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Day
10
Month
May
Year
1888
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A severe carthquake shock has been feit in Japan. The prospect for a large fruit erop in central Illinois is very good. The shoemaker's strike in Berlin is extending, 5,200 workmen boing out. The market building at San Diego, Cal., was burned on Friday. Loss, $125,000. A fire on Saturday destroyed the business portion of Sandersville, Ga The total log-cut of the Duluth (Minn.) district during the past season was 270,000,000 feet. Thieves Monday night stole 82,000 worth of goods from the store of August Reinking at Baraboo, Wis. One thousand men employed in the iron mines near Duluth, Minn., struck on Friday for higher wages. Fire and water Monday morning damaged General Withington's residence at Jaokson, Mich., $12,000. A mail pouch was plundered at Elkhart, Ind., Sunday night, and found empty in the Street the next morning. The cut worm is appearing in great numbers in the Ohio valley, causing farmers serious apprehension. Mrs. Philena Johnson, of Aurora, 111., who celebrated her 103d birthday May 1, died suddenly on Sunday. A fleet of steam-vessels loaded with grain for Buffalo made the flrst passage through Mackinac straits on Friday. The stock-farm atables' of Richard B. Conklin, of Sound View, N. Y., were burned Monday. Loss, $50,000. The Glade House at Pittsburg, Pa., owned by W. J. Higginbotham, was burned MonJ day night. Loss, $50,000 ; insured. Custom officers at Montreal on Saturday made a seizure of about $750,000 worth of Chinese goods for undervaluation. At the annual session of the Civil-Service Reform Association in New York Monday George W. Curtis was elected president. General M. F. Force, of Cincinnati, has been appointed commander of the Ohio Soldiers and Sailors' Home at Sandusky. The milis of the Lowell Company at Lowell, Mass. , shut down Monday for two weeks, throwing 2,000 operatives out of work. F. E. Nash, General Superintendant of the Railway Mail Service, tendered to the Postmaster-General his resignation on SatJ urday. A six-days' walk for the world's championship opened at Madison Square Garden, New York, Sunday night, with forty-four starters. An incendiary lire Monday in the barrel and case factory of Lombard & Ayres, on Shooter's Island, near New York, caused a loss of $600,000. A boiler exploded in the sash and blind shop of J. Hodges, at Manchester, N. H., Tuesday, and two men were killed and several others injured. Two hundred thousand dollars has been raised at Louisville, Ky., for the erection of a cotton-mill, and work on the structure will be begun at once. The Sunday Closing law was generally observed by the saloons at 'Columbus, O., and a quiet Sunday prevailed. Only one arrest was made for selling. Editor William O'Brien, on trial at Loughrea, Ireland, for violating the Crimes aot, was convicted on Thursday and sentenced to three months' imprisonment. In a boat race on Saturday at Sidney, N S. W., for the world's championship, Pete Kemp, of Australia, defeated Edward Hanlan, of Canada, by four lengths. It is decided by the Missouri Supreme Court that the St. Louis city government has no authority to grant permission for the sale of wine and beer on Sunday. Fire in the yards of the Chippewa Lumber Company at Chippewa Lake, Mioh., Thursday destroyed 10,000,000 feet of lumber. Loss, $120,000; insurance, $100,000. The formal announcement was made on Saturday of the elevation of Bishop Ireland, of St. Paul, to an Archbishopric, with jurisdiction over Minnesota and Dakota. Reeves Simmons, undertook to chastise his nephew, Nat Reeves, aged 20, at Beardstown, Ky. , Sunday. Nat opened fire with a shot-gun, blowing out his uncle's brains. President F. A. P. Barnard, of Columbia College, has tendered his resignation on account of failing health. The resignation has been referred to a special committee of the trustees. Saturday evening J. McNeill, of Carthage, N. C, called on Miss Ada Poe and found her entertaining a rival. He oalred hr to the door and shot her, inflicting a serious wound. Two girls aged about 7 years, daughters of John Blake and Taut Clayton, were fatafly burned on Friday near Shawneetown, 111. They were pouring coal oil on the fire, when the can exploded. The views of the Irish Bishops upon the papal rescript have been requested by the Pope in consequence of the indignant and, to some extent, defiant attitude of the leaders of the National League. William Showers, condemned to deatb. for the murder of his two grand-children, escaped from the jail at Lebanon, Pa., Monday night. He had dug a hole through the stone wall, and lowered himself with a blanket rope. Milo Barnard, of Manteno, IH., president of the Illinois State Horticultural Society, leader in local agricultural and horticultural societies and chairman of the Kankakee County Board of Supervisors, died Tuesday, aged 57. At Newberry, Mich., Friday, Postmaste Fred J. Stewart and his deputy, Clyde W. Heux, were arrested for embezzlement on the discovery of a $1,200 shortage in the accounts of the office, and are in jail in default of 82,000 bail. Stewart is also county treasurer.

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