The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1890-04-08
THE MOST IMPORTANT EVENTS
THROUGHOUT THE WORLD
FOR A WEEK.

HeIrV NJ. > aHley VIII leave Egypt on
April 18th.
Dom Pedro VIII visit Naples and Flor
enc in the autumn.
Counterfeiters are at work at Amster-
dam, N. Y. The police are looking for
the a.
Baltimore's new directory shows a
population of 81 1888, an increase 1851
oVer last year.
Jason Summers shot and killed ]. A.
Reeder in a bar-room at N 5wberry, S. c.,
a few days ago.
There has more snow fallen in New
Yew City during March, than during all
the rest of the winter.
1t is reported that a lumber of people
are homeless and suffering in the track of
the Kentucky cyclone.
The master laundrymen have planned
their campaign of determination against
the Chinese laundrymen.
The italian residents of Boston are
taking steps to present the city with the
statue of Columbus, in 1892.
A boiler in a sugar refinery at Chicago
bursted on the 9th ult., aud it is said
that fifteen men were killed.
John F. Piummer & Co., the well
Known wooden merchants, of New York
City, nave failed for $1,000. 600.
Five men were killed by the explosion
of a boiler at Jacksonville, Indiana, on the
I'd. Nine were badly injured, also.
Ex-Assemblyman Daniel w. Talmage,
of Brooklyn, has obtained a verdict of
$4,000 damages against the New York
World for libel.
A dispatch from Emo, Texas, says that
three boys in that town dug a ave
in a sand-bank and the roof caved in on
them. When discovered they were all
dead.
NEW York, April 3.-A dispatch from
Chappagua, N. Y, says that Horace
Greely's farm house, now occupied by
his daughter, was burned to-day. Loss
$lO,O OO.
A Milanese inventor named Fossa'ti is
exhibiting a simpli1ed ph~onOgraph which
~reproduces the human voice music, etc.,
with wonderful accuracy The cost Of
the instrument is only 100 francs.
GRAND HAVEN, Mich, April 3.-During
a quarrel with his wife yesterday, Michael
Millman, a farmer, living a mile east Of
Agnea, Onawa county, seized a shot gnn
and shot her dead. The murderer fed
and officers are in pursuit.
An engine and thirteen cars of a freight
train on the Georgia Pacific Railroad
went through a trestle twenty miles west
of Birmingham. Conductor Mitchell was
killed and four train men hurt, two of
them, it is thought, mortally.
A reign Of terror exists in Wayne
county, W. Va, caused by the introduce
ton into that section by the Norfolk and
Western Railrosd of a tough lot of citi-
zens. Floating river saloons are in order
and two murders a day the average.
Lawrence Aherm and John Rooney,
two young men, are in Jail at New York
c arged with putting vitriol on the face
of Thomas Kern. An old grudge was
the cause Of the outrage. Kern was
drunk at the time and is totally blind.
A white man named Stratton walked
into w. W. Lewis store at Linden, Ala,
and killed the proprietor. He won't do
it any more. A mob got him shortly
after and he expiated his crime from the
limb Of a tree and at the end Of a rope.
Edward Wright, a colored boy of 16,
was jailed at Mobile for burglarizing the
office of the Mobile and Birmingham
road. A counterfeit dollar was among
the money stolen, and when the prisoner
was searched the dollar was found con-
cealed in his underclothes.
General Francis H. Smith, for fifty
years the superintendent of the Virginia
Military Institute, and its founder, is
dead. He died at Lexington from a
stroke of paralysis, which Frustrated him
early Saturday morning. He was born
in Norfolk on the LIST of October, 1872,
and was 70 years old.
Benjamin GreweI was lynched at Rob
inson station, Kentucky, by a mob of
about twenty persons. Two years ago
Grewel defrauded the farmers in that
ocality by buying stock and paying for
it with bogus checks. He then fed to
the mountains, but ventured back, valnly
thinking his evil deeds had been forgiven.