The Progress. [volume] (White Earth, Minn.) 1886-1889, 1889-04-20

ADAM q. TANNER, Of Canton, O., was on
the 9th appointed Chief Of the Appointment
Division of the Interior Department. ait
Washington
BY the elections held in Rhode Island on
the 9th the General Assembly was assured
to the Republicans, who would elect the
State officers.
THE funeral Of Philo Remington inventor
of the rifle that bears his name, was held on
the 9th at lion, N. Y.
REAR-ADMIRAL 7. II. PATTERSON tretired)
died on the 10th at his home in Washington,
aged sixty nine years.
. NATHAN f. DIXON (Rep) was elected
United States Senator on the 10th by the
Rhode Island Legislature In joint assembly
at Providence
A LICENSE was issued at Pittsburgh, Pa,
on the l1th for the marriage Of Samuel r.
Welser, aged seventy-tWo years, to Edith
Wilson, q girl fifteen years old.
Ex-CoNGREssMAN WILLIAM P. CUTLER
died on the 11th at his home in Marietta,
O., at the age Of seventy seven years
MRS. M J, CHASE, of Philadelphia, was on
the 18th elected president of the McAll Mis-
sion In this country. #s
GENERAL EDWARD HATCH, Colonel of the
Ninth United States Cavalry, died at Fort
Robinson, Neb., on the 18th He entered
the volunteer service in 1861, and was ap.
pointed Colonel In the regular army in 1885
u A CALL was issued by Governor Fifer on
the 18th for an election in the Nineteenth
Illinois district on the 21st of May of sue
cessor to Congressman Townshend
D. j. FARwELL, an Ex-Governor of Wis
consin, died on the 18th at Grant City, NO.,
aged seventy years. Hewas noted politl-
clan of the Northwest forty years ago.
PRESIDENT HARRISON on the 10Th appoints
ed Lyman E. Knapp, of Middlebury, Vt, to
be Governor of Alaska.
The elections for members of the Rhode
Island Legislature were ended on the 18th,
and the complexion of that body stands on
joint ballot: Republicans, 50; Democrats 40.
Mrs. LYDIA WATSON, of Leicester, Mass,
died on the 18th, aged one hundred and two
years and three months She had been re-.
markably well and vigorous up to her final
illness.
FOREIGN.
Four Russian officers made a wager on
the 9th that they could ride on horseback
from st. Petersburg to Paris in forty-five
days. They will start in May.
A DISPATCH of the 9th from Western India
announced the failure of the pearl fisheries
owing to the prevalence Of cholera.
DISPATCHES Of the 10th from Spain an
nounced heavy gales off the coast, inter-
rupting telegraphic communication, delay
ing mails and steamers, and doing great
deal of damage. A number Of wrecks were
reported
AN explosion on the 10th in the Erin
colliery at Castrop, Australia, caused the
death Of twenty-five persons.
LONDON advices of the 10th say that the
spring emigration to the United States had
assumed large proportions. All the avail
able steerage space on the several steamers
at Liverpool and at continental ports had
been taken up for intending emigrants
The movement was more voluntary in char
acter and less the work Of agents than
hitherto, and the people were of the better
class
M M1cHoL EUGENE CHEvREU1, the distin-
guished French chemist, died in Paris on
the 9th He was born in Anglers, August l,
17S6, and was therefore nearly one hundred
and three years of age.
FIFTY-THREE HUNDRED emigrants sailed
from Bremen and Hamburg on the 18th for
New York
The trial Of General Boulanger, Count
Dillon and Henri Rochefort was com
menced before the French Senate on the
18th.
ADvIcEs of the 18th from Mexico say that
four Of the men arrested on charge of be.
ing implicated in the derailment OF Presi-
dent Diaz's train had been shot.
The Inman steamer City of Chester on
reaching Queenstown on the 18th reported
having sighted the steamer Danmark, OF
the Thingvalla line, on April in disabled
and sinking condition having apparently
been abandoned in mid-ocean. The Dan.
mark, when she sailed from Christiania,
Norway, for New York, had about seVen
hundred persons on board, and the infer.
ence was that these had either been lost OF
We're at sea in the ships boats.