The Progress., 1889-02-23
DOMESTIC.

LUKE PALMER, a wealthy resident of Bur
lington, Ia, was swindled out of 5000 on
the llth by bunco steerers on the old time
lottery scheme" = a..
Two MORE counterfeiters were arrested
on the 18th in Butler County, Pa, making
sixteen members of the gang in custody.
A Two-YEAR-oLD child of F. NJ Sanborn
OF Hemlock Grove, O., got a piece of apple
peel fast in it's throat on the 18th and choked
to death.
GEORGE DIMoCK, an engineer at Carbon
dale, Pa, was shot and mortallv wounded
by his little son on the 18th while the
family were rehearsing theatricals.
The people Of Nevada voted on the 18th
on a constitutional amendment giving the
Legislature power to establish lotteries in
the State, and those favoring the lottery
scheme carried the day by a large majority
MRS. BROWN, on trial at Mason City, Ia.,
charged with poisoning several members Of
her family, was on the 18th decided not
guilty.
s. M. HANCOCK, of New Church, Va, on the
18th paid 5000 to one F. j. Butler for $11, 700
in counterfeit money, and Butler palmed off
bag of salt on him in place of the ''green
goods"
Mrs RICHARD Willis committed suicide at
St. Louis on the 18th by shooting herself
through the head. The cause of the act
was her disappointment at not being able to
succeed as a writer of poetry
The chemical laboratory of the Ohio State
University at Columbus was destroyed by
fire on the 18th.
ORDERS were issued on the 18th on the
Pennsylvania road that no freight trains ex
cept those carrying perisls,ble goods should
run on Sunday. The men would stop work
at ten clock Saturday night and would not
return to their labor until seven o'clock
Sunday evening.
FIVE men Implicated in the recent mur-
der OF Bill Sizemore and Carr Smith in
Clay County, Ky, were arrested on the 18th
JOHNNIE Powers, eleven years old, was
taken to the county asylum at Orange Farm,
near Middletown, N. Y, on the 18th, a raving
maniac from the effects of cigarette smok-
ing.
The eigthieth anniversary of Abraham
Lincoln's birthday was celebrated in ya.i-
Gus cities throughout the country on the
18TH
GANG of white-masked thieves visited
the residence of Rev. James Smith, near
Arlington, O., on the 18th and robbed him of
four hundred dollars in currency.
THE Mutchner- Higgins Company's ele-
Vator at Indianapolis, Ind, with thirty
thousand bushels of grain, was destroyed
by fire on the 18th.
THE third annual convention of the Ma
tional Association of Builders met at Phiia-s
delphia on the 18th.
SEyENTY- SIX pictures, the private collec-s
tion of James FL. Stebbins, brought the sum
OF S159, ,495 at auction in New York on the
18TH
The National Association of Builders in
session on the 18th at Philadelphia passed
resolution that the members recommend to
the various State Legislatures the passage
OF law making it a felony for any person
OF association to prevent or hinder any
American youth from learning some trade
OF handicraft.
u DR. J.W-Cox,.a a prominent druggist of Pine
Bluff, Ark, was found murdered near his
home on the 18th
TIE National Prohibition Conference in
session on the 18th at Louisville, KY, in
dorsed the Indianapolis platform, Including
dhe tariff and oman suffrage sections
A FIRE on the 18th at Memphis, Tenn, de-
Btroyed the Nicely block and badly scorched
the Gayoso Hotel. Loss, $193, 600.
IHE new courthouse at Donaldsyi1le La.
just completed at a cost of $4,000, was
burned on the 18th, and many valuable rec
ords We're destroyed
IS WILLIAM u PORTER, the retiring treas
urer OF Yermilion County, Ind, was on the
13th discovered to be $12, 600 short in his ac-,
counts
A FIRE on the 18th in silk house in New
York destroyed property valued at $10O, 600.
The new Government building at Fort
Wayne, Ind, was occupied on the 18th The
T structure was seven years building and cost