The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1890-04-22
THE MOST IMPORTANT EVENTS
THROUGHOUT THE WORLD
FOR A WEEK,

@Nashville, Tenn, street cars took !
5000 in one day.
Richmond, Va, has given up the ide
of Sunday ball games.
Judge William scruggs, of Warrenton
Ca, died last Monday.
An epidemic of scarlet fever is running
riot at Union City, Tenn.
The Democrats made large gains in tn,
Montana election last Monday.
A colored parson in Marion county, Ga.
has sued his flock for his salary.
The big strike in New York is of, The
trouble having been amicably adjusted.
A. Flankle has been arrested at Shelby,
vile, Tenn, under the New York debtor
law.
A very heavy and destructive hal
storm occurred in Illinois and Indiana
Sunday.
Senator Morrill,, of Vermont, cele-
brated his 8O5h birthday in Washington
on the 18th inst.
The citizens Of Leary and Calhoun
county, Ca, are working in the interests
OF a county fair.
D. B. Road, a Nashville, Tenn, broker,
is under arrest for having passed a worth
less check for $3.50.
The trial Of Major Charles McGregor
for the killing Of J.. NJ. w. Cady, is being
heard at Warrenton, Ga.
A report from Vicksburg. Miss, states
that seven negroes, were drowned while
trying to escape from the flood.
Lawrance Barrett, the celebrated actor,
is now in England, and is said to be
hopelessly afflicted with a cancer.
Peter Thompson got William .Bolles
drunk at Charleston and relieved him Of
$50 in cash. The thief is under arrest.
There were 1876 destructive fires in the
United States in March, exceeding a loss
Of 100000 each-total loss $780, 800.
Three parties have been arrested at
McCool, Miss, charged with shooting at
a negro postal clerk while on duty in his
car.
B. D. Whilden, who so Mysteriously
disappeared from Birmingham, Ala. some
weeks ago is still numbered among the
missing.
Ben Elsey, colored, who is to be
hanged at Birmingham, Ala, on the 18th,
has confessed to the murder of six differ
ent people.
LONDON, April l4.7In the House of
Commons to-day Mr. Parnell named the
rejection Of the governments Irish land
purchase bill.
The foreign immigration movement is
reported active. The arrivals are very
large-one-third more than for the same
time last year.
Duke Constantinovitch, a Russian
nobleman, was arrested on the 18th on
account of his connection with a lot of
reVolutionistS.
Mrs. Elizabeth Hitler, Of Henry county,
Ca, the widow of a soldier of the war Of
1872, has been granted a pension. She is
80 years of age.
Mrs. Louise Baker was found dead in
her home at Norfolk, Va. She lived
alone and when found a pet cat had eaten
part of her hand.
A tornado passed over Harper's Ferry,
Ky, Monday night and destroyed twelve
houses. One child was killed and eight
people wounded.
Union City, Tenn, was touched up by
fire to the tune Of 100000. Beck &
Gardeners spoke factory contributed $40,
900 to the pyrotechnics.
Mollie StovalI, well known throughout
the South as a tough character, has just
been arrested at SEQ tsvill, KY, on the
charge of illicit distillirt.
AS the result of an ol1 feud Will Barnes
and Kelley Day were }illed by Albion
Barnes and Geo. Stephens near Louisville.
The Barnes were cousins.
Nine victims of the Coalburg mine
disaster, which happened last week near
Birmingham, have died and three others
are in a hopeless condition.
WASHINGTON, April 16.-A protest was
fled with the ways and means committee
by the Louis ana sugar men against the
proposed bounty on sugar.
Fire destroyed a large amount of prop
erty belonging to two farmers near Car
ter, S. c., and the Alliance came to their