The Progress. [volume] (White Earth, Minn.) 1886-1889, 1889-06-29
WESLEY CLARK and Harrison Blackburn,

men on account of the recent flood.
AT Holyoke, Mass. one of the canal banks
gave way on the 18th, undermining the
foundations of the Cabot mills, which
collapsed, causing a loss of 100000.
IT was said on the 18th that Rev. NJ. Alley.
OF Phillips, Wis, had invented an apparatus
for burning water.
The special grand jury impaneled in Chi
cage to act upon the verdict Of the cor
oner's jury in the Cronin murder case began
taking testimony on the 18th.
SETH MURRAY, farmer aged fifty-fiye
years, living near Vipcennes Ind, and
having five or six children, became Jealous
of his wife on the 18th and shot her and
then killed himself.
WHILE crossing the railway track at
Louisville, O., on the 18th Lawrence and
Edward Streb, business men, and two
Catholic orphans named Seifert, whom the
Strebs had adopted, were struck by an ex-
press train and all instantly killed
The Bank of Wahpeton, D. T.. closed it's
doors on the 18th.
A MINE cave-in on the 18th at Wilkesbar-
re, Pa, made cracks in some of the prin-
cipal buildings and caused gas to escape in
great volumes. The men and boys in the
mine underneath the city narrowly escaped.
The loss to property owners was placed at
$500, OOO
The work of restoring order in Johnstown
passed into the hands of the Pennsylvania
State officials on the 18th, with Adjutant-
General Hastings in charge The report of
the registration bureau showed nearly thir-
teen Thousand persons yet unaccounted for.
The New York State Sunday-School Asso-
citation in session on the 18th at Albany re-
ported 7,193 Sunday-schools in the State,
los, 72 teachers and officers, 949, 415 scholars.
and 81, 228 conversions in the year.
COLE YOUNGER, the desperate, reported
drowned in Wyoming, was in the State
prison at Saltwater, Mimi, on the 18th with
his two brothers
AT their meeting in Milwaukee on the
18th the Millers' National Association
elected F. l. Greenleaf, of Minneapolis.
president.
The Massachusetts, Legislature on the
10Th passed a bill making it penal offense
to dock horses tails
FIRE on the 18th at Grinnell. Ia. de-
stroyed forty-one buildings, causing a loss
of from $15O,0O0 to 5000, 900, partly insured.
REPORTS of the 18th from Minnesota were
to the effect that forest fires were doing
much damage. At Ely from twelve to
fifteen buildings had been destroyed
The steamer City of Pekin which arrived
in San francisco on the 18th from Hong
Kong brought news of the burning of the
city of Luchow, and ten thousand people
were said to have lost their lives in the fire.
FOREST fires were sweeping south and
west OF Superior, Wis, on the 18th, and up
to date over $500, 900 worth of pine had
been destroyed
The Michigan monuments on the battle
att Cot Do
the 18TH
JAMES DEAvIN and Charles Tennyson
were lynched at Corydon. Ind, on the 10Th
by two hundred masked men, for robbing
the residence of James LIE May and serious
~ shooting him.
AN armed mob attacked the Jail at Hunts
vile, Tenn, on the 18th and secured E. R.
Reynolds and Thomas J. Lloyd and hanged
them to the limb Of a tree. Their crime was
the killing of Mrs J. Harness and her son.
w. B. ROBERTS, Governor Hovey's private
secretary, who was sent to Brazil, Ind, to
investigate the condition of the CLAY County
miners, said on the 18th that there were
thousands of people in the mining district
who were destitute and near the verge of
starvation, and many of the families had
eaten nothing but bread and water for
weeks.
The twentieth annual reunion of the
Army Of the Potomac was held on the 18th
at Orange, N. J.
AT Louisville KY, on the 18th Mrs. Cath
crime Boyle, aged sixty-fve, and her chill
dren, Nora, aged twenty-five, Frank, aged
thirty, and William, aged twenty three
years, were all declared insane and sent to
an asylum
The general opinion among welI-posted
people at ohnstown, Pa, on the 18th was
that the loss of life in the flood would be
between 5000 and 1000 The total of bodies
recovered to date was 1,999
The Chippewa Indians at Mile Laos lake
in Minnesota commenced killing and driy-
ing out the white settlers on the night of
the 18th, and six whites were killed and
others wounded All were inoffensive
Swedes.
PArn1cK 4. WARD, sixty-two years old
and the most prominent Lishman in In
dianapolis, Ind, committed suicide on the
18th Dependency was the cause.
NATIONAL convention met in Detroit.
Mich, on the 18th, of divine healers. About
sixty delegates were present and each man
and woman declared that he and she was
sick unto death and that faith made them
free n
W. B. BROOKS & Son, miners and shippers
of coal at Columbus, O., failed on the 18th
for $15O,OOO
WHILE drunk on the 18th at Cayuga, Ill,
Joseph Nenne struck his wife, causing her
to fall and sustain injuries that proved fatal
two hours later.
Il BoNAFACIo MARTINEZ, one Of the most
noted desperadoes on the Mexican border
and Mexican reyolutionist leader, was
arrested on the 18th at Rio Grande City, Tex.
MAJOR WYMAN w. STALEY, of Lansing,
Major Of the First Regiment, Michigan Ma
tional Guards, was killed by Chicago &
Grand Trunk trail on the 18th three miles
west of Lansing.
AT delegate convention of railroad
miners of Western Pennsy lvania on the 18th
in Pittsburgh a committee was appointed to
draft resolutions demanding that the coal
operators discontinue their stores
In a collision of trains on the 18th near
Havre de Grace, Nd, two cars loaded with
provisions for the Johnstown sufferers were
wrecked
TERRITORIAL convention has been
called at Guthrie, Oklahoma, July II.
GEORGE COFFEE, a negro in custody at
Norfolk, Va, confessed on the 18th that he
set fire to the residence of Rev i. G. Clarke,
in which five lives were lost recently.
The contract for printing postal cards
for the next fiscal year was on the 18th
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