The Progress. [volume] (White Earth, Minn.) 1886-1889, 1889-05-18

Charlottesville, Ind He was born in Glas-
gov County, Tenn, one hundred and one
years ago.
By the capsizing of boat on the 4th in
Braxton County, W. Va, the family of P. B.
Harr, consisting Of himself, wife and two
children. We're drowned.
One MILLION feet OF logs, an entire lumber
camp and logging outfit and SIS 900 worth
of driving supplies We're burned on the 9th
near Moroa. Mimi.
THIRTY small dwellings, in New Orleans
IN the square bounded by Julia, Locust,
. Cypress and Magnolia streets were de-
stroyed by fire on the 9th.
THE entire business portion of Waldron,
Mich, was burned on the 9Th
The ST. Vincent Orphan Asylum, three
miles east OF Yincennes, Ind, was burned
on the 9th. Fortunately none of the one
hundred and five homeless and parentless
boys were injured.
Hon. EDWARD s. ToBEY was on the 9th
reelected at Boston as president of the
American Peace Society
The centennial OF the introduction of the
first piano into the United States by John
Jacob Astor was celebrated in New York on
the 9Th
On the 9Th Assistant Acknowledgement
Shields decided that appointments to serv-
ice under the Census act were not within
the civil-service rules.
CLARA GRAHAM, a beautiful girl of eight
cen years, was convicted in the criminal
court at Kansas City on the 9th of horse
stealing, and sentenced to two years i'm
prisonment She is the only woman ever
convicted in Missouri of horse stealing
Foua THOUSAND miners returned to work
on the 9th at Brazil, Ind, the differences
with their employers having been adjusted,
The building trades strike at Pittsburgh,
Pa, which involved fifty thousand men,
was settled on the 9th in favor of tie en-
ployes, and work would be resumed at once
LINCOLN CURTIS, chief salesman in the
wholesale boot and shoe house Of Congdon
& Aylsworth, at Providence, R. l., was ar
rested on the 9th on charge of embezzling
$12,0O0 of the FIRMS money.
The jury in the case Of Irving Latimer,
on trial at Jackson, Mich, for the murder
OF his mother January 81 last, returned a
verdict on the 9th Of murder in the first de-
gree.
MAUD JAMESON, ten-year-old girl living
at Lima, o., set fire on the 9Th to the barn
OF James Hawer, with whom she was Sliv-
ing, burning it and all it's contents. includ
ing three horses.
NEAR Mount Sterling, Ky, Bert Curtis. q
farmers son. aged eighteen years, died on
the 9th OF hydrophobia. He was bitten a
few days before by dog
GREAT suffering was reported on the 9th
among the miners in the Scranton (Pa) coal
region But few of the mines were in
operation, and the men could not get work
enough to provide them with the necessi-
ties OF life.
THE horses and carriages used by Mr.
Cleveland while President were sold at
auction on the 9th in Washington, the ell
tire outfit realizing 10, 04aS5
AN election at Lafayette, La, on the 9th
was prevented by white regulators, armed
with rifles, who refused to permit negro
citizens to cast their ballots. The sheriff
ordered the polls closed and reported to
the Governor
OF ifty-three persons who started in
six days pedestrian contest at New York on
the morning OF the 9th over half had
dropped out before noon, among them be-
ing Dan O'Leary, who completed only
twelve miles.
AT a Hungarian christening on the 9Th at
,Philipsburg, Pa, one man, Joseph Teeser,
was instantly killed and others were Sc
verely wounded Seven persons had been
arrested
AN operation performed some time ago
at Richmond upon the eyes of Mrs. Sydney
Smith Lee, mother of Governor Lee, of Vir-
ginia, proved entirely successful, and her
sight was restored on the 9th.
AT st. Joseph, Mo-, Floren Beck, aged ten
years. was frightened to death on the 9th by
"a runaway team.
OKLAHOMA boomers were focking into
Pierre, D. T., on the 9th, waiting for the
opening OF the Sioux reservation.
A CYCLONE on the 18th in Stafford County,
Ran, injured twenty-five persons five
fatally wrecked several houses, and wagons
and plows were carried for hundreds of
yards, and horses were picked up and
whirled through the air. Over one hun
bred persons were made homeless and des-
titute
AN incendiary fire on the 7th at Peoria,
Ill, destroyed the packing house OF Will
lam Reynolds and spread to Zell, Schwa-
hacker &; Co. IS distillery Sheds which were
burned, together with eighty cattle.
a BOY named Bates who was bitten a
month ago at Mid llebury, Ind, by q dog,
died ON the It'll in terrible agony from by
drophobia
THREE masked burglars entered Frazer 4
McDonaldls bank at Forest City Mo-, on the
7th, compelled the cashier to give en- the
contents OF the safe, 81, 500, and then made
their escape.
AT Pittsburgh, Pa, two young ladies'
Margaret Don van and Margaret OBrien
were struck by an engine while walking on
q railway track on the It'll and both were
Killed
CONTRACTOR j. e. McCoRnIcK disappeared
from Tacoma W. T., on the 18th with about
GOO secured from friends.
One man was killed and seven others
were badly injured by a premature explo-
sion OF dynamite near Ashland Pa, on
the It'll
FOREST fires were raging on the 18th in
Northern Michigan, where there had been
no rain for several months. The fires ex-
tended through several counties, and much
valuable timber had been destroyed and
more was threatened.
The stables of Captain Moore, near Gym
thiana, Ky, We're burned on the 18th, consum-
ing fifteen valuable horses One of them,
Van Wilkes, was valued at $15, 600, and a
colt was valued at $4,000.
THREE alternating current electric
dynamos, TO be placed in the pen1tentlaries
at Sing Sing, Auburn and Clinton, to be
used for the killing of condemned Grim.
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