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

large Steenstra1d cotton firm is ted.
Clerks in London have formed a union
and intend agltating for better pay and
shorter hours.
LIVERPOOL, Aug, 3O.-In the exchange
to-day the failure of another small cotton
firm was announced.
A party of seventy five negroes are
preparing to 60 from Chattanooga, Tenn,
to Africa in a short while.
Salvador is king of running horses now.
He made mile in 1850, lowering Ten
Broeck's record by 81 seconds.
A party of $50 Mormon converts from
Georgia, Alabama, North Carolina and
East Tennessee went to Utah last week.
VIENNA, Sept. IAN explosion occur
red to-day in a mine at Boryslow, in
Galicia, Eighty miners were ~suffoca,ed.
A negro by the name of Scott was shot
and killed by a white man named Dudley
at a negro meeting near Gibson, Ga last
Monday.
LONDON, Sept. 2.-The British steamer,
Partuense went down in the channel
with nine persons on board. All were
drowned.
George Holloway fell down the inside
of a factory chimney at Indianapolis, Ind,
a distance of ninety-fve feet, and was not
seriously hurt.
Within the past decade the product N
of pig iron in the South has increased
from $50, 1876 to 1880, 900 tons. Isn't
Dixie getting there on the iron schedule ?
PEsTH, Aug. 3O-By the falling in of
the roof of a burning building at the vii
lage of Mejo, Kerestze, in the district OF
Borsod, to-day, fifteen persons were
killed.
PARIS, Sept. IA train was thrown
from the track at Arenes, Department of
Grouse, to-day. Seventeen carriages were
wrecked, and several persons were killed
or injured.
CAIRO, Sept. Since Tuesday last
there have been 48 fresh cases Of cholera,
one at Eltor and Is deaths. Advices
from Mecca are to the effect that the city
is free from cholera.
~SUsANv1LLE, Cal, Sept. 3.-The stage
on the Legion and S~usanville line was
stopped by a masked man near Milford,
Monday night, and the Wells Fargo box
taken at the muzzle of a revolver.
Senator Stanford's fruit farm in Cali
foInia is the largest in the world. It con-
tains 10000 acres, and the grapes raised
and the wines made there are famous
where Stanford himself is unknown.
The aeronaut Borletti met with a ter
rible death August 28th, at Idralia. The
balloon in which he assembled caught fire.
Borletti was precipitated to the ground
from a great height and instantly killed.
VIENNA, Aug. 3O.-The Rhine has over
flowed it's banks in the Vorarlberg dis
trict. The villages Of Albach, Hohenems,
Holchst, Lustnan and Fuessach are flooded.
Bridges have been swept away and many
persons were drowned.
CHICAGO, Sept. "a resolution was
yesterday adopted by the glassmen of the
country, who are in session here, to ad
vance prices and limit production and de-
mand a p%rohibitory tariff, so that Belgium
and other European glass may be kept
out.
NEW YORK, Sept. 3.-The Evening San
to-day as a result Of its investigation
prints a long expose of the abuses and
Encouragement in the Blackwell Island
penitentiary, the conduct of which, it
states, is a disgrace to a civilized com
muntiY.
LIVERPOOL, Sept. AT the opening of
to-day's session of the trades unions con
gress, President William Watkins deliv-
cred an address. He said the time had
undoubtedly arrived when an energetic
attempt should be made to secure eight
hours as a days work.
The first jury drawn in the Chickasaw
nation, under the Oklahoma bill, was en-
panelled on Saturday to hear the cases of
Washington against Hodges for the pos
session Of a horse. The court ruled that
Indians or white persons, citizens of the
United States, were competent jurors.
Prof. Carter, a well-known ~aronaut,
went up in his balloon at Woodfefd, Ohio,
on the 10Th alt. AS the balloon left the
earth, Milton Redin, a prominent young
man, became ~entsngled in a rope and was
carried up a thousand feet. He fel taat
distance and was mashed beyond recog-