The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1890-02-18

THROUGHOUT THE WORLD
FOR A WEEK. So

FOR A WEEK.
Rear Admiral Stephen P. @Qdaekenbush
died washington.
There is said to be great restitution in
!Greenyille county, Va.
Wales viii ask the English parliament
to give that country home rule
A vigorous fight is being made against
the sale Of cigarettes in Maryland,
Oscar Murphy tried to kill policeman
Hennelly in New York last week.
A cloud burst al Tsit-G-' Chow, in China,
on Feb, 7th drowned over 100 people.
Cardinal Pecci, brother of the Pope,
died ct Rome on the afternoon of the
9Th. T.:
Small pOx in malignant form has broken
out in Anna, His. The town is quaran-
tined. t. ~
Mrs: Oliver, a sister of the late John
Bright, and a noted temperance sgitator,
is dead.
Mr.. Henry M. Stanley has been. elected
a member Of the Russian Geographical
Society. sic
Col. Dudley's famous libel suit against
The Ne0 York EveaSng Post has been
dropped, e. : =,
A POI ton of the towa of Plains, Pa,
has cavsd III. 1t was situated !Sver the
coal mines. a. 49, 80
Toe Duke Of N 5onaitlp'ensiere who 10 died
suddenly at San Lucas, left a fortune of
$50, oOO, 600. .,, .r.s.
The le1penditures. OF The LoadOn Times
in the ParneH case are said to already ex-
coed $4,000. g.,
A cabinet maker, at New York had his
head severed from his body ina .furniture
shop last week. .....t,.. 10.
Bill Victory, of New York; defeated
Frank Meyers, of Brooklyn, in a ten
round prize fight,
Secretary Window has appointed John
Curtis, of Patterson, N. j., special inspec-
tor of customs at Panama.
Martin Toole was injured and a $500
house was wrecked yesterday at McKees-
port by a natural gas explosion.
Forepaugh's circus has been sold to an
English syndicate. At this rate Barnum
will soon be the original American.
John Holden, a Southerner, was fined
$50 in Jersey City for shooting at a green
goods man who swindled him out of 1915.
An Atlanta man lbs a dog farm near
that Sity. During the past twelve months
he has sold over $4,000 worth of dogs.
The Rev. Robert NJ. Lipscomb, the old
est member of the Baltimore Conference
of the Methodist Church, died there, aged
80 years.
The court house at Dallas, Texas, was
burned a few days ago and nearly all of
its contents destroyed. Loss estimated
at $4,000.
A dispatch from London states that 156
bodies have been recovered from the gas
pit at Abersham. There are other dead
in the mine yet
General Malone is living in compare
tive retirement in Washington. He
spends a great deal of time in taking
long solitary walks. ,
"Rain-in, the Face" the Sioux chief,
seeks a minor appointment in Dakota.
It is to be hoped that he will not get into
the Weather Bureau.
The Farmers Alliance of Sangamon
county, Ills, met at Springfield Tuesday
and decided to boycott persons selling
Chicago dressed beef. {"
George Lowe, of Council Bluffs, Ia,
son Of Judge Lowe, shot and killed John
Farmer, a negro, in a drunkep row at
Crossword, Ia, Monday.
Benjamin Thomas, an old man desperate
with disease and universities, threw him
self before an elevated train in New York
and was crushed to death.
The schooner Minnehaha, with a crew
of six men, from Philadelphia to New
Haven, has been out t~wenty-one days
and is believed to be lost.
Representatives Of agricultural societies
have held a meeting at L%em5urg to pro-
vide relif for the famine sufferers in
Russia, Poland and Galicia. -
Judge F. NJ. Downs, of Fort Smith,
Ark, suicided by cutting his throat Tues
day. He was a brilliant and highly edu-
Gated young man. Whiskey.
Mr.. Loring, the American minister to
~ 60 49,