The Progress., 1889-02-23
4 AN organized band of barn-burners was on
the 18th operating in Maryland and Penn

An organized band of barn-burners was on
the 18th operating in Maryland and Penn
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SUPERINTENDENT CHAsEof the Indian school
located at Geneva, Neb., disapp on the
l4th, and twas discovered that he had
robbed the Government Of over $25, 600.
ADYIcBs Of the 414th show that the consti-
tutional amendment for a State lottery was
defeated in Nevada at the recent election by
500 votes s. 9s
MIR CHARLES q. .WAsHBuRN, Of Worcester,
Mass, OF the Washburn & Moen Manufact-
ur1ng Company stated on the 18th that the
alleged French patent" Of Louis Janin did
not void the Glidden barb-wire patent
FATHER DouGHERTY, Of the St Louis Cath
ollc diocese, renowned priesthood on the
l4th and said he would locate at Chicago as
apracticing physician.
MARY PowERs, a thirteen -year-old girl at
Laporte, Ind, was on the 18th sentenced to
five years in the State reformatory for the
murder of her infant brother, to whom she
administered arsenic.
The National Association Of Builders
closed its third annual convention at Phila-
delphia on the 14th. Edward E. Scribner,
Of st. Paul, was elected president.
IT;was announced on the 18th that the big
brewery of Frank Fehrs, at Louisville, had
been sold to an English syndicate for
81 ,0O0, 900.
THE fifth annual assembly Of the Florida
Chautauqua opened on the 14th at Defunick
Springs The session will continue five
weeks. s55
CHARLES W. GABE1, Of Reading, Pa, shot
his wife and afterward attempted suicide on
the 18th during family quarrel
ATE oh tTo1,, n yVy
18th resisted the attempt to collect taxes
from them and the, sheriff had called out
the militia. Bloodshed was feared
I. B. BARRY, the labor agitator, claimed
on the 10Th that his new brotherhood COM
prised ninety-six assemblies, and more were
being organized. s
IHE entire sopohmore class of Lafayette
College, at Easton, Pa, was suspended on
the 18th by the faculty for hazing. -,
AT Cape Vincent, N. Y, the opera-house
was destroyed and several other buildings
were badly damaged by fire on the 18th.
THERE We're 2S9 business failures in the
United States during the seven DAYS ended
on the 18th, against 265 the previous seven
days.
The Grand Lake Coal Company at Pitts
burgh, Pa, failed on the 18th for $3.50 600.
THE Union Stock Yards at Nashville, Tenn,
and a part of the Traders West End Hotel
were destroyed by fire on the 18th.
Two TRAIN men were killed by the ex-
plosion OF a locomotive boiler on the 18th at
Norristown, Pa.
FIRE broke out in a Chippewa Falls (Vvis)
business block on the 18th, and before the
flames could be subdued property to the
value Of 100000 was in ashes.
JOHN LEE was hanged at Alexandria MINI.
on the 18th for the murder of Charles
Cheline. Martin Moe, who was expected to
die with him, had his sentence commuted to
imprisonment for life
The wife and child of Jacob Faucett (col-
ored), and two other negro women were
murdered by unknown men near Mount
Olive, N. c., on the 18TH
A FIRE on the 18th in the cracker factory
Of Louis Fox at Fort Wayne, Ind, caused a
loss of 100000
EXCITEMENT was high at Purcell, I. T., on
the 18th over the discovery of old placer
mines rich with gold two miles east of Pur-
cell, in the Choctaw nation.
JOHN SAGE, charged with aiding and abet-
ting the murder of Harry Albert Cunning
ham, aged two years, was sentenced at
Marion, Ind, on the 18th to life imprison-
ment.
The Keeney House at Pike. N Y, was
burned on the 18th, and Jennie Mack, a
domestic, and her little niece perished in
the flames
u IT was said on the 18th that gold bearing
quartz had been discovered in paying guam
Titles on the north shore of Lake Superior,
$50 miles from Duluth, Mimi
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