The Progress. [volume] (White Earth, Minn.) 1886-1889, 1889-05-11

IT was announced from Washington on
the 2Sth that most OF the railway mail am.
ployes who were removed by the Demo
cratic administration would be returned n
their old places at once.
PRESIDENT HARRISON on the Goth nit an
pointed j. Otis Humphrey OF Illinois. All,
fred M Wilson Of Arkansas and ex-Goyern.
or George d. Robinson of Massachuset
commission to treat with the Cherokee and
other Indians with relation to the openino
of the Oklahoma country.
PROF. O. ii. MITCHELL, Of Marietta o. 4
distinguished mathematician and astrono.
mer, died on the Goth ult. OF pneumonia
FOREIGN.
KING CHARLES nephew, Prince Ferdinand
was on the Goth proclaimed Crown Prince
of Roumania
W. "A HARVEY, book-keeper at Guelph
Ont, was arrested on the Goth for embez.
cling 81, 600 from his employer, ]. w. Lyon.
He was released on bail, and going home
fatally shot his wife and two daughters he
was arrested in an insane condition
THE Governor Of Lower California "a.
ported on the 26th that the discoveries al
the Santa Clara placers had been exagper.
ated, and only practical miners were find
ing gold.
The Spanish mail steamer Mindanic was
sunk by collision with another steamer Of
Manila on the 18th, and thirty Of her crew
and passengers were drowned
The Holland Ministry decided on the 18th
that King William was no longer In condi-
ton to reign and announced that a regent
would be appointed
IT was stated on the 9th that the popu-
lott Of f1oo,
of Montreal, had decreased 299, $40 Ia Ave
years.
The discovery was made on the 9th that
the boundary line between California and
Lower California, as fixed BY the treaty OF
Guadalupe, should be sixty miles south Of
the line now recognized, and that therefore
Ensenada and the alleged gold fields are
within United States Territory
JOHN BRIGHT the eminent English states.
man, died in London on the morning Of the
9th, aged seventy eight years In August
1857, Mr.. Bright was elected to Parliament
from Birmingham, which borough he had
since continued to represent He was
especially distinguished as a speaker of re-
markable eloquence and power. He was
during the civil war i'll this country a warm
and avowed friend of the Union cause.
In the British House of Lords on the 2Sth
the Marquis of Salisbury, speaking OF The
late John Bright, said: He had special
qualities for which he will be admired and
noted III history. He was the greatest
master of English oratory in the present
generation. He possessed a singular rec
titude of character He was inspired by
pure patriotism from the beginning of his
career to it's close
DIR. R. P. HOWARD, dean of the faculty OF
medicine of McGin University at Montreal,
Can, died on the 2Sth. He was secretary, of
the Montreal General Hospital for thirty
years
ADv1cEs of the 2Sth say that party landed
from the German man of-war Schwalbe and
burned Kondutchi after a conflict with the
natives. Opposition to the Germans was
everywhere decreasing in Zanzibar
IT was stated on the 2Sth that the discov-
cry of the Illicit manufacture Of bombs at
Zurich furnished clew to gigantic plot
existing throughout Russia far new series
of attempts upon the life of the Gear. Nu-
merous arrests had been made.
THIRTEEN tenants were evicted from their
holdings at Clongorey, Ireland, on the 18th
ult, and after the tenants had been driven
from the houses twelve Of the buildings
were destroyed by the agent
The French Cabinet decided on the 10th
ult by unanimous vote of its members to
prosecute General Boulanger
DISPATCHES of the 10Th ult from Samoa
say that the American men-of-war Trenton,
Vandalia and Nipsic, and the German men,
of-war Adler, olga and Eber were driven on
a reef during violent storm and totally
wrecked. OF the American crews four
officers and forty-six men were drowned,
and OF the German crews nine officers and
eighty seven men lost their lives.
The President Of Mexico said on the 29th
ult that the dispatch about the alleged
error in the boundary line between the
United States and Lower California was q
"canard unworthy of attention :,