The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1890-06-24
THE MOST IMPORTANT EVENTS
THROUGHOUT THE WORLD
FOR A WEEK.
Sparks Fl m the Wires.

n n~SFO %fN S'IOL IfOm dLlDuSI near
Juile,te, Ga, last week.
Mr.. William Herring was killed by a
runaway N lie near Unadilla, Ga., last
Tuesday.
New York, Juue l7.-Twenty deaths
from the ASiati cholera occurred IL
Spain to-day.
MADRID, Jun l8.--Thirteen deaths from
cholera occurred at Peebla DeRugat,
Valencia, yesterday.
Mi $ Mary anderson, the famous act
res, Was married in London 0 the 10Th
to Mr.. Antonio Navorra.
New YORK, June 16. "A plot to burn
a tenement house was nipped in the bud
by the police this morning.
The California Athletic Club has put
up $1,000 for the Sullivan and Jackson
battle ~hic1 is to take place soon.
Dr., GAeli g, the North Carolina in
.ventor, says he will produce an ice ma
chine that VIII make ice at one-tenth of
the present cost.
LOUISVILLE, June 16 -There is a report
that an English syndicate is try ing t. buy
all the tobacco warehouses OF this city.
The price talked Of is $2,OOO,OtO.
A party of armed men took from the
officers at Taylor, Texas, on Thursday,
a Mexican charged with a criminal as
sault, and riddled him with bullets.
BUENos Ayes, June 18.-The finance
minister Senior Garcia. will cause to be
publicly buried fifteen millions Of the
illegally circulated dollar notes.
AUGUSTA, Ca, June l6-The opening
of tn ~initiatory military encampment of
the State of Georgia occurred here this
morning and attracted thousands of Wis
itors.
Robert M2Kelvy, a newsboy of Birm-
ingham, Ala, died on Thursday night
last from the effects of the bite of a water
moccasin while he was bathing in Cedar
creek.
WATERFOWL, N. Y, June l6. John Fl.
Sweeney, of Clyde, O., vas convicted
here to-day of swindling John B. Chap
man, a farmer, of $7.O4O in the gold brick
scheme.
A Baton Rouge, La, telegram says that
the legislative committee on the propo-
sition to submit the lottery question to
the people has reported in favor of the
proposition.
New YORK, June 17,-Paddy Mcbride,
of Philadelphia, and Jim Lynch, of this
city, met in a skin tight glove fight to a
finish this morning at Oakpoint, on Long
Island sound.
COLUMBIA, N. c., June Thames
Dillon, the man who pretended to be
dead l n order that his wife could get the
money for which his life was insured,
has been arrested.
BosToN June 17.-Tle long threatened
strike of the building laborers of Boston,
Cambridge and Somerville is on this
morning, and involves about 1850 men
of the three cities.
MONTGOMERY, Ala, June l7.-Hon. G.
G. Shorter, of Eufala, Speaker of the
Alabama House of Representatives, died
yesterday. He was a young man OF
brilliant attainments.
LITTLE Rock, Ark, June 16.-The pre-
liminary examination of the men who are
accused of robbing the train on the Cot
tonbelt road last Tuesday, is set for to-
morrow morning at Texarkana.
ANGoRA, Pa, June 16.-Isaac Sampson,
colored, slashed his wife about the face
with a razor to-day, inficting serious
wounds. He had to be foored with a
brick before he was taken in custody.
UTICA, N. Y, June 16. Joseph De-
woes Hotel and Stillman Mobiles residence
at Turin Lewis county, burned this morn.
ing. Loss on hotel nearly $4,000; in
sured $500. Loss on house, 5000; in
sured.
PHILADELPHIA, June 16.-A freight
train on the Baltimore and Ohio Railroad
struck two boys, near Gray's Ferry, this
afternoon, killing Joseph Johnson, aged
fourteen, and fatally injuring Geo. Smith,
aged eleven.
New YORK, June l7.-7rtbwme's special
from Reading, Colorado, says that n of
the peaks of Mount Shasta has disap-
peared. The top appears to have been
cut short off and to have fallen into the
crater below.
SAN ANTONIO, Tex, June 16.-C. w.
Collins, the Is year-old son of ~Rev. Jas.
ro1I;ns . Rop+i.+ minister at PaarsaIl