The Progress. [volume] (White Earth, Minn.) 1886-1889, 1889-03-16

CASHIER JAcoB II. GooDadAN Of the Cook
County Gil, > treasurer's Office, was missing
on the 9th, and his accounts were sc, sou
short
The village of Blooming Prairie, Mimi,
was almost entirely destroyed by fire on
the 9th.
ROBERT WATKINS, arrested for election
frauds in Conway County, Ark, was on the
2Sth ult discharged No clew had been OBJ
tanned to the assassins of John NJ Clayton.
A FINE flow OF natural gas was struck on
the 2Sth ult at Huntsville, Ind, and other
wells would be drilled
The business portion of the village of
Lostant, Ill, was destroyed by fire on the
2Sth ult
ONE fireman was killed and ten badly in
iured in a fire at Milwaukee on the 2sth ult.,
which destroyed property valued at s15O, 600.
The house of Herman Umberger, an aged
farmer living near Jennerstown, Pa, was
entered by burglars on the 2sth ult, who
robbed him of $4,000 and then shot him
dead,
EDWARD CoLBURN, of Boston a CONNER
cial traveller, shot and killed his wife on the
2Sth ult and then took his own life. No
cause was known for the deed
A PARcEL-PosT convention was concluded
on the e9th ult between the United States
and Hawaii.
THE Standard Oil Company on the 2Sth
ult. purchased a one-fourth interest in the
Ohio Oil Company at Lima, O., paying
$3.50, 600 for the same
GEORGE FOSTER a.leading young attorney
OF Tuscaloosa, Ala, committed suide on the
2Sth ult. over the grave OF his WIFE
GENERAL WALLACE's celebrated novel,
ben Hur," was placed on the stage at
Charlottesville, Ind, on the evening OF the
2Sth ult.
IA Mrs. STAFFORD, of Edgartown, Mass,
left home on the 2Sth uIt, having with her
the first American flag ever used which
would be carried in the inaugural process
sion at Washington, She had been offered
on several occasions over 81 900 for the flag.
A. B. CLEVELAND, head Of New York
firm, wholesalers of seeds, was missing on
the 2Sth ult., and with loans and funds of
the company was said to have carried off
100000
In Cincinnati on the 2sth ult. Miss Laura
Mcdonald, daughter of Alexander McDon-
aid, the millionaire oil man, was married to
Edmund X Stallo. Mr.. Mcdonald gave his
daughter $500, 900 for a wedding present
BY a premature explosion on the 2sth ult.
in the Norway mine near Marquette, Mich,
and Edward Rudder had both Of his eyes
blown out
In the FELTON, (Ind.) circuit court on the
2Sth ult. Adam Shoney was given verdict
of $4,000 against the Pennsylvania railroad
Company for the loss of a leg.
The family of Ernst Hudson, consisting of
bis wife and seven children were drowned
on the LIST while fording creek near New
Earl, Tenn.
PENSION AGENT ROBERT s1GE1, son of Gen
eral Franz Sigel, was arrested in New York
on the LIST for forgery and fraud, and com
mitted to jail ia default of $4,000.
The Deadwood ID. T) Reduction works
were destroyed by fire on the LIST. Loss,
100000
AT the session Of the National League of
Republican clubs in Baltimore on the 1st
John M. Thurston, Of Nebraska, was elected
president, b. B. Humphreys, of New York,
was reelected secretary, and P. G. Louns-
berry, of Connecticut, treasurer
The Farmers and Mechanics Bank at
Carleton, Neb., closed it's doors on the LIST
on account Of it's inability to collect what
was due it. The assets and liabilities were
each about $4,000
HENRY A. GOULD 4 Co., dealers in rubber,
dye-stuffs, camphor, etc, at Boston, failed
on the 1st for $1,0OO,OOO
AS COMPARED with last season, hog-pack-
ing in Cincinnati fell off during the past
winter 9,5O6 head
GIBSON, PARISH & Co.'s furniture trim
ming establishment in Chicago was de-
stroyed by fire on the LIST. Loss, $15O,OOQ
Three firemen were injured, one fatally.
GEORGE MORLEY, a wholesale lumber
dealer of Detroit, Mich, failed on the 1st
for 100000
NICHOLAS DoNoHUE's house at Tusten, N.
Y, took fire on the LIST during his absence,
and his wife and two-year-old child per-
ished in the flames
The Legislature of Arizona passed bill
on the LIST making train robbery capital
crime.
The general offices of the Chicago St.
Paul q Kansas City railroad were on the LIST
removed from ST. Paul to Chicago.
DURING the seven days ended on the LIST
there were 243 business failures in the
United States, agai nst 3O2 the previous
seven days. The total failures in the United
States from January 1 to date was 2,727,
against 2,317 in 1885,
Two VETERANS of the National Soldiers
Home at Dayton, O., were asphyxiated at
the Union Hotel on the 1st They became
Intoxicated and before going to bed blew
out the gas
Mrs JOSEPH LEDBETTER, wife of promi-
inent miller, and her two little sons were
drowned near Republic, Mo-, on the LIST,
They were in a wagon and attempted to
cross a stream which was much swollen by
heavy rains
BERT WHITE, the seyenteen-year-old boy
who shot and killed Willie Ellsworth at La
fayette, Ind, last August, was sentenced on
the LIST to imprisonment for life.
The two Thousand men of the Tennessee
Coal, Iron and Railway Company at South
Pittsburg, Tenn, struck on the LIST against q
reduction of ten per cent. in their wages
A CABLEGRAM was sent to Mr.. Parneu on
the LIST by the Indiana Legislature con-
graduating him on his triumph over the
Times conspirators.
MANY Iowa farmers were on the LIST sign
ing pledge to stack their grain the coming
season, without binding, unless the price Of
binding Irvine was lowered
The statement of the public debt issued
on the LIST showed the total debt to be
81 679 974, 907; cash in Treasury, $4S, 096, 158;
debt less cash in the Treasury, 81, 12s,2s9,-
31S. Increase during February, sc, 433 345.
Decrease since June 30, 1883, s37,295, 1893.
SOME time ago several cattle belonging to
farmer named Sutton In White River