The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1890-01-14
THE MOST IMPORTANT EVENTS
THROUGHOUT THE WORLD
FOR A WEEK.

Vicksburg, Miss, had a $4,000 fire
recently.
New York had a $3.50, 900 fire on the
End inst.
A typhoid fever epidemic is raging at
Jersey City, N. J.. +"
Robert Browning, the poet, died few.
days ago in London.
New York coal companies are democrat
lied by the warm winter.
Business men of Gotham agree that
1890 will be a very prosperous year.
Mr.. R. K. Campbell has organized the
BEDFORD Electric Co. at Liberty, Va.
The snow was 16 feet deep in the Sierra,
Nevada mountains, California, last week.
During 1889 a little more than 1000
miles of railroad track has been laid in the
South.
1t is stated that the American a~ssocia-
ton (basebalD will have twelve clubs next
season.
A broken telephone wire killed one
horse and fatally injured another in
Pittsburg.
The Edison Illuminating Co., of New
York, were burned out Oh the End inst.
Loss, 100000.
The German ship, Shakespeare, was
abandoned at sea, a terrible gale having
disabled the vessel.
Another Nihilist plot against the car
has been discovered in St. Petersburg.
Several arrests have been made.
George F. Kellogg, State sugar inspec-
tor of Kansas, reports the sorghum indus
try on the increase in that State.
Editor Malone, of the Fort Worth
Gazette, was presented with $500 in gold
by his friends on Christmas day.
The French government intends to en-.
force the legal penalty against 300 priests
convicted of meddling with elections.
A pauper school building was burned in
London last week and 26 boys were suf-
located before they could be rescued.
The Manufacturers Record reports that
it is likely that $4,000 will be spent in
building a Union depot at Raleigh instead
of $4,000.
A sewing machine factory is in course
of erection at Atlanta which will employ
1900 people. The weekly payroll will
amount to $4,000.
The saw mills of the Johnston Lumber
Co., located at Towards, BERTHE county,
N. c., were destroyed by fire a few. days
ago. Loss, $4,000.
Horatio Allen, who ran the first loco
motive engine rel propelled I'VE a track
in this country died at his home in Mon
trose, n. j., on Dec. 31st.
Mr.. William Watson, of Jackson, Miss,
has closed a trade with a Memphis syndi-
cate, selling $4,000 acres of land in Sun
flower county for $197,5 500.
A collision on the Panhandle Road at
Kokoma, Ind, on the 3lst of December,
completely demolished two locomotives
and injured a number of employees.
John Green, the colored farm laborer
who butchered his wife on the streets of
Georgetown, KY, in broad daylight, has
been sentenced to hang January Is.
The paupers' school in F~orestgate,
England, was burned early yesterday
morning, and twenty-six boys were suf-
located before they could be rescued.
john Burns, the labor champion of
England, has telegraphed to America that
the condition of the laborer all over Europe
has greatly improved during the past
year.
Mrs. Mary Smith, who died in New
York suddenly, weighed seven hundred
pounds. Her coffin was six feet long,
thirty-four inches wide and twenty nine
inches deep.
Pittsburg Alderman W. q. Porter and
Constables Shepard, Parker and Carney
were convicted of conspiracy to defraud.
This makes five aldermen convicted of
receiving money to settle illegal liquor.
selling cases. The others are now serving
terms in the workhouse.