
ing about seyenty-fve young ladies emil
gratesto that part of the Territory.
Rutel & Adler, extensive furniture deal
ers at Huron, closed the other day. LiabiH-
ties, $12, 900 to $15, 900; assets sufficient