The Progress. [volume] (White Earth, Minn.) 1886-1889, 1889-04-20

HENRY Roam, q farmer living near Mount
Vernon, Ind. was called to the door of his
house on the 18th and fatally shot by Joseph
Maynard, a neighbOr with whom he was at
variance.
ABEL LODGE, the village and township
treasurer OF New Lisbon, o., was on the
18th discovered to be 80, 600 short in his ac-
counts.
The New York Yacht Club on the 18th ac-
cepted the Earl Of Dunraven's challenge to
race next fall for the Americas cup.
A MAN named Hurlbut charged with NAL
treating his invalid wife, was whipped
nearly to death on the 18th by crowd Of
women at Allegan, Mich.
BILLINGS q EATON wholesale leather
dealers at Boston, failed on the 18th for
800, 900.
The storehouse and contents Of the Chel-
sea Cordage Company at Boston was burned
on the 18th, causing loss Of $4,000.
EDGAR SWAN, ex-cashier Of the First Ma
honal Bank Of Lynn, Mass, was sentenced
on the 18th to five years In Jail for the en-
bezzlement of $33, 900.
MOST of the street-car employees of Min
neapolis went on strike on the 18th as q re-
suit OF the companies announcing reduc-
ton of wages.
The house Of W. P. Wood, a carpenter
living in Robin County, Ga, was burned on
the 18th, and his entire family, consisting Of
wife and five children, persisted Mr..
Wood was away from home.
JOHN G. WHITTIER, the poet, wrote a let
ter on the 18th protesting, in the name of
humanity and Christianity against the en-
forced 1dleness of cOnvicts in prisons, which,
he said, could only result in filing the pen
itentiaries with maniacs.
AT st. Louis, Mo-, on the 18th Judge
Thayer decided that stealing papers from
the top OF a mail box was no more an Of
ense against the mail laws than taking
package from the steps of the post Office.
The village Of Cannonsburg, Mich, was
almost entirely destroyed by fire on the
18th.
The evictions of Des Moines river land
settlers in Iowa were stopped on the 18th
instituted by the Secretary of the Interior
BUCHANAN h LYELL's jute mills at Brook
Ign, N Y, were burned on the 18th, the loss
reaching $500, 900.
The dead bodies of Wilhelmina Seiderick
and Jacob Schaler were found in the form
er's farmhouse near Bra1nin Hill, Kan. on
the 18th. 1t was thought to have been a
case Of murder and suicide.
THREE children of Sebastian Meridian q
Bavarian farmer at st. Joseph, Mimi, were
poisoned on the 18th by eating wild parsnip
roots which their father had plowed up,
and all died in few hours.
The stable of Macarthur Bros, contractors
at Sault Ste. Marie, Mich, was destroyed by
fire on the 11th and seventeen mules burned
SAMUEL W. MYERS, business manager for
the Booth Packing Company at Indianapo-
lis, was on the 18th said to be $4,000 short
in his accounts. He had fled.
FOREST fires had on the 18th destroyed
many acres Of fine pine timber land be-
tween Pittston and Wilkesbarre, Pa
HENRY DAA1MoN, aged twenty-five years,
of Scituate, Mass, died from hydrophobia
on the 18th.
The cargo Of the steamer CHILEAN was
burned on the 18th at New Orleans, causing
a loss of 100000
A HEAVY thunder, wind and hailstorm
visited portions of Eastern Ohio and Mary
land on the 18th, doing great damage John
Wetzeu and two horses We're struck by
lightning and killed at Elk Garden, Md
MEREDITH STANLEY, an athlete, Jumped
from the high bridge on the Cincinnati
Southern road into the Kentucky river on
the 18th, the distance being 2S5 feet When
taken from the water blood oozed from his
with one exception, is the highest in the
world
The Minneapolis (Minn) street-car strike
extended to ST. Paul on the 18th, all the
men in the latter city except those on the
cable line going out.
The total value of exports of beef and
hog products from the United States for the
month of March was IS, 125, COS, and for the
five months ended March 81, SAL, 81, 715.
The British steamer Wylo, which arrived
at Hampton Roads, Va, on the 18th, ex-
per1enced very rough voyage, having
drifted several days at the mercy of the
waves.
A CENSUS completed on the 18th gave
Baltimore, Md, population of five hun
dred thousand
DURING the seven days ended on the 18th
there were 1856 business failures in the
United States, against 141 the previous seven
days. The total Of failures in the United
States from January l to date was 1878.
against 1862 in 1888.
PRINCE LAW, negro living on planta-
ton near Savannah, Ca, killed his four
year-old child on the 18th as sacrifice to
the devil
MRS. ROSE, Of Wilkesbarre, Pa, attempted
to light fire on the 18th with kerosene
oil, and was burned to death
MRS BECKY KING, an invalid living near
Shelbyville, Ind, was burned to death in
her bed on the 18th d
In Chicago on the 18th Augusta Schue,
aged forty-fv years, and Axel Friedstrom,
both committed suicide by shooting No
cause was assigned for either act
MRS. GALLARY, of Chicago, while trying
on the 18th to take a revolver from the
hand of her eleven-year-old son, Edward,
accidentally put her finger on the trigger
and the gun was discharged, killing the boy
almost imme diately. The mother was near
~ distracted
Mr.. BEDDINGER, a prairie fire victim died
in Valley township, D. T.. on the 18th, maxi
ing the sixth death in Hyde County from
prairie fires.
The moonshiners stronghold at Carr's
creek, near Hindman, Ky, was taken by
United States officers on the 18th, five IL
licit distilleries were destroyed and five
men were captured.
ADvIcEs of the 18th say that in recent
gale and rain-storm at Portsmouth, N. c..
high water drowned many cattle, sheep and
hogs The water rose mary feet in the
houses and there was great destruction Of
property. The inhabitants took to the house
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