The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1889-10-29
NEWS ITEMS.

Carnegie will spend $4,000 on his
public library at Plttsburg. .
MILNE ry is looking up. The Eifel
BONNET is the latest in Paris.
The National Civil Service Reform
League is in session at Philadelphia.
4 canning firm, of Dover, Pa, pay o&.
5000 per season for seeding ~raisins.
oAn old German shopkeeper on Johns
Island, s. c., was assassinated recently
by a2negro.. =. 2.
Terrible prairie fires have been raging
in Mclean county, Dakota, fifty miles
north of Bismarck. u To-:
Gen. John F. Hartranft x-Governor
Of Pennsylvania, died at Norristown, in
that State, last week. = :.
Several Iowa railroad companies are
under forfeit of 800 willis they refuse to
answer certain questions propounded by
the governor. "
The Secretary of State is informed that
the cholera In an epidemic form has APP
peared at Bagdad and various places on
the Euphrates.. - ,as
Two women employed ina Milwaukee
t~annery were overcome by gas from
parafine paint while painting the inside
Of q large tank.
A railway accident in Texas resulted
in the wrecking of a number Of cars, and
the engineer and fremen being literally
roasted to death. = ',sae .~s
a saloon keeper Of Bement, Illinois,
named William Goddard, was recently
fined s., 900 and costs for selling liquor
in violation of the law.
The p~ostofice, telegraph and express
offices, at Cambria, Gala, were destroyed,
togetherawitha number of other buildings,
entailingA loss of $685. Oo. +&e
Amos J. Cummings has been nominated
by. the Tsmmany Democrats to fill the
vacancy in the next Congress caused by
the death of Hon. S. S. Cox.
A man who was arrested in Alabama
on some minor charge, confessed to being
concerned in some brutal murders when
he was swung to the limb of a tree and
shot.
Some of Nash county's tobacco grow
ers say they will make more clear money
from one acre of the weed than would
seven bales of cotton net them.-Rocky
MoWrt PhoenSr.
The General of Texas has re-
fused to stay the proceedings instituted
against the railroads of that State to re-
cover lands alleged to have been granted
to them illegally.
,Pele Island, a famous fishing resort in
Lake Erie, is being ravaged by smallpox;
there are one thousand residents on the
island, every one of whom it is thought
will contract the disease.
The swagger novelty for weddings is
for the bride to wear " the veil her grand
wore" A Philadelphia dry goods
house announces that they can " age their
newest patterns on a few weeks notice"
American Delegate studebaker, recent
ly, at South Bend, Ind, entertained his
delegates to the Pan-Amer1can Congress
with a lunch in his recently burned dwell
ing, and showed them his big wagon
works.
Chief of Police Harris, of Johnstown,
Pa, says the moral tone of that city is
very low at present. The worst of the
men and women have come there since
the flood. The city is virtually under
their control.
MI. John I. Grifis and Miss Daisie
Abel, daughter of the late A. S. Abel, of
the Baltimore Sun, were married at the
Cathedral in Baltimore Thursday by Car
dinal Gibbons. The bride is worth owe
100000 in her own right.
Hon. John B. Robinson, Republican
nominee for State Senator, has engaged
to lecture on the subject "In the Soup
and o. B. Dickinson, a Democratic leader,
on the subject "The Under Dog" before
the Young Mems Christian Association
of Chester, Pa, this fall. =" az
In an address before the Boys and
Girls National Home Association, which
has been in session in Washington City
for some days past, Mr.. Alexander Hoge-
land, President of the Association, made
the startling statement that there were
10000 tramps in the United States.
Huge Zieman, the ex-stewart of the
White House, who has returned to his
old place at the Hotel Richelieu, Chicago,