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

EDWARD AETlS, cOlOreQ man, shot k1ttle
Palmer (colored) in Aurora, Ill, on the
18th because she refused to marry. him and
then committed suicide
A BLAST of five tons of powder was shot
soff at one of the quarries at Graniteville,
Mo-, on the Goth, and enough granite was
blown out to keep five hundred men ten
years in working it up.
AT Des Moines, Ia, on the 26yh the Jury
Sin the criminal libel case Against Governor
Larrabee found q verdict of not guilty.
FANNIE MUKEs, a lady of one hundred and
two years of age, living near Cementville,
Ind, fell into the fireplace on the Goth dur
Ing the absence Of her family and was
burned to death
The twin infants Of Mrs. John Swanson,
of Chicago, were accidentally smothered to
death in bed on the 26th
DANIEL CASE, postmaster at Glass; Ind,
was Instantly killed on the Goth by a runa-
way team. t|5f 41s
FIVE men were killed on the Goth at the
Red Lodge coal mines near Helena, NJ. T, ,
by premature explosion.
j. STEWART and Silas Martin were arrest
ed on the Goth at Shelbyville, Ind, charged
with counterfeiting silver dollars. A large
amount OF spurious coin was recovered.
AT Dickinson, d. T., on the 10Th John
Hollen killed his wife and then took his own
life. Domestic trouble was the cause
JOHN EELsoN, q noted forger who had OPP
Grated in many of the larger cities, was ar
rested on the 9th. at Omaha, Neb
ELEVEN produce dealers, convicted of
selling oleomargarine for butter, were fined
heavily on the 9th at Pittsburgh, Pa
f. TURLEY, the sheriff of Carter County,
Mo-, was instantly killed and his deputy
badly wounded on the 27th while attempt
ing to arrest saloon keeper named Thomp-
son at Low Wassie Mo-
FOLDS q GR1FFITHs dealers in carpets at
Minneapolis, Mimi, failed on the 9th for
100000.
GEORGE A. HULL &; Co., Of Boston, dealers
in hides and leather, failed on the 9th for
$4,000
The Pennsylvania Railroad Company on
the 27th commenced the work of turning
the course of Old Turtle creek, near Pitts
burgh, and would thereby reclaim three
hundred acres of valuable land.
Two NATURAL gas explosions in the vicin-
1ty of Pittsburgh, Pa. on the 27th wrecked
five buildings and injured number Of per-
sons, one fatally.
In reference to the Alaska Canada bound
airy dispute now under consideration by the
United States and Canada, the latter Gov
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mined by a survey that the line should be
ninety miles south of where it Is marked on
the United States MAPS.
TIE ten unfortunate victims of the recent
powder-factor explosion at Plymouth, Pa,
were buried on the 9th. The entire town
was draped with emblems of grief.
OSCAR NEEBE, now serving fifteen year
sentence in the penitentiary for completely
in the Haymarket tragedy in Chicago,
wrote an open letter on the 9th, in which
he said that he was not and never had been
IAN Anarchist, and had nothing to confess.
The letter was drawn out by the statement
that Judge Grinneu and others would sign
q petition for Neebe's pardon provided he
would make a confession. s.
ROBERT WATKINS, accused of stealing the
sballot-box at Plummerville, Ark, at the late
election. was on the 27th held In 5000 to
appear for rehearing.
MINERS were on the 9th thronging to the
placer mines at Ensenada, Cal, where rich
finds of gold had recently been made. M
TEE six-day walking match closed on the
9th at San Francisco, Frank Hart tcolored
being the winner, with 526 miles to hi.
credit p G. Moore was second, with 81
miles The gate receipts were $26, GOO
MRS A. s. MCDUFFY, Of indianapolis
locked her six year-old daughter in TIL.
house on the 27th while she went out shop
ping. The child set the building on FIRE
and was fatally burned.