The Progress. [volume] (White Earth, Minn.) 1886-1889, 1889-03-16

AT ten clock on the morning 81 the .1rn
Vice President elect Morton and his VIE
left New York for Washing ton.
The Prohibition State convention IN tho
27th at Lansing, Mich, nominated James R
Lang, of Genesee, for Justice Of The an.
preme Court, and John Russell and Russell
N. Kellogg for Regents.
The President on the 9th signed the hills
pensioning Mrs Sheridan and retiring Cen
eral Rosecrans.
A DINNER was given at the White House on
the evening OF the 27th by President and
Mrs. Cleveland in honor Of General and Mrs
Harrison. NJ a3sS
JOHN W. JOHNSTON, United States Sena-
tor from 1870 to 1888, died on the 27th at his
home in Richmond, Va, aged seventy EIGHT
years. $500
AT the Democratic State convention held
on the 2Sth ult. at Grand Rapids. Mich. I,
R. Sherwood, of Kalamazoo, was renonai-
mated for Justice Of the Supreme Court and
W.. Daley and John :. Lawrence for Re-
gents of the State University.
Hon HANNIBAL HAAn1N, the only living
ex-Vice-President OF the United States. was
on the floor of the United States Senate on
the 26th ult.
met in convention at Baltimore on the ssth
ult.
GOVERNOR WILSON, Of West Virginia, ron
the 2Sth ult. issued certificates of election
to j. D. Anderson Dem. from the Third
Congressional district, and to j. M. Jackson
(Dem.1 from the Fourth Congressional dis
hict
COLONEL e. G. MCCLURE, of South Caro-
lima, appointment Clerk Of the POST office
Department, died suddenly Of heart disease
on the 2sth ult. in Washington
FOREIGN.
BARON HIRscH, of Vienna, on the 26th do
mated 40, 600 francs yearly to Austria and
similar sum to Hungary to be devoted to the
relief Of tradesmen who may thereby be
saved from financial ruin
WHEN the Parnell commission resumed
its session in London on the Goth a sensa-
zion was created by the announcement that
Pigott, the principal witness Of the Times,
had made written confession that he
forged the Parnell letters and committed
perjury in giving his testimony before the
commission. 1t was also stated that he had
escaped from London
NEAR St George, Ont, on the evening Of
the 9th three cars of the st. Louis express
train fell through a bridge one hundred feet
in height, and eight persons were killed and
tWenty-six wounded, some fatally
The London Times on the 27th Withdrew
it's pamphlets, ''Parnellism and Crime and
"O'Donnell versus Walter,'' from circula-
ton, and expressed regret for having pub
lished the forged letters.
The German missionaries at Zanzibar held
captive by the Arabs were liberated on the
s7th.
A PRINTERS boy in Vienna was on the 37th
sentenced to six months imprisonment at
hard labor for repeating stories about the
late Crown Prince Rudolph.
TEE extensive brick works Of De Haynin,
near Marchiennes, France, were burned on
the 27th. The flames spread to ten reser-
voirs of tar, each reservoir containing one
hundred thousand gallons, all Of which,
with number Of barges in the river, were
consumed.
LONDON advices of the 27th say that dur
ing a gale on the North Sea seventy lives
were lost.
A PASSENGER and freight train collided on
the 27th at Sweetsburg, Can, on the Cana
dian Pacific railway, and three trainmen
were killed.
STEIN1Tz, the champion chess player,
played simultaneously against nineteen per-
sons on the 2Sth ult. at Havana, Cuba, and
won all the games.
A DWELLING at Marthaville, Ont, was de-
stroyed by fire on the 18th ult., and the only
occupant, an old lady named Callivan, per-
ished in the flames.
PRINCE OSCAR, of Sweden was presented
with an addition to his family on the 2Sth
ult. in the shape Of little daughter.
MRS COLLINS, a murderess, was hanged
on the 2Sth ult. at Sidney, n. s. w.
IT was reported on the LIST that Richard
Pigott, the forger Of the Parnell letters,
had committed suicide in hotel in Madrid.
A STATEMENT that Sir Julian Pauncefote
had been appointed British Minister to the
United States was officially confirmed on
the 1st