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

recover rebates on freight hauled before
he law regulating tariff was in force, the.
supreme court, giving judgment against
the Rock Island railway, which is required
10 allow the plaintiff he same rebate,
allowed other shippers.
Petitions signed by five hundred hemp
producers, working men and business
men was sent from Lexington, Kentucky
to Chairman Mckinley, of the Ways and
Means Committee, asking that the pres
ent tariff on hemp be maintained and that
all foreign ibres be kept off the free list
BY the fall Of a trestle on the BriarfeId-
Blo,ton and Bennington railroad, in Biz
mingham, Ala, Carl Clark and David
Webb were fatally injured and % other
carpenters, engaged at work, narrowly
escaped injury. The trestle was being
constructed without proper bracing AND
gave way.
The c~oroner's jury at Chicago inyesti-
eating the killing of four of a funeral
party IN the Northwestern railway de-
cided that the accident was the result oR
the carelessness Of the driver Anderson.
who lost his life, and charged neglect ON
the cemetery company and railway. The
engineer was exonerated.
Another terrible railroad wreck occur
red near Indianapolis, Ind, on the 28th
ult. The tender of a passenger locomo-
tive jumped the track and two coaches
were precipitated from a trestIe into 8
creek and were burned. Seven people
were killed and twenty injured, some of
them fatally.
The little son Of Mr.. T. J.. Jefferson, Of
fredericksburg, Va, while on a visit into
the country, was playing with his COM
p~anions and climbed tree. In the act Of
descending a companion struck at the
tree with Ratchet, and the unfortunate
lad received the blow. His limb may
have to be amputated.
Three haystacks on the farm of J. f
Turner, near Norwood, Montgomery
county, Nd nave been destroyed by fire.
The footprints of some one were tracked
from the ricks across a plowed field. A
week previous a tenant house was de-
stroyed by an ~incendiary fire. Both house
and hay were insured.
Several Delaware capitalists at Pied
mont, Ala, with 1 1850 900 capital, all
paid in, propose to build an industrial city
there, with Preston Lea, Of Wilmington,
President, and William G.. Ledbetter, Of
Admission, Vice-President. Two hundred
thousand dollars worth of town lots were,
sold within an hour from the beginning
Of sale.
The National University Of Chicago
has received a New Years gift of inn
proved Illinois farm property, estimated.
at $4,000, which will be utilized by its
agricultural department as a means Of
teaching improved practical farming to
needy young men who desire to pay their
expenses while at college, and who take
the agricultural course.
Isadore Garnie committed suicide at
Decatur, Ga. He was a young man, d
years old, and was making his home with
relatives at Decatur. Two years ago he
shot a man in Jacksonville, but was ac-
quilted. He shot himself with the same
pistol with which he shot his friend two
years ago. No cause is assigned for the
suicide save dependency.
A dispatch from Parkersburg says an
epidemic which is supposed to be the
black tongue fever, is raging in Monga-
hela county, w. Va. 1t was first discov-
cred in the family of Thomas Burns a few
miles from Morgantown. Four of his
family died within one week. The peo-
pie of the neighborhood are very much
alarmed, and the authorities of Morgan
town have sent provisions for the balance
of the Burns family, with orders to re-
move them and burn the residence to pre-
ven5 the spread of the disease.
Mr.. Kerger, a wealthy farmer, of Com
fort, Texas, has been sick with the infu-
enza. One day last week his daughter
turned his horses out of the stables so
they could get water. One of the horses
having a rope halter on, started to run
and the rope somehow became wrapped
around the young lady's neck. He ran
off dragging Miss Kerger over the ground
at rapid rate. Mr.. Kerger took in the
situation at once, and selling a rife, shot
the horse dead. But the unfortunate
young lady was quite dead when picked