The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1890-10-28
THE MOST IMPORTANT EVENTS
THROUGHOUT THE WORLD
FOR A WEEK.
Sparks from the Wires.

1t is reported that many people are in
a destitute condition in a portion of Da-
kota.
Reports from Western States show a
falling off from last year in the various
crops.
The assessed valuation of Spokane Falls,
Washington, is $40, O0O,O 900 ABOVE that Of
last year.
A girl of Is and a boy only four years
older were married at Columbia, Mo,
with the full consent of their parents.
A colored boy in GAINESVILLE, O., is
named Times Recorder Summons, after
The daily paper that is published there.
In Buenos Ayres the police alone have
the right to whistle on the streets. Any
other person whistling is at once arrested.
LONDON, Oct. 21.-Russian advices are
that cholera has extended from Persia to
Bogdad aid is destroying many victims.
LONDON, Oct. 18.-A Berlin despatch
states that a universal labor congress will
be held in Brussels on August 10Th, 1901.
Speaker Reed is stumping McKlnley's
district thoroughly. If the tariff find
does not win it will not be the :au,t of
the Dictator.
R. G.. Peters, of Manistee, Mich, the
lumber and salt millionaire, has failed I r
49, 900 900 with liabilities nominaily
double that amount.
Due West Female College is to be re
moved to some other point in Soulh
Carolina. Rock Hill has offered a site
and $4,000 in cash.
j. L. Carter, who was shot at Linden
by Burrows, has been pronounced out of
danger by his physician, and is expected
to be GU in a few days.
HUNTSVILLE, Ala, Oct. l5.-General
Reuben II. Davis, Of Aberdeen, Miss
died here, of apoplexy, yesterday. He
was a second cousin Ct Jefferson Davis.
The Lowe Metallic Paint Company, of
Chattanooga, made an assignment on
Monday. Its schedule Of Indebtedness
foots up 1854; assets, not yet known.
Into a peach tree on his place at Napa,
Cal, Rev. Richard WylIe has grated diff,
ferent varieties of stone fruit until now
! Ao Co+Iorc from - o1DoOnI, nl7D0C onS
three kinds Of peaches.
Capt. Hennessy, chief Of police in New
Orleans, was killed by three men while
on his way home one night last week. A
number of Italians have been ed
charged with the crime.
A boy was recently discovered in Mid
land county, Mich, near Pleasant Valley,
whose booy is covered with scales marked
similarly to those of a mud turtle. He
will be put upon exhibition.
Omaha" is to be the name Of the me
tropolis that will soon be fourishing on
the banks of the Chattahooch where
the Savannah, Americas and Montgomery
road crosses over the Alabama.
PERU, Ind, Oct. 2l.-Isaac Flsaer, a
leading Dunksrd minister and a pioneer
in this part of Indiana, fell dead in the
pulpit last evening while reading a hymn
at a church in Mexico, near this city.
COLUMBUS, O, Oct. 2l.-Pete McCarty,
a famous old counterfeiter, died in the
Ohio prison this morning, aged 81, of
consumption, He was serving a ten-year
sentence and was received here in 1888
ST.. JOHN, N. B., Oct. 21.-Iti is reported
that smuggling to a large extent is going
on across the border, and that over 1000
sheep and lambs were taken into New
England last week, despite the Mckinley
bill.
A negro emigration agent in Atlanta
proposed to take darkies to Africa at 81
a head and throw in twenty acres of land
which would grow cabbages as tall as
our trees. He scooped in about $500
and then skipped.
BELLEFoNTA1NE, o., Oct. 20. "A man
named J.. T. Smith was arrested here for
completely in the recent train robbery
near here. $271 in Adams Express en-
velopes and four sets of diamonds were
found on his person.
As Jesse Harrison, a clerk of L.. s.
Ewett, of Albertson, Ala, was going to
Guntersville, on Saturday afternoon, with
$500 to pay for cotton, he was held up in
PoIecat Hollow by two negroes and
robbed of the whole amount.
NEW YoRK Oct. 21.-Patrick J. GIea-
son, mayer of Long Island City, was SEN
fenced to-day to five days Imprisonment
in the county jail and to pay a fine of
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