The Progress. [volume] (White Earth, Minn.) 1886-1889, 1889-07-06
Epitonle of the Week.
INTERESTING NEWS COMPILATION.
DOMESTIC

DOMESTIC.
HENRY HAIGHWARD, who had been doing
arushing business swindhng old soldiers
throughout Michigan, was sentenced on the
Sd at Detroit to three years in the Iowa
reformatory
The loss of the schooner Houston in a
gale eight miles off Milwaukee was report
ed on the Sd, and the captain his wife, two
children and thirteen men were lost
The officials of the Philadelphia & Read
ing Railroad Company estimated their loss
on the Sd at $500 600 in bridges and wash
outs along the Upper Susquehanna in the
recent freshet
The report on the Sd of the Board of Rail-
road Assessors of Kansas showed the total
mileage of roads in the State to be 9,S29. 90
and the total assessed value of all railroad
property to be ISL, AS 4s ,12S3s
{. NELL S. Brown, Jr., reading clerk Of the
lower house Of Congress- was killed on the
Sd at Nashville, Tenn, by being run over
by train
JOSEPH ARNOLD, a wealthy farmer living
near Springfield ILL.,, was shot and Instant
~ killed by his wife on the Sd during a
quarrel
The inquest into the death Of DR.. Cronin
was commenced by Coroner Hertz in Chi
the murdered mans brother, who settled
all doubts as to the Identity Of the remains
Two SPANS OF the Long Bridge at Wash
ington were carried away on the Sd by
the rise in the Potomac
DISPATCHES Of the Sd from points along
the Upper Potomac, Shenandoah and
Monocacy rivers showed that number of
lives had been lost and millions or dollars
worth of property destroyed at Harper's
Ferry, Point of Rocks, Williamsport, Md
Martinsburg, W. Va, and other points
throughout that section by the recent high
water.
UP to the 18th nothing had developed to
lower the terrible estimate put upon the
number of fatalities resulting from the re-
cent flood at JOhnstoWn, Pa. Through the
agency of a bureau of registration, embrace
ing twenty different offices, a syste-
matte effort was being made to reach the
most accurate figures possible regard
ing the fatalities in Johnstown, Cam
bria, Morrellville, Kernville, Cone
maugh and other places devastated by
the flood. Mr.. McConnaghy, who had
charge OF the work of registration, was of
the opinion that the number of people who
persisted was considerably over ten thou
sand, while Acknowledgement Hastings
maintained that the, death list would not
exceed eight thousand. Nearly two thou
sand men were employed in different parts
OF the valley clearing away ruins and ex-
Treating the dead, and thus far thirty-two
hundred bodies had been found Money
and clothing for the destitute was flowing
in from all portions of the country
The corn in the bottoms about Jefferson
vile, Ind, was on the 18th being washed out
by the overlooking river
PAT COLLINS, who murdered Jesse Tur-
ner in January, lSSS, broke jail at Lincoln,
Kan, on the 18th, but he was pursued and
captured by citizens who took him to the
railroad bridge and hanged him.
The mayor of Williamsport, Pa, reported
to Governor Beaver on the 4th that thou
sands OF people in that city were homeless
and in want, the flood having carried away
their dwellings and property.
The new United States Court for the
ndian Territory began it's first term on the
18th at Muskogee, in the Creek nation, with
Judge James M. Shackleford on the bench.
Nearly all the jurors were Indians There
were two hundred and forty cases on the
docket
A. T. ROGERS, Topeka Kan merchant,
and his wife were fatally shot by Lee Oil
plant, burglar, who entered their house
early on the morning of the 4th He was
captured and lynched
Mrs. PETER KELLEY, of Rosendale. N, Y.
gave birth on the 4th to three boys.
IT was announced on the 18th that two
prominent insurance companies would lose
$3.50, 600 by the deaths from the flood in the
Conemaugh (Pa) valley.
ONE train which left Pittsburgh on the
4th for Jamestown, Pa, probably had no
parallel in the history Of the world It car
r1ed forty-one volunteer undertakers and
two thousand collins.
The building of the Michigan Furniture
Company near Oakland, Cal, was burned
on the 4th Loss, 100000.
CYCLONE swept through Lamar County,
Tex, on the 4th, doing great damage to
crops, leveling fences, unroofing houses and
barns and injuring number of people.
The cyclone struck the southern section of
the county and moved in an easterly drec-
ton, sweeping every thing before It,
WHILE services were being held on the
4th in the Free Methodist Church near Pom
eroy, O., an attempt was made to blow up
the building with powder, but it missed
fire. At least one hundred persons would
have been killed had the powder been
ignited
IT was reported on the 5th that Mr.. A.
Swan Brown, of New York, merchant
well known in the dry goods trade, had
gone to London to attempt to arrange
syndicate for the purchase of the leading
dry-goods stores Of New York and other
leading American cities.
The council between representatives Of
the Sioux Indians and the Government Com
missioners relative TO the proposed sale of
a certain portion of the Sioux reservation
for settlement was opened at Rosebud
Agency, South Dakota, on the 4th.
DoHERTY & WADswoRTH's silk mill at
Paterson, N. j., was destroyed by fire on
the 4th. Loss. 100000
ADvIcEs Of the 5th from Johnstown, Pa,
say that conservative men were of the opin-
ion that the number of people destroyed in
the flood would reach from $4,000 to u, 600.
This view was based on many fragments Of
evidence obtained from over 100 citizens,
as intelligent men and women as could be
found. The registration of survivors still
continued The total registration to date
was Is, 600 out of a total estimated popula
ton of the torrent-swept district of from
35,0OOto 10000 Two hundred and forty six
more bodies had been found, Of which the
majority were identified. This swelled the
list to 3,113 bodies It was estimated that
the number of orphans in the Conemaugh
valley yWon1f1 he ah0rt SO0 OK