The Progress. [volume] (White Earth, Minn.) 1886-1889, 1889-05-18
AT Hllln1an, Ind, the home Of Mrs.

/ shock had made the woman insane.
AT LaWley, Fla, Mr.. and Mrs. j. NJ.
Churchill of Iowa, and Mr.. and Mrs. J. D. Bur
deJt We're thrown from their wagon on the
18th, and Mr.. Burdett was killed and the two
women fatally hurt, while Mr.. Churchill
sustained but slight injuries.
NEWS reached the Brooklyn nayy-yard
on the 9TH that the steel cruisers Chicago.
Boston, Atlanta and Yorktown were to be
fitted out as a flying squadron and sent on
cruise around the world
In New York on the 9TH the stockholders
of the New York Equitable Fire Insurance
1 Company resolved to wind up the affairs of
the corporation and go out Of business
NEARLY the entire village of Elba Mimi,
was swept away by fire on the 18th.
A PEcULIAR-LooKING black cloud that
lowered over Jamestown, d. T., on the 18th
broke over one of the principal streets and
! dropped a shower of frogs.
+! PETER H. KENT, cashier of the Burlington
freight Office at Kansas City, Mo-, was on
| the 18th detected in an attempt to embezzle
$4,000
The new suspension bridge at Niagara
Falls to replace the one carried away by a
| cyclone last winter was opened for travel
on the 18th. The structure is !, 260 feet long
II feet wide and 1917 feet above water.
A SWITCH engine on the Michigan Central
railroad struck a street-car on the sth in
Kalamazoo, Mich, killing six women and
injuring four other persons.
AT Philadelphia on the Sth the twenty
eighth International convention Of the
Young Mems Christian Association was
opened by General o. O. Howard, OF New
York.
The business portion of North Judson,
Ind, was burned on the Sth
MISSES FANNIE PENNINGTON and Hattie
Clark, daughters of well-to-do citizens of
Lincoln Neb, decamped on the Sth with a
party Of gypsies consisting OF two men and
one woman
The main building of the Lutheran Or
phans' Home at zelenople, Pa, was burned
on the Sth.
The ninth annual convention of the Amer
lean Library Association met at St Louis on
the Sth
CUT-woRMs were on the Sth said to be
ravaging the cotton fields OF Southern
Arkansas.
NEAR sibley, Ia, Mrs. Carrie Furren was
mysteriously murdered on the Sth while
returning to her home from her parents
house.
Mas. CATHERINE HARK1Ns, Of Holidays
burg, Pa, was burned to death on the Sth
by her clothes taking fire from lamp, and
in attempting to extinguish the flames her
husband was fatally burned.
RAIN fell over the largest portion of Wis
consin on the 8th, extinguishing the forest
fires and saving the burning crops and
grass of the farmers.
SEVENTY houses in Moreland, a Chicago
suburb, were destroyed by fire on the 9Th,
rendering seventy-fve families homeless
The steamship City of Paris reached
Sandy Hook on the Sth, having covered the
distance from Queenstown in five days,
twenty three hours and seven minutes,
lowering all previous records. She also
made the longest run recorded for single
day-511 miles,
MRS JAMES EARLY was burned to death
on the Sth and her aged husband fatally in
jured by a lamp explosion at Altoona, Pa
FOREST fires in Michigan had on the Sth
destroyed the villages of Bruce's Crossing I
and O'Brien, and partly wiped out Spald-
ing, Sullivan and Stambaugh. The flames
reached the Vulcan mines near Norway, de-
stroying twenty dwellings Hundreds of
persons were homeless.
MISS ANNIE VANc1L, OF Du Quoin, Ill,
died on the Sth of starvation. Several
weeks ago her mother was adjudged insane
and sent to an asylum. Miss Vancil de-
mother was released. She lived seventy
five days the last thirty of which she tasted
absolutely nothing:
In the ShaWangunk mountains and in the
Catskills, in the highlands below Newburg,
N. Y, and on the Fishkill mountains forest
fires were doing great damage on the Sth.
A BLUNDER by Autograph operator caused
collision on the Sth at Glen Mary, Tenn,
between a freight and passenger train and
a fireman was killed and four other en-
ployes were fatally wounded
Mrs. MARY BRENTL1NE, of Lima, O., was
dragged to death on the 6th by COW she
was leading to water.
IT was reported on the Sth that lot Of
Sioux Indians were on the war-path in
Montana
AT FindIay. O., on the 9th the Bel1aire
goblet works were destroyed by fire. Loss,
$115, 600; Insurance, $4,000.
FIFTEEN moonshiners were arrested on
the 9th in Mcdowell and Wyoming coun-
ties, w. Va.
The business part Of the village of Dam
VILE Vt, was wiped out by fire in one hour
on the 9th, only the bank and hotel escap-
ing.
AT Providence, R. l., Samuel w. Pearce,
member of the Board of Trade passed
away on the 9th. After the assassination Of
President Lincoln Mr. Pearce and his sis
ter, who were travelling to Newberne, N.
c., were arrested as they bore striking
resemblance to J. Wilkes Booth and Mrs
Surratt and narrowly escaped being shot
GOVERNOR FRANCIS, of Missouri, on the
9th signed the bill which prohibits all deal
ing in grain options unless the parties deal
ing in such opti ons actually hold the grain.
IT was reported on the 9th that miles of
forests We're on fire in the Homestead dis
| trict in Michigan that refugees were seek
ing safety in swamps bitches and cellars,
| and that many persons were missing.
Mr. A. NJ. Cox, of Duluth. Mimi, gave
his employees notice on the 9th that he
would raise the wages of the married en-
ployes in his broom factory. and that the
single men would not be wanted after June
| /. If they were married by that time they
! would be retained at increased wages.
AT New York on the 9th the seventy.
third annual meeting of the American
Bible Society was held. The cash receipts
during the year were $499, S23, and the dis