The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1890-10-21
THE MOST IMPORTANT EVENTS
THROUGHOUT THE WORLD
FOR A WEEK.
Sparks from the Wires.

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cabinet officers, is dead.
Two naked men robbed an express
car in Kansas FRIDAY night. But the steal
ing didn't amount to much.
An air ship company has been nicer
porated at Chicago with a capital OF
50, 900, 900, and within so days the first
air ship will arrive in Chicago.
A man died in Illinois Friday morning,
who weighed four hundred pounds; he
ordered his coffin in advance, and died
within twenty minutes of the time which
he had predicted.
AUGUSTA, Ga, OFT. l3.-Jim Coleman
was assassinated by his brother-in-law,
William Young, Saturday evening on Mr..
Pierce Mondays plantation in Columbia
county, fifteen miles from Augusta.
SAN FRANCISCO, Cal, Oct. 14.-The OILY
son of Col. Charles Fred Croker, second
vice-president of the Southern Pacific
Railroad, fell over the banister in his
fathers house Sunday and was killed.
New YORK, Oct. ia Washington
dispatch to the Mail and Erpress says a
cabinet officer confirms the news that an
extra session is most certain about No
vember IA. The question has been dis
cussed in the cabinet and a maj 1rity are
for it.
PRAGUE, OFT. 13.-Another of the col
umns supporting the celebrated Carls
Bridge, which spans the Moldan river
here, and which was damaged by the re-
cent floods, has collapsed. Six persons
were seve, ely injured by the collapse of
the column.
CHICAGO, Oct 13.-Wheat.--Only mod
crate speculative trading to-day, and fuc-
t~uations were confined within moderate
limits. Prices were advanced lie, with
slight fluctuations, and the closing was
about lc. higher Foreign markets were
reported strong and higher.
LONDON, Oct ia four-story build
Jag on Middle street, occupied by Rawley
& Brock, hat, cap and helmet manufac-
turers and government contractors for
military head gear, was destroyed by fire
this afternoon. Six persons were burned
to death and thirteen seriously injured.
CoNsTANT1NoPLE, Oct. 11.-Sixty Arme
man witnesses were tortured by the gov
eminent here this morning to extort from
them certain evidence against outlaws.
Some were SO severely injured that they
have snce died. Great indignation is
felt throughout Armenia and a great riot
is expect
Albert Kahn went into a saloon in B9r-
lin, and after boasting of his capacity, bet
a friend II marks ($2.4O), that he could
drink four quarts of beer and eat eight
o,nds of sausages within ten minutes.
He had n, arly accomplished the feat
when a blood vessel in his head burst and
he fell dead.
WASHINGTON, D. c., Oct. 13.-Congress-
man Wheeler, of Alabama, claims that tn
present tariff law is not only vitiated but
invalidated, because the providing for a
rebate on the tobacco tax was left out in
its enrolment. Such is the view of the
matter taken by the commissioner of in
ternal revenue, Mr.. Mason.
LONDON, Oct. 11.-During,a perform
ance in a theatre at Cot Bridge, near Glas-
gov, last night, a stair case leading from
the gallery collapsed. All the lights in
the building were extinguished at the
same time. A panic followed, in which
many persons were Injured. No particu
lars as yet have been received.
SYRACUSE, N. Y, Oct. 14-Alfred Will
kinson, of Syracuse, who wa engaged 10
Miss Winnie Davis, 1.-The Daughter Of
the Confederacy," yesterday afternoon
announced that the engagement had been
broken. This, he says, was lone at the
request of Miss Davis, who has been in
poor health for some time past.
PARKERsBURG, W. Va, Oct. 14-Sun-
day night and yesterday morning the
heaviest rain for years fell in this section.
All the counties north Of the Little Kama
VIVA are flooded, causing much damage.
the Kanawha river is swollen fer forty
eight miles, and large quantities of tim
Der, grain and logs, and many houses are
afoat.
BRUNSWICK, Ga, Oct. 11.-Fred Ebey
was murdered here tonight at 10 o'clock,
by Charles Ventrass, a saloon keeper, in
his saloon on Bay street. Ebey asked
for fifty cents after he had purchased
some beer. Ventrass drew a pistol and
shot him in the brain twice. Ventrass
escaped the officers. A hunt is being