The Progress., 1889-03-02

i on the SGl. 3szSsS
WILLIAM FRosT, a Palatine Gill farmer
who was bitten few weeks ago by dog,
died on the 5th from hydrophobia.
RACHEL SMITH, who was betrothed to
Dominick Marion, the fireman who was
killed at the recent Buffalo (NY. ] fire, went
crazy on the 5th over his fate
| THIEVES broke into the post-of11ce at Ed
wardsville, ILL.,. on the 5th and got $500
worth OF stamps and $3.50 in postal funds.
A SLIGHT earthquake was felt on the 9th
| In portions OF South Carolina.
GEORGE w. VANsKIvER, of Logansport,
IND, aged seyenty-two years, was on the
9th sentenced to two years in the peniten.
tiary for forgery.
TWENTY parents at Haverhill, Mass,
We're arrested on the 9th for sending their
children to condemned French Catholic
school,
NINETEEN Of the largest sewer. pipe firms
In the United States formed combination
on the 9th at Wellsville, O.
CHARLES +! ORBAUN, q newsboy, was on
the 6th awarded $50 600 damages against
the Philadelphia Traction Company for in
juries received
LIGHT earthquake shocks occurred on
the 9th at Los Angeles and San Bernar-
dino. Cal. At Cotton two distinct shocks
were felt No damage was done.
SECRETARY BAYARD notified the German
Minister at Washington on the 9th that
the United States Government accepted
Blsmarck's proposition for resumption
at Berlin of the Samoa conference Of 1887
w. s. BRADLEY, of Chicago, shot and
killed his wife at the Cortland Hotel on
the 9th and then killed himself. Domestic
trouble was the cause.
The steamer Harold which arrived at
New York on the 9th reported a fierce
fight in Hayti Legitime's fleet mbarded
the town of st. Marc and afterward
sheered of, leaving on shore a large body
OF soldiers, who were mercilessly slaugh-
tered by the followers of Hippolyte.
The greater portion of the business sec
tion of Walkerton, a small village in
Indiana, was burned on the 9Th
Mrs. MAr, of Reading, Pa, received
word on the 9th that she was to inherit
$500, 900 from an uncle who died recently
in California.
w. A. BUssEY, cashier of the Eagle &
Phoenix Manufacturing Company of
Columbus, Ga, who left that city re-
Gently under suspicious circumstances.
was on the 9th found to be SIG, 1874 short
in his accounts.
JOHNSON STAyER, of Upton, Ind, hav-
ing been warned by White Caps, armed
himself, and served notice on the 9th that
he would kill tho first White Capper mo.
testing him.
A ATwEIvE-YEAR-oLD boy named Charles
Warren, whose parents live near Green's
burg, Pa, went into the barn and strangled
himself to death with rope on the 9th be-
cause he had to go to school,
RUSSELL B. HARRISON, son Of the Presi-
dent-elect. on the 9th purchased the plant
OF the Helena (M. T.) Record.
The board of referees of Boston, to
which was left the matter of establishing
the liability for the Somerville bleachery
fire in 1884, decided on the 9th against the
FitChburg railroad. making it liable for
1925, 900 damages.
AN epidemic Of scarlet fever was rag
ing on the 9th at Lima, O., one physician
having twenty cases.
FRITZ RUEHL. sixteen years old, con-
fessed in New York on the 9th that he
murdered a six-ycar-old child in Germany
last November and then fled to this conn
try.
The New Haven Sewing Machine Manu-
featuring Company Of Br. .dgeport, Conn,
decided on the 9th to so out of business
on account of strong competition.
The Flint River cotton factory in Unison
County, Ga, owned by Respese, Swift & Co.,
was burned on the 7th. Loss, 100000.
HENRY WoMAcK, living near Social Circle,
Ga, was bitten by a rabid cat one month
ago. He died on the 7th after undergoing
all the horrors incident to hydrophobia
IHE large brewery of the Niagara Falls
On. W Brewing Company was destroyed by
fire on the 7th
WILLIAM GRAIN, eighty six years old llv-
Ing at llliopois, ILL.,, committed suicide on
the 7th by taking poison while temporarily
insane.
The opera-house, the stemple House and
nine business houses at Steelville, Mo-, were
burned on the 7th
Mrs. EMMA ALTHoUsE Of Attica, N Y,
awoke on the 7th from trance which lasted
thirty-fve days.
: HENRY DIECKMANN, prominent member
OF the st. Louis Merchants Exchange,
skipped to Canada on the 7th, leaving a
shortage of $4,000
sELIHU STEVENS, of Belgrade, Me-, was
given reception by the Legislature Of that
State on the 18th. Stevens is one hundred
and one years old, in good health, is the
father Of twenty-five children and pen
sioner of the war of 1872
: SECRETARY BAYARD on the 7th asked
Harold NJ. Sewall, Consul-General to the
Samoan islands, to resign, on the ground
that Ibis views are not in harmony with
those of the Administration !"
A FIRE tho 7th in the Northern Ohio
blanket mills at Cleveland caused damage
to the extent of 100000
In Western New York heavy fall of snow
occurred ON the 7th, and all trains on the
Rome, Watertown & Ogdensburg road were
abandoned
CALEB II. TALcorT, a dry goods merchant
Of Hartford, Conn, failed on the eth for
$20OO
WALTER j. GIBSON a weil-known insur-.
ance agent of Buffalo, n Y, committed sui
eide on the 7th. He was a member Of the
old Twenty first Regiment, New York yolun-
-teers, and served gallantly during the war
HENRY OGDEN, a Laketon Ind dry goods
merchant was robbed of 81 ,S01 early on the
morning Of the 7th He had the money an
der his pillow, and the burglars drugged
him
EVA B. BURROUGHS, aged fourteen years,
daughter of Mrs. H. x. Burroughs, Of
Easton, Md, was accidentally killed on the
7th by the discharge of a pistol supposed to
be unloaded
WHILE in a state Of delirium from illness
on the 7th at Cincinnati, o., William j. Martin,
druggist, committed suicide by jumping