The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1890-01-28
THE MOST IMPORTANT EVENTS
THROUGHOUT THE WORLD
FOR A WEEK.

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Six Indians were hanged'ar Fort Smith,
Arkansas, for murder, recently.
Lady Stanley, wife of the Governor
General of Canada, is seriously i'll,
A charter for a new bank at Sutton,
Btaxton county, W. Va, has been applied
for.
The bark James A. King is a wreck at
Kapululi, Hawaiian Islands, and $25,00 0
is, lost.
Four persons were burned to death in
a cabin at Bebee's Camp, on the Tennessee
River.
: The growing wheat and rye all through
Virginia is reported as being exceedingly
promising. SOD:
Reading, Pa, proposes a big Washing
ton birthday celebration on the I'D of
next month. ..,&
Wallis Fletcher, a Louisville, Kentucky,
boy, smoked fifty cigarettes a. day, He
is now dead.
Aleck Westerling and another man
were shot dead by assassins in Darlington
county, s. G,
Charles Gray was owe by a shift
ing engine neal Coal Valley, W. Va, and
had both legs cut off. /
Fillmore Ball, colored, was hanged at
louisville, Ca, for the murder of ]. Evans,
white man. Ball confessed. ~ a
Baltimore and Ohio engine No. 442
blew up at Benwood, w. Va, fatally
injuring the engineer and fireman.
Scarlet fever has become an epidemic
in the town of St. Mary.s, w. Va, and
the school is closed until it abates.
The First Methodist Church of Johns
town, which was nearly carried away by
the food, has just been re-Opened.
Edward G. Wall, of Milwaukee, has
been elected Chairman of the Wisconsin
Democratic State Central Committee.
Cucumber green parasols will be the
style in this country by the 10th of May.
Paris is held down by them at this writ
ing.
Ten human beings and great numbers
of cattle and horses have frozen in the
Northwest, since the evere cold weather
set in.
There is considerable excitement
throughout Florida over the recent discov-
cry of phosphate deposits in Marion
county.
While praying in the pulpit of the
Union Lutheran Church at York, Pa,
John Weyer, an old man, was oVertaken
by death.
Dan M. Rawmar, a prominent journal
list and business man of Kentucky, was
killed on the Monongahela railroad near
Louisville.
A Connecticut man has purchased a
site at Salem, Roanoke county, Va, on
which he will erect an extensive brick
making plant.
A Mrs. Manchester, supposed to be the
Oldest person in England, died last week
at Mansfield, at the age of one hundred
and eight years.
Lieut.. Totten, United States Army, will
deliver this term a series of lectures to
the Senior Glass of the scientific school
of Yale on national and international
military science. .
The cheapness Of eggs, says the Phila-
delphia Record, is attributed to the fact
that the chickens have been misled by
the recent weather.
It is said that a foreign syndicate has
purchased the Red Stack Line of lake
steamers. The vessels, v in number,
are valued at $4,000.
John S. Fishe-, at work with a Ratchet
about his place, on Gee Lick, W. Va,
mistook his finger for the stick he was
and amputated it.
The schooner Ella Murton arrived at
Oswego recently from Kingston, Ontario,
the first vessel that ever reached that
port at this season Of the year.
Clarence Fisher, a young man of Perry
vile, Md. dropped dead on the platform
the depot at Elkton, while watching
the pranks of a lot of drunken e
If you get hold of a.hesvy hustle ex-
anime it. A lady has just died at KenOtha,
Ill, in whose hustle when laid out for
burial was found 81, 300 in clean cash.
A serious row occurred at West Point,
Ca, on the night of the 18th. A police
man was seriously cut. and two negroes