The Progress., 1889-03-02

The Florida Legis stature convened on
the 5th ut Tallahassee. !,
MRs. R. LoUGHLlN, aged one hundrad
and three years, the oldest woman n
Northern New York, died on the 9Th at
Beekmantown. She was in good health
until week before her death.
ALL the certificates except thirty. four
Of members elected to the House a the
Fifty first Congress had been received IN
the 9th, and when the list was complete.1 "a
the Republican majority would he seven
Hon. EBENEzER PREFLE, eighty five Years
old, native Of Stark, Me-, died On the 7th
in the county almshouse at Rockford m
Forty years ago he was w6ll
evangelist
MRS. FLORA BowAAN tcolored) aped one
hundred and fourteen years ten months and
twelve days. died on the 7th at Baltimora
Md Mrs Bowman had three children thir''
teen grandchild ldren, twenty-five GREAT.
grand ldren, nineteen great-great grand.
children and five great -great-gree grand
children. She retained her mental facnlties
until the last, and her health was always
good
FoREleN.
THE Spanish mail steamer Remus found.
cred on the 4th of the Island Of Billran.
one OF the philippines. and all the pas
sengers were supposed to have been
drowned.
THERE was heavy fall OF snow IN Rar.
lin, Germany, on the 4th, ACCOMPANIED by
a thunderstorm. In the mountain dis
tricts heavy and continuous rains had
flooded the country.
A HEAVY gale which prevailed through
out England and Ireland on the 4th did
much damage to property.
AT Montreal on the 4th the thermometer
marked 30 degrees below zero.
The statement that Sir Julian Paunce-
fote had been appointed British Ambassa-
dor at Washington was officially CONTRA
dicted in London on the 4th.
By a collision off Dungeness on the 4th
between two English vessels twenty
persons We're drowned Both ships foun-
dered.
THE old Panama Canal Company was
dissolved on the 4th in Paris.
DISPATCHES Of the 9Th from China say
that the sever ty of the winter was in
creasing the distress caused by the famine
in Shan Tung and Manchitria, and it was
estimated that 25O,OO persons were starv-
ing in Chen Kiang.
ADvIcEs of the 5th from Burmah an
nounced that Mandalay had been visited
by two immense confiagrations. In the
first the flames destroyed 632 houses, a ba-
zaar and Buddhist monastery, and in the
second 500 houses were burned.
SHOCK of earthquake was felt on the
5th at Grand Metis, Cue.
LONDON advices of the 9Th say that by
the terms Of the will of Edward Satoris,
father of Algernon Satoris, the husband
of Nellie Grant, his entire fortune, valued
at e145, 900. is beQueathed to his son during
his life and at his death to the testator's
wife absolutely.
The British bark Largo Bay, bound FOR
Auckland, arrived in London on the 9th n
sinking condition. She reported that she
was in collision with an unknown four
masted steamer off Beachy Head and that
the steamer was sunk with all on board,
nearly one hundred persons.
SHANGHAI advices Of the 9th reported
serious riots at Ching -Kiang Foo. The
British consulate and seven houses be.
longing to foreigners were wrecked by the
mob A British man of-war was on the
way to the scene
A GAS we'll was discovered on the 9th at
Kingston, Ont, which discharged six
million feet of gas day.
THOMAS LONDON, member OF Parliament
for East Tpperary, was on the 7th sentenced
in Dublin to two months Imprisonment for
melting boycotting.
COUNT WILLIAM BISMARCK was On the 7th
appointed President of the province of
Hanover.
ADVICEs of the 7th say that over eighty
lives were lost by the recent sinking Of the
British steamer Glencoe off Beachyhead in
collision with the bark Largo Bay The
victims were all sailors, the steamer carry
Ing no passengers.
AFAMINE and epidemic of typhus fever
prevailed on the 7th in Daboka in Hun.
gary. Many persons had died and the dis
tress was spreading. The calamity was at.
tldbuted to a failure of the potato crop.
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