The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1890-11-18
THE MOST IMPORTANT EVENTS
THROUGHOUT THE WORLD
FOR A WEEK.
Sparks from the Wires.

NJ3 P-ON1NNN -
n day last week.
Great storms are reported from parts of
'Endgland and Ireland.
A Spanish vessel was wrecked lasr
week and 81 persons drowned.
The town of Winslow, Indiana, was
entirely burned up a few days ago.
Ex-Gov. Edward O'Neal, OF Alab ANA,
died in Florence, that State, Friday.
1t is said that 5000 people have left
Italy for America in the past ten days.
A genuine case of l>prosy has been
found in Pennsylvania. The victim is a
Swede. :.
LONDON. Nov. 1O.-A slight earthquake
in Monmouthshire Saturday, lasted nine
seconds.
The Harrison wooden mills at Woon-
socket, R. L, have been closed down in
d. fnitely.
Two of the leading hotels in San Fran
cisco, Cal, were destroyed by fire Mon
day. Loss, $l,5OO,OOO.
The First National Bank of Richmond,
Va, has been authorized to begin business
with a capital of $4,000.
Three prominent citizens have been
arrested near Macon, Ga, charged with
the murder of Norman W. Dodge, of New
York.
Two thousand anarchists attempted to
hold a meeting in Newark last week and
were dispersed by the police. No n
was XII led.
The engine at Baker Bros. cotton gin,
Dyersburg, Tenn, exploded n day last
week. Two negroes were killed. Loss,
abb $26 900.
CAIRO, Nov. l1.-Cotton receipts to
date amount to 1882, 1853 c~antars, as
against 1918 1919 cantars for the, GORE
spon1ing period last year.
A New York business man says that
fro n IS to 80 per cent of the capital in
vested in that city represent the earnings
of men who began life poor.
A young man fell in love with a girl in
Wisconsin the other day, and when she
refused to marry him, he stuck the prOngs
of a pitch-fork into her side, slightly
wounding her.
A heavy freight en- CINE plunged into a
Sleeping ear filed with people, at Junction
City a few days ago. No one was killed,
but many were injured. The car wa
broken in pieces
Miss Mary Abel, daughter Of the late
A. S. Abel, of the Baltimore Sun, and
one of the richest single women in
America, has entered the Catholic con-
vent at Georgetown as a nun.
AUGUSTA, Ga, Nov. IL About 8 o'clock
this morning an express on the Georgia
Central Railway was boarded by a band
of highwaymen and twelve thousand dol
lars taken from the express safe.
MADRID, Nov. 11.-Fire to-day de-
stroyed a large tobacco factory in this
city, causing a loss of $500, 900. Ten
thousand working people are deprived of
e~mployment by the co~nRagration.
. Capt. John Orth, Archduke John OF
Austria, is reported to be lost with the
merchant vessel he commanded of Cape
Corn. Milly Stubel, the Berlin actress,
his m~organatic wife, persisted with him.
New YORK, N. Y, Nov, 1O.-SuOci,
the italian that is trying to fast forty days,
entered upon his fifth day this morning
weighing 134 pounds. He weighs every
day and has fallen off one pound since
yesterday.
The wages of the freight engineers and
fremen in the employ of the Lake Shore
and Michigan Southern Railroad Com
pany have been increased twenty cents a
day. The engineers are advanced from
S0.0O 10 S0.(O.
DR.. Lilly and John Wilson, a school
commissioner in Estell county, KY, fell
out on election day. Both drew pistols
and began to fire. Both were killed and
also a brother Of DR.. Lilly. Three by
ISLANDERS were slightly wounded.
P1rTsBURe, Pa, Nov. 9.-senator Quay
passed through the city last night en- route
to Florida. In reply to the query, ITO
what do you attribute the result of the
election? , he said: "To a lack of votes"
as a sly smile wreached his lips.
New ORLEANS, Nov. 1O.-Fhe Southern
Pacific Company's steamer Gussie, in the
Central American trade, is five days over
due from B~luefelds, Nicaragua. Fears
are entertained for the safety o. the ship
and crew. She has five passengers.