The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1890-06-17
THE MOST IMPORTANT EVENTS
THROUGHOUT THE WORLD
FOR A WEEK.
Sparks fr m the Wires

Ii is proposed il Congress TO bui d a
Lew mint at Philadelphia at a cost Of
50, 100000.
New ORLEANS, June "a case of vi
.ow fever is report-1 at Chapdeleur Ma
rine hospital.
WASHINGTON Juoe 1O.-In the Sen,,e
to-day the House silver bill! was referred
to ii e com nittee on finance.
COLCHESTER, Conn, June 9.-The whole
business portion of this town was de-
stroye3 by fire early this morning,
NEW YORK, June 9-The cou t remit
ted Boodler O'Neil'S fine this morning.
His term in the peniteL tiary expires this
week.
MACON, Ga, June 9.-Just before mid
night Saturday night jeff Gluzier, a white
carpenter, was killed by Dan Grant, a
negro.
The Fourth District maine, Demo
cratic Convention has nominated Hon.
Josiah Grossly of Dexter, as candidate
for Congress
CINCINNATI, June 9. Ben s. Barbour,
station agent of the incinnat Southern
Railroad at Hanover. Tenn, has ~decamped,
81, 400 short in hi accounts.
Four members o; the family poisoned
by eating wilc parsnips near Lake George,
Canada, are now dead, and it is feared
that the o,her three will die.
CHICAGO, June lO.-The city c'Hmcil
last night decided that, if the legislature
will grant them power, they will loan
S., 200, 900 to the Worlds Fair.
The annual CONVENT N of he Cath lie
Order of Foresters met at Chicago yes
terday with delegates from Illinois, Indi-
ana, Ohio, Wis ,onsin and Canada.
BosroN Mass. June 1O.-There is likely
t. be a three cornered, single scull race
between Ha Ian, Teemer and Gaudaner,
on June 9th, at the Point of Pines.
More than 5000 Sunday-school chill
dreen, and more than 5000 officers and
teachers, representing 16O churches, took
part in Il e Brooklyn parade on Wednes-
day.
DENVER, Col, June g Umpire Bragg,
who umplred the ball game yesterday be-
tween the Denver and Minneapolis teams,
had to leave the city to escape the violence
of the mob.
New YORK, June 1T is cabled from
Loadon that a temperance demonstration
occurred at Hyde Park this moraing.
which was attended by one hundred thou
sand people.
CINCINNATI, O., June 9.-Dan Wilcox
lost his life yesterday by jumping from
Newport railroad bridge into the river
below, a distance of ninety feet. Wilcox
had been drinking.
LOUISVILLE, KY, June 9.-Lawrence
Brown on Saturday shot and killed james
Metcalfe in Casey county court room
while on trial f the murder of hi
(Brown's) brother.
New YORK, June 9.-Pell, the notori
Gus wrecker of the Sixth National Bank
was this morning sentenced to imprison
ment in the p~enitentiary for Eve year;
and six months.
Memorial Day at Stanton, Va, wa
generally observed After app Opriat'
ceremonies at the cemetery, the grave
of the Confederate dead were prOfusely
decorated with flowers.
A Washington dispatch says that Proc
tor Knott, Spokane Riley (the Louisville
Derby winner and Huntress were among
the horses killed in the railroad acciden
near St. Louis yesterday.
New York, June 1O.-Alderman Jane
Pearson, of the Doodle board Of 1884, wa
fatally injured last night by being rul
over by the $50 p. m. express from Jer
sey City on the Erie Railroad.
WASHINGTON, D. c., June 10Th
Secretary of the Treasury has instructe
the collector of the Port at San FrsnciSc
to send back to China fifteen Chiname,
who entered the United States.
The Admission Hot Blast says: Rus
after having ruined the wheat in this por
ton of the county, has nov taken tn
oats and it is feared that the oat crop wi
be a failure. So say the farmers.
Thursday a cyclone in Union township
twenty-five miles from Boone, Ic, cause
great destruction of property. The VII
lage Of Mineral Ridge was swept ava
by the storm, which leveled eVerythin
in it's path.
WASHINGTON. D. c.. June lO-The Re