The Progress., 1889-01-26


TnE Nebraska and COLORADO Ler,slatnre.
convened on the lat, the former IS Lincoln
and the latter at Denver. - 81 .
CoLoNElaJOHNC q DENT, d veteran of Ina
late war, and q brother-in-law of HanaraI
Grant, died IN Carthage, No., on the 1st.
MIcHAELs sCARNEr. native OF Cork, Ire
land, died on the % at Waterbury, Conn,
In his one hundred and fifth wear s# -
MRS. DR.. y. g. CHINN, the Oldest and ona
Of the most highly esteemed ladies' IN Ken
lucky, died at her home In Lexinptnn IN
the Cd, aged one hundred and two wears
DAVID B. BRowRR and Mrs, Brewer. of
Ridgefeld, N. j., celebrated their golden
wedding on the ID s 71 -
W. 3. BARRETT, editor Of the Boston Al.
vertiser, was on the I'd elected Sneaker nf
the Massachusetts House OF Representa-
tives. E
AT Statehood convention IN Ellens.
burg, ". T, on the Sd . long petition was
adopted praying Congress to admit Wash.
ington with the Idaho pam handle annexed
Hon. EDWIN G. BURLE1aH was fnaug-
urated Governor of Maine on the 3d and
Governor Oliver Ames, Of Eassachusetts.
was inaugurated for second term.
GOVERNOR LUCE was reinanpnrated
Governor Of Michigan on the Sd. mis- ad.
dress being largely devoted to the needa
OF State institutions. He spoke of the
necessity Of legislation to protect the bal
lot, and recommended the passage Of q
local option law it one could be devised
free from constitutional objections.
II COLONEL DANIEL MCCLURE, Assistant
Paymaster General, was on the Sd placed
on the retired list Of the army.
JonN NJ. THAYER was on the Sd inaup.
urated as Governor Of Nebraska for his
second term. In his address he urged leg
islation to guard more carefully the ballot
box and recommended registry law.
FOREIGN
The seventy-ninth anniversary OF Mr..
Gladstone's birth was celebrated in Lon.
don on the Goth ult
DURING an attempt to break jail on the
goth ult. at Shwebo, Burmah, seven Of the
prisoners were killed and three wounded.
A LARGE number Of Socialists were ar
rested in Berlin on the 1st for circulating
infammatory and seditious pamphlets.
INDIAN advices Of the 31st ult. say that
cholera prevailed in virulent form at
Quilon, on the Malabar coast. It was re-
ported that two thousand Christians had
succum bed to the disease.
A VIOLENT earthquake was felt on the
Slst ult. in Plauen, Saxony, and its VII
cinity.
TERRIBLE floods, accompanied by great
loss OF life, were reported on the 31st ult.
in Manchoria, China, and heavy rains
in Southern France had flooded the coun-
try about Marseilles.
In the superior court on the 31st ult.
Lord Mayor of Ottawa Mcleod Stewart
was unseated on dozen different charges
of br. berry by which he compassed the
election.
DURING 1888 forty vessels wholly rpart-
~ owned at st. John, N. B., were wrecked,
entailing loss Of $3.50 0OO
ADvIcEs of the I'd say that the revolu
tion in the Northern part Of San Domingo
had been suppressed and many Of the par
ticipants had baen arrested.
NEAR Ballinasloe. Ireland, farmer
named Brown, who had taken place from,
which the tenants had been, evicted, was
set upon by the evicted men on the I'd and
murdered.
BIZ. an explosion in the Oller colliery,
province Of 5Asturias, France, on the 81
twenty-seven men were killed.
FLOODS in Southern France had on the 4
Sd done immense dame ge to property. and
thousands Of people were homeless and
destitute.
ADv1cEs Of the Sd say that many per-
sons had been killed and large number
of buildings destroyed ty an earthquake
in Russian Turkestan, extending from
Khojend to Kastakos.
( DISPATCHES of the 3d say that at Sab
unstschi, Russia, a train became blocked
in an immense snowdr.ft, and before aid
could be sent fourteen passengers per.
ished from the cold. A relief party VIII cf
started out to rescue the imIeriled pass.
engers lost their way and died in the
snow.
The British steamer Stephen D. Horton
was burned at Pernambuco on the Sd.
Loss, $500, ,000 Two lives were lost
LATEST NEWS.
FIRE was discovered on the morning OF