The Progress. [volume] (White Earth, Minn.) 1886-1889, 1889-05-04

IulHeu ebu6 pOCaGO, pea anu UeAn crops II
portions Of Virginia
TIE business part of Cheney, w. T., was
almost destroyed by an incendiary fire on
the 18th
FREDERICK BRoDERIcK and Chester Col
Inns were arrested on the 18th at Rondout,
N. Z, for making and circulating counter
felt COIN A bag containing about seventy
five dollars in bogus nickels, together with
dimes, etc, was captured.
A wIND-sToRM on the 18th at Isabel, Kan,
destroyed five houses and ruined crops
A BAG containing 1000 In gold dis
appeared on the 18th from the Northern
Pacific Express Office at Brainerd, Mimi,
and officials and clerks were completely in
the dark as to Its whereabouts.
"A MAn-PoUCH containing valuable reg
istered letters for the Cleveland office was
stolen from a Michigan Southern train in
Chicago on the 18th.
REpoRTs Of the 18th from all parts Of the
country indicated that the peach crop this
season would be the largest ever known,
that the crop Of fruit generally would be
good, and that the yield of vegetables would
be enormous.
The steubenville (O) iron and steel
works, which started about one week ago,
were stopped on the 18th by a strike. Five
hundred men We're out
TEE ladies Of the Chicago Free Kinder
garten Association gave an informal recep-
ton at ST Pauls Universalist Church on
the 18th, it being the one hundred and
seventh anniversary Of the birth Of the
founder of the Kindergarten system
Frederick W A. Froebel
A VESSEL went ashore on the 18th near
life-saving station No. 81, near Norfolk, Va,
and all on board were drowned before any
assistance could reach them.
JOHN HosTETTER, a wealthy farmer, aged
seventy years, residing near Campbells-
hanging himself in his barn.
AT Jacksonville, Fla, on the 18th Isaac
Jones (colored) broke nearly every bone in
the body of his four year-old child with an
iron bar and then beat his wife to death.
He claimed to be subject to fits, and that he
had one at the time.
CHARLES RICE, living near Franklin, Pa
sought relief from asthma on the 18th by
rubbing Kerosene on his breast While
thus engaged the can exploded, burning the
house and fatally injuring Rice
MRS. HENRY BENNEHoFF, seventy-five
years old, was assaulted by a tramp on the
18th near Tifhn O., and so badly injured
that she died in short time
The old Carroll homestead at Knoxville,
Md, was burned on the 18th. The tract
upon which the old mansion house stood
was taken up in 1927 by the father OF
Charles Carroll, of Carrollton, and en-
braced fifteen thousand acres
ABRAM W. MARSHALL, one of the most
prominent citizens of Petersburg, Va, shot
himself dead on the 18th in the presence OF
his wife. Financial trouble caused the deed
A LARGE barn on the farm of Richard Da-
wilson, near Charlottesville, Ind, was
burned on the 18th with it's contents, includ
ing six horses and a number of cattle.
JOHN II. SWIFT was hanged on the 18th at
Hartford, Conn.,, for the murder of his wife
on July Z, 1887 He shot her because she
refused to live with him.
Two OF the men engaged in the tearing
down OF telegraph wires in New York were
pulled from the window OF a building on
the 18th by the sudden falling Of pole and
killed.
DURING the seven days ended on the 10th
there were I'll business failures in the
United States, against 239 the previous seven
days.
FIVE Mormon missionaries were whipped
tarred and feathered and drivon out of Dale
County, Ala, on the 10Th.
erans' Union at Washington was on the 10TH
named for Philip H. Sheridan
AFTER an absence of six months on a tour
around the world A. G. Spalding and his
band of baseball players arrived in Chica.
go on the 10th and We're given a hearty
! welcome.
The entire plant of the Canastota glass
works at Bowling Green, o., was destroyed
| by fire on the 18th.
The Calendar Insulating & Waterproofne
Company Of New York failed on the 10th fol
100000
In Pittsburgh, Pa, on the 18th it was 81
warm that two men were overcome by the
heat and would probably die.
| MALACHI ALLEN, a one-armed negro, ani
James Mills, half Indian and half negro
| were hanged on the 10Th at Fort Smith
| Ark, for murder.
SYLVESTER GRUB was hanged on the 1871
at Vincennes, Ind, for the murder of hi
| sweetheart Gertrude Downey, at Prince
| ton, Ind, September Is, 1855.
AF1RE on the 10Th among elevators anG
warehouses in New York City did damage
to the extent of $3,5OOOOO The east banl
of the North river was swept clear from
Fifty ninth to Sixty-ifth street Five mel
probably lost their lives in the flames ant
several others were injured
CHARLES BARKER, of Boston, checke
champion of the world, and James Reed, O
Pittsburgh, Pa, agreed on the 10Th to pla,
series Of fifty games at Chicago, com
mencing June 8, for the championship ant
$3.50 a side
A HEAVY snow-storm prevailed through
out Southern Colorado on the 10th.
ONE hundred and fourteen years ago tn,
battle of Lexington was fought, and a
Lexington and Boston on the 10Th anniver
! sary exercises were held.
A DYNAMITE cartridge was explode,
under a frame building at Middletown, o.
on the 10Th by some one unknown, demol
1sh1ng half the building and breaking al
the windows in the United States Hotel
AT Huron, D. T., John Flaherty, age,
twenty years, was on the 10Th sentenced
to life imprisonment for the murder Of Hat
tie Wilson.
A PASSENGER train on the Short Line wa
run into by freight train on the 10Th nea
Glencoe, Ky, and eight persons were in
jured.
A CYCLONE struck the town of Hinckley
Ill, on the 10Th, blowing path one hun
4 dred feet wide through the village, unroof
ing or blowing down every building in it
course. No one was killed
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