The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1890-07-08
THE MOST IMPORTANT EVENTS
THROUGHOUT THE WORLD
FOR A WEEK.
Sparks from the Wires

There are nearly $4,000 inmates in he
the various soldiers homes of the country.
The citizens of Mid1lesboro, Ky, have
decided to invest 50 O,OOO in water
works.
The people of this country consume, it
is said, 200, 5000, 900 bottles of pickles an
nually.
There are sixteen negro jockeys in the
country who are paid from $1,000 to
$1,000 a year.
A Memphis girl has fallen heir to $780,
900. Great was the fall thereof-so her
husband thinks.
The wolves destroyed 2l3 human be-
ings in the course of the last twelve
months in Russia.
A white girl, Lizzie Goodrich, shot her
father at Milwaukee, Wis, last week.
She claims that he tried to kill her.
BRUSSELS, June 28.-The anti-slavery
conference has arrived at an understand
ing which is satisfactory to Holland.
There are 200 courts in the United
States engaged in granting divorces, and
n marriage in every % is thus annulled.
The recent census will show New York
to be the third city in population in the
world, London being first, Paris second.
A number of cases Of sunstroke have
proven fatal at Cincinnati, Chic ago and
other western cities during the past week.
The largest soul mash whiskeJ dis
tillery in the world was destroyed by fire
at Louisville last Monday. The loss is
100000.
w. R. Lewis, of Johnson City, Tenn,
committed suicide by taking morphine.
Dependency was the cause. He had
been dissipating.
Boston, June 28.-It is stated on good
authority hat Mr. Horace E. Scudder
succeed Mr.. Thomas Bailey Aldrich as
SUlIOF OIL Lu0 AIIdul1C.
The University of the City of New
York has decided to admit women to
the classes of the law department upon
the same terms as men.
At Pottsville, Pa, 5000 employees of
the Pottsville Iron and Steel Go. have
struck because of refusal of the
to sign the wages scale.
SANTA RoRA, July Three slight
shocks of earthquake were felt here yes
terday. They were not nearly so severe
as those of last Sunday.
Henry N. Stanley is a believer in the
policy of coloniz.ng the Upper Congo
Vail y of Africa with colored immigrants
from the United States.
Dakota has a 1900 foot we'll six inches
in diameter, and throwing 1000 gallons
of water a minute. There are wells in
that region 5000 feet deep.
Ed Hutchinson, an econaut, fell from
his balloon in Knoxville while ascending
for the purpose of making a parachute
jump and was badly injured.
1t is estimated at the Treasury Depart
ment that the monthly debt statement for
June will show a decrease in the public
debt of more than S18, 900, 900.
A Caledonia lWis) coroner's jury, in
the case of Mrs. Catherine Aplichel re-
turned a verdict of accidental drowning
with the intention of suicide"
At the final celebration of the Wash
ington Literary Society, University of
Virginia, the orators medal was awarded
to Geo. W. Conrad, of Virginia.
DR.. W. P. Bizzell, Professor in the
Southern Medical College, and a promi-
nent Atlanta physician, died near Nor
cross, Ca, last week, aged forty.
One hundred and twenty-five thousand
school children in the State of New York
have voted for a National flower. The
golden rod won by &c, 100 votes.
Each member of Congress gets about
5000 envelopes full of seeds every year,
and the bill Uncle Sam pays for them,
and it amounts to about 500, OOO.
BURLINGTON, Iowa, June bow. H.
Ceilings, stage manager Rice's Evangeline
company, who was overcome by heat
yesterday, expired during the night.
LONDON, June 28.-The Times comment
ing to-day on the Bay st. George Incl
dent, says that the gravest consequences
must follow a repetition of the affair.
A Norwegian bark, Nordcap, was
burned at sea a few days ago. A num-
Der Of the crew were drowned and killed
while trying to es ape from the burning
shin.