The Progress., 1888-02-04

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The wheat he'd in Northwestern farmers
hands on the 25th was estimated at thir-
teen million bushels surplus beyond seed
DISPATCHES OF the 25th say that Browns
Valley, Mimi. had not had a railroad train
for four weeks, and there was no sugar,
coffee or kerosene in the place and butYery
little coal Families were living together
to husband supplies.
ISAAC N. STANLEY, ex-paying teller of the
National Bank of Commerce of Cleveland,
O., who embezzed $1OO,0O of it's funds,
was on the 25th sentenced to five years
imprisonment
AN accident on a lumber railway on the
25th near Otsego Lake Mich, resulted in
the death of two men, and five others were
severely wounded
IT being announced that the striking en-
ployes OF the Louisville Courier-Jo Journal pro-
posed startling an opposition paper, the pro-
pr1etor OF the Couriet-JouynaE offered the
1ree use OF the Associated Press dispatches
to the strikers for six months ,35&
ZEN tons of Texas COTTON seed were
shipped from Galveston, Tex, on the 26th
TO Zanzibar, Africa, where cotton growing
will be tried
the Carbon mestone Company's quarries.
ten miles from Youngstown, o., killed three
men. z
G. G. BRADLEY, a vagrant, was on the 26th
sold under the law, for term of six months,
to William McClanahan, of Milan, Mo-, for
thirty-fve cents
RE RERy9RIs yaE l Of the 26th from Ne England
severe storm was raging. The snow was
piled into mountainous drifts, and travel
on country roads was impossible Passen-
ger trains were snow-bound Along the
coast fierce gale was raging, and many
vessels We're reported in great peril.
IT was alleged on the 26th that half the
citizens of Bainbridge, O., had been involved
in coal thefts
1T was announced on the Goth that the
Milwaukee brewery employees had complied
with the demands OF their employers that
they should Withdraw from the Knights of
Labor
THREE masked men entered the house of
Henry Merritt an old woodsman near
huntingdon, Pa on the 26th, and tortured
MIN until he was unconscious, when they
secured ST. 500 he had hid under the floor
and left
L NJ. PRIBYL, wholesale dealer in guns
and cutlery in Chicago, failed on the 26A
for 100000
DURING Decemberlast %, ,32I immigrants
arrived in this country, against 21,178 in
december, 1886. During the year 1887
immigration to this country amounted to
sos, ,2S1, against 1856, 631 in 1886.
On the 26th two workmen named Nc
Dermott and Fowler fell to the bottom of
the hot-air oven of the Floodwood furnace
at Athens, O., and were baked to death.
The total values of the imports of mer-
chandise for the twelve months ended De-
l. q
against $663, ,429, 1s9 for the same time in
1856 The values of exports for the same
periods were $715, 1920, ,953 and $713, ,4O4,-
O21 respectively.
INCOMING steamers at New York on the
18th reported very severe weather on the
Atlantic. -,..
WHILE boring for coal on the 26th near
Carml, ILL.,, oil was struck at depth of
l, III feet which was gushing to the sur
face at the rate of over fifty barrels an
hour
MRS GEORGE LAsHER, of Columbus. O..
committed suicide on the 26ta by saturat-
ing her clothes with kerosene and setting
lire to them. She was insane
Two MINES of the Reading Pa.) Company
were worked on the 26th, having about
two hundred men employed All the other
mines belonging to the company were SOL
idly closed down
The fine passenger depot of the New York
Central road at Niagara Falls was destroyed
by fire on the 26th.
In Northern New York the sncw-storm
was increasing on the 9th, and the freirht
blockade on the New York Central and Hud-
son River lines was the heaviest ever
known. The thermometer was Is below
zero, and the snow was packed SO closely
that it Was impossible to remove it
DURING the seven days ended on the
9th there were 268 business failures in the
Un ted States, against 276 the previous
seven days
A sTREET-CAR cable train became un-
manageable on the 9th at St. Paul, Mimi,
and when descending a hill the cars shot
downward at great speed ran off the track
and were smashed to pieces. Three per-
sons were fatally injured and fourteen were
badly hurt
=, TH' Indiana Soldiers Monument Com
miss. = on the 9th selected the design of
Bruno Schrilz. a Berlin artist. The monu-
ment will be 25O feet high, made of Indiana
stone and bronze, and will cost $500, 600.
AN exp oson OF gas on the 9th in a mine
at Plymouth, Pa, killed one man and fatal
ly burned four Others
HENRY PRETRE was burned to death in his
tarn at Tyler, Mimi. on the 9th, and ten
horses, seventeen cattle and twenty hogs
We're also cremated
IHE balance of trade with the world for
the year 1887 was in favor of the United
States to the amount of Sc, 513 .647.
e. b. HITCHCOCK and wife were found
murdered on the 9th on their farm in Los
Angeles County, Cal Robbery was the mo-
tive.
IT was estimated in Philadelphia on the
27,h that the effect of the high-license law.
fixing the fee at $500, would be to reduce the
number of saloons from six thousand to
thirteen hundred
The San Francisco Bridge Company,
which assigned recently, with liabilities of
$4OO, 900, resumed business on the 9th.
AS The outcome of a quarrel which oc-
CURED SIX years ago G. P. Maysey, one of
the best-known men in Western Arkansas.
was shot and killed on the 9th in Golden
City by Oscar Coulter
FOUR railway employees were killed on
the 27th near Holyoke, Mass, ), by an engine
dashing into them While they were shovel
ing snow. four were killed in the same
manner near Williamstown, Mass, and
three We're killed by a collision at Jersey
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