The Progress. [volume] (White Earth, Minn.) 1886-1889, 1889-07-06

HaVeO aG SSVV,VVU.
AT Silver City, Col, Colonel F. c. Jobst,
the Michigan Central agent, and an opera
tor named Burrell We're killed on the 5th
by robbers, who secured about $780,
The St James Hotel at Stevens Point.
young man and two girls persisted in the
flames.
PosTMAsTER-GENERAL WANAMAKER sent
outa circular to postmasters on the 5th call
Ing on them to inform him as to the extent
OF the business transacted at their offices on
Sunday. The information was desired with
a view to decreasing, If possible, the amount
OF Sabbath work performed by post-office
employees
The annual parade Of the SundaY-school
Union OF Brooklyn, N. Y, took place on
the 9th, sixty Thousand children being in
line.
The United States Brewers Association
met in twenty ninth annual session on the
5th at Niagara Falls, N. Y. A resolution
that SIC, 600 be appropriated for the benefit
of the sufferers of the Johnstown disaster
was heartily carried
AT Biloxi, Miss, an incendiary fire on the
9Th destroyed twenty buildings, caus-
ing a loss of 100000.
THE annual convention of the American
Bankers Association will be held 2t Kansas
City, No, September 25-97
Lon BARRETT, notorious horse thief and
general crook. was arrested on the 9th at
Terre Haute, Ind, for passing counterfeit
money.
JOHN AND HENRY GLLY, miners, were
killed on the 9th by the fall of coal roof in
a mine near Wilkesbarre, Pa
FIVE THOUSAND men were engaged on the
9Th in the work of cleaning away debris and
searching for bodies at Johnstown, Pa The
indications were that the estimate Of IL, 900
to ID, 0OO would not exceed the actual num-
Der of lives lost when all was known The
militia was in possession OF the town and
its approaches, and sight-seers and curiosi-
ty seekers were debarred from entering.
Good order prevailed and the homeless and
destitute We're being cared for as amply as
possible.
The Secretary Of War decided on the 9Th
to purchase for the new site for Fort Omaha
a tract of $40 acres of land about eight
miles from Omaha.
Rev. THOMAS T. DAVIES, for twenty-one
years pastor of st. Peters Church in Phila-
delphia, was on the 9th elected Episcopal
Bishop of Michigan
]. H BENJAMIN, editor of the Deland,
(Fla.j News shot and instantly killed
Captain J. w. Douglas at New Smyrna on
the 9th. The shooting was the result of an
old feud,
EDDIE FISHER. aged thirteen years, whose
mother and five sisters and brothers per
ished in the flood, committed suicide at
Johnstown on the 9th by jumping from the
top of building.
WHILE insane on the 9th Mrs Quig'ey, the
wife Of a well-to-do farmer living near
Peotone, Ill, gave her two children dose
OF Rough on Rats" and took some her
self.
KARL HARTMANN, a farmer living near
G1rard, Kan, strangled his wife to death on
the 9Th and then went to the barn and
hanged himself. No cause was known for
the deed
The business portion of Seattle, the largest
city in Washington Territory, was burned on
the afternoon of the 9Th. Every bank, hotel.
place of amusement, all the leading bust
ness houses, all the newspaper offices, the
depots miles of steamboat wharves,
the coal bunkers, the freight warehouses
and the telegraph Offices were burned
FOREST fires were raging on the 9th to
the north OF Duluth Mimi, all through the
Vermilion iron range, and great loss was
expected
Bessie Ranes, girl of fourteen years, Hv-
ing in Lima, O., eloped on the 9th. Owing
to their youth their parents had objected to
their being too much together
SURGEON GENERAL HAMILTON at Washing
ton, was notified on the 9Th that there was
serious danger of sickness at Johnstown.
Pa, unless active sanitary measures were
taken. He had given the necessary orders,
and had had shipped large quantity of
A temporary depopulation
was urged
ADvIcEs Of the 9th say that in Steuben
County, N Y, and adjacent to it between
twenty and twenty-five lives were lost and
about S., 600, 600 worth of property destroyed
in the recent flood, and in Eastern Penn
sylvania nearly 700 lives were known to
have been lost, and property to the amount
Of SIC, 00O, 00O was swept away.
THREE men, G. l. Woods, George B. Lewis
and Il. N Gavin, were killed on the 18th at
Hutchinson, Kan, by boiler explosion.
TIE Herlich piano works at Paterson, N
j., were burned on the 9TH.
ELEVEN business houses and offices in
Syracuse, Kan, were destroyed by fire on
the 18th.
WHEN the will of Mary J. Kennedy was
probated on the 18th at Indianapolis, Ind,
1t was found that the only heirs to her es-
tate were two sons who are both serving
life sentences in prison for murder.
A DISTINCT shock of earthquake was felt
in New Bedford, Mass, on the morning of
the 18th
A FIRE on the 7th at Livingston, Ala, de-
stroyed half Of the town.
The weather at Johnstown, Pa, on the
18th was warm, and fears existed that out
breaks of disease would follow the flood
Five cases of diphtheria were reported, and
dysentery had made it's appearance in
some places. The work of recovering the
bodies was going on steadily.
The western. part Of Sedgwick County
and the eastern part Of Kingnan County,
in Kansas, were swept over by a cyclone on
the 18th and all the buildings in space
twenty miles long by Eve miles wide were
wrecked and the crops destroyed A
farmer named Rogers and all the members
OF his family were killed.
AvDIcEs of the 18th say that the recent
fire in Seattle, w. T.. caused a loss of $15,-
OOO, 900, with not more than one-third COW
cred by insurance. The entire business
portion of the city and part of the resi-
dence neighborhood was destroyed, and
hundreds of people were homeless Anum-
hAr nf