The Progress. [volume] (White Earth, Minn.) 1886-1889, 1889-06-29
PERSONAL AND POLITICAL.

rs III
PERSONAL AND POLITICAL.
CAPTAIN FRANCIS ALEXANDER, we'll
known ship builder, died at his home on
Staten Island, N. Y, on the 10TH The lat
ter years of his life had been devoted to In
creasing the trade between Gulf OF Mexico
ports and the United States.
PRESIDENT HARRISON on the 10th NOM
mated Thomas j. Morgan, Of Rhode Island
to be Commissioner of Indian Affairs, vice
John r. Oberly, resigned
PRESIDENT HARRISON will leave Washing
ton the latter part OF June for Deer Park
Md, where he will spend his summer vaca-
ton
MRS. ESTHER RHoADs, the oldest resident
of Bartholomew County, Ind. +, died at Harris
vile on the 11th aged one hundred and
one years.
The National Democratic Committee met
in New York on the 18th and elected Calvin
S. Brice as chairman.
WILLIAM W. SIMPSON, postmaster at Sill
yer Springs, Md, eighty-six years Of age,
was married on the 18th to Miss Winnie r.
Willis, who is but nineteen years of age.
Iowa Republicans will meet in State con
vention at Des Moines on August IA to nomi
nate State officers
CHARLES WILLIAMSON, survivor Of the
war OF 1912, died at his home in Winona,
Mimi, on the 18th, aged ninety mine years
DR.. ANDREW SIMONDs, reputed to be the
richest man in South Carolina, died on the
18th at Charleston. He was worth $3, OO0.s
Co.,
The Kentucky Republicans will hold q
State convention July to nominate can
didate for Treasurer in place Of John Bar
rett, who has declined to run
FOREIGN.
EMIGRATION AGENT BoURKE, of Bellmullet.
Ireland, was on the sth charged with send
ing pauper families to this country on
money supplied by the British Government.
AMERICAN boodlers in Canada were great
~ alarmed on the Sth over the statement
that the Weldon bill was retroactive, and
that they might be turned over to the
American authorities
The town of Sebaraz, in Austrian Galicia,
was almost entirely destroyed by fire on
the 10th, and many lives were lost
AT Vile Nouville, France, a rejected
sutton murdered farmers daughter, the
father, mother and man servant on the
10th.
The Dominion Government decided on the
10th to remove the export duty on logs
American lumbermen and hauled to mills
on the American s1de
The outlook for the Russian harvest was
reported to be bad on the 10th.
THE Russian authorities on the 10th SEN
fenced forty Lone students of the Cracow
University to three days imprisonment and
to pay fines of five hundred forms for sing
ing Polish airs while on an excursion to
Oitkoff.
A PLOT was discovered at Belgrade on the
18th to dethrone the young King of Servia.
AN excursion train laden with Sunday
school scholars was wrecked on the 10Th
near Armagh, Ireland, and seventy-two
persons were killed and many others in
jured Most Of the killed ranged from six
teen to twenty years Of age.
A LETTER received at Zanzibar on the 10Th
from Ururi. on Lake Victoria Nyanza,
stated that Stanley, the explorer, was there
on the I'd of December last.
j. & II. TAYLOR, dealers in railway and
engineering supplies at Montreal, Cam.
failed on the 18th for $135, 900.
AT the races on the 18th at Bellerbeck,
Eng, the crowd became so excited that
they pushed one another on to the course,
and many were run down by the racers and
four were killed.
SIX THOUSAND dock laborers at Glasgow,
Scotland, struck on the 18th for higher
wages
The Canadian order of Odd-Fellows in
session on the 18th at Toronto voted down
a motion to provide for the eligibility of
colored men for membership in the order
LORD ADELBERT PERCY CECIL, the evan
gelist, was drowned on the 18th in the Bay
of Quinto, near Adolphustown, Ont Lord
Cecil was son of the second Marquis Of
Exeter, and was born in 1S41.