The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1890-07-01
THE MOST IMPORTANT EVENTS
THROUGHOUT THE WORLD
FOR A WEEK.
Sparks from the Wires.

Inc UulI0O SGaESS mas just HAL Iu6 rail-
roads of the world.
Sam Jones, the evangelist, is said to be
stirring things in Norfolk, Va.
The population OF Brooklyn, N. Y, is
estimated 10 b. 867, 90 by the lat census,
At PurviS. Hiss. Tuesday last, John L
Sullivan p.yaoei guilty and was fined
$500.
Harvard University has 1927 living
g, aduates and Geo. Bancroft is the oldest
Of them all.
About 1000, 900 roses are sold annually
Ia New York City, most Of them raised
on rose farms lear the city.
The Sullivan Jackson prize fight, it is
stated, wall Ike place near Alexandria,
Va, should the terms Of the fight be ar
ranged.
Last weck several villages in Illinois
were almos. swept away by a cyclone,
fifty people o>ing killed and a large mum
Der injured.
Pay master Duao, OF the NJ xicau
Central railway l. IL jail in the city Of
Mexico, charged Win beng $4,000 saoIt
in his accounts.
1t is told f1r a truth that a Philadelphia
father recently paid thirty-6ve hundred
dollars for a dolls house for his 10 T
year-old daughter.
Judge Henry w. Thomas, IN ola anu
highly honored citizen of Fairfax county,
"a, died Monday the 22d ult., in his
seveuty-eighth year.
The Chicago San announces that the
possibilities of revolutionary u~pheavals
on the other 81 e tend to make American
i .vestmeuts popular.
The Court Of Appeals, at Saratoga, N.
Y, his last resort, decided, on Tuesday
last, that Kemler, tht..New York murderer,
must die by electricity.
Rev. Herman Halsey, D. d., of East
Wilson, Niagara county, n. Y, is probably
the oldest living graduate, having received
his diploma from Williams College in
1911,
On Saturday, the 21st ut, the Hon.
Worth Di2kerson was chosen to succeed
the Hon. John G. Carlisle as representa-
tive in Congress from the Sixth Kentucky
district.
Sergeant Dunn, of the U. S. Signal
Service, is credited with saying that the
/" Increased warmth of the seasons is at
tt, buted to the large amount of irrigation
out West"
The commission recently sent by the
Spanish government to determine the
character of the disease prevailing in Val
cncia. reporting on the 23d instant, pro-
nounced it cholera.
Dispatches from Caardjui, Turkistan,
SAYS that hundreds Of bales of Afghan
, cotton have arrived there from Kelif
=, Tois is the first direct sale made by the
Afghans to Russians.
/ Father Muller, Of the Jesuits' college
Bangalore, India, claims that he has cured
several cases of leprosy by a system o.
: electrohomoeopathy, at the small cost Of
10 rupees in each case.
? The eldest daughter of Pullman, he o.
e palace car fame, is a young woman O.
about twenty summers. She is described
as a brunette of great beauty, and is sew
eral times a millionheireSs.
e At the June examination at Cambridg
t University, England, Miss Philippe Faw
s cette carried off the highest honors, hav
s ing 400 marks more than MI. Bennett
the highest male contestant.
The State of Kentucky has the RICH
sort Of Governor. The treasury running
S short of money, Gov. Buckner advanced
d $780, O1 out of his private funds, withou
d interest. A veritable patriot.
" The Kansas City Star says the bigges
u chump in Missouri is the st. Joseph ma
who attempted to shoot his wife becaus
=, she wouldn't speak to him. Some me-
- never know when they have a " snap"
The loss tf seventy-6ve levees an
81, 100000 worth of property is reporte'
e as the result Of a late heavy fresaet i
the island of Cuba. Great suffering pre-
walls in different quarters of the island
e A watermelon trust has been forme
e in Georgia whish controls the product 0
e twenty thousand acres. They will ais
e do a commits ion busine and endeav2r t
handle the entire Southern melon crop.
. Juliet Carson has the chair of cookin.
and household economy in Rutgers Fe
male College. The college girls say sh
I oarriec her kitchen in her bonnet. am