The Progress., 1889-01-26

mated at 100000 tons, and Of Bessemer
steel rails at 1850, ,O)O tons.
NJ. SEALLER, leading merchant at Som.
erville, Tenn, failed on the 91st for 500,
900.
THE steamer Sallie. loaded with cotton,
was burned on the Mississippi river oppo-
site Trenton on the 31st ult
i "A FIRE on the 31st ult. at Decatur, Ala,
destroyed eleven new buildings in Lafay-
cite square. Mr.. Wood was fatally and
Mr.. Rice seriously burned.
The steamer Natchez. one Of the finest
river boats in the South, struck reef on
the 1st near Lake Providence, La, aud
sunk In nine feet Of water. She was val
uel at t75, ,O00 and was q total loss.
HENRY Il. sTICKNEY left Boston on the
1st, taking with him about $4,000 Of the
money Of the Chelsea Salt Company, for
which he was book keeper.
TaE farmers OF Franklin County, Mass,
were greatly excited on the lst over the
discovery of gold among the Buckland
hills.
INA fight on the 1st near Augusta, Ga,
among Louis Black, James Brown and
Sam Fielding and the latter's son all were
probably fatally injured.
! CHARLES SWIFT and Jacob Reislock,
pupils at the Institute for Deaf and Dumb
at Columbus. O., were drowned on the lst
by the breaking Of ice on pond.
The output of gold and silver in the
mines Of Colorado during 1888 was $26,-
| O61, 546, Of which s1z 025. 62s was silver.
In quarrel on the I'd as to the owner
| ship OF thirty cents Dan Daily, Kansas
City tMo.) bartender, shot and killed Jo-
seph Long, switchman.
DIPHTHERIA was ep demic on the Cd at
Springfield, Mass, and the schools had
been closed.
BIZ an explosion Of dynamite on the I'd
| near Sumneytown. Pa, two young mon
named Erb and Schecker were blown to
p.eces,
The residence of William Gerald at Terre
Haute, Ind, was burned on the I'd, and his
wife and little boy were suffocated.
The competition of artists in designs for
the Grant monument closed at New York
| on the I'd. The fund for the monument
| amounted to sl3O,OO0
TIE Soldiers Home at Albany, N. Y,
had 1,O6l inmates on the I'd. For 1888 the
cost OF purchased rations was 15M cents a
day and cost of clothing s1632 man.
The statement of the public debt issued
| on the ~ showed the total debt to be ST.
6s5, s65. 27l; cash in Treasury s6O,6s6 264;
debt less cash in Treasury, 81, ,134, ,063, ,25S
Decrease during December, s14, ,427. 595 De-
| crease since June 80, 1883, s31, 522 39S
HUNDREDS OF school children at,Pekin.
Ill, were suffering with measles on the I'd,
and the health officers had ordered the
schools closed
HE Richardson Drug Company Of st.
Louis, one of the largest concerns Of the
kind n America, trans sferred it's orders to
rival concern on the I'd and permanently
retired from business after thirty.one
years of existence
NEARLY the entire business portion of
Altoona, ILL.,, was destroyed by fire on the
3D.
AT school-house near Marysville Mo-.
hoy named Brady was cutting an apple
on the I'd wi b a pocketknife when Dale
Robinson ran against him in play, driving
the knife through Brady's heart and kill
ing him instantly.
The dead body of John r. Martin, of
Washington, Mo-, one Of the most widely
known Republican p liticians in the State,
was found on the Iron Noun tain tracks in
St Louis on the 3D. He had been robbed
OF gold watch and all his money
JOHN HKoNEK, previously found guilty
in Chicago Of having dynamite bombs in
his possession, was on the 81 sentenced to
twelve years in the penitentiary by Judge
Collins
EGYPTIAN HALL of the Philadelphia
Masonic dali, said to be the finest of the
kind in the world, was formally opened on
the 3D.
The total tonnage of the Erie canal in
1888 was 4,942, 94S. decrease from that Of
1887 of 610 S57 tons.
GOVERNOR MARTIN, of Kansas. issued the
New Years gift of pardon to five prison
ers in the State penitentiary.
ALL the dies used at the United States
mint in Ph ladesphia during the year 1888,
between eight and nine hundred in num-
Der, were destroyed on the 2d By heating
them to a white heat and hanmering them
with sledges.
Indiana, rendered his resignation en- the
Sd.
THE Lincoln pulp mill at ST. GATHERINGS,
Ont, was burned on the Sd, John Boyle
perishing in the flames.
ROBERT ELDER. aged twenty-eightye years.
was hanged on the 3d.at Nays Landing,
N D., for the murder OF his fati.er, who
was sixty years of age, on August last.
& DURING the year 1883 eleven vessels be-
longing in Philadelphia were wrecked on
the ocean, causing a loss Of one hundred
and eighteen lives and SS50, 1000 in money. 81
AT Lebanon, L T., on the Sd John Herd,
ten years old, accidentally shot and killed
James Bash, twelve years Of age.
TIE young wife of DR.. j. E. Mott, of Full
ton, KY, accidentally shot herself on the
Sd while handling a revolver.
CASE ARNOLD, a lab )rer at Crawfords-
ville,s Ind, accomplished the remarkable
feat on the Sd Of eating S xty two raw eggs
at the Peoples Theater without stopping.
After the exhibition Arnold adjourned to
a estaurant and INDUCED in hearty meal.
HENRY WERNER, wholesale dealer in
hides at New York, failed on the Sd with
liabilit es of $780, 00D and assets of; $3.50, 600.
COLONEL JOHN ASHFORD, of Clinton, N.
O., was fatally injured and his, two sons
and negro Instantly killed on the Sd by
the explosion of a boiler in a hoop factory
of which he was proprietor.
s The report Of the Indiana Mine In-s
spector, which was filed with the Governor
on the Sd, showed the output Of coal in tho
State in 1855 was 3, 40 979 tons, which was
a decrease from the previous year OF 7n,-
732 tons.
sIxrY of the passengers Of the Burgun-