The Progress., 1889-01-26
DOMESTIC.

ut. charged Win the theft OF Treasury
notes after they had been redeemed and
Cancelled, and the presentation of them fol
second redemption.
AT Greeley, Col, a mob overpowered
She jaller on the 29th ult. and took out w
.. French, who recently murdered Harry
Woodbury., and hanged him.
1T was announced on the Goth ult that
the Maryland authorities had, after hard
hight, succeeded in capturing five boats
belonging to the oyster pirates.
ONE OF the Hatfield gang was killed on
the G9th ult. by officers while resisting ar.
Fest near Charleston, w. Va.
OVER ten thousand coke workers Of the
Connellsville (Pa.) region met on the Goth
alt and decided to demand at once an in
crease of six and a quarter cents.
iHE State Teachers Association of Kan
sas. IN session on the Goth ult at Topeka,
passed resolutions condemning the use OF
tobacco by instructors.
The steamer Bristol, of the OH Colony
Zine, was burned at her dock in Newport,
R. l., on the Both ult. Loss, $500, 900.
The first train to cross the new bridge
over the Hudson river at Poughkeepsie,
N. Y, made the trip safely on the 29:h ult.
DUKING the year 1855 there were 144
victims of lynch la W in the United States,
against 1913 in 1887
The deaths of sixty-six centenar ans
were reported in this country during 1888,
she ages ranging from one hundred years
TO one hundred and twenty-one years. OF
Gh1s number forty-four were women and
six were colored persons Eighty -one
Journalists also died during the year, and
forty MN sters Of the Gospel.
TEE Brooklyn IN. W police on the 29th
Nult' declded to allow no more prize-fghts
or pugilistic exhibitions to take place in
that city.
WHILE chopping down hollow tree on
the 18th ult. near Laporke, Ind, George
Ironce found an earthen jar containing
$500 worth of Spanish coins
In a tit of jealousy on the Both ult.
Joseph Solomon, lace dealer in New
York City, shot and killed his wife and
then killed himself.
TIE total number Of legal executions in
the United States during 1888 was 81. as
compared with 79 in 1887. Of this number
all were males but one, 81 were whites 29
negroes and Chinaman.
IHE steamer Samana, which left New
York for Hayti November 90 last, was
given up as lost on the Goth ult. The Sa-
mana had crew of eighteen men besides
the captain and his wife.
The entire fire losses in the United
States during the year 1883 were less than
Sl00 OOOOO as compared with $13O, ,OOO 900
in 1887 and $3.50, OOO, 600 in 1886.
80 FAR as reported 4,O15 lives were
lost in 1858 upon the ocean and so upon the
lakes and rivers "a total of 4,095, as com
pared with 6, 79s in 1881, 1851 by disasters
dnthe New World, $4,000 by disa sters in
the Old Word, and 16,sO7 by battle and
pestllence, making in all 1867, as COM
pared with 199, 1854 in 1887.
The exchanges at twenty-six leading
clearing houses in the United States during
the week ended on the got uIt. aggregated
s927,25l, GA, against 81, ,OS0,9 ,91O25S the pre-
v1ous week AS compare with the corre-
spending week Of 1887 the increase amount
ed to 10 6 per cent
JOSEPH RATHER was hanged on the goth
ult at Centre, Tex, for wife murder He
went to the gallows smoking cigar
CAPTAIN JAMES and his life-saving crew
were on the Goth ult presented a purse
OF a, 700 by the citizens of Boston for their
heroic work during the recent storms
a BAND Of regulators broke into the Jail
ssat Ozark, Mo-, on the night of the 29th
Tult., where the four convicted Bald Knob
%bers were confined, and offered them their
liberty. Two of the Bald-Knobbers
avalled themselves of the opportunity, as
D. a
Mrs. TURNER and her little daughter, a
daughter of George Cloyd, three Brooks
brothers and man whose name was un-
known, all colored, We're drowned in the
river at Ripley, O., on the Both ult., by the
,npsetting of boat.
DUR1SG the year 1883 the total number
s-of murders committed in this country was
2,lS4 against 2, 3s5 in the year 1887.
The number of persons reported as hav-
ing committed suicide in the United
States during the year 1883 was i ,4S7, as
compared with 1,3S7 in 1887. OF the total
number l, l45 were males and 342 females,
and the causes were as follows: De-
sponLency, 433; unknown, 3S4; insane,
1893; domestic infelicity, 112; liquor, 103;
disappointed love- 1870; ilLhealth, 81; busi-
ness losses, 46.
The total number of business failures in
the United States during the year 1888 was
10, 5S7, against Q, 740 in 1857.
W..P. HIGGINBoTHAAI's s Blue Valley Bank
at Manhattan, Kan, closed its doors on the
.31st ult. Total liabilities, s104, 900; assets,
500, COO. The bank was organized in 1859.
CLERK LEIGHTON, of the Boston munich
pal court, was on the 1st said to be a de-
faulter to the extent of S250.00
A TOTAL eclipse Of the sun was visible
on the 1st in portions of California and
Nevada.
THE money order department. of the In
,dianapolis post Office was robbed on the
31st ult. of SO, 500 in greenbacks.
A FIRE on the 31st ult. in st. Louis de-
stroyed business property valued at $500,
600.
DuRNa 1888 there were 1885 immi
grants landed at New York. being an in
crease Of 1877 over the prev ous year.
An assignment was made on the 31st
ult by the Livingston Cloth Mills Com
pany at Bristol, Pa, rendering three hun
dred persons idle Il
TIE exports of gold from New Yorl
during 1888 were sS2, $40, III, while the
imports were but s., 9444.. a869-a net loss o.
f26. .426 1022, against q net gain Of s32, ,63t
in 1887.
The total production Of pig iron in this
country during the year 1888 was estl