The Progress., 1889-03-09


W. ]. SMITH and Asa Brown, citizens Of
San Sato, County, Tex, were on the 10th
taken out and hanged by unknown persons
The cause Of the lynching was unknown.
JOHN PUcKETT and wife were hanged by
mob on the Goth In the Indian Territory.
They We're charged with stealing.
AT Austin, Tex, on the Goth Ed Reeves,
the noted train-robber, was sentenced to
the penitentiary for life.
HE Supreme Court of Michigan on the
ath decided that the so-called social clubs
OF the State, where liquor is dispensed tot the
members, must take out licenses as retail
liquor dealers or disband
GoTTHoLD MERKERT, of Mount Healthy.
O., suicided on the Goth by jumping into a
spring and freezing to death. The well was
so narrow and the water SO shallow that it
was impossible for him to drown, SO he re-
mained and froze to death.
The centennial celebration of George
town University was held on the Goth at
Washington
IHE special report on the Goth of the Com
missioner of Labor relating to marriages
and divorces in the United States for the
twenty years from 1867 to 1856, inclusive,
showed that the number Of divorces granted,
as reported from ninety six per cent. of the
counties In the United States, was 32S, ,721
OF this number 216, ,73S were granted to
wives and Ill ,9SS to husbands.
AT Upson, Wis, on the Goth Joseph Bro
gan, drunken laborer cut the throats Of
his wife and two little boys, aged five and
seven years, respectively, with a razor, and
then slew himself with the same weapon.
NATURAL gas was struck at Lewisport Ky,
on the Goth at a depth of 415 feet 1t burned
with bright flame and had a steady flow
ye1nio very strong salt water was also
tapped
WHILE Harry Brown, John Williams and a
third man, whose name was unknown, were
crossing the Kanawha river at Rush Run
Nv. Va, on the Goth the boat was overturned
and all were drowned.
The American Consul at Seoul telegraphed
on the Goth that a famine prevailed in the
southern portion Of Corea and that many
people were starving
WILLIAM AUSTIN, who was sentenced at
La Porte, Ind, on the Goth to five years in
the penitentiary for assaulting little girl,
sold his wife recently to Michigan City
man for five dollars. 3
IT was reported on the 21st that near
Aitkin Mimi, timber wolves attacked two
white children while returning from school
and killed and devoured them.
z THE Wagon and Carriage Manufac acturers'
Association Of the United States at meet
ing in Pittsburgh on the 2lst unanimously
decided to advance prices.$ % ##t.
ID. d. SMITH, a negro who had been induc-
ing hands to leave the vicinity of Artesia,
Miss, for Arkansas, was hanged on the 2lst
by unknown persons.
CATHOLIC pilgrims, numbering one hun
dred, in charge of Father Vissani, sailed
from New York on the 2lst on the steamer
W1eland for tour OF the Holy Land
A FURIOUS gale prevailed throughout a
large portion of Dakota on the .2lst, the
wind reaching velocity of sixty miles an
hour
The anthracite coal companies Of Penn
sylVanla decided on the 2lst to restrict pro
ducton by closing the mines two DAYS each
week. 80 IS
News was received at Boston on the 21st
OF serious engagement in Hayti on Feb
ruary 8, in which from two hundred to
three hundred of Hippolyte's soldiers were
killed and his army completely routed
r G. F. CLARK, a Chicago druggist was
shot and instantly killed in his store by un-
known parties at eleven o'clock on the
night of the 21st
NATURAL gas was discovered on the 2lst
on the farm of James Guild, three miles
west OF Medaryyille, Ind.
NEAR Romney, W. Va, on the 21st Oscar
Evans, contractor, killed Jacob Kirby and
mortally shot A. L. Hoke, both men having.
assaulted him.
= The Board of Police of Boston announced
On the 2lst that it would grant only 700
liquor Licenses for the year beginning May
next, as against 2, 600 granted last year.
Hotel licenses were placed at 81 800, and
ibar-rooms at 81, 600
TIM and Pete Barrett, who killed the
street-car driver, Tollefson, in Minneapolis
a year ago, were on the Dist sentenced to
be hanged on March % at the Minneapolis
jail.
Tile United States man-of-war Mononga-
hela sailed from Mare Island, Cal, on the
21st for Samoa
A SUMMARY on the 21st of the results of
the recent Hartford Conn hotel horror
gave the following figures: In building at
time Of explosion, 42;; killed %; injured
10; escaped, TO-
GEORGE DUNAwAY of Rutherford County.
Tenn, on the 21st murdered his uncle.
fatally shot his aunt, and then cruelty beat
his cousin, whom he had been counting b '*
IHE heaviest snow; storm on record in
that region prevailed on the 81 lst at Colum-
bia s. c.
The President on the 22d approved the
bill to admit as States of the Union Wash
ington Montana, North Dakota and South
Dakota
GEORGE DUNNAwAy had been paying at
tention to Miss Melissa Dunnaway, d Laughter
of his uncle and aunt at Lascassas, Tenn,
The parents Of the girl objected to his adj
vances, and on the 22d Dunnaway. went to
the house and shot both husband and wife,
killing them.
A FIRE on the 22d at Topeka, Kan, de-
stroyed the G. W. Crane Publishing Com
pany's building, causing a loss of $3.50 COO
I EDWARD Brown, aged twenty eight
years. and Alfred Hallman aged eighteen
years both residing at Coplay, Pa, were
Killed by an engine on the 22d while walk
ing on the railway track. 4#.r 3
MISS MINNIE MARsEALEs, of Norwalk, o..
died in a dentists chair on the ed. She
had taken chloroform preparatory to haY-
ing teeth drawn and it caused her heart to
cease beating.
Is Ten buildings at A legany, N. Y, were de-
stroyed by freson the 22d.
REy. JAMES GIBSON, a prominent Baptist
minister OF York County, s. c., was drowned
on N the s2d while attempting to ford a