The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1890-08-19
THE MOST IMPORTANT EVENTS
THROUGHOUT THE WORLD
FOR A WEEK.
Sparks from the Wires.

$1,000 Nj NS S ~
been done yet in the Voolfolk case.
About 20 per cent. of Chicago's populG-
ton is foreign born OF of foreign parent,
age.
1t is expe ted that 12O, 1000, 900 Holsters
will be Matched in Newfoundland this
season.
A syndicate of wealthy French Jews
has offered 100000 for the Hebrew
Bible in the Vatican.
VIENNA, Aug. 1l.-Baron Leon, of
Vienna, has been killed by falling over a
precipice in the Alps.
CAIRO, Egypt, Aug. 1I-There were
1875 teaths from cholera at Jeddah yester-
day, and at Mecca, 1O8.
A female Samson in San Francisco
threw her IA year-old stepson at an officer
who had com to arrest her.
A st. Louis man was surprised to find
that in Mexico they used mahogany ties
on railroads and built bridges out of
marble.
CHARLESTON, w. Va, Aug. l2.-Henry
Alitzer, a member of the legislature, has
been arrested charged with violation of
the pension laws.
WASHINGTON, D. c., Aug. Icon
gresham O'Donnell, of Michigan, has
fallen heir to 100000 by the death Of
a relative in Spain.
An engineer on the Western and At
lanta Railroad committed suicide by
shooting himself in Atlanta last week.
Jealousy was the cause.
HAVANA, Aug. 12.-The observatory
here announces that the cyclone, which
was east and northeast of Cuba yesterday,
is approaching the United States coast in
the direction of Charleston.
CHICAGO, Aug. 12.-Tina Wits, whom
Max Schultz married two weeks ago, has
entered suit for divorce, claiming that
Schultz has five wives living.
South BINGHAM, Mass, Aug. l2.-Mike
Kelley, the famous ball player, was last
evening formally presented with a $IO,-
900 house and lot by his friends.
SYRACUSE, N. Y, Aug. l3.-The five
military companies which have been quar-
tered at the armory here, were dismissed
last evening by order of AID utant- General
Porter.
New YORK, Aug. 13.-The White Star
steamship Teutonic arrived here this
morning from Queenstown after a passage
of 5 days, 10 hours and 3 minutes, the
fastest on record.
P~ARKERsBURa, W. Va, Aug. ll.-Four
express cars containing silver bullion to
the amount of SIS, 900, 900 passed through
here Saturday night en- route from Wash
ington to the New Orleans mint.
NEW YORK, Aug. 12.-Information has
been received here that Sobral, late min
lister of finance of Guatemala, has been
shot by order of President Barrillas.
Sobral was charged with treacherY.
AUGUSTA, Ca, Aug. 9.-The Colored
Farmers Alliance of Burke, Columbia
and Ri .hmond counties, with a capital
ST. OK of $40, 900, all paid in, will open an
Alliance store in Augusta next month.
BUENos AYREs, Aug. pa mob to-
day attacked the residence of ex-Presi-
dent Celman and threatened to burn it to
the ground. The government has placed
a Gordon of troops around the house for
it's protection.
WASHINGTON, Aug. 1.-THE President.
accompanied by Secretaries Noble and
Rusk, and Private Secretary Halford,
left Washington this morning at $40 over
the Pennsylvania Railroad for New York,
en- route to Boston.
New YORK, Aug. 12.-Although the
strike on the N. Y. Central Railroad has
not been declared off by the Knights OF
Labor, it is virtually at an end. The de-
cision of the Brotherhood of Locomotive
Engineers in refusing to come out was its
death knell.
LONDON, Aug. 11.-At a meeting OF
working men last night, Tom Mann, the
noted labor leader, spoke bitterly of the
Queen and her grandson, the German
Emperor, dining from gold dishes, while
the thousands of the Queens subjects are
in want Of food.
VIENNA, August l2.-The floods IN
Hungary continue. A large number of
houses have been undermined and have
.collapsed and a number of lives have been
lost. In many large sections the crops
have been entirely destroyed.
JOLIET, Ill, Aug. IA terrific explo-
sion with fatal results occurred at the