The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1890-02-04

SaOW man, JOOk place MOuuay morning
from his late residence in Philadelphia.
The Rev. Mr.. Lat mer read the Episcopal
service.
Manager Kelley, OF the Midland theatre,
Kansas City, has sued Maggie Mitchell,
the actress, for S., 900 becauseshe violated
an agreement to play in his house, as he
alleges.
The United States troops at Guthrie,
Oklahoma had to "stand off" the law
~reverencing citizens of that town Satur-
day or a man would have been hung for
claim jumping.
Marshall Roberts, a son of the late
Marshall 0. Roberts, of New York City,
is the youngest millionaire in America.
He is ten years old aud worth ten mil
lions of dollars.
! George Hermann an undertaken of
Indianapolis, possesses a horse which
helped draw the hearse that bore the
remains of President Lincoln through
that city in 1866.
A 81 bterranean river broke into the La
Plata mines, at Leadville, Col, Saturday
and the men had just time to get out alive.
The mine is flooded and if it is a water
course it is ruined.
A religious crank shot at Bishop
Whitaker while he was conducting
worship in al Episcopal church in Phila-
idelphia. The crank says that he SIS just
yearning y for clerical blood.
A boy named French struck another lad
named Guerst on the head with a brick
and fractured his skull, al Beaver Falls.
1t is feared he is fatally hurt. Both boys
worked at the Beaver Falls glass factory.
Aszman, an Indianapolis miscreant
who murdered his sweetheart, Bertha Elf,
some months ago, was found guilty of
murder by a righteous jury last evening,
who wouldn't believe the plea of~insanity.
William R. Schry was killed and D. J.
Davis daddy injured by a falling scaffold
at the Gautier works, J~ohnstown, on
Monday, and John Culligan was fatally
burned by hot metal at the Cambria
works.
Consul General Mason informs the
State department that the electrical exhi-
bition which it was designed to hold at
Frankfort on-the-Main, commencing June
1, 1890, has been postponed until May
1st, 1891.
Scott Shameffer, a 16-year-old boy,was
sentenced to five years Imprisonment for
bu ,glarly at Kansas City last week. He
is the sole heir to $4,000 worth of prop
erty left him by his parents, who died
recently.
The negroes are on a strike lea Athens,
GA. and say they are tired working on
the farm. They are getting dissatisfied
all over the country. The young set Of
negroes are hardly worth kicking out of
the way, anyhow.
A. N. Nelson, of Abbeville S. c., bought
a pair of shoes for his wife and lost them
while on his way home. She became
enraged and shot and killed him and then
attempted suicide by shooting herself
througe the head.
Mr.. Levy P. Perry, a wealthy merchant
Of Orange county, Va, was killed by a
fast running train on the Midland road,
which was belated. He attempted to
drive over the track at a point three miles
west Of Orange crossing.
The little three-year-old daughter Of
NJ. J. Jackson, of Buchanan, VT, having
wandered into the pasture, was attacked
by a savage buck sheep, which knocked
her down, broke her collar bone, and
bruised her considerably.
A deposit of valuable mineral paint has
been discovered on the land Of Mrs. L. G.
Crane, near Roanoke, Va, on the line of
the Shenandoah Valley Railroad. The
quality of the deposit is very fine and the
property will be developed.
A S lex Of giant powder was found by
the driver for a grocery house in Wheeling,
W. Va, in the horse stable, hidden under
the feed in the trough, and only discov-
cred by accident. There is no clue to
the perpetrators of this outrage.
Mrs. Mary Deppe, of Saline county,
Illinois, arrived in East St. Louis Satur-
day with her baby dead in her arms
She said the child froze to death while
she was waiting for the train at Pinck-
NEVILLE, the station having no fire..
Two fine horses drawing a party return
;prf from q waddinO in ChattanooUa Tenn