The Progress. [volume] (White Earth, Minn.) 1886-1889, 1889-05-25

subsidized on the I'd, it was thought that the
local government was sufficiently strong to
preserve peace, and General Merritt had
returned with his command to Leayen-
worth Kan. @
WHILE A. Shearer was driving in the vii
lage Of Adrian, o. on the I'd his team ran
away, fatally iniuring him and killing his
daughter, who was with him. SIS
A TERRIFIC cyclone struck Warsaw, N. c.,
on the I'd, and many small houses were
blown away almost bodily and large houses
were torn up SO that they were not habit
able. Several persons were seriously hurt
by flying timbers. Strawberries were the
principal article of early production there,
and hundreds of acres were ruined.
& J. II. WILLIS, an old and wealthy farmer,
was found dead in his field near Peters
burg. Ind, on the Cd 1t was believed he
was foully dealt with.
REPORTS Of the Cd from many points in
Illinois and Indiana stated that a heavy
frost had done great damage to fruit, es-
pecially peaches, which promised so we'll
Vegetables were badly injured, while much
of the young corn was bitten off level with
the ground.
The total number Of immigrants passing
Chicago for the West in April, including
f,SO u.
The famous trotting mare Fugue, valued
ton Park track in Chicago. She was owned
by Major H. G. Mcdowell, Of Lexington, Ky.
AT Darlington, KY, Louis Morton shot
and fatally wounded Lizzie Hayes and then
killed himself on the Cd A lovers quarrel
was the cause.
In Chicago on the I'd three large steel
companies We're consolidated with a cap
ital of 5000 900.
DURING the seven days ended on the Sd
there were Isl business failures in the
United States, against 81 the previous seven
days. The total of failures in the United
States january to date was 1896, against
1892 in 1885,
A FIRE on the Sd in Leroy, N. Y, de-
stroyed W. D. Matthews & Co. IS malt-house
and contents. Loss, 100000
PRESIDENT HARRISON issued proclama-
ton on the Sd throwing open the Fort
Sisseton military reservation in Dakota for
settlement.
AT Pridesburg crossing, near Philadel-
phia Pa, a coach containing eleven men
was struck by a train on the 3d. and two of
the occupants were killed and the others
were badly wounded, three probably IA
tally.
FIRE on the Sd at Forreston, Ill, caused
a loss of 100000
The State Institute for Feeble minded at
Frankfort, Ky, was burned on the Sd, but
the inmates were all rescued without acct
dent
Cote ia the amount of $4,000, 900 was Or
1erea al New York on the Sd for shipment
to3Europe
SIS AT I1lnpo.Ha, Kan, on the Sd the Repub-
llcans OF the Fourth district nominated
Harrison Kelley for Congress, to succeed
Thomas +. Ryan, appointed Minister to
& BpNDY' s. HOTEL and stables in New Castle.
Ind. We're. burned on the Sd, with several
horses and valuable vehicles
4 IN New York on the Sd George Francis
Train passed his fourteenth day of total alb
stinence from food and drink excepting
water and a little weak lemonade He saws
great pestilence is soon coming and he
will be able to meet it better by reducing
his weight.
WALKER HARRIS and Robert Williams
(colored) were hanged on the Sd at En-
peria Va, for murder.
A MERCHANT named Welwick, of Blair,
La, shot his wife and two children on the
Sd, set fire to his residence and burned the
bodies OF his victims with it and then shot
himself. No cause was known for the deed.
THERE were sixty -one strikes, Involving
II, 1913 strikers, reported to Bradstreet's dur
ing April last, against 1913 strikes with 5000
strikers in April, 1888 Since January j.
1889, there were reported 221 strikes and
4S, 1924 strikers, against 313 strikes and 81, geo
strikers during the same four months of
1888, and 1893 strikes and 153,0 OBS strikers in
1887.
COMMISSIONER TANNER, of the Pension
Office at Washington, stated on the Sd that
the number of ex-soldiers who were draw
ing pensions for total blindness at the rate
OF $72 per month was SIS.
SEVERAL copies Of an inflammatory secret
circular recalling the Haymarket tragedy
in Chicago on the 4th Of May, 1886, and ex-
tolling the deeds Of the Anarchists, were
found by the police on the Sd.
The house OF Mr. and Mrs Charles Will
Jams at Abingdon, Md, was burned on the
Sd, and their four children, whose ages
ranged from six to fifteen years, persisted
in the flames
THREE children of a family named Silvery.
house on the Sd, when the building took
fire and the little ones persisted in the
flames.
NAAA'
near Keokuk, Ia, was swindled out of
$4,000 on the Sd by three .confde ace men
who purported to be land buyers
The Supreme Court of Nebraska decided
on the Sd that the holder of a mortgage on
growing corn could not recover after the
corn had been harvested and sold.
Four fine residences in Springfield, Mo-,
were burned on the Sd, and an infant child
Of J. M. Kinney was burned to death in one
of the houses.
The miners of the Pittsburgh (Pa) dis
trict on the Sd issued an address to the rail-
road coal operators in which they demanded
a yearly rate of seventy four cents per ton.
MRS. JOSEPHINE KIssELL shot herself on
the Sd at her home in Houghville, Ind She
had been married but a year, but quarrels
with her husband had been frequent
THE first general observance OF Arbor
Day in the public schools of New York State
took place on the 3d
FRANK sHERER, Of Youngstown, o., COM
mitted suicide by hanging on the Sd be-
cause he could not pay his rent
PERSONAL AND POLITICAL.
Willard PEREINs, formerly exhibited