The Progress. [volume] (White Earth, Minn.) 1886-1889, 1889-06-22


struction and the Colored Baptist Church
We're blown down.
A HAIL and wind-storm on the 4th did
great damage In the vicinity of Norfolk and
portsmouth, Va The vineyards and or
chards suffered severely, vines and trees
being cut terribly and the fruit DESTROYED
swath of five or six miles broad was cut
through Norfolk and Nansamond counties
by the storm. Barns were blown down by
the wind and many horses and cattle were
killed. The losses were placed at $1,000
600.
AGALE on the 14th at Lumberton, N. G..
unroofed many small houses and utterly
obliterated the crops
AT sale Of trotting stock in Cleveland
o., on the 18th Suisun, bay mare. was
bought by John Madden, OF Lexington. Nv.
for SIC, 600.
sIx-DAY walk in San Francisco was
ended on the 18th, James Albert, the win
ner, making 533 miles; Gurrero, second, 525
miles.
In a family quarrel on the15th at Marion,
md, Charles Hupe, aged seventy two
years, shot his daughter law, fatally
wounding her. He was arrested.
The bill prohibiting the Importation of
dressed beef from other States was reject
|
GEORGE W. RICHARDS. superintendent Of
the Santa Fe mines at Carthage, n. NJ, was
murdered by two Mexicans on the 18th and
robbed OF 81, 600 which he had Just received
to pay the miners
The next meeting of the National Ed
itorial Association will be held In Detroit,
Mich, August $780,
A VALUABLE tin mine was discovered on
the 18th twenty miles from Topeka, Kan
The Wabash railway was sold in Chicago
on the 18th by order Of Judge Graham to a
committee representing majority of the
bondholders for $l5, SOC, 0OO
The celebration of the seventy-fifth ami
yersary of the American Baptist Missionary
Union was begun in Boston on the 18th.
The union has constituency Of nearly
$1,000 church members, and is the largest
missionary society in the world
In fit Of insanity on the 18th John
Schroeder, a German saloon-keeper at In
dianapolis, murdered his wife with razor
and then killed himself.
GENERAL ADNA ANDERSON, of Sing Sing,
N. Y, aged sixty years, and one of the best
known railway men in the country, COM
mitted suicide on the 18th at Philadelphia
by shooting himself in his room at hotel.
The cause for the deed was unknown.
Northern Wisconsin and Michigan on the
18th
JOHN HOWELL, sixty-one years old, no.
torlous crook and horse-thief from Noble
County, Ind, whom a vigilance committee
came near hanging at one time, completed
a seven-years' sentence in prison on the
18TH but was again arrested for some old
offense.
ABOUT five hundred dollars in counterfeit
ten dollar bills were circulated in Rush
vile, Ind, on the 18th by two strangers
They travelled in buggy, and left town be-
fore their game was discovered
s. J. COLEMAN, of Greensburg, Pa. lately
received White Cap notices. On the 18th his
barn was fred and the throat Of valuable
horse cut.
A PECULIAR accident happened on the
18th at Pana, Ill, by which Thomas Grogan
lost his life. A strong gust of wind blew
an empty coal oil barrel into the Springside
mine, where several men were at work It
fell two hundred and twenty feet, striking
GrOgan on the head and killing him in
stantly.
The Ohio Sons of Veterans at Cincinnati
on the 18th elected William E. Bundy
Colonel. He is a son of ex-Congressman
H. S. Bundy.
The Worcester Theater at Worcester,
Mass, was destroyed by fire on the 10Th,
and the company filing an engagement at
the time lost $11, 900 in costumes, scenery,
etc.
JAMES DORIAN, Of Maltby, Pa, killed his
wife with an axe on the 10th and then took
his own life Domestic trouble was the
cause.
sEvENTEEN-Y YEAR locusts had made their
appearance on the 10th in Middle Tennes-
see, and grave fears were entertained for
the safety Of vegetation.
IT was reported on the 10Th that star fish
were making heavy depredations on the
oyster beds in Long Island Sound.
TIE Methodist Episcopal bishops of the
| United States commenced their semi an.
nual meeting at Delaware, O., on the 10th
1T was reported at Duluth, Mimi, on the
| 10th that the Sarnia Line steamer United
Empire had been burned The boat was
valued at 800, COO
| ADy1CEs Of the 10Th report the loss at Sea
off Cape Blanco Of the iron side-whee
steamer Alaskan, of the Oregon Railway
Navigation Company, and the loss of five
Of the crew. The steamer was valued al
$3.50, 600
| Two THOUSAND employees Of the Nationa
Tube Works Company at McKeesport, Pa.
struck on the 10th for ten per cent. ad.
vance in wages.
AT Loyeland, O., on the 10th Robert Day
a young farmer, while drunk shot anG
killed his aged father, fatally shot hi
| divorced wife, and then set fire to the place
Day was arrested
| EIGHT men were injured, three probably
fatally, in an accident to work train neal
! Pittsburgh, Pa. on the 10Th.
IT was reported on the 10Th that scheme
was being perfected for long distance tele
phoning which contemplated the connec.
ton by telephone Of st. Paul. Minneapolis
Omaha, St. Louis and Kansas City with eacl
other. and with the East through Chicago.
| Ar the State council in Lynchburg, Va
on the 10Th of the Protestant Episcopal
church it was voted to exclude tue colorec
people from place in its councils.
STEWART BROTHERS. packing house at
Council Bluffs, Ia, was burned on the 10Th
/ Loss, $1Oo, OO0
JOSEPH PELZ, who keeps restaurant al
Horton, Kan, was taken from his home b.
two hundred men on the 10Th and given
seventy five lashes on his bare back fo
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