The Progress., 1888-08-11
DOMESTIC.

SIX residents of San Pablo, Cal, were
drowned off Santa Catalina Island on the
24th by the swamping Of boat
AT Cincinnati on the Oath The shoe factory
OF Krippendorf, Dittman & Co. was de-
stroyed by fire, causing a loss Of 1910, ,OOO
AT st. Louis on the 24th the Iron Mold
ers' Union of North America elected P.
Fitzpatrick, of Cincinnati, president for
the ensuing year. 49,
AN eightccn-year-old boy at Niagara
Falls, N. Y, robbed his father of s., 600 on
the 24th and skipped to Canada
Mrs. JOHN S. MARTIN, of Chicago, died
on the 24th from hydrophobia, caused by
tho bite of a little dog
The National Grand Lodge, United
Brothers Of Friendship, the largest or
ganization OF colored men in America.
met in annual session at ST. Louis on the
Ath
HAIL-sTORMs did considerable damage to
crops in portions Of Iowa and Michigan on
the 9th
SELwYNN TAYLOR, OF Pittsburgh, Pa, a
prominent mining engineer and coal ex-
port, said on the oath he thought natural
gas was giving out and that in two years
more the supply would be exhausted
In quarrel on the 24th at Abingdon,
Va, John Grayson and Lillburn Trigg were
fatally shot, and the mother of Trigg died
from the shock caused by her sons death
SEVEN HUNDRED representatives of or
ganized bodies of locomotive engineers and
'tremen and sJvitchmen met in convention
'on the 24th at st. Joseph Mo-, to consider
their common interests in general and the
90" strike in particular.
DURING rain-storm at Princeton, Ind,
at ten O'Clock on the night Of the Oath
rainbow was distinctly seen.
By the accidental discharge of gun on
the Ath near Versailles, KY, Richard
Aiken, aged thirty five years, had both
eyes blown out
The subscription fund raised in New
York to reimburse o. NJ Hartt, who suf-
fered by the bakers boycott, amounted to
S25O0 on the 24th
On the Oath Acting Secretary of the
treasury Thompson sent communication
to the House OF Representatives giving in
formation of Canadian discrimination
against American vessels passing through
Canadian canals.
AN express package containing $4,000
was stolen on the 25th from one of the
steamers running between Portland, Ore,
and Astoria.
-FOUR saloon keepers at Trenton, N. T.,
were sent to Jail for six months each on the
18th for selling liquor on Sunday.
TIE joint meeting at st. Joseph, Mo-, of
the four brotherhoods of locomotive en-
glneers, fremen, switchmen and brake
men was concluded on the 25th. The con-
tinuance Of the s'Q' strike was indorsed,
and also the plan for federation of the
four organizations.
Tue International Bible convention met
at Asbury Park n. j., on the 25th. Faith
friD nf ho Wi
other subjects were discussed
A GANG Of nineteen tramps who had
been terrorizing farmers and robbing
freight cars in Northeastern Ohio were
captured by a company Of militia on the
18th III the woods near Ashtabula.
The Congressional committee appointed
to look into the emigration affairs Of the
country held its first session in New York
City on the 25th, examining the agents of
several steamship lines
A SEVERE earthquake shock was felt at
Tucson, A. T., on the 25th. Many adobe
walls Werc cracked. The shock was also
felt at Tombstone and Prescott.
On the 25th ex-Secretary Of the Interior
Columbus Delano, now eighty years old
drove burglar out Of his house at Mount
Vernon, o., at the point of a revolver.
CHARLES MIRANDA, a brakeman on the
olAS1uLldui ~ 4AuShlAS " ctIAOy railway,
fell from a freight train near Bremen on
the 25th and was killed. This made the
seventh son killed in that family by the
railroads.
HAIL fell to the depth of five inches in
Virginia on the 25th, in some places COM
pletely destroying growing crops and gar
dens. z
TIE grand jury in Chicago on the Goth
indicted the Anarchist dynamite conspir-
ators, Hronek, Chopek, Chleboun and
Sevic.
AT Maynard, O., on the Goth a boarding
house owned by William Presser was de-
stroyed by fire, and Presser, aged forty
hve years, his son Willie, aged seven years,
and John Morgan, aged fourteen years,
werc burned to DEATH
THREE boys named O'Brien, Sutton and
Z Haynes were drowned in the Missouri
4 river at Omaha on the 26th while bathing.
DAuGHTER Of Dolph Miles, colored
man living at Yazoo City, Miss, fatally
poisoned her father and three brothers on
the 2Sth Family trouble was the cause.
$50