The Progress., 1889-04-13

John Bright, the English statesman The Vice.
President announced that he wonld be COM
the session, aud Senator ingalls, was chosen
President pro tenn. At $40 p. m. the Senate
adjourned sine die.
DOMESTIC.
PRESIDENT HARRISON ON the evening Of
the I'd gave special reception in honor Of
Prince and Princess Takehaits, of Japan.
AT San Francisco on the I'd custom-house
officers seized 1924 boxes Of opium, valued
at $15, ,56S, which had been smuggled.
DURING heavy thunder storm on the I'd
at Gonzales, Tex, a flock of wild geese were
struck by lightning and seventy-eight of
them were killed.
The total amount of coinage of the United
States mints for the month of March was
4,59S, ,4O5.
The village of Mount Pleasant, M T., was
destroyed by prairie fire on the I'd Over
one hundred families were made homeless
and utterly destitute.
GENERAL II. K. MCCONNELL, one Of the
most prominent attorneys of Usage City,
Kan, committed suicide on the I'd BY
shooting.
AT mass-meeting Of general railway
passenger agents on the I'd in Cincinnati
motion to abolish second class fares was de-
feated.
The oyster dredging season at Baltimore
closed on the I'd About nine million bushels
Of oysters were received there during the
season.
NEAR Rapid City, D. T., prairie fire did
great damage on the I'd, and young lady
was burned to death.
In wreck on the Northern Pacific road
near Missoula, M. T., on the I'd three men
were killed
NrrTr, h,r>1 1~,4o H. ILL.,
New Haven, Conn, on the I'd and carried
away the sword of Admiral Foote, held by
the society as a relic 1t is presentation
sword studded with jewels and precious
stones valued at sc, 600.
A HEAVY snow-storm prevailed in portions
of Dakota on the Cd
BIG landslide occurred at Pittsburgh,
Pa, on the I'd, covering the Baltimore &
Ohio railroad track and carrying away
nearly half Of Bluff street
THE State Department. at Washington was
on the I'd officially informed that Sir Julian
Pauncefote, the new British Minister to the
United States, would sail for New York
April 13
JOHN E. HUDSON was on the I'd elected
president of the American Bell Telephne
Company.
The whole country around Blunt, D. T..
was being devastated by prairie fires on the
Sd. One farmer had lost five hundred sheep,
cattle and hogs, and many farmers were
homeless
A FIRE on the Sd among business buildings
on South Canal street. Chicago, did damage
to the extent of $500, 600.
BURGLARS blew open the safe of the First
National Bank at Plymouth, O., on the Sd,
but got only 81, 900 for their trouble.
AN entire block of fourteen buildings at
Nelson, Neb, was burned on the Sd, caus-
ing a loss of $4,000.
REPORTS of the Sd from Des Moines, Ia,
were to the effect that the city was infested
with fire-bugs, who made life burden to
the fire and police departments.
The American Meat Company, with 8
capital of $2,0O0,0OO, was Incorporated at
Philadelphia on the Sd. The company
would run it's own ranches, slaughter
houses, etc., and had acquired valuable
properties in Indian Territory, New Mexico
and Texas.
LIE Secretary Of State at Washington re-
ceived telegraphic information on the Sd
from Consul Allen at Kingston, Jamaica, of
the sale to an American syndicate of the
entire railway system of that island
wIND-sToRM passed over the town of
Chipley, Fla, on the Sd, tearing up trees,
demol1shlng chimneys and completely de-
stroying the Methodist church and other
buildings One man was killed
LEoLA, the county seat of Mcpherson
County, D. T., was completely destroyed by
prairie fire on the Sd.
JOHN DEBURNER and Thomas Datson, of
Auburn, W. Va, fought and killed each
other with axes on the 3d.
The lumber district of the city of Hanni-
bal, Mo-, was totally destroyed by fire on
the Sd.
AN attempt was made at Louisville, O., on
the Sd to wreck an express train on the Fort
Wayne & Chicago railroad
WILLIAM HEAGENKoPF, night editor of the
Milwaukee Sentinel, while on his way to
lunch on the night OF! the Sd broke an artery
In his left leg and bled to death in few
minutes.
The house of Abner Bascomb, at Marietta,
Ga, was burned on the Sd, and Bascom's
young son and two girls were cremated
FORTY houses were unroofed at Balti-
more, Nd, on the Sd by wind storm, and
$4,000 damage done to other property.
AT Somerset, KY, W. W. Wells, superin-
tendent of the Cincinnati Southern division
Of the Queen and Crescent system, died
suddenly in his car on the 4th
FINANCIAL embarrassment caused Jacob
Hernung, New Alband Qnd.) brewer, to
commit suicide on the 4th by shooting
In a collision on the Decatur (Ala.) di-
vision of the Louisville & Nashville road on
she 4th three men were killed and many
persons wounded.
SEVERAL members of a gang Of fire bugs
which had been destroying property in
Brooklyn, N. Y, and fleeing insurance
companies, were arrested on the 4th.
IT was announced on the 4th that prairie
Tres had completely wiped out three towns
h South Dakota, and that hundreds Of
!arn-houses had been destroyed, also
barns, with all their contents, and many