The Progress. [volume] (White Earth, Minn.) 1886-1889, 1889-04-27

e ~ ~ lHol were Klllou anu eleven injured
on the 14th by the explosion Of boiler in
the West Point boiler works of Monroe g.
Sons at Pittsburgh, Pa.
A FIRE on the 18th at Newman, Ga, de-
stroyed the principal business square.
AT Marlboro, Mass, on the 18th Walter
and William White, aged eight and sixteen
years, saturated a box Of powder with kero-
sene and applied a match to it, causing an
explosion by which both were fatally in
jured. &
IT was learned on the 14th that George g.
Hayden, who died In apparently destitute
circumstances recently in St, Louis, had
5000 in bank in that city
A FIRE on the 18th in one of the shelters
of the Anaconda Mining Company at Butte,
M. T. !, caused a loss Of 81, 0OO, 900, with no
insurance. I'll 81 .sg3 ss
The total values of the exports OF beef and
hog products from the United States during
the month Of February last were $7,462, 422,
against sc, 523,3S7 in February, 1888. The
values Of dairy products were: February,
1850, 1888, 4s1; February, 1888, $274, COG.
The youngest couple ever married in West
Virginia were made man and wife on the
18th at Keyser. Their names are Chloe Po-
land, aged thirteen years, and Joe Snow,
aged fourteen years They had been lovers
for four years, and received parental con-
sent to marry.
MAYOR BRoATcH, Of Omaha, Neb., on the
18th issued an order for the strict enforce
ment Of the Sunday saloon-c closing law.
The law had never been enforced.
MAGRUDER FLETCHER (colored) who GRIM
inally assaulted Mrs. Obadiah MacCready,
was taken from the Jail at Tasley, Va, on
the 18th by mob and lynched
# VIRGIL JACKSON was hanged on the 14th
at Utica, n. Y, for the murder of Norton
Metcalf on the 10Th of January, 1885
WHILE burning leaves on the 14th in
cidentally set fire to her dress and was
burned to death. s
In a hotel at Atlanta, Ga, on the 18th G.
E. Hamilton, a railway man, cut his Wife's
throat, alleging that she had been untrue to
him. g5s
KELLY Bros warehouse at Greenville, s.
c., with twelve thousand bales of cotton,
was burned on the 18th.
JAMES LAFFERTY, a stock-dealer of Wyom-
ing County. W. Va, was way laid, killed and
robbed Of 81, 900 on the 18th near Rockville
creek
The six miners recently entombed in the
Black Diamond colliery near Mount Car
mel, Pa, were rescued alive and well on
the 18th
JOHN NJ. Stout, well-known bicycle
rider, dropped from his wheel on the 18th
near Mount Sterling, ILL.,, and died almost
instantly. His death was caused by over
exertion
In Washington on the 18th James S. Clark
son received his commission and immedi-
ntely took the prescribed oath and entered
upon his duties as First-Assistant Postmas-
ter-General
A GANG Of counterfeiters in New York
City who for several weeks past had been
successfully putting spurious silver dollars
in circulation was arrested on the 18th
The Illinois Supreme Court on the 10Th
denied the claimof Messrs, Fielder, SchWab
and Neebe, the imprisoned Chicago Anarch-
lists, that their sentence was illegal.
The South Birmingham (Ala.) Coal & Coke
Company was organized on the 18th with
capital of 81, 100000. 1t owns three thou
sand acres Of land near Birmingham, and
will build at once one hundred coke ovens
and a furnace
WILLIE GREEN, Anderson Mitchell and
Daniel Jones, all colored, were hanged on
the 18th at Arkadelphia, Ark, for the muir
der of a negro preacher named Arthur
Horton, May q, 1883.
Samuel Rumble shot and killed his father
in-law, George Hosking, and his wife, his
brother-in-law, aged fifteen, and then killed
himself. Family trouble caused the crime.
The discovery of new oil wells at East
Titusville, Pa, the home of the famous
CHRISTOPHER wells Of old, had on the 18th
caused great excitement, and every foot of
the land within mile of the little settle
ment had been gobbled up by spectators
DURING the seven days ended on the 18th
there were 1876 business failures in the
United States, against 22l the previous
seven days. The total failures in the United
States from January l to date was 8, 143
against 1895 in 1855.
WILLIAM BUFFALO (colored), and only six
years of age, was arrested on the 18th at
Norfolk, Va, for the murder of Riddick
Harrison, ten years old also colored.
The house of William Flowers, at Hollow
Rock, Tenn, was burned early on the
morning of the 18th, and Flowers, his wife
and two children persisted in the flames.
The Tennessee Legislature on the 18th
passed a bill transferring the Hermitage,
the old home of President Andrew Jackson
at Nashville, to the Confederate Veterans
Association for twenty-five years.
PERSONAL AND POLITICAL.
The Indiana Legislature adjourned sine
! die on the 18th. It was found after adjourn
mentthat several bills passed over the Gov
ernor's veto were defective, and would
therefore fail to become laws
The Rhode Island Democrats in conven-
ton on the 10Th at Providence nominated
John w. Davis for Governor.
The Massachusetts Legislature on the
18th defeated the Woman's Municipal Suf-
frage bill. i 2 81
MICHAEL KRoEGER died on the 10Th In