The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1890-05-06


land. Now he lives in New York City
and is making fifty thousand dollars .
year-same as the Presidents salary.
On last Wednesday a farmer named
Morrison, living about two miles from
Shelburne, Ont, drowned three of his
children in a barrel of rain water, and
then attempted to drown himself il a
creek.
The .. S. Supreme Court has decided
that State laws providing for the seizure
of liquors brought into a State in original
packages, are an interference with inter
State commerce., and are therefore IN
constitutional.
JACKSONVILLE, Fla, April 3O.-The
steamer, 81. B Plant, of the St. Johns
river line, was burned to-day at Beech
ford Landing, one hundred and eighty
miles South Of Jacksonville. Several
lives were lost.
Judge Hilton, who has had charge OF
A. T. Stewards immense establishment in
New York, threatens to sue the New
York World for libel for referring to him
in. al offensive way in connection with
the Stewart property.
At Milwaukee, Wis, yesterday, asmaH
frame tenement was burned. The only
occupants were Mrs. Virtel and three
children. All were rescued alive but
shockingly burned. One child has since
died, and the others may die.
The floods on the Mississippi river con-
tinue undated. A break was made in
the levee above New Orleans on the 26th
ult., which was more than 49, 900 feet
wide. No lives have been lost so far, but
a great deal of stock has been drowned.
HARvaYsBURG, Ohio, April 3O.-Berry
Ward, twenty-six years Of age, was shot
and instantly killed Monday night by his
step-son, aged thirteen years. Ward was
beating his wife when the son came to
his mothers defense with a shotgun.
Daniel Washington, the boy, is under
arrest.
LONDON, April ga conference was
held to-day between Messrs. Balfour,
Goschen and the Irish land commission
The question Of the partial adoption by
the House of Commons of Mr.. ParnelTs
; Irish land purchase proposition was dis
cussed.
LYONS, April 28.-At an Anarchist
meeting in this city last evening, speeches
recommending violence On the occasion
E of the ~workingmen's demonstration on
May lst, were made. The police arrested
eleven of the incendiary speakers and
participants.
Last week in New York, IN Italian
woman became crazed with jealousy on
account of the attentions to a young girl
by a barber who was her sweetheart. The
woman met the young girl on the street
and nearly hacked her rivals face to
pieces with a case-knife. g..
1t is said that Mark Twain is not dis
posed to devote as much time to entertain
ing old chums as he used to do, and some
think that it is because he has become rich
and proud, but the fact is that Mark has. to
devote much time to entertaining a spoiled
stomach and a bucking liver.
The Unicorn Silk mill at Catasauqua,
Pa, was burned on the 24th ult. Some
vitriol and other acids which were stored
on the premises, took fire and exploded
while the fremen were fighting the fire.
Seven people were killed and many more
injured. Loss Of factory amounts to
$4,000.
The schooner w. H. B~rinsfeId was
sunk off Point no Point, Potomac river,
on Saturday. The mate, David Prim.
and seaman John Harkerm, John Bats
and Robert Ellison, all colored, were
drowned. Captain John II. Ellison was
rescued from the cross trees in an uncon-
scious condition.
George R. Hubby, Agent for the
Mallory Steamship Co. at Ferdinand, Fla,
forced a young widow to marry him in
that city last week. He drew a pistol
and threatened to loot her if she refused.
1t is thought that he is insane, as it is
likely that the lady would have consented
to the marriage anyway, had he not been
so hasty.
The saw mill belonging to Chas. Law
rance, situated in Park county, Miss, was
burned n night last week. Some so or
go of the tenants living on Mr.. L~awrance's
land had taken refuge in a large gin house
adjoining the saw mill since the prevalence
Of the floods on the Mississippi river, and
in their efforts to escape seven of them
were drowned.
STANTON, Va, April 28.-A fast pas
senger train on the Chesapeake and Ohio
Railroad was derailed near here this