The Progress. [volume] (White Earth, Minn.) 1886-1889, 1888-06-02

further consideration of the bill until the De.
cember session.
THERE was no session of the Senate on the
13th... In the House numerous reports of a
private character were submitted and bill for
the payment Of claim of several hundred
dollars for the occupation OF certain property
In Memphis by United States troops in 1854
was discussed ut great length. At the evening
session hfty-five pension bills were passed.
DOMESTIC.
In quarrel on the 10Th at ON aha, Neb.
German named Damke killed his wife
and fatally injured his daughter-in-law.
ALL the bridges in Dakota County, MINI
had been washed away by freshets on the
10th, and in the towns of Waseca. Shake
pee and Waterville much damage had also
been done.
BOILER exploded at Fink's saw-mill at
Baldwin, ILL.,, on the 10th, killing four men
MRS. Lucy LESTER, of Frederick, one of
the wealthlest ard most prominent ladies
IN Marylands committed suicide on the 10th
by hanging Domestic troubles were the
cause.
GEORGE K. AMOUR and his ffteen-year-old
son We're burned to death in their house
near Cedar Gap, Mo-, on the 10Th
HE Leader and Sunday Dispatch offices in
blnghamton, N. Y, We're destroyed by fire
on the 10th, the total loss being $75, 600!
DAMAGES to the amount of $40, 900 were
on the 10th awarded E. A. Lewis in his libel
suit against the News and Herald of Jack
sonville, Fla
A MOVEMENT was begun in New York on
the 10th to send to France statue of
George Washington as present from the
women Of America
COMPANY with capital of 1000, 900
20 manufacture erial ships was organized
In Jersey City, N. j., on the 10th.
In Union County, s. G., a girl Of eleven
years and a boy of niue quarreled on the
pocketknife into her heart, killing her in
stantly.
A FIRE on the 10th did great damage in
the business part of Austin, Miss
In fight on the 10th between striking
railroad hands and new employees of the
Powell Valley Railroad Company at Cum
berland Gap, Tenn, five men were killed
and twelve others were wounded
A CYCLONE passed over the southwestern
part OF Washington County, Ill, on the
10th, demolishing houses, barns and
fences
THE authorities of Castle Garden, New
York, decided on the 10th to send back to
Italy twelve boys who were sent over in
destitute circumstances.
The Kootenai Indians in Montana were
committing depredations on the 10th. and
the Governor had been asked for troops
In an interview in Caicago on the 10th
with Chief Arthur, of the Locomotive
Brotherhood Of Engineers, he said the
strike on the Burlington road would not be
declared off, and said the engineers were
willing to wait for five years, if need be,
with the conviction that the Burlington
road could not be successfully run and
equipped without drawing on the Brother
hood for engineers
the State to hold out against the Pro-
hibition law was closed on the 18th by the
United States Marshal
AQUARTER Of the business section of Fair
field, Neb was burned on the 1th
HE feud between the Banks and Monroes
broke out afresh on the 18th in Writ Coun-
ty, W. Va, and In the fracas three of the
Monroe family were killed
The employing brewers of Chicago and
Milwaukee decided on the 18th to ignore
the Brewers and Masters Union as an or
ganization and hereafter to make contracts
with their workmen as individuals only.
A L BECKER, wealthy saw and -four
mill owner at Crandall, Ind, was caught
by the shaft1ng Of his mill on the 18th and
crushed to death.
Ar the annual session at the G. A. r. De-
partment of Iowa. on the 1lth in Cedar
Rapids 1t was shown that the organization
IN the State had Il, 646 members, gain of
$40 during the past year
In all probability the oldest pony In the
United States, If not in the world, died on
the 18th at Chill, Ind, from old age. She
WINS owned nv Mr. Harrison Gilho,.f ,,,d ,.,.,
hfty-one years old.
Indiana counties was reported ruined on
the ! 1th by the winter and farms were be-
Ing plowed under Glover and winter
wheat We're also injured.
THE walls OF burned building at Pitts
burgh, Pa, collapsed on the 1th, crushing
an adjoining house. killing servant girl
and Wounding several persons, some fa-
tally.
HIGH water in Minnesota was still doing
great damage on the 18th. at Hastings,
Rcd Wing, Montevideo, Wabasna, Cannon
Falls and Jordon families had been driven
rom their homes bridges were gone and
railways washed out causing suspension of
travel
SAMUEL BRowER Of Wabash, Ind. injured
the bones of his hands some months ago
while practicing on horizontal bar, and
on the ! 1th both of his hands had to be
amputated to save his life.
JOHN DoDsoN died on the 18th at Mount
Vernon, Ill his being the twenty-third
death resulting from the cyclone which oc-
CURED there some time ago
FORTY saloon-keepers at Lincoln Neb.
bad on the / 18th taken out licences and the