The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1890-09-02
THE MOST IMPORTANT EVENTS
THROUGHOUT THE WORLD
FOR A WEEK.
Sparks from the Wires.

The striking miaers in Belgium now
number $4,000.
New York City is flooded with 81
counterfeit bills.
There are 500 John Johnsons in
Chicago's new directory.
DR.. Mary Walker is a helpless cripple
for life, without money and almost with
out friends.
W~ILKEsBARRE, August % -The list Of
victims of the recent cyclone IL this city
now numbers Is.
1t is said at the Census Office in Wash
ington that the population of Charleston
will not exceed $4,000.
a London ~cablegram reports much dis
satisfaction among the lockers at South
ampton, and a great strike is imminent.
The Virginia State Alliance consists of
ejghty-seven county organic Ations, lib
Sub Alliances and about 5000 members.
The 500 or 800 people who hive in
Eastern Arapahal county, Colorado, near
the Kansas line, are in a state bordering
on starvation.
Two freight trains were wrecked at
Mullen, Neo, yesterday, in a coli sion,
killing three persons and seriously iniur-
ing six others.
Gen. Longstreet is understood to be
engaged upon a history of the C vii war,
and especially of the campaigns in which
he had a share.
BUENos AYERS, August 23.-The report
that Senior Lopez, Minister Of Finance,
and Gen. Lavales, Minister of War, have
resigned is authoritatively denied.
Kennedy & Co., Liverpool cotton brok
ers, have suspended. Other failures in
the cotton trade are expected in conse-
quence of the collapse in prices in Liver
pool.
NEW York, August %. -Messrs. Butler
& johnson, dealers in paper at A, Beck
man street made an assignment to-day
to Geo. P. Butler with preference OF
$40, OOO.>
Conservative railroad men estimate the
prospective loss to the Old Colony R. R.
Co., by the Quincy accident, aside from
the damage to rolling stock, at half a mil
lion dollars.
The London papers are congratulating
Lord Salisbury upon the successful settle
ment OF the dispute between England and
Portugal, which at one time threatened
to result N war.
A new hotel is now being erected at
Fortress Monroe which will second only
in cost and style to Mr.. Flagrr's hotel at
st. Augustine, Fla. the new hotel will
have eleven elevators.
The big steamers Teutonic and City of
New York are off for another trt nsatlan
tic race, with 400 passengers to take
tie chances, as the Washington Post puts
it, of ever reaching Queenstown.
Advices received here from the New
Hebrides Islands state that the natives Of
Amba Island massacrec the crew Of q
German labor vessel. A French war snip
subsequently sheIled the villages on the
island.
Mrs. Edison, the great electrician's wife,
is a woman of "a, whose graceful figure
is a triAe above the average height. She
has brown hair, hazel eyes, aGlear olive
complexion, and is an unusually pretty
woman.
LONDON, August 23.-The German En-
peror has started for Peterhoff, to spend
a few days as the guest of the Gar, and
it is expected that matters of interest to
Europe will be discussed between the two
sovereigns.
Saturday afternoon, a negro named
Taylor, entered a store in CrawfordVille,
Ca. and accused a clerk Of stealing. Mr..
A. W. Mushan, while attempting to put
the negro out, was stabbed by the latter.
The negro escaped.
The Chattanooga Pressreports the death
in its city of a negro man, Gus Jackson,
of chol =ra morbus, caused by eating a
watermelon, and thinks this is the first
instance in which a watermelon has caused
the death of a negro.
Trade marks were known in ancient
Babylo7. China had them as early as
1000 B. G. They were authorized in
England in 1900. G~uttenburg, the in
ventor of printing, is said to have had q
lawsuit over his trademark.
MONTGOMERY, Ala, August 35-At ]
o'clock this morning a section of the
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