The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1890-02-25
MOST IMPORTANT EVENTS
THROUGHOUT THE WORLD
FOR A WEEK.

Count julius Andrassy, the Hungarian
statesman, is dead.
Rev. Sam, Jones is o remove from
Georgia to Kentucky.
A report is current IN London that the
sultan of Zanzibar is dead.
Earl Sydney (Sir John Robert Towns
end) is dead, at the age of IS.
The investigation of the claims of the
rival Montana Senators has begun.
Spencer Lewis, Is years old, hanged
himself in his fathers barn, near Hartford,
N. J.
Seven hundred miners at Aberdare,
Wales have struck for an advance of
wages. =.
An international chess tournament will
be held at Manchester, England, the com
ing fall, -. 80 .
" Susan B. Anthony's 10th birthday was
celebrated by a banquet at the Riggs
house, Washington
: A summary of recent statistics shows
that $4,000 acres are devoted to raisin
culture in California.
George Williams, So years old, was
ehQked to. death at Saxton, Pa, by apiece
ofaDple, lodqinpin his throat.
Benzon, the Jubilee plunger," was
oonviote d of forgery at Nieeand sentenced
tosthfte months imprisonment ''.
Four negroes overpowered a mail
carrier in South Carolina Saturday and
took the mail pouch from him.
The engagement Of Theodore Thomas,
the great 6ffchestr al leader, to Miss Lilly
Fay, of Chicago, is announced.
A bald. eagle, VIII, Sc wings were 10
feet across, was shot near Louisiana, No,
by Absalom Davis the other day.
The Grady Fund amounts to more
than $4,000. The New England So
ciety of N. Y. contributes $l;0O5.
Construction trains collided on the
Philadelphia and Atlantic railroad at
S~ummerdale, N. J., and four men were
injured.
The guns of the Vesuvius are to be
tested with dynamite bombs. The cruiser
Philadelphia will make her trial trip in a
few weeks.
The loss by the University fire in
Toronto will be one million dollars.
Many valuable papers and documents
were destroyed.
At MuhIhausen, in Saxony, there was
a fight at a socialist election meeting
which went so far that the soldiers were
called to restore order. Thirty persons
were wounded.
Switzerland will act as arbitrator of the
dispute concerning the boundaries be-
tween the Portuguese possessions and the
Congo Free State.
The Harmony society celebrated its
eighty-ffth anniversary at Economy, Pa,
and sixteen new members were admitted
to the organization:
It is the intention of the Russian Gov
eminent to commence the construction of
several large ironclads and cruisers during
the coming summer
The exports from twenty Southern
ports for 1889, were see, 948, 738 greater
than in 1888. This is progress and shows
the South is not asleep.
Louis Banzia, of KiIrain's exhibition
company, whose opponent died while
sparring at Dallas, Texas, has been &C
quilted by the coroner's jury.
A yard engine and a hand car collided
near Staunton, Va, Saturday, which res
ulted in the killing of two persons and
the serious injury of six others.
The exports of coal from Baltimore for
the past three days were the largest for
any three consecutive days in the history
of the port, a~ggregating 963,6O3 bushels:
Joseph shackleton, of Bound Brook, N.
J., has been sued for $4,000 by a wo-
man who claims she married him when
he had another wife. Both women are
suing for a divorce.
The Dutch bark George, from Pensa-
cola Dec. 9 for Delfzy1 was abandoned
jap, p, in a water Iogget and partly dis
mantled condition. Her crew have ar
rived at. Queenstown. "
n The dwelling Of Charles Berthune in
Mahahoy City, Pa, was burned by the
lighting of a can of coal OIL Loss, $4,000.
The PROPERTY had been insured, but the
policy expired a few days ago.
The Baltimore hair spinners' union