The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1890-05-27
THE MOST IMPORTANT EVENTS
U THROUGHOUT THE WORLD
FOR A WEEK.

VIENNA. May Zu.-EtghC thousand
@colil>1s at Prison, Bohemia, have struck.
HAMBURG, May 2O.-Five thousand of
the striking metal workers have resumed
work.
LoNDoN, May 20.-phe ex-Queen Isa-
bolla, Of pan, has arrived in LONDON
incognito
A man by the name i Llttlefeld killed
his taithless wife and her parHour both
at Jessup, Georgia last Wednesday.
New York, May I9-Sam Cook, the
best known hotel man in the United
States, committed suicide this morning.
Henry Martin, Of Piscataway township
New Jersey, died in his l0lst year. He
was the pioneer oysterman Of the Raritan
river.
New YoRK May 2U.-The steamer City
of Alexandria, which Was reported ashore
on the Florida coast, mas arrived safely at
Havana.
An attempt viii be made in autumn to
cultivate American and other cottons in
the trimea aud otber places on The Black
sea coast.
New YORK, May 20.-.awyer Rey-
nolds, who was hot in his Office on Wall
street b. young Stephane last week,
died to day.
Gen. George $. Brown, the banker, Of
Alexander Brown 4 Sons, died at his
res.deuce III Baltimore after au illness oil
several weeks.
Kate Kane, OF Chicago, was, on motion
of Col. Robert | gersolI, admitted to
practice before The supreme Court OF
the United States.
Tony Follaway, aged IS, Al EN- yloye
of the Pennsylvania Railroad company,
was struck by a train at w Averly, N. j.,
receiving fatal injuries.
A sculliug mat5h has been arranged at
Sydney, n. 5. W, between Peter Kemp,
the Australian, and William j. O'Connor,
the Canadian oarSman.
Elk Senator Charles w. J Jres, OF Florida,
was adjudged insane and committed to
st. Joseph's retreat, near Detroit, by
Pr oate Judge Durfee.
New YORK, May u Mr.. and Mrs.
Walker Damrosch nee Blaine, were pas
sengers by the steamship Columbia, which
sailed to-day for Hamburg,
LEBANON, Tenn, May y. Tue Bank
OF Middle Tennessee made al assignment
to-day. Liabilities 500, 900; assets be-
tween 100000 and $4,000.
wv A~sniNGroN, May 22.-Mr. Lewis, Of
Mississippi, introduced in the House to-
day a bill 70 repeal the law approved May
), 1862, creating the sinking fund.
ELIZABETH, N. Y, May 2O.-The large
hat mandatory of r. H. Smith was
burned to the ground this morning. The
loss is put at fifty thousand dollars.
Havana had an explosion and a fire by
which "a people were killed and more
h a 100 injured. \ barrel of powder in
a hardware store did the awful work.
City OF MExIco, May 20.-In Tepac
Yesterday a de yosit Of dynamite exploded,
causing considerable damaoe to property
| Four tersons were killed and six wounded.
New York, May l9.-J. Barker, a
rammany leader Of prominence, was
| sentenced to four months Imprisonment
in the pemtentiary for assault this morn
ing.
The Prohibition convention at Lexing-
ton, KY, favored women suffrage and
nominated Mrs. Josephine K Henry,
of Versailles, for clerk of the court Of
appeals.
\ dispatch from Detroit says that g
| portion Of the lungs Of President Garfield
were taken at he ime OF the autopsy
| and cut up aud distribu ed among micro
scopists.
WAsHrNGroN, D. G., May 22.-Mr
| D MEL introduced in the Senate to-day
a bin to appropriate $4,000 for the erec.
ton OF a public building at Cnarlottes.
| vile, Va,
In New York GilEarde w. Gindice at
tempted to assault Rosanna Rosita, the
wife of an Italian dock laborer, and she
stabbed him to the heart, inh.cting
mortal wound.
The millers Of southern I~IlionOis anC
| eastern Missouri have form ed a trust anC
will operate the 5 X eeI mills as one, thus
controlling the price Of -four in the soutl
and southwest.
NEW YORK, May IA London dis
patch says: Advlces from Buenos Ayre'