The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1890-11-25
THE MOST IMPORTANT EVENTS
THROUGHOUT THE WORLD
FOR A WEEK.
Sparks from the Wires.

health.
A New Yorker is charged with forging
papers to the amount of a half a million.
P. T. Barnum is very sick. The great
Snowman is t ought to be on his death
bed.
BERLIN, Nov. 18.-An Alsatian woman
to-day, fearing starvation, killed her FIVE
children and herself.
Harvard was fc unded in 1913, Yale in
17Ol, Columbia in 1879, Princeton in
1746, and Dartmouth in l766.
1t is state in Berlin that a bill will be
presented in the Reichstag granting
l,OOO.O 900 marks to Professor Koch.
The General Assembly Of the Knights
of Labor is in session at Denver, Colorado,
Grand Master Workman Powderly pre-
siding.
Jay Gould went into Wall street the
other day while the gamblers were crazy,
and walked off with two or three moder-
ate fortunes.
The Kansas City Packing and Refriger-
ating Company, of Boston, has assigned
to George E Parker. Liabilities upward
of SIS, coo, 900.
The Japanese students at the Univer-
sity of Michigan have copied American
style and have run away with TWO Ameri-
can girls anxious to get married.
a freight train was thrown into Kansas
river at Kansas City yesterday by the
collapse of a bridge. Two men were
killed and five others badly hurt.
Old papers accumulate rapidly in the
departments in Washington. The other
day they cleaned up the treasury depart
men. and gathered up $4,000 worth.
New ORLEANS, Nov. 1.-THE New
Ocleans depositors of G. NJ. Whitney &
Co., who reoently failed in New York,
are being paid in full by an attorney.
Out of Sc, 1854 alumni from IS colleges
and universities since 1925, 9 per cent
are recorded as physicians, 10 PEI cent. as
lawyers and 81 per cent. as ministers.
Chas. Jones, a brother of Rev. Sam. P,
Jones, of Georgia, shot a negro three
times at Gainesville, Ca, n day last
week. The negro only lived 20 minutes
A convict at work with the force on
the R. & S. near Martinsville, Va, was
Friday last shot while attempting tc
escape and is now in a precarious con
dition.
Over 100000 half grown shad have
been put into the Potomac river this year
by the U. s.. Fish Commission. Next
year 5 1000, 900 will be put in the Della
ware river.
Twin sis ters in Norfolk, Va, wher
born weighed respectively n pound and
one pound and a half. At three month:
their weight is one and a half pounds anG
two pounds.
The people of the United States con
sumo 200, 600, 600 bottles of pickles every
year. But this is not the reason why they
soured so bad on the Republican party al
the last election.
SAN Francisco, Cal, Nov. 16.-Lieut
Benham Of the revenue service yesterday
seized twenty-five boxes Of opium, found
on board the steamer Bertha, which re
Gently arrived here from Puget sound.
ATLANTA, Ga, Nov. 18.-John B. Cor.
don was to-day elected to the United
States Senate to succeed Hon. Joseph E
Brown. The Senate voted first and Cor,
don got twenty-five votes to nineteen fo1
the field.
BARNwELL, Nov. 17.-After remaining
out from Saturday 10 o'clock until $50
this evening, the jury in the David G
Ready case brought in a verdict of man.
slaughter, with recommendation to the
mercy of the court.
HARTFORD, Conn, Nov. 18-An I'm.
known nan who has been lettering cbout
the New York, New Haven and Hartford
Railroad station for several days, deliber,
ately laid his neck across the track in front
of a switch engine this morning and wa;
decapitatel.
BIRMINGHAM, Nov. 16.-At Woodlawn.
five miles from this city, last night, Henry
Saunders shot and killed his wife. Fol-
some time Saunders has been unfaithful
to his wife. She learned Of his attentions
to another woman and threatened to have
the latter arrested.
The great scheme of laying bare the bed
of Feather river, the largest mining opera
ton ever undertaken in California, is now
assured, as within two days samples of