The Progress. [volume] (White Earth, Minn.) 1886-1889, 1889-05-04

In the municipal elections throughout
Illinois on the 10Th candidates In favor Of
Houor licenses were victorious In a majority
of the towns.
FRED GRANT, the newly appointed Minis.
lister to Austria, left New York on the 18th
for that country. Hon. Albert G. Porter.
United States Minister to Italy, sailed on
the same steamer
PRESIDENT HARRISON made the following
appointments on the 18th: p. 8. Lacey, Of
Michigan, Comptroller Of the Currency:s
Robert p Porter, Superintendent of the
Census; and William 81. Calkins, Associate
Justice of the Supreme Court Of the Terri
tory Of Washington.
BRIGADIER GENERAL SAMUEL KENNEDY
DAWSON, United States army retired), died
at Orange, N. j., on the 18th, after a short
sickness, aged sixty years.
l. BRADFORD PRINCE was duly installed
Governor Of New Mexico on the 18th, at
Santa Fe.
Mr. WHrrELAw REID, the newly appointed
Minister to France, took the oath Of Office
on the 18th at the State Department. in
Washington.
The thirty -ninth regular session of the
Wisconsin Legislature terminated on the
10Th. 1t lasted one hundred and one days.
WHITELAW REID, having taken the Office
under the Government of Minister to
France, retired from the editorsh1p and
direction of the New York Tribune on the
10Th.
JUDGE IF. FRISBY, ex-AttOrney-Genera
Of Wisconsin, died in Milwaukee on the
10Th after an illness of but few days, aged
sixty-four years. szs
FOREIGN.
PRAIRIE fires in Manitoba on the 18Th did
immense damage to property, the entire
possessions Of many farmers being swept
away by the flames
JOHN ALBERT BRIGHT Liberal Unionist)
was on the 18th elected to succeed his
father, the late John Bright as representa-
tive of the Central district of birmingham
in the British Parliament
Mr.. DITHMAR, United States Consul at
Breslau, died on the 18th.
MI. PAKNEnL on the 10th instituted suit
against the London Times for libel, claim
ing e100. 900 damages.
The residences of General Boulanger,
Count Dillon and Henri Rockefort were
searched by the Paris authorities on the 10Th
and number Of more orless compromising
papers seized.
CHOLERA was reported on the 18th as
raging in the Philippine Islands where, out
of fifteen hundred persons attacked, one
Thousand died
WARRANTS were issued in Paris on the
18th for the arrest OF sixty more members Of
the Boulangistparty.
SIX THOUSAND emigrants sailed from Liv
erpool on the 18th a few of whom were
bound for the Argentine republic and the
rest for the United States.
FIVE persons were killed on the 18th by
an explosion in the Rothschild colliery at
Tiefblau, Austria, and six other Workmen
were missing.
ADv1cEs of the 18th brought more CHASTITY
details OF the slow starvation of thousands
in the north Chinese provinces. In one
town on the banks of the Yellow river won1-
en- walked the streets and publicly offered
their children for sale to save them from
furnishing. Missionaries were feeding eighty
! thousand persons, but this was not more
than fiftieth part of the number that were
| starving.
| A FAMINE was raging on the 18th at Bicze,
Waag and Bistritz, in Hungary, and hum
dreds of persons were starving and dying.
On the 18th twelve hundred and thirty
| emigrants embarked at Queenstown on
steamers bound for America.
ANOTHER Nihilistic plot to assassinate the
Gzar was discovered on the 10Th at ST.
Petersburg.
| The rush of emigrants from the south
| west OF Ireland was on the 10Th causing
alarm, as the country was being rapidly de-
| populated.
The Indi an village Of Hoquois, in Canada,
having population of eleven hundred, all
Indians, was almost entirely destroyed by
fire on the 10Th.
IT was stated on the: 10Th by Frenoh-Ca
madam papers that the volume of emigra-
ton from Quebec to the United States this
year promised to exceed that Of any previ
GUS year in the history Of the province One
paper said it would reach one hundred
! Thousand.
LATEST NEWS. Fl
The steamer Missouri arrived at the
Delaware breakwater the 21st having on
board $40 Of the passengers of the steam
err Danmark. The Danmark became dis
/ abled April 4th The next day she met
the Missouri and was towed by her for
two days. As sOonxas the Danmark be.
gan to sink her crew and passengers were
transferred to the Missouri which pro-
ceeded to the Azores island where the
first and second officers and 800 Of the
/ passengers were left.
A MAN registered at the Windsor Hotel,
st. Paul, as Albert Buscher, Fairfax,
MIMI, was found in his room dead the
morning Of the Goth. Upon retiring he
had blown 0 ut the gas and death resulted
from suffocation.
WILBUR NJ. RAY, man about 70 years OF
age living near Medford, Mimi, was found
burned to death the Doth He was engag-
ed in burning brush and it is supposed
fell into the fire and could not extricate
himself.