The Progress. [volume] (White Earth, Minn.) 1886-1889, 1889-05-11

9th by the Postmaster-Ge General placing the
railway mail service under the supervision
Of First Assistant Postmaster General
Clarkson
i EXPERIMENTS were being made on the 9th
at the homestead steel works of Carnegie,
Phipps & Co, with the Redman- II ford in
ventiOn for manufacturing steel, which, as
alleged, was likely to revolutionize the
process in the near future.
OVER thirty acres of land were Sc
cured on the 2Sth at Kansas City at a COST Of
81, 900, upon which it was proposed to
erect magnificent union depot to be util-
lied by FIVE roads.
CONSTABLE MONTAGUE, of Elmore, Col,
was killed on the 28th by three cowboys
whom he tried to arrest for disturbing the
quiet of the town.
A TwO-YEAR-oLD daughter of Simon
Floyd, living near Catlin, Ill, was burned
to death on the 2sth, her clothing catching
ire from a cooking stove.
A HEBREW orphans home was dedicated
on the 28th at Atlanta, Ga
The livery stables of Thomson 4 Swiger,
In Jacksonville, Ill, were burned to the
ground on the 2Sth, and fifty head Of horses
aud mules persisted in the flames
NUMBER Of counterfeit silver dollars
and the dies used for making them were
discovered buried near Winamac, Ind, on
the 2Sth. The counterfeits had been circu-
lated extensively in that section lately.
AT East Pembroke, N. T., nine deaths had
occurred on the 2Sth in the families of Rev.
Samuel Calkins, his son Bradley and Dear
con Smith, caused by poisonous gases aris-
ing from mass Of decaying vegetable mat
ter in the cellar of the Calkins house.
Nrrr, I, 20 = tn q ~ II. 9.
field, Mass, was burned to the ground on
the ssth, and Ida Greene, aged fourteen
years, granddaughter of Mr.. Greene, was
burned to death
Four Americans left Ell Paso, Tex, on the
2Sth, went to Juarez, Mex, became drunk
and disorderly, and, resisting arrest, shot
and killed two policemen. They escaped to
the American side.
thieves, Gannow, Babcock and Remus from
their homes at Ainsworth, Neb., on the 2sth
across the line into the reservation and de-
livered them to band of Indians who
killed them all
The cases of twenty-five persons indicted
for election-law violations were dismissed
on the 2Sth at indianapolis, Ind, for want
of proof against them
The City Of New Baltimore arrived in De-
troit on the 2Sth from ST Clair being the
first boat of the season. The earliest pas
sage ever made through the straits previous
to this was March ii, 1878
EIGHTEEN of the business houses and one,
dwelling at Ashton, Ill, were burned to the
ground on the 2Sth.
The notorious Nine. Howe, of Womans
Bank fame in Boston, who was arrested
three months ago on complaint of some of
her victims, was discharged on the 2Sth
SEVERAL distinct shocks of earthquake
were felt on the sSth at Buckeystown and
Jefferson and along the Monocacy river in
the vicinity OF Frederick County, Md.
At Accomac Court House, Va, on the
10Th ult Mrs. Virginia Taylor was found
guilty of poisoning her husband, and was
sentenced to five years in the penitentiary.
PRAIRIE fires were raging on the 10Th
ult in the Huron ID. T., district, and
many farmers had lost every thing. The
wind was blowing forty miles an hour
+. +. BAKER, a capitalist, was arrested on
the Goth ult. at Spokane Falls, W. T., on the
charge of having seven living wives.
The warehouse of e. w. Blatchford, in
Chicago, was destroyed by fire on the Goth
ult, causing a loss of 1900. 600.
The Standard Oil Company on the Goth
ult purchased the entire Grafton oil field
near Pittsburgh, Pa The field is an extern
sive one.
The Mississippi & Tennessee and the Illi-
nois Central railroads were consolidated on
the Goth ult.
The Spanish American Commercial Union
was organized by merchants OF New York
on the 10Th ult., the object being to promote
trade between the United States and South
America
IT was stated at Washington on the Goth ult,
that the German Government had made a
formal request for the arrest of Correspond
ent Klein and his return to Apia, in order
that he may be tried before the American
Consul there for alleged murderous assault.
THE schooner James H. Gordon, which
arrived at Baltimore on the goth ult from
Charleston, encountered large school Of
whales near Cape Henry.
JED PR1TCHETT (colored) was hanged on
the 29th ult. at Danville, Va, for an assault
upon a little white girl The prisoner
fought like tiger and refused to stand on
the trap. The trap was finally sprung and
Pritchett was pushed off the scaffold to his
doom. The services of four deputies were
required to execute him.
On the morning of the 29th ult an un-
known we'll dressed man entered the Office
OF President Mofatt of the First National
Bank of Denver, Col, and pulling revolver
from his pocket told Mr. Moffatt that he
must have 1921, QUO or he would kill him and
then blow up the institution with bottle
OF nitro glycerine, which he pulled from his
pocket Thus menaced Mr. EYoffatt flied
out check and had it cashed, and the UNI
known, taking the money, backed out to
the front door, raised his hat to his victim
and disappeared
DURING the seven days ended on the goth
ult there were 240 business failures in the
United States, against s49 the previous seven
days
FIREson the Goth ult. at Bl Blooming
N. Y, destroyed the barn and ut-buildings
on the farm of N. G.. Horton with contents.
including four horses and fifty stwo head Of
cattle }zss 81
PERSONAL AND POLITICAL.
CHARLES r. CUTLER, who was Lieutenant
Governor of New York in 1872 died at War
rem, R. /, on the 10Th, aged sixty-seyen
years.
J. R. NEAL. member of Congress from the
Third Tennessee district in the Fiftieth
Congress- died on the Goth at Rhea Springs,
after an illness of two months
IHyODORE STEINwAYg Of the Arm Of .Stain