The Progress. [volume] (White Earth, Minn.) 1886-1889, 1889-07-13

i mad wiped out property worth pro baby
4 over e, DOC, 900, and there had been loss Of
life as we'll Millions Of feet Of lumber,
scores of coal craft, fences, barns and
buildings of every description had been
destroyed, and hundreds Of people had
been driven from their homes
a FIRE on the 18th at Alpena, Mich,
originating in sawdust pile at H r.
Morse's mill, rendered fifteen hundred
people homeless in a few hours and de-
stroyed two hundred houses. Loss, $500, :
OO0
The livery stable of b G. Springer &
Brother, at Buffalo, N. Y, was burned on
the 18th, and two men and twenty horses
persisted in the flames
JOHN ZAcHAR, the young Racine (Wis.)
farmer, who abstained from food for fifty
three days, broke his long fast on the nth
and said he would try to eat and live The
cause OF his attempt to starve himself was
a quarrel with his father.
HE stables of the Wichita (Kan) City
Railway Company We're burned on the 18th,
one man and forty mules perishing in the
flames.
HAMILTON STAPLES (colored) was lynched
on the 18th near Atlanta, Tex, for assault
ing the seventeen-year old daughter Of
Hardy Mccoy, a wealthy planter
MRS. JENNIE WALTON was burned to
death on the 18th at Louisville, KY, BY
the explosion Of coal-oil stove She was
twenty eight years old, and leaves hus-
band and one child.
The Governor of Missouri on the 18th
refused to commute the sentence Of Hugh
N. Brooks the murderer Of Arthur Preller
but granted him respite until August TO-
AT Minneapolis, Mimi, the National Pho
i tf,Crv oho1po Aoc1
81. McMichael, of Buffalo, n Y, Presi-
dent.
| KELLY, ROPER & RILEY, wholesale gro
GERS at Memphis, Tenn, failed on the 18th
Tor SlOs, O0O.
Snow to the depth of a foot fell on Mount
ashlngton, N. H., on the 18th.
HE waters that had been sweeping the
valley OF the Monongahela and the valleys
OF It's tributaries for sixty hours were fall
ing into thelr natural channels on the 18th.
The losses entailed by the food would not
lall snort OF 600, a large proportion
OF which fell upon the people Of the coun-
tles OF Monongalia, Marion, Taylor, Har-
rison, Lewis, Barbour, Upshur and Ran
dolph, in West Virginia, and the counties
OF Allegheny, Washington, Westmoreland,
Fayette and Greene, in Pennsylvania.
J. B. CHARPENTIER, a notary public of
| New Orleans, La, disappeared on the 10Th.
| taking with him between $4,000 and $50.
600 of money belonging to creditors
In Chicago on the 10Th the temperature
fell from 80 to 6S in five minutes, one Of the
most remarkable changes ever known in
| that city.
A CYCLONE swept over Eastern New York
and New England on the 10Th. The GREAT
est havoc in Massachusetts was done n
Waltham, Cambridge. Watertown Ded-
| ham. Brighton and Winthron Rot1uoo,
Pittsfield and ALBANY. N. W q clear ,,atT
was swept, three paper mills and nanv
| houses being leye1ed
ADy1cEs IF the 10Th sav that ,non,, voc
sells had been driven ashore and sunk on
the Atlantic coast dnrinp the recent +a,,,,--
rife storm.
MIR. M. MoRRIssEY. vo11np attorney If
Syracuse. N. ~. disapneared on the 10Th
having, it was said. embezzled sa5 OO) from
the trust estate Of Mary q, Brinckerhoff
E1enr persons were killed and twen rtv,-
five injured by a nassen GER train IN tRa
Virginia Midland railway brea KING thrnnoh
trestle on the 18th. near Orange Co,lrt
House, Va.
The principal county officers (a1l col
ored) at Marion Tenn. were escorted -
trains by white men on the 10Th. given
tickets and warned never to return.
CROP reports on the 18th from the North
west gave indications of good yield and a
prosperous season for the farmers.
G. M. RIDER was hanged on the 18th at
Marshall, Mo-, for the murder of R. P. Tai
liant two years ago.
H GREAT suffering was reported on the 18th
as the result of the recent floods in West
Virginia. Fully five hundred persons were
completely destitute Of the necessaries of
life.
MRS. JAMES CRUsAN and her nine-year-
old daughter were struck and killed by
Pennsylvania railroad train on the 18th at
Latrobe, Pa.
The examination of the alleged dvna
miters, arrested at the instance Of the Bur-
lington railroad was begun in Chicago on
the 18th, and some very startling testimony
was brought out. Witnesses sWore that
they sold dynamite to Bowles, and Inform.
er Kelly declared that he had seen the
deadly stuff in Chairman Hoge's room at
the hotel
3 DURING the seven days ended on the 18th
there were $50 business failures in the
seven days. The total Of failures il the