The Progress., 1888-12-15
Epitome Of the Week,
NEWS coMPILATIoN.
DOMESTIC.

loss or life. The fishing schooner Edward
Newton went to pieces on the Massachu-
setts coast and fifteen Of her crew were
drowned. At various points snow fell to
considerable depth, seriously interfering
with railroad travel. Thirteen coal -barges
were sunk in New York bay but no lives
were lost as far as known. Five seamen
were drowned of Nantasket Beach, Mass.
At Long Branch, N. j., many cottages
were carried out to sea
In 9 drunken ARRAY on the 26th at Wan.
Ind. T., four Cherokee Indians were killed
and another was shot through the hand.
Two MEN were killed and three injured
in collision on the 26th between passenger
trains near Hustled, Col, and three cars
were burned.
The bootblacks of Indianapolis inaugu-
rated a strike on the Goth to put the price
Of shine up to ten cents.
DOCK" HAGGERTY was unloading glycer-
inc at Pleasantv;lle, Pa, on the 26th when
1T exploded by some means and Haggerty
was blown to atoms Parts Of his two
horses were found in ne1ghboring trees,
and piece of the wagon was found half a
mile away.
AT Centerville, Pa, on the Goth three
men were killed and one badly injured by
q boiler explosion.
NEAR Brazil, Ind, on the Goth Tom War
rem and John r. Berry, miners, were killed
by falling slate.
KEG of powder exploded in George
Palmer's store at Scrufftown, Pa, on the
10th, fatally injuring him, killing ten
yearold daughter and wounding three
other persons
A COTTON mill with capacity of ten
thousand yards a day, and employing two
hundred men, was started at Des Moines,
Ia, on the Goth, and cs it was the first in
the State the event was celebrated by
speeches and other ceremonies
REPORTS on the 26th from Rochester and
Albany, N. Y, and st. John, N. B., say
that atyessels had been frozen in and nayi-
CATION was closed up
The st. Louis, Quincy Omaha & Sioux
City railroad was Incorporated on the s6th,
with capital stock of $4,000. 900.
TWENTY miles west Of Chattanooga
Tenn, deposit of rich lubricating oil
was found on the Goth at depth of one
thousand feet.
TRE store of the Canton (O) Co. opera
tive Clothing Company was closed on the
18th on executions aggregating $4,000
The liabilities were $4,000
TIE corner stone of the new courthouse
at Evansville, lnd.,, to cost s50OO0O was
Laid on the 9th with masonic ceremonies.
The true source of the Mississippi river
has, it was alleged on the 9th, been dis
covered by persons living at Sank Center,
Mimi, who say the Father of Waters
flows from two small creek-fed lakes
whose waters are emptied into Lake
Glazier, recently discovered by Captain
Willard Glazier.
JOHN WooDs, aged sixty five years, and
his bed-ridden sister Nary, aged sixty one
years, were burned to death in BROOKLYN
N. Y, on the 9th by the destruction of
their house by fire.
A STATEMENT prepared at the Pension
Bureau in Washington on the 9th showed
that of the Is 600 estimated cases under the
act of June Z, 1883, allowing widows ar
rears of pension from the date of their
husbands death, 1862 had been allowed
and settled.
The new church Of the First Congrega-
tlonal Society at Northampton, Mass, was
ruined by fire on the 9th 1t cost S75. 600.
ADvIcEs of the 9th say that the steamer
Allentown went to pieces in the recent
storm on the coastnea Cohassetts Mass.
and eighteen lives were lost. The losses
caused by the storm at Atlantic City, N.
j.. were greater than had been experienced
since the incorporation of that city
FRANK TRAVIS. a bar tender, committed
suicide on the 9th at Shelbyille, Ind, be-
cause he had been discharged for drunk
5nness.
AT Morrelton, Ark, on the 9th City
Marshal Bentley was accidentally shot and
killed by his brother, Sheriff Bentley, who
was examining pistol
The City Council OF Reading, Pa, on
the 9th passed an ordinance making it
unlawful for contractors to employ any
but citizens of the United States on muni-z
cipal work.
For the first time in one hundred and
awelve days there were no new cases of
yellow fever reported at Jacksonville,
Fla, on the 9th Towns all around were
raising the quarantine and trains were
again running.
JEwET DARGENToN, proprietor Of
boarding house at Amesbury, MISS, shot
This wife on the 9th and then killed him
self. Jealousy prompted the act.
In the trial in Chicago on the 9th of
Hronek, the Anarchist, informer Chleboun
testified that Hronek confessed to him
that he tried TO throw bcmb under Presi-
dent Cleveland's carriage in the procession
last year and that he threw the Haymarket
]. bomb.
CHARLES E. STANLEY, treasurer of the
Cleveland Gas G mpany, was on the 21th
charged with defalcations amounting to
over SSU OOO.
BANKERS at Milwaukee on the 9th re-
ported counterfeit five dollar silver certifi-
Gates in circulation. They are of the
series of 1886, and bear blurred picture
of Grant, which is the principal defect Of
thebill, aside from the paper not having a
silk fiber.
A BOILER explosion on the 9th at Raj
ston's saw-mill at Adams Corners, Pa,
killed three men.
The canning house of McGaw Bros, near
Spesutra Island, Nd, was destroyed by
fire on the 9th. Loss, 800, O,0O0
THE sale to a New England synd cate of
thirty-six thousand acres Of mining land in
Alabama was announced on the 9th The
price obtained was nearly s, 100000.
ALBERT T. WALLACE, of Sandusky, o.,
accidentally dropped two sticks of dyna-
mite in his Office on the 10Th ult, demol-
ishing the building and causing his own
death.
FIFTEEN business houses at Durant,
Miss, were burned on the Goth ult.
THE Woodsdale (Kan.) State Bank sus-
pended payment on the 2Sth.
AT spikerville. Ind, Elias jackson on