The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1890-10-07

VIENNA, Oct. KAISER Wilhelm, Of
Germany, arrived here this morning and
was received at the station by the En-
pc or, Francis Joseph, accompanied by
the Archduke William and an escort Of
honor. Their magisties embraced each
other most cordially.
An Augusta, Ca, dispatch says on the
Georgia Pacific Railroad, eighteen cars
were burned last week. All of them
were freight, five loaded with sulphur,
one with salt, and the others empty.
Spontaneous combustion is supposed to
be the cause of the fire.
A Bad AK, Mich, special to the Tribune
says: Reports from the storm in Huron
county have just come to hand. Hail fell
to the depth of eight inches, and literally
wiped away the crops. The damage is
estimated at $500, 900. Many of the
ia mers are in a destitute condition.
LONDON Sept. Boa riot occurred
yesterday morning among Russians and
Pc sian laborers in the harbor of Novo
Possisk, on the Black Sea. The military
were called into service and repressed the
outbreak with such merciless severity that
seventeen of the rioters were killed or
wounded.
The Rev. Frank Forsythe, a Methodi>t
Episcopal clergyman, who was summarily
dismissed from his church at Rockland,
N. Y, for playing baseball, has estab-
lished al independent charge at that
place, and is to have a big benefit, for
which the attraction is a game of ball, in
which the pastor will play.
LONDON, Sept 3O.-Information has
reached here Of the massacre, by natives,
of Capt Hendtey, owner of the cutter
Isabel, of Hardepool, together with the
crew of the vessel, while engaged in fish
ing for pearls off the coast of New Guinea.
After the murder of all on board, the
PaPaun savages looted and scuttled the
cutter.
ROANOKE, Va, Sept. 3O.-The Shenan-
doah Valley Railroad was sold to-day in
con pliance with a court decree. Louis
Fitzgerald, of the purchasing committee
o. the first mortgage bond olders, bid
81, 0 O,OO0, which was accepted. AS the
Norfolk and Western Railroad people
hold a ajority of the bonds of the road,
it now passes into their hands.
BRIsTuL, Tenn, 0 It. Captain w. D.
Haynes, President of the Bristol, Eliza
bethton and North Carolina Railroad, a
prominent lawyer and business man of
this city, attempted suicide with an axe
this aft at his home in this city. He
inflicted two or three serious, though,
probably, not fatal wounds on his head.
The cause of the deed is thought to be i'll
health.
HAVANA, Oct. 1.-Two brothers, Joe
and Carme'o Diaz, were executed in this
city yesterday for a particularly atrocious
crime. They attacked a Turkish woman
near Pinar Del Rio and subjected her to
the grOssest indignities. The husband of
the woman sought to aVenge the dishonor
Of his wife, but was murdered by the
brothers, who also killed the woman and
then mutilated the bodies of their victims.
1t is reported from Mitchellville, N. Y,
that on Monday evening Mrs John Beam,
of that place, gave birth to twins; that
on the same evening Mrs. Stratton, her
daughter, who lives in a neighboring
township, was also blessed with twins !;
and at a later hour the same evening,
Mrs. STATIONS daughter gave birth to
twins. So the grandmother, daughter
and granddaughter collectively con-
tributed six children to the population
the same evening.
WASHINGTON, Sept. 3O.-The President
sent to the Senate to-day the following,
among other nominations: George S.
Batcheller, of New York, to be Minister
resident and Consul Of the United States
to Portugal, vice George S.. Loring re-
signed. Postmasters W. P. Rucker,
Lewisburg, W. Va; T. E. McCreary. Lex
ington, N. c.; L. A, Bristol Morganton,
N. c.; R. R. Tolbert, Greenwood, 8. c.;
Jos. F. Doyle, Savannah, Ga; Carl G,
Crippen: Eustis, Fla.