The Progress. [volume] (White Earth, Minn.) 1886-1889, 1889-05-11
Epitome Of the w eek.

uplUOnlt VI lille wv eek.
INTERESTING NEWS COMPILATION.
CONGRESSIONAL.
o. s SENATE IN SPECIAL SESSION.
AMONG the nominations sent to the Senate
on the s6th the following were the most i'm
portant: Francis E. Warren, of Wyoming, to
be Governor Of Wy ming Territory; Benjamin
F. White, of Dillon, M. T., to be Governor Of
Montana Alarge number OF previous appoint
ments were confirmed.
THE President sent the following nomina-
tions to the Senate on the 9th: Robert T. Lin
coin, OF Illinois, to be Minister to England;
Murat Halstead, OF Ohio. Minister to Germa-
ny; Allen Thorndyke Rice, OF New York, Min.
lister to Russia: Patrick Egan, Of Nebraska,
Minister to Chill; Thomas Ryan, OF Kansas,
Minister to Mexico; John Hicks, OF Wisconsin,
Minister to Peru; and George B. Loring OF
Massachusetts,, Minister to Portugal Many
previous appointments we're confirmed.
THE Vtce-President announced in the Senate
on the s8th the appointment OF Senators Cul-s
lom and Gibson as Regents OF the Smithsonian
Institute, to I'LL vacancies Several nomina-
tons OF minor Importance were received from
the President Murat Halsteads nomination
for Minister to Germany was rejected by q vote
OF 81 nays to is yeas. A motion to reconsider
was carried.
NOMINATIONS were sent to the Senate on
the goth ult by President Harrison as follows:
Robert Adams, Jr., OF Pennsylvania, Minister
to Brazil; Lansing B. Misener, OF California
Minister to the Central American States; Will
lam L. Scruggs OF Georgia, Minister to Vene-
zuela; William o. Bradley of kentucky, Min
lister to Corea; George L. Shoup, OF Idaho, to
be Governor of Idaho; George Chandler of
Kansas, to be First Assistant Secretary OF the
Interior. The nomination OF Murat Halstead
as Minister to Berlin was discussed but no ac-
ton as taken.
DOMESTIC.
WILLIAM CLINCHMAN, aged fifteen years,
believing revolver to be empty, shot and
fatally wounded Birdie Lucas at St. Paul on
the 25th
Ek-MAYoR HEWITT, of New York City as
ISOLATED with number of capitalists, on the
25th purchased a controlling interest in the
Ten nessee Coal Iron & Railway Company
near Nashville, Tenn.
OWING to domestic troubles Melvin G.
Gar litz shot his wife dead on the Goth at
Cumberland, Md
A LARGE satisfactory in Brooklyn, N. Y,
was destroyed by fire on the Goth, causing
loss of 500, 600. Many of the one hundred
employees were obliged to jump from the
windows, and twenty-thr were badly in
jured
The Michigan House on the Goth, by
unanimous standing vote, passed resolu-
ton increasing the Governors salary to
$4,000 year.
" E. CUMMINGS & Co., leather dealers of
Boston, failed on the 26th for $500, 600.
CHARLES J. BEATT1E, a Chicago lawyer,
was on the Goth fined $500 and sentenced to
one years imprisonment by Judge Jamie
son for contempt of court in giving client
fraudulent decree of divorce
The great warehouse in Chicago owned
by William R. Manierre was destroyed by
fire early on the morning of the Goth Loss,
5000, 1000; insurance, about $500, 900.
A PASSENGER train on the Lake Shore road
when near Goshen, Ind, on the Goth struck
buggy containing Robert McCaffery, aged
twenty years, Of Goshen, and Miss Della
Love, aged eighteen years, Of Elkhart
When the train was stopped both were
found on the pilot Of the engine dead
RICHARD B. RICHARD, a railroad clerk at
Cincinnati, O., shot and fatally wounded his
wife on the 18th as she was walking on the
street. No cause for the deed was assigned
Four men employed in Pittsburgh mill
were splashed on the 26th with molten
metal which they were pouring into mold
and terribly scalded
The Governor of Tennessee on the 18th
signed the bill making women eligible to
the office of county superintendent of edu-
cation
AT Columbus Grove, O., on the 26th Miss
Laura Michael shot and fatally wounded
Miss Lou Getterman. Jealousy was the
cause of the shooting.
JOHN RosENBARGER, farmer, shot dead
Andrew Castaline in a row over a trivial
matter near Creighton, Neb., on the 26th
then burned his own house to the ground
and shot himself dead
In All-Saints' Cathedral at Milwaukee.
Wis, on the Goth Rev. DR.. Cyrus f. Knight
was consecrated Episcopal Bishop of Wis
consin, to succeed the late Bishop Welles.
At New York on the Goth Alderman
Charles Goetz, Charles NJ jackson, Morris
Isaacs, Edward Butler and Charles Smith
were arrested on indictments charging them
with violating the election laws.
AT railroad crossing at La Crosse, Wis,
on the 9th Mrs William Drake was instant
" killed by a switch engine and her hus-
band was fatally injured
PRAIRIE fires were raging on the 9th in
Stearns County, Mimi The high wind had
carried the flames into the woods, and much
damage was being done.
A THREE-TEAR-oLD daughter OF Barney
Huffman, of CircleYille, O., was burned to
death on the 9th, her clothes catching fire
from a bonfire in the street.
EIGHT business houses at Havana, Ill.
were burned on the 9th.
NICHOLAS MEAD, a waiter ii, the Revere
House at Boston, shot Mrs Samuel Tuck and
her boy on the 9th and then killed himself.
The United States Consul at Colon re-
ported on the 9th that work along the Pam
anna canal had entirely ceased.
FIRE on the 9th at Scranton, Pa, de-
stroyed the dry-goods stock of Cle1land
Simpson Taylor, valued at 500, COO
HARRY PAINE, ten-year-old boy of
Roanoke, Va, was killed on the 9th by a
ball bat in the hands Of a y-oung colored
companion.
A CHURCH and five business buildings
were destroyed by fire at West Haven,
Conn.,, on the 27th
PRESIDENT HARRISON on the 9th issued
proclamation opening the Oklahoma lands
to settlement on April q.
TIE foundry and machine shops Of Nc
intosh & Hemphill, at. Pittsburgh Pa, were
burned on the 9th Loss, $780, GsS.
The House Committee on Education of
the Missouri Legislature reported adversely
on the 9th all bills providing for compui-