The Progress. [volume] (White Earth, Minn.) 1886-1889, 1889-06-22
JUDGE MATTHEWS. who succeeds Judge
Durham as First Comptroller of the Treas

JUDGE MATTHEW'S. who succeeds Judge
Durham as First Comptroller of the Treas
ury; Mr. Huston, who succeeds MI. Hyatt
as Treasurer Of the United States, and
Frank w. Palmer, who succeeds Mr. Benz
edict as Public Printer, entered upon their
new duties at Washington on the 18th.
MRS. MARY E. DICKINSON, mother OF Anna
Dickinson, the lecturer, and Susan e. Dick
inson, the writer, died on the 18th at West
Pittson, Pa, at the age of ninety-fve years
EDWARD M BIDDLE, secretary and treas
urer of the Cumberland Valley railroad,
and the oldest railway official in the United
States died on the 18th at his home in
Carlisle, Pa, aged eighty lone years.
The Ohio Republican State convention
will be held at Columbus June Is and 26.
MRS. CATHERINE STOREY, aged eighty
years, was burned to death on the 10Th at
Lynn, Mass.
GENERAL VoLNEY T. Howard, prominent
lawyer, died at Santa Monica, Cal, on the
18th. He was born in Maine IN 1909, and
was elected to Congress several times from
Texas.
WILLIAM W. HARDING, for twenty years
publisher of the Philadelphia Enquirer,
died in that city on the 18th.
TIE death of Rear-Admiral Edward
Donaldson occurred on the 18th at Balti-
more, Md, at the age Of seventy three
years. He entered the navy in 1885,
MINISTER LINCOLN sailed from New York
for England on the 18th on the steamer
City of Paris.
COLONEL FREDERICK GERKEB, internal
revenue collector at Philadelphia died ON
the 10Th
The Woman's Municipal Suffrage bin,
yxyhi0 oh h no oh
defeated in the Senate on the 10th by vote
of 16 to 10.
The New York Legislature adjourned sims
die on the 18th.
\ PRESIDENT HARRISON made the following
appointments on the 10th: Solomon Hirsch,
OF Oregon, Minister to Turkey; Colonel
Clark 3. Carr. of Illinois, Minister to Dem
mark; Henry W. Severance, of California,
Consul at Honolulu; John Jarrett, of Penn
sylvania, Consul at Birmingham; Thomas
Sherman, of Washington, Consul at Liver
pool
ALLEN THoRNDIKE RICE, tie newly-ap-
pointed United States Minister to Russia,
died suddenly at the Fifth Avenue Hotel in
New York on the 10th from throat trouble.
Mr.. Rice was thirty six years Of age, was a
bachelor, and was very wealthy
Ten THOUSAND weavers employed in the
cotton factories at Thizy, France, struck on
the 18th for higher wages
The immigration to Canada has fallen off
largely this season. The whole number up
to the 18th was 1895, against Il, 73S last
year.
The projected American bank in the City.
OF Mexico has encountered insurmountable
difficulties, and it was said on the 1lth that
it would be unable to perfect it's organiza-
ton. !. MI
A PLOT was unearthed on the 18th among
the military at st. Petersburg having for it's
object the assassination of the Gar, and a
large number of arrests had been made.
In a dispute on the 18th at Eisenheim,
Germany, over some land, the villagers
were fired upon by the gendarmes and
seven persons were killed
IT was reported on the 18th from Rio de
Janeiro that there was imminent danger Of
a war between Bolivia and Paraguay.
AN enormous landslide occurred on the
14th in the region Of the spiessback, Swift
zerland, destroying villages, forests and
cattle.
FIVE brigands were hanged in the COURT
yard of the prison at Sofia, Bulgaria, on
the 18th
The subcommittee of the Samoan con-
ference decided on the 18th that the munic-
ipal council OF Apia shall comprise six
members, Germany, England and the
United States each to appoint one. The
other three shall be elected by the residents
of Apia. This decision displeases the Brit
ish commissioners
In the British House of Commons on the
10th Mr.. Balfour, Chief Secretary for Ire
land, said that there were now ten Irish
members Of Parliament imprisoned in Ire
land
FIRE on the 10th at ST sauveur, Can,
swept over o great district and laid seven
hundred houses in ashes Over five thou
sand persons were without shelter
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