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

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"A REMARKABLE rich vein of silver ore was
struck on the 9th near Aspen, Col
NUMBER OF farmers in Brule County.
South Dakota had begun seeding on the
9TH -
lTwas announced on the 18th that all tho
employees of the metropolitan street. oar
stables at Kansas City escaped from the re-
cent fire, and no lives were lost, as at first
reported
AARON LUDwIN, a milk peddler. and
Charles Warfeld, colored barber Of Har-
risburg, Pa, committed suicide on the 7th.
WHITE CAPS were on the 18th operating at
Huntingburg, Ind. One man had been Sc
verely whipped and others had been
warned. zs5
J. P. MAcGARRAHAN, a well known Jour
nalist, dropped dead on the 18th Of heart dis
ease in New York restaurant where he
had gone for breakfast He was forty-three
years old
JAMES SUTTON, Of Lower Hayden. Pa.
committed suicide on the 18th because his
school teacher, Annie Egan refused his at
tentions.
FARANTAs THEATER at New Orleans was
destroyed by fire on the 18th. The Muldoon
Picnic Company. lost its entire wardrobe
and the Forepaugh Band lost all their uni
forms and Instruments
AT Rushville, Ind on the 18th Perry Ben
nett, aged eighty years, fatally wounded
his wife, aged seventy years, with Ratchet,
and then attempted to kill his daughters
Bennett was hard character.
CARROLL COUNTY, Ga, was on the 18th in
the midst of religious revival under the
preaching of Jimmie Cook, ten years old
He claims to have been called to preaching
in a vision.
AT Ireland, Ind, on the 9TH Joseph Ser
wersheim was taken from his house and
given thirty lashes by White Caps for refus-
ing warning to go to work.
8 JUDsoN BELL and Lee Watson, noted des-
peradoes, were mortally wounded on the
th while making an attack on the camp of
some railroad contractors near Cumber-
land Gap, Ky.
The colt Mascot, of the L. J. Ross Cali
fornia stables was sold in New York on the
9TH for $26, 600.
The Minnesota House on the 7th, by a
vote of 50 to 80, refused to submit to vote
OF the people a prohibition amendment
MICHAEL PEBBLES and his wife and two
children were found murdered in bed in
their home on Duck creek, near Paducah,
KY, on the 18th. Robbery was the cause Of
the crime.
APAssENGER train ran into ditch on the
7th near Coshocton, O., a dozen persons be-
ing hurt, but none fatally
DURING the seven days ended on the 9th
there were 221 business failures in the
United States, against 243 the previous
seven days. The total failures in the United
States from january 1 to date was 2,94S,
against 2,4s5 in 1888
REPORTS of the Sth from the towns through
the northern and western portions of Mary
land gave accounts of a severe earthquake
shock At Westminster number of wom-
en- were badly frightened and rushed panic
stricken from their houses
The eighteen-year- wife of Charles
Honald was found dead on the floor of her
home at Elkhart, Ind, on the 8th Foul play
was suspected. s
A SUSPENSION of payment was announced
on the 5th by the Bufford Sons photographic
Company of Boston, whose liabilities were
estimated at $1,000
SAMUEL GAsKINs (colored) was hanged on;
the 9th at Camden, S. c., for the murder of
Betsey Clark, a colOred girl
TILE Camden Point Female Orphan Asy-
lum at Platte City, Mo-, was destroyed by
fire on the 9Th, but all the inmates escaped.
A. W. BUsBY, a prominent citizen Of Gate
City, Ala, was shot and killed by an un-
known assassin on the 8th while sitting at his
Preside.
L. 0. DEsFARGEs & Co., of New Orleans,
who lost a number of coal barges in the
storm of August last, assigned on the Sth.
with liabilities of $144, 600
OFFICIALS of the Government on the Sth
arrested in Conway County, Ark, Martin
Thorp and William Garner, leaders Of the
most extensive gang Of counterfeiters in
the Southwest An immense sum of bogus
money, comprising IS, $40 and 800 imita-
tion gold pieces was also secured
IHE business portion OF Slater, No., was
destroyed by fire on the sth.
JOHN HUNTINGTON, of Cleveland, O., one
OF the original members Of the Standard Oil
Company, conveyed by deed of trust to a
board of seven citizens on the Sth $500, COO
worth OF gilt-edged six per cent stock, the
interest of which is to De used for charitable
purposes.
JOHN PEEK S stables on the Florence stock
farm near Three Rivers, Mich, were burned
on the 8th, together with nine finely-bred
horses
WILLIAM GEssLER, Of Fostoria, o., glass
worker, in a fit OF jealousy on the Sth shot
and killed his wife and then took his own
life.
THOMAS G. COOPER, wholesaler of flour
and provisions at Albany, N. Y, failed on
the Sth for 300, Goo
A FIRE on the Sth at Louisville, Ky.. de-
stroyed three business buildings, causing a
loss of $435, OO0 52
ANNIE ROCHE committed suicide by hang
ing on the Sth at Ida, MINI. She was in
love with Lee, recently hanged for murder.
EARTHoUAKE shocks were.felt on the even
ing of the Sth in Reading, harrisburg, Car
Isle and Gettysburg, in Pennsylvania.
JCrockery and windows were ratified violent
~, butno damage was done.
DENNIS MCCARTHY, an idle fellow Of Port
land, Conn, was whipped by White, Caps on
the Sth until he promised to stop beating his
wife and give her proper support.
At the convention Of Railroad State Com.
missioners in Washington on the sth it was
stated that over G, 0G0 active, strong men
We're either killed or manned for life during
the year 1888 while coupling cars
The best part of the village Of Wabash,
Neb., was swept away by flames on the 9Th,
The farmers near Still Pond, Md, were
on the Sth losing a great many cattle by
cerebro spinal meningitis, which was prev
alent there.
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