The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1890-02-18

1t is announced from St. Petersburg
that the committee authorized by the
government has prepared a plan for the
through Siberian railway, to be completed
in ten years. The total length of the line
is to be 1875 miles, and the total cost
$50, 900, 900 rubles. "
Charles Cheatle. a l7-year old boy who
is employed in the wire factory at Trenton.
N. J., was pierced through the body by
a red-hot iron rod on the 9Th inst. Be-
fore the machinery could be stopped, ten
feet of the wire had been curled up in
the unfortunate boys stomach.
A train carrying Queen Victoria and
her attendants was stopped in a tunnel
in Derbyshire last week by a broken
locomotive. Another train came rushing
in but three tOrpedoes had been placed
on the track and happily their explosion
was heard and a terrible calamity averted.
Three men undertook to capture a negro
burglar in a store at Camak, Ga, on the
9th. The negro shot MI. A. S.. Rogers
the owner of the store, as he ran out by
him and he is said to be MORALLY wounded.
The other two men pursued the fleeing
burglar and after 9 desperate fight sue.
ceeded in capturing him.
Surgery has made immense strides of
late years. Yesterdays Herald reports q
wonderful operation performed on a girl
about twelve years of age in Pittsburg,
Pa A tumor as large as a du3k's egg was
taken from the child's bsain. The little
patient is much relieved and is thought
to be now sure of recovery.
At a congregational meeting of the
Park Presbyterian Church, Erie, Pa, .
call was extended to Rev. William Stem
mer, pastor of the Mercer Church, at
$4,000 per year. Rev. Slemmer was a
Chicago rep orter, graduated at Princeton,
was admitted to the bar and then studied
for the ministry He is an able man.
The women of Lothrop, Missouri, OF
ganized themselves into a mob of 1O0
" crusaders" aud completely destroyed
two saloons, and emptied about $1,000
worth of liquor into the cutters. They
also notified the druggists that they
would be treated in a like manner if they
persisted in selling liquor in defiance of
the law.
Mary Hooper, aged seventeen, and
Rachel Ferguson, aged eighteen, recent
converts to the Baptist Church at Utica
Ind, quarreled about which should be
baptized first, and BACKED each others
eyes. When the minister interfered they
attacked him vigorously. A large crowd
was present and the baptizing wound nm
in a row.
The imperial train of the Gar of Russia
Is lighted by electricity, which is furnished
by a complete plant carried in a car by
itself. The train consists of fifteen cars,
aud during 1888 it ran. upwards of 5000
miles, and the electric lights always
worked. In the disaster of October, 1883,
the electric car escaped uninjured. The
lamps are from six to eight candle power.
It is reported from California that the
Los Angeles river has changed its course
at almost a right angle just south of the
city limits, and after crossing the country
for six miles emptieS into the old saR
Gabriel river. The inundation covers q
large area. A large number Of orange,
walnut, lemon and other orchards are al
most ruined. Growing crops in its course
are completely destroyed. The total
damage in the Los Angeles region is esti-
mated at $4,000.
Dave Ready, the white man who while
drunk, took William Black, a negro
prisoner, from the officers near Robbins
station, tied him to a tree aud shot bic
head off on the Tuesday after the whole
sale lynching at BarnweIl, has been caught
Sheriff Lancaster received a telegram from
the sheriff of an Alabama county saying
he had Ready, the right man, and asked
him to send for him. The sheriff also got
a telegram from a Flosid ida sheriff saying
he had Ready, who is wanted for the
murder of Black.
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