The Progress. [volume] (White Earth, Minn.) 1886-1889, 1889-05-04
Epitonle Of the w eek.
INTERESTING NEWS COMPILATION
DOMESTIC.

nrer RODerGS assumed charge of the sub
treasury in New York, and the sixteen en-
pert counters from Washington began
counting the $27, GOO, 600 in the vaults 1t
would take them three weeks to do the
work
MRs. HANNAH BATTERsBY, said to be the
largest woman in the world, died on the
18th at her home in Frankford, Pa, aged
forty seven years A few years ago she
married John Battersby, s'living skele-
ton" and when married weighed 6Ss
pounds. At the time of her death she
weigh 500 pounds
MEMORIAL services were held on the 18th
at Springfield, Ill, commemorative the
twenty fourth anniversary of Abraham
Incoln's death Flags were at half-mast
on many buildings and bells were tolled.
The floral offerings were profuse, and in
cluded handsome pillow from Mrs. Har-
rison, wife of the President.
EX-GOVERNOR JOHN s. PnLsBURY, of
Minneapolis on the 18th presented to the
Minnesota State University, Of which he is
regent, the sum of $15O,OOO.
JOSEPH p STEWART (colored), who had
spent twenty-nine years of his life in
prison at Trenton, N. j., was given his free
dom on the 18th
In a struggle with his son for loaded gun
on the 10th at their farm near Kearney,
Neb., W. FL. Pettitt aged seventy-two
years, was killed by the weapon being dis
charged.
AN epidemic of suicide struck Chicago on
the 16th no less than five persons taking
their own lives Sickness and despondency
were the causes.
IT was reported on the 10Th that the
Standard Oil Company contemplated chang
ing it's base Of operations from the Penn
sylyania fields to those of Ohio
DORA WEBSTER, aged sixteen years, of
Fletcher, O., was shot and killed on the 10th
by her cousin, Joseph Heath, with re-
volver which he thought to be empty.
MRS. josie GURLEY was found guilty by a
jury in Chicago on the 10Th of kidnapping
little Annie Redmond, and the Jury fixed
her punishment at FIVE years in the peni-
Tertiary.
FIRE on the 10Th at Muir, Mich, de-
stroyed twenty-seven buildings.
CENTERvILLE r. L, was almost entirely
destroyed by fire on the 10Th.
WHILE excaYating at Duluth, Mimi, on
the 10th for new Masonic temple a blast
fired revealed vein of copper ore of great
richness
WITH capital of $5,OOO,OOO the Beet
Sugar Company was Incorporated on the
10th at San Francisco.
Two MEN entered the State Bank at Min
neapolis at noon on the 10th, covered the
two employees who were present with re-
volyers filed valise with money and fled
After brief chase the robbers were capt
ured and lodged in jail.
EMANCIPATION DAY was celebrated on the
10th by the colored people of the District of
Columbia by parade of military and civic
associations.
FIRE on the 10th at Lynchburg. Va, de-
stroyed the tobacco warehouse of J. W.
Childs, together with large quantity OF
leaf and manufactured tobacco stored
therein
AT Buffalo, N Y, on the 10Th Thomas
Dominquez a spaniard killed his wife and
himself with a razor. Jealousy was the
cause
TIE great Jewish festival of the Passover
began on the 18th and would be celebrated
by Hebrews all over the world for seven
days.
FRANK LUsBY, a painter, fell from scat
fold four stories high on the 10Th at Lima, O.
alighting on his head and breaking nearly
every bone in his body.
The loss of the schooner Eva, with her
captain, Henry Parks, and five men, was
reported at Baltimore, Md, on the 17th
The factory Of the Buffalo IN. " Door,
Sash Blind Company, was destroyed by
fire on the 18th. Loss, 100000.
GEORGE KRAMER and Charles Heidke, two
Oklahoma boomers, quarreled at Kiowa
Kan, on the 18th over the right to certain
claim, and during the fracas both were
killed fight also occurred between cat
tlemen and boomers west of Oklahoma
City, and four men lost their lives
WHILE Perry Wine, of Brockton County
W. Va, was Telling a tree on the 18th il
broke across the stump and fell, demolish-
ing his house and killing his wife and three
children.
THOMAS r. scANLoN, piano manufact-
nrer with offices at Boston and New York
and a factory at Roxbury, Mass. failed on
the 18th with liabilities Of $500, 1000.
AT Butler, Pa, Mrs. James Field shot ant
killed her husband on the 18th. The shoot
ing was in lf-defense
The eighteenth annual meeting of thu
Woman's Baptist Foreign Missionary Society
of the West was opened on the 18th a
Cleveland, O.. Delegates were present from
eight States and Territories
DR.. ABE ROBERTSON, of Patrick County
Va, while fighting the forest fires in tina
county on the 18th was overcome by smoke
snd burned to DEATH Over fifty farmer
were burned out by the flames.
A FIERCE rain and wind storm passed ove1
GUNNER county, Nan, on Jhe I7th, doing
great damage to crops and property
Several houses at Wellington were un
rooted and others were blown down, and
Mr. Hacker was killed
AT Jersey City, N. j., on the nth Patr1cl
McAtamncy, switchman, jumped before
an engine and saved the life of a ten-year
old boy, but he was run over and killed
FIVE men were drowned on the nth neal
cambridge, Ga, by the capsizing Of a boat
The acting Comptroller of the Currenc,
on the 18th authorized the First Nationa
Bank of Hannibal, No., to commence bust
ness.
A FIRE on the 18th at Tarentum, Pa, de
sroyed the opera-house and several othe
buildings
FEI1cE V1ARr, aged seventy-two years,
professional beggar, died in New Orleans
on the 18th of debility and neglect in an OIL,
shanty where she had lived twenty years
Bhe was supposed to be very poor, but tn,
coroner in inspecting the circumstances o
her death discovered hidden around he
shanty $3s 500.
Rev. Dr. Brown, president Of Wesleyan
Female College at Cincinnati, and s1xt
years Of age, settled a dispute on the lit