The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1890-07-29
THE MOST IMPORTANT EVENTS
THROUGHOUT THE WORLD
FOR A'WEEK.
Sparks from the Wires.

d disturbance Is oVer IN BacHW6u
county.
1t is reported that yellow feveris raging
in Hanava.
Ex-EmpreS, Eugene is as much Of a
recluse as though she were a nun.
Suits will be brought in favor of the
mi ers killed in the Hill farm mine.
A Pennsylvania lawyer is indicted for
obtaining fraudulent pension afidavitS.
The town of Saltwater, MINI, was en-
tirely destroyed by a cyclone last night.
II is said the French expedition to the
Upper Niger has been routed by the ma
There is a quarrel between the whites
and colored Grand Army posts of New
Orlea, s.
Oscar Johnson, of Augusta, Ga, con-
fesses the double crime of criminal AS
sault and murder.
At a meeting in an Iowa town the citi-
zens determined to Tar and feather any
perso nattempting to sell ~spicituous
The general manager of the Magazins
du Louvre in Paris gets a salary O. $780,
900 a year, with a percentage on the
profits.
The betrothal of Princess Victoris,
sister of Emperor William to Prince
Adolph, of Schaumburg, is officially al
nounced.
The Western Union Telegraph Office,
in New York City, and other buildings
were burned a few days ago. Loss, about
100000
An eyewitness gives an account of
the explosion at Kings Mills. Ten per
sons at least, were killed and double that
number wounded.
The retired pensioned veterans who
fought under the great Napoleon, who
now receive $40 year, put their number
at lI2 instead of $50 as in 1888.
Marshall Pass, on the Denver and Rio
Grande Railroad, 1851 feet above the
sea level, is the highest point crossed by
a railroad inside the limits of the United
States.
ST.. PETERSBURG, July D The town Of
Slonim has been partly wrecked by a
hurricane. A number of people were
buried in the ruins. Nineteen bodies
nave been recovered.
PETERSBURG, Va, July l8.-Eddie
Coma, a young man living at City Point,
nine miles from here, committed suicide
to day shooting himself in the breast. No
cause for the act is known.
MONTGOMERY, Ala, July 2l.-Cottrell,
the desperate and fugitive Mayor of
Cedar Keys, Fla, surrendered to United
States Marshal Walker here last night.
He was released on $4,000 bail.
PETERSBURG, Va. July l8.-Eddie
Coma, a young mar living at City Point,
nine miles from here committed suicide
to-day by shooting himself in the breast.
No cause for the act is known.
Boston, July 21.-J. B. Johnson the
champion swimmer of Great Britain, has
made a match with Professor Donaldson
to swim ten miles for $1,000 a side over
an ocean course, probably off Coney
Island
LONDON, July 21-3:3O p. m.-Bar sill
yer is quoted at Sold. per ounce, an un-
precedented price, due to the change
made in the value Of the precious meta
throughout the world by the passage Of
the silver bill.
A mad OK was killed at Daviston, Ga.
last week. He broke through every bar.
rier, and was hard to keep up with. The
men shot him twenty-seven times before
killing him. He was bitten by a mao
dog three weeks ago.
WILMINGTON, Del, July 21.-Fire this
morning destroyed the cotton mills o.
Edwin J. Cranston, at Stanton, near this
city. The fire originated in one of the
cards in the carding room. Loss, $780,,
900; insurance unknown.
CRY OF MEXICO, July 2l.-It is re-
ported that a battle has occurred between
the for es of Guatemala and San Salvador
the former being defeated and sustaining
heavy loss, and their artillery being cap.
tured by the San SalvadOrians.
At the celebration of the fftieth an.
aiversary of the invention of the postage
stamp, held recently ia England, a STAMP
was shown worth 100 g%uinas. 1t wa
from the British Guinea collection anC
showed a rude post-mark on pink paper
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