The Progress. [volume] (White Earth, Minn.) 1886-1889, 1888-04-14


Griffith, and two other men were shot
dead.
DAVIS b RANx1S's FIVE STORY brick building
In Chicago was burned on the Goth. Loss,
$3.50, 600.
AN explosion Of natural gas occurred In
mine No. of the Keith & Perry Coal Com
pany, near Rich Hill. Mo-, on the Goth, kill
ing forty-tive miners, most of them ne
groes
The Coburn Shuttle Company's four-story
mill in Aver City, Mass, was burned on the
Goth. Loss, 5000, 600
The new Chinese treaty, made public on
the 10Th. prohibits for twenty years the
coming of Chinese laborers to this country.
1t also agrees to pay to the Chinese govern
ment the sum of $276, $40 for loss of prop
erty in the West by Cinnamon in riots
The president and cashier of the National
Bank of Raleigh, N. c., were arrested in
Toronto, Ont, on the Doth on the charge of
forgery. On their persons was found $l4,-
TIA belonging to the bank.
MASTER PowDER1Y on the Doth
issued a long manifesto to the Knights OF
Labor, In which he urgently requested that
education be made the future motto of the
order, and that strikes be entirely done
away with. He says that the knights of
and that the time to call halt has arrived
AT the International Council of Women
in Washington on the 29th Mrs Elizabeth
Cady Stanton in her advocacy of woman's
suffrage said that if the rights of women
were not to be obtained by just and fair
means they would join hands with the An
archists, and the scenes Of the French Rev.
olution would be re-enacted. The power
OF organization, legal condition Of women.
property rights and other subjects were
discussed
AN epidemic of hydrophobia among cat
tie Of all kinds prevailed on the '3Oth ult.
In jackson County, w. Va, and the farm
ers had lost thousands of dollars worth of
tine stock. The bite of mad dog caused
the trouble
MISS BULL, a young lady, committed sui
eide in New York on the 3Oth ult because
she could not get newspapers to publish
her poetry.
NEAR Macon, Mo-, on the 3Oth ult some
children set fire to barn. and three young
sons OF DR.. r.. s. Richardson persisted.
HARRY PAINTER and Charles Wilkerson
blew out the gas in their room in a Reading
Pa.) hotel and were found dead on the
3Oth ult.
In quarrel on the 3Oth ult. at Chilli
Gothic, Mo-, j. L. Gillespie and his wife
fought with knives and both were fatally
wounded,
REPORTS OF the 3Oth ult from the winter
wheat sections Of Illinois and Missouri
showed the winter wheat to be damaged
from twenty to thirty per cent
IHE survivors of the Army OF the Poto-
mac and OF the Army of Northern Virginia
will hold reunion at Gettysburg July 1,
2 and 8.
FIRE on the 3Oth ult at Coldwater, Miss.
destroyed ten business buildings
DELEGATION OF the American team of
wheelmen sailed from New York on the
3Oth ult to make tour of Europe.
SIXTY bridges had on the 3Oth ult been
washed away and much land flooded by
freshets in Wayne County, Mich.
HE Springfield Mass) Printing COMPANY
failed on the 3Oth ult for SOL, TIA.
DAVID JENNINGS, Of Lyons, n Y, having
spent tWenty-one years and $50, 900 in
experiments, claimed on the 3Oth ult to
have discovered 4 means of perpetual mo-
tion
HE engineers, fremen, switchmen and
brakemen in Chicago on the Milwaukee g.
st. Paul road We're all ordered out on the
3Oth ult., causing general tie-up. Several
freight trains on the Burlington road were
pelted with stones at the Stock Yards and
one man was badly injured. Cars were also
set on fire Chief Arthur, of the Brother
hood OF Engineers, left Chicago for Cleve-
land, but before leaving disclaimed any
knowledge of the action OF the st. Paul
men, and said that as the men acted as in
dividuals they would notreceive a dollar OF
assistance from the Brotherhood and not
dollar of Brotherhood money would be ap-
piled to assist the switchmen now on strike
PLAIN talk was the order of the day at the
session OF the International Council of
Women In Washington on the 3Oth ult.
During the discussion OF the subject of
Social Purity" the doors were closed. but
the reports tell of the earnest protests en-
tered by noted women against the vices
which society tolerates even if it do not ap-
prove. The constitutional rights of women
were discussed in the evening
NEAR Forrest, O., on the 3Oth ult the six
children of Farmer Jacob Kraus found and
ate some wild parsley, from the effects of
which one had died and the others could
not recover.
The President on the 3Oth ult. sent
message to the Civil-Service Commissions
ers recommending that the limits of the
classified service be extended He also
oAoAASSt oAAo oASOAo DO11SiCACN DllI.
In a quarrel on the 3Oth ult near Ef1ing-
ham, ILL.,, Henry Lane, farmer, killed his
wife and then committed suicide
WoRKMEN, in remodeling an old house at
Piqua, O., found on the 3Oth ult the bones
of four children, and the discovery revived
a tradition that they were the heirs to
considerable fortune, and disappeared
many years ago.
DURING the seven days ended on the 3Oth
ult there were l79 business failures in the
United States, against PIP the previous
seven days. The total number of failures
in the United States since January 1 is s.
O53 against 3, 12S in 1887 The liabilities
aggregate 1884, 600, 900, against $2e, OOO,-
900 last year.
THEODORE GALLOWAY, a negro murderer,
was taken from Jail at Sayneville, Ala, on
the 3Oth ult. and hanged, the mob depart
ing after Kidding his body with bullets.
In quarrel on the 3Oth ult over a
nickel at Atlanta, Ga, Noil Stark shot dead
his brother, Flaentz Stark.
PERSONAL AND POLITICAL,
CAPTAIN JACOB HEAToN died at Salem, O..
on the 9th, aged eighty years. He was
well known to all prominent anti-slavery