The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1890-08-05
THE MOST IMPORTANT EVENTS
THROUGHOUT THE WORLD
FOR A WEEK. ~
Sparks from the Wires.

panies.
Mrs. F. NJ. Van Dyke captured a negro
burglar in her house at Thomasville, Ca,
last week.
Bill APPS son-in-law died a few days
since. He was an editor, bright and in
dustrious.
Emiul Gurenging shot and MORALLY
wounded her -usband at St. Bernard, La,
last week. Jealousy was the cause.
The war in Central America is fully
under way. In an engagement last week
more than two hundred men were killed
on each side.
CINCINNATI, Ohio, July ga baseball
slipped from the hands of a boy at Acron
yesterday and struck and killed a three
year-old child,
The greatest steeple climber in England
is William Green He has repaired over
fifty steeples in England, and is in con-
slant demand.
Seneca Falls, N, Y, had a $1,00O,0 600
fire last Tuesday. Fifteen acres of ground
covered with three-story business bio ks
were swept clean.
CITY OF MEXICO, July 25.1The Guate-
malan minister has just received advices
announcing the forn.al declaration of war
AGAINST San Salvador.
A row occurred on an excursion train
near Waycross, Ca, last week. Five ne
groes were killed and fifteen or twenty
wounded. All were colored.
A millionaire Chinaman Of San Fran
cisco, named Wag Yin Wan, has bought
Is, 900, 900 acres of land in Tehauntepec,
where he will establish a Chine Sc city.
Osborne Houser is not large enough
for Emperor William, so he has made up
his mind to sleep on his yacht when he
visits his royal grandmother next month.
Columbia is the wealthiest of American
universe les, and Harvard comes next
with property valued at $4,000 900, and
a yearly income amounting to 1868, III
SUMMIT, Pa, July 3O.-Miss Jennie
Hart an, who was bitten by a pet dog
ten days ago, shot herself yesterday
Fears of hydro phobia had unsettled hel
mind.
One of the softest positions in the gov,
eminent service is that held by Genera
Sherman. He receives $4,000 a year
with nothing to do and a clerk to helI
him do it.
M. A. Martin, of Bennington, Vt, ha'
started a novel business Of selling priv
leges to fish in his trout streams, the
angler paying 50 much per pound for the
fish he catches.
Ria Kittridge, the champion micro.
scopic postal card writer in the world
has succeeded in writ ng the President
last message, consisting of 10000 words
on a postal card.
J ferson Davis body in the receiving
vault of the Army of Northern Virginia
in New Orleans, is guarded by a membe
of the G. A. R. by day and two ezx-Con
federate veterans by night.
EMERSON, Manitoba, July 3O.-Whea
harvesting began here yesterday. Crol
reports from all parts of the PROVING,
state that the wheat yield will be n o
the greatest Manitoba has yet had.
Captain Williams, a resident of Jeffer
sonville, who has been blind for twent,
years, is recovering his sight. He is o
the opinion that the glare of an electr
light in his room is effecting the cure.
ATCHIsoN, Kan, July 29.-Report
from Rocks county are to the effect tina
nearly everything in that section is burne'
up by the drought and that there is grea
fear a prairie fire will sweep the country
TOLEDO, Ohio, July &c. Nathaniel B
Locke, father Of the late D. R. Locke
petroleum V. Nasby) died here yester
day. He was 81 years old, and was on
of the thirty survivors of the war Of 1872
Mark W. Durham, of Aurora, Ill, i
said to own one of the largest stock farm
in the world. He started it in 1873 b,
importing twenty horses. Since tina
time his annual importations have reached
300.
A young girl at Berlin, Germany, quar-
relied with her mother last Sunday be
cause her mother objected to her keeping
company with young man. The cir
killed her mother and then cremated he
body.
DENVER, Col, July 26.-While Mrs. L
Leith and Mrs. T. L. Conklin were driv
ing in a buggy yesterday the horse tool
fright and ran away and dashed the buggy