The Progress. [volume] (White Earth, Minn.) 1886-1889, 1889-03-23

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was ordered that the President be nottfied OF
| Mr.. ingalls, election as President pro tena,.
ana the Senate thereupon adjourned until the
| 18th.
DOMESTIC.
A STATEMENT submitted to the House of
Representatives before final adjournment
on the 4th showed that the appropriation
bills passed during the session amounted to
a total of 1881, SIS, 695, divided as follows;
Agriculture, $l,669, TO; army, $24, SOC, l15;
diplomatic and consular, 81, 9So,O25; District
OF Columbia, 3d. S7, 406; fertilization, 81 2O5,-
54; Indian, S., O35, ia; Legislative, etc, $40,
o4O,535; military academy, 1902, 766; navy,
1921. 692, $40; pension, $s1, 75S, 2oo ostoffice.
500, 6O5, 344; sundry civil, $25,2T, BAL; miscel.
laneous acts testimated) $5, OO,OOO; de-
ficiency, SIG, 423, $50.
The number of immigrants landed at New
York during the six months ended February
% was as follows: September, 1883, 29O23:
October, 1860; November, 1909; Decem-
Der, 1888; january, 1889, 7,431; February,
1O,645; total, 107,6S0; showing a decrease Of
q, 522 as compared with the corresponding
months year ago.
PRESIDENT HARRISON held his first receI-
tfon at the White House on the 9Th, and for
several hours streams of callers were re-
ceived and shaken by the hand. The scene
was gay one, the crowd comprising civil
ians, soldiers bands etc.
JOHN d. ROCKEFELLER on the 5th gave to
the American Baptist Education Society
100000 The sum was to be paid in monthly
installments of $4,000
PREPARATIONS are on foot for a grand dis
play OF American corn at the Paris Expo
sition A corn palace will be included in
the display.
A COMMITTEE of the Rhode Island House
OF Representatives on the 5th reported in
favor OF repeating the prohibitory amend
ment
CLARK GALLAGHER, prominent farmer
living near Waverly, Ind, committed sui
eide on the 9Th. He was insane.
D. E. ROBINSON, deputy postmaster OF
Daily Springs, Ark, was lynched by a mob
on the 9TH for a criminal assault upon an
eight year-old girl
The Reading Iron Works of Reading, Pa.
who operated blast furnaces, FORCES and
machine shops, and rolling, sheet, tube and
pipe mills, suspended payments on the 5th
with liabilities Of about Il 900, OOO The con-
Germ employed over twenty five hundred
hands, =
SETTLERS at Springfield Col, who had
been for year troubled by the depredations
Of ''rustlers," captured and hanged three of
the gang on the 5th
FIVE men lost their lives and eighty mules
and twenty-five street-cars were de-
stroyed by fire on the 9th in Kansas City
which ruined the stables of the Metropol1-
tan Street Railway Company.
HARLAN TURNER and J. W. Mcveigh, two
well-known and highly respected citizens OF
Butler, Mo-, fought duel on the 9th with
n 0ff hoj fol 1xy,
The will of James Flood was fled on the
9th at the county seat of San Mateo County,
In California. The amount of his estate was
$17OOO,OO0.
The Farmers Union Mercantile Company
OF Livermore, Cal, assigned on the 6thEWith
liabilities estimated at $l45,00O; assets un-
known
IHE Michigan Legislature passed joint
resolution on the 9th amending the consti-
tuition to fix the Governors salary at Sd, 900.
instead of 81 600 as it is at present
AUGUST zIsKA, aged sixty years, killed
himself on the 9th at Clinton, Ia, because
his daughter had bought an expensive
dress
THREE of the principal breweries of Roch-
ester, N. Y, were sold on the 9th to an En-
glish syndicate for $4,000, 600 five per cent.
OF the purchase money being paid
THREE farmers living near Knox, Ind
We're arrested on the 9th for systematically
robbing freight cars They had been car
rying on their operations for some time
GEORGE W. ROBINSON, of Norwalk, O., sold
his Florida lumber interest on the 9Th to a
European syndicatesfor $3.50, 900
JOSEPH McHENRY, of Lima, o.. was back
of drift on the 9th setting a trap and
Joseph Lewis took his hat for rat and shot
him dead
THREE iron mills in the vicinity of Read
Ing, Pa, shut down on the 9th because Of
the recent failure of the Reading Iron Com
pany.
IHE Willets Manufacturing Company of
Trenton, ~ j., owners Of the largest pottery
In the country, failed on the 9th for $3.50 600
The Mahoning National Life Association
OF Columbus, O., doing an insurance BUSH
ness on the mutual assessment plan failed
on the 9th, with assets of 1000 cash and
$2l, 900 in notes and accounts. The risks
outstanding amounted to $4,000. 600.
FIFTEEN cottages were burned on the 9th
in New Orleans
NEAR Delafeld, Wis, on the 9th Mrs Ann
Driscoll, aged fifty-fve years, while insane
decapitated her sleeping husband with an
| axe
DUKE McLAcHLAN, a young blacksmith,
| eyed twenty-five years, and Cora Carnahan.
the thirteen year-old daughter of che pro-
prietor OF the Detamore House at Paw Paw,
ILL.,, eloped on the Sc, and at farmhouse
in Earlville on the 9th McLachlan shot the
girl dead and then killed himself
The display of fireworks at Washington.
deferred from the 4th until the evening Of
| the 9th, were said to have been the finest
eve: seen in that city a set piece repre-
senting Harrison and Morton was so perfect
| that the portraits could be recognized at the
distance Of mile.
CHARLES BINKLEY, a farmer living near
Van Vert O., shot his brother in the face
on the 9th and tore out both his eyes with
a shotgun which he didn't know was
/ loaded
/ THIRTY-s1x students at Dartmouth Col
lego, in Hanover, n. 81, were expelled on
1 the 9th for disorderly conduct
ALTHOUGH nearly three hundred mad
dogs had been killed In Wetzel County, w.
/ Va, during the past month, the interior Of