The Progress. [volume] (White Earth, Minn.) 1886-1889, 1889-05-25
Epitome of the w eek.
NEWS COMPILATION.
DOMESTIC.

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DOMESTIC.
A FIRE on the a7th at Jonesboro, Ark.
destroyed over forty houses, causing loss
of $4,000.
A COUNTERFEIT ten-dollar bill United
States note of the series OF 1885, letter G,
was in circulation in ST Louis on the 9th.
PosTMAsTER-GENERAL WANANlAKER issued
an order on the 9th that the buildings
OF his department should be closed Sunday
in future and there should be no Sunday
work performed
The Boston & Maine railroad managers on
the 18th nit ordered heads Of departments
to allow no work on Sunday except to run
regular trains.
From two to four inches Of snow fell In
the upper peninsula of Michigan on the Goth
ult
MRS. SUSAN B1NKLEY, aged seventy-nine
years, was burned to death on the Goth ult.
at Xenia, O., by her clothes catching fire
from the CRATE.
PATRICK McGINNIs was hanged on the
10Th uIt at Oregon City, Ore, for the muir
der of Sheriff Robert Lockwood July last.
In the Federal Court at Fort Smith, Ark,
on the 18th ult. Judge Parker sentenced
Jack Spaniard, Frank Capell, William
Walker, Joe Martin and Elsie James to hang
Wednesday, July II next, for murder.
Four men were drowned on the Goth ult.
at Portland, Ore, by the upsetting of
boat on the Columbia river.
BARRY STREE. an aeronaut, made an as
cension on the 18th ult. at Boonville, Ind.
and when at the height Of three hundred
feet the balloon burst. STREET, fell with
frightftl rapidlty, and was fatally injured.
The Windsor Theater in Chicago was de-
stroyed by fire on the 3Oth ult
The centennial celebration in New York
City on the 3Oth ult. was grand and i'm
posing one. This continent had never
seen its like before. In the great parade
nearly every State and Territory was repre-
sented. In the evening the Metropolitan
Opera-House was the scene of probably the
greatest banquet ever held within the rec
objection of man. On the evening of the
goth the great ball took place.
In Chicago the centennial celebration on
the 30th ult. was very enthusiastic Serv-
ices We're held in all the churches and
schools and in the evening there was a
grand display of fireworks. In the crush
to see the latter scores of persons We're in
jured, some fatally. In other Western cities
the day was also ittingly observed
L. W. JOHNSON and A. L. Pease, middle
aged men and apparently farmers, blew
out the gas in a Chicago hotel on the night
of the goth ult. and were found dead the
next morning.
THROUGHOUT the entire country on the
Both ult the centennial Of the Inauguration
OF George Washington as the first President
Of the United States was fttingly observed
The statement OF the public debt issued
on the LIST showed the total debt to be
in,
debt less cash in Treasury, 81, 1O1, sos 42S
Decrease during April, s13O7s, 264. De-
crease since June 80. 1883, $63, 979, 22S.
AT Hartwell, O., on the LIST Mrs Proes-
man, wife of the ticket agent of the Bee
Line road, was sand-bagged in the station
and robbed OF $3.50
The Indiana State Medical Society, hay
ing a membership of thirteen hundred ply
sicians, met in annual convention on the LIST
at indianapolis.
STRIKE of builders, affecting five thou
sand men, was inaugurated at Pittsburgh
on the LIST for an advance of twenty-five
cents a day.
THE schooner Shiloh, which carried a
crew OF fourteen men, and which left
Gloucester Mass, March %, on a fishing
trip, was on the 1st given up as lost.
WHILE handling a revolver on the LIST in
the law office of William Scott, at PEORIA
ILL.,, Miss Jessie Benning fatally shot her
self
The feature Of the third and last day Of
the New York centennial celebration was
mammoth civic and Industrial parade on
the 1st. President Harrison reviewed the
procession from stand in Madison square
He left for Washington in the afternoon
CORNELIUS VAN Corr, New York's new
postmaster, assumed control of the Office on
the 1st.
The twenty-seventh anniversary Of Gen
eral Buffers occupation of New Orleans
was observed by the Butler Club in Boston
on the LIST.
News reached San Antonio, Tex, on the
LIST Of desperate fighting at Gunajuata
Mex, III which thirty soldiers and police
men and two hundred rioters were killed
The trouble arose from the imprisonment
of five Jesuit priests who had been deliver
ing seditious sermons.
u. =. COOPER, travelling agent for a
piano warehouse, was robbed on the 1st in
a hotel at Cleveland, O., of 5000 in cur
rency which he had in his coat pocket.
+ JOSEPH EVANS and Bartholomew Curry,
Of Lowell, Mass. were fatally injured on
the lst by having a barn which they were
moving fall on them.
WHITE CAPS demolished the saloon of
John Messmore at Rawson, O., on the LIST.
JOSEPH LUTON and Andrew Lawson,
both farmers, accidentally drove into
deep creek on the LIST near Manchester,
Conn.,, and were drowned
WILLIAM L1sTMAN's mill and two million
feet Of lumber were burned at La Crosse,
Wis, on the 1st. Loss, 5000, 600
& COLONEL SEXTON assumed the duties Of
postmaster of Chicago on the LIST.
DURING a row among negroes on the LIST
at Kansas City, Mo-, Annie Edwards hadher
throat cut and James LEVEL was fatally cut
near the heart.
The Erie canal was formally opened on
the 1st
EARTHQUAKE shocks were distinctly felt
on the 1st at Union City, Tenn.
PATRICK RITcHFoRD, Michael Finn and
Patrick Reagan lminers) were crushed to
death on the LIST in the Hyde Park colliery
near Wilkesbarre, Pa, by the falling Of a
portion of the mine roof.
THREE THOUSAND miners quit work on the
I'd at Brazil, Ind, because OF reduction in
wages.
ABOUT four hundred journeymen bakers
struck on the I'd at Newark, N j., for