The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1890-03-04

Inc rate OF wages on the pennsylvania is
is the same as on the, Lake Erie. The
Baltimore and Ohio, it is said, pays
only 81 10.
. TWENTY BUILDINGS WRECKED.
DENNIsoN, Feb. %, 1904 terrible
hurricane swept over a part of Northern
Texas eaely this morning The Masonic
Hall in Gainesville was torn to pieces, the
court house uprooted, the Santa Fe Rail-
road depot wrecked andtwenty buildings
blown down.
Nobody was killed, but several persons
were more or less injured The damage
will aggregate over 100000.
THREE wAsHED OVERHEARD.
GLoUoEsTER, Mass, February 26.-The
schooner Marion Grimes, from Georges
BankstO-day,report February 24st, while
lying at anchor during a heavy gale,
Timothy OConnell, of shelburne, N. s.,
Abram Frazier and Abram Gerier, of
G. B, while furling the jib, were
washed overheard by a heavy sea and
drowned. The three men were unmarried
and leave parents in Providence.
, in FERRIBL PLIGHT.
a. MtMpHrs, Tenn, Feb. 16.-Brownsville,
a small town ten miles east of here, was.
severely damaged by a cyclone yesterday
morning. f.. a. -e@
sli Nearly every building in the town is.
damaged. So far3as knownsno lives were.
lost. ,-11> So
o At last accounts the rain was still fall
ing there and the people were all engaged
in endeavoring to gay their movable
property, -
A COPYRIGHT LEAGUE. p,
, CHICAGO, Feb. rs 1904 Western
branch of the American Copyright League
was organized here tonight, when, in
response to a call stating the purpose Of
the meeting, a brilliant and representative
assembly met at the residence of Mrs.
Potter Palmer. Mr.. George Parsons
Lathrop, of Boston, read an address on
the subject of international copyright,
after the Chicago Copyright League
was organized by those present.
GETTING MIGHTY COLD.
Sioux CITY, Iowa, February 26.-A
blizzard set in here at midnight Monday
night and continued till yesterday after
o The wind blew forty miles an
hour, badly drifting the six inches of snow
that had fallen. The storm prevailed
throughout South Dakota and northern
Nebraska, but railroad communication
has not been much interrupted. The
temperature has been only FIVE degrees
below, but it was growing intensely cold
last night.
WILL TRY TO BEAT NELLIE BLY,.
PORT TOWNSEND, Wash, Feb. 22.-Miss
Regina Rothschild, a young lady of this
city, will start from here on March II, on
a tour of the globe in an attempt to beat
all previous records.
The citizens have subscribed $4,000 to-
wards the trip.
Miss Rothschild will travel eastward
over the Canadian Pacific and expects to
leave here the same day George Francis
Train is announced to sail from Tecoma,
westward. Miss Rothschild expects to
make the trip in sixty-one days.
CoLoRED sECRFT SOCIETY.
New York, Feb. 25.-A special to the
Herald from Topeka, Kansas, reports the
existence of a secret political society of
colored people called the First Grand
Independent Brotherhood" Its object is
to settle the negroes in Oklahoma as
n~umerously as possible, so that the race
viii have control of Oklahoma when it
becomes a State. The white men will
then be compelled to recognize the ne
groes as equals, or keep put of Oklahoma.
1t is said that g, remarkably large number
of colored people are already il the ter
ritory.
COLLISION NEAR BOSTON.
-BosToN, Mass, Feb. %, 1890s-On. the
Lowell division of the Boston and Maine
Railroad accommodation train ran into
the rear of the Montreal express at Winter
Hill this morning during the fog. The
last car of the express train was partially
derailed and trains were delayed two
hours. No one was seriously injured,
o1thonnh a number of -nasaannara we're,