The Progress., 1889-04-13

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met with armed resistance and driven from
the field
Downs & Finch, Of New York, shirt man
ufacturers, failed on the 5th for $500, ,OOO
DURING the seven days ended on the 5th
| there were 222 business failures in the
United States, against 24O the previous seven
days
REPORTS to the Indiana Board Of Agri-
| culture on the 5th from all over the State
Indicated that the growing wheat was in
| splendid condition.
The discovery Of rich placer diggings in
the Bear Paw mountains fifty miles north
OF Fort Benton, NJ. T., was reported on the
| 5th.
ISAAC RICH & Co., the Oldest fish dealers
| 1t Boston, failed on the 9TH for 5000, 600.
PRESIDENT HARRISON on the 5th issued a
centennial proclamation Recommending
that on Tuesday, April 80, at the hour OF
nine o'clock in the morning, the people OF
the entire country repair to their respect
I've places Of Divine worship to implore the
favor Of God that the blessings Of liberty,
prosperity and peace may abide with us as
a people, and that His hand may lead us
in the paths of righteousness and good
! deeds.''
SIX business blocks at Attica, O., were de-
sroyed by fire on the 5th.
AT Frankfort, Ind, on the 5th William
Pray shot and killed his wife and then
killed himself. Domestic troubles caused
the deed.
AT Trenton, N. j., on the 5th Maggie
Mitchell, the actress, was granted divorce
from her husband, Henry T. Paddock.
JOHN WoLFINBARGER, who murdered
Sheriff Greenbe, was taken from Jail at
Rutledge, Tenn, by masked men and
hanged to uree on the 5th
AT Winamac, Ind, on the 5th six men
were sentenced to year each in the pen1-
tentiary for robbing freight cars.
NEAR Crescent Bay, Ore, Mrs. Thompson,
while fleeing with her husband and babe
from wind-storm on the 5th, was killed by
a falling tree.
DURING the past three months there were
in the United States 100 industrial strikes,
involving 36,73 employees, as compared
with 1870 strikes and II ,952 employees in the
first three months of 1873, and 262 strikes and
120, ,219 strikers in 1897 &
FRANK SoRBER, of Wilkesbarre, Pa, while
riding on the 5th was fatally injured by a
horse leaping into his wagon from behind,
inflicting injuries from which Sorber died
shortly afterward
The ticket office in the Wabash railway
oopOu dL w otUStSu 1uU WtlS DTOkGn 1nUO ana
robbed Of it's contents on the 5th.
MUCH trouble was feared in Iowa on the
9Th over attempts to evict settlers on the
Smell and Litchfield lands. The settlers
had armed themselves with Winchester
rifles and announced their determination to
stay.
BETTE GoRMAN, a two-year-old child of
Lima, o., was scalded to death on the 5th
by her older sister, who accidentally upset
bot of boiling water on her face and
breast.
AT Fordyce, Ark, on the 9Th the sheriff
OF Titus County, Tex, arrested Frank Shulze,
a young man. on a charge of having in De-
cember last murdered J. W. King, his wife
and six children, and then burned their
dwelling
PERSONAL AND POLITICAL.
CAPTAIN HENRY WILSON, United States
Navy, was placed on the retired list on
the Cd
ALEXANDER McCuE, ex-Assistant United
States Treasurer of the United States, died
in Brooklyn on the I'd from stroke OF
apoplexy, aged sixty three years
TICKET composed entirely of ladies' was
on the I'd placed in the field at Cottonwood
Falls, Kan, by the ''bum" element Of the
town as On insult to those who were leaders
in all good work. The better class of citi
zens at once voted for them, and the result
was that Mrs. Minnie D. Morgan was
elected mayor, and a full board OF alder
men, composed of the most prominent
ladies in the town, will aid her in admins
tering affairs.
TIE Democrats Of St Louis elected E. A,
Noonan mayor on the I'd. but the Repub-
icans gained control of the city govern.
ment, except it's municipal board
DEWITT G. CREGIER (Dem) was elected
mayor OF Chicago on the I'd over John A.
Roche, the Republican nominee.
The Florida Legislature convened on the
I'd at Tallahassee.
IHE Tennessee Legislature on the I'd
passed bill providing for the Australian
system of voting. A registration bill, which
applies to every city and village in the
State, was also passed
EDWIN BOOTH, the famous Iagedian, was
stricken with paralysis at Rochester, N. Y.
on the Sd, and it was feared by his profes-
sional associates that the world-renoWned
actor had played for the last time
W Q. BRADLEY, of Kentucky, on the Sd
refused the Corean mission to which he
was nomNeated by the President, saying
that his business interests would not per
NIT him to exile himself to such a distant
| land s
| Mrs. MARGARET SARGENT, daughter Of Dr.
Oliver Wendell Holmes, died at her fathers
home in Boston on the 4th
Rev. DR.. EDWARD BEEcHER, brother o1
OF the late Henry Ward Beecher, who was
recently injured in Brooklyn by the cars
suffered amputation of his left foot on the
| 4th. He is eighty-fye years old
JAMES A. VosE, Of Maine, was on the 4tl
appointed to his old place as appointment
clerk of the Post office Department. at Wash.
ington.
GOVERNOR STEVENSON, of Idaho on the
4th issued a call for constitutional con
yention at Boise City July on assurances
from Delegate Dubois in Washington thai
Idaho would be made State next winter.
| ROBERT T. LINCOLN, Minister to England
called on Secretary Blaine in Washington
on the 4th and received his commission
Later he called on the President and for.
mally accepted the Office.
The official figures given on the 4th of the
recent election in Rhode Island were as fol
lows: Davis Dem. for Governor, q, $50
Laid (Rep.l J, 16, $50; Chace Ind 5. .43355
Richardson tPro.), ,511. Davis lacks 54S o1
| an election but has q nluralitv of 2Q2 The