The Progress. [volume] (White Earth, Minn.) 1886-1889, 1889-07-06

JOHN FEAsTER and Charles r. Calston
were hanged on the 7th at Charlotte, s. O.,
for the murder Of w. G. Abernethy, mer.
chant, in January last.
PERSONAL AND POLITICAL.
PRESIDENT HARRISON on the Sd appointed
Charles L. Knapp, of New York, to be Con-
sui General of the United States at Mon
treal, and Alexander Reed, of Wisconsin, to
be Consul at Dublin.
The marriage Of Justice Gray Of the
United States Supreme Court to Miss Jen-
ME Matthews, daughter OF the late Justice
Stanley Matthews, took place on the after
noon of the 4th at the residence of the
bride in Washington.
JOSEPH LABoRD, the Oldest man in the
Northwest, died at St Paul on the 4th, aged
one hundred and six years. He was born
in Point Lewis, Que.
In joint session on the 5th ballot was
taken in the New Hampshire Legislature
for Governor, there having been no choice
by the people. and David II. Goodell (Rep.)
was declared elected.
NEBRASKA Prohibitionists met at Lincoln
on the 9Th and organized a State league,
StAu 6ASO d11duSeu W OSUdU1lSu 1OCStl AcStS U0s
in every county in the State.
SECRETARY NOBLE on the 5th accepted the
resignation Of John II. Oberly,. Commits
sioner of Indian Affairs, to take effect July l.
The ProhibiHonists of Iowa met in State
convention at Cedar Rapids on the 9th and
made the following nominations For Gov
ernor Malcolm Smith, Of Cedar Rapids;
Lieutenant Governor y. o. Murphy, 81
Jasper County; Supreme Judge w. =
Maginnis, Of Jackson County Superintedd-
emit of Public Observation-Disclosures G. A. Dun
ham, of Burlington; Railroad Commas
sioner-J W. Noble, of Ringgold County. q
COLONEL JOHN q. KELToN was on the 18th
appointed Adjutant- General OF the Army to
succeed General Drum, retired.
FOREIGN.
j. d II. TAYLOR, railway supply mer-
chants of Montreal, Can, failed on the 9TH
for 100000
A HURRICANE and water-spout on the 4th
at Reichenbach, Germany, caused great
loss of life and property
The Derby-the greatest of all English
turf events was run at Epson Downs on
the 9Th, and was won by the Duke of Port
lands famous colt Donovan
LETTERS received in London on the 5th
from missionaries reported that the Mahdist
fanatics had slaughtered thousands of ma
tive Christians in Western Abyssinia and
sold thousands of others into slavery.
CR1sToBA1 FERNANDEZ, a kidnaper, was
executed on the 5th at Jovellanos, Cuba
Hon. j. HAMILTON GRAY, Justice of the
Supreme Court of British Columbia died ut
his home in Victoria on the 5th-
WHILE nineteen men were crossing the
river at Granville, Que, on the 9th the
boat capsized and five of them were
drowned
The town of Mons, Belgium, was ex-
cited on the 9th over the murder of the
Marchioness de Chasteler, an aged lady Of
noble family, who was found slain in her
bed
WH1TELAW REID, the United States Min
lister to France, announced on the 9th that
the fund being raised at the legation in
Paris for the relief of the sufferers by the
flood at Johnstown, Pa, amounted to
$4,000
A FIRE on the 9th in the village of LII
bionsch, in Prussian Silesia, destroyed one
hundred and ninety-five houses, including
the village church and vicarage
The cotton mills in Offenburg, Baden,
We're destroyed by fire on the 9th, involving
d LOSS VI OVV,OVV IQdIkS. several women
were killed
A SEARCH Of the houses of two leading
Boulangists by the Paris police was said on
the 18th to have resulted In the discovery OF.
papers which implicated Boulanger in an
plot
The Gar on the 18th bestowed dowry OF
one million rubles on Princess Militia, OF
who has been betrothed to
Grand Duke Peter, of Russia
IT was announced on the 18th that suicides
had become alarmingly frequent in Vienna;
no less than forty, three cases OF se1f-mur-
der having been reported in one month.
REPORTS of the 18th from Crete showed
that cor>plete anarchy reigned on the ISL
and. Murders and outrages of all kinds
were of daily occurrence, and went unpun-
ished
LATEST NEWS.
1DvICE5 Of Lhe It'll say that the recent
fire in Seattle, W. T.. caused loss Of us.
DUO, 400, with not moro than one-thirl GOV.