The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1890-03-18
THE MOST IMPORTANT EVENTS
THROUGHOUT THE WORLD
FOR A WEEK.

Philadelphia society sweetens its five
o'clock tea with nothing but rock candy.
OF 5000, OCO Germans not living in
the Fa'herland 7,O0O,O 900 are in this
country.
1t has been estimated that the habit
ual opium eaters in the United States
number 100000.
The Governor of Montana estimates
the white population of the stlte at I7O,-
900, and the Indians at Is, %
The four National Equal Suffrage as
sociations nave united, with Miss Eliza
beth Cady Stanton as president.
The production of sorghum sugar in the
United States last year amounted to .573
tons, as against 3l2 tons in 1888.
Shooting stars are supposed to be small
meteors encountered by the "a, tn in the
progress of their circulation round the
sun.
The number of failures in the Intend
States the past year was larger and the
liabilities greater than for any of the past
five years.
George Matthews of Youngstown, o.,
is certainly a remarkable man. After
having his right arm amputated as the
result of an accident, he placed the severed
srme in a valise, ard unattended, went
ten miles to his home.
Nine. Castanet, a lion trainer, entered
the cage at Brussels recently to separate
a lion and a hyena who were fighting, and
although the lion had formerly been much
attached to her, he then threw himself
upon her and mangled her terribly and
probably fatally before the attendants
could rescue her.
BROOKLYN, March 12-Ignatz Smithga
grocer Of ia Third Avenue, while drunk
to-day attempted to shoot his wife. The
woman grappled with him and succeeded
in defending herself until a policeman
was summoned. On seeing the officer
approaching, Smith released his wife and
shot himself dead.
OwENsBoRO, KY, March 12.-The rain
fall Monday night was the heaviest for
years. The Patoks rose ten feet in few
hours, ~inundsting a tract of country twenty
miles long by three to six miles wide to a
depth of thee or four feet. The Airline
track is covered with water for miles
between Huntingburg and Ferdinand, and
D washouts are feared.
Mrs. Margaret Lane, a woman at Gains.
vile, Texas, was in the mayors court in
that city recently on some trivial charge.
, She became indignant at some part of the
proceedings and waded into the mayor,
, clerk and a policeman. She whipped the
crowd and held the fort for two hours,
, When she left the court house, she said
: she wanted it understood that it was not
until she was good and ready " to go.
FIVE THOUSAND MINERS STRIKE.
LONDON, March 12.-Five thousand
!. miners at Nottingham have struck for an
: increase of wages.
2 THE IRISH TENURE BILL REJECTED.
LONDON, March l2.-In the House of
Commons to-day the Irish land tenure
, bill was rejected by a vote of 231 to
r 179.
TROOPS %BRIGANDa
? CoNsTASTINoPLE, March IA terrific
? encounter between Turkish troops and a
band Of brigands has taken place at
Eassona. The Turkish troops succeeded
! in dispensing the brigands, but lost twenty,
I killed in tie fight, while the brigands lost
, only six.
A A MILLION DOLLAR FIRE.
CINCINNATI, March 1.-THE FIVE story
building Ga the southeast corner of Third
!, and Vine streets, owned and occupied by
Stern, Mayer & Co., one of the largest
and wealthiest clothing manufacturing
firms in this city, was completely Quilted
by fire this morning. The loss is esti-
mated at 100000. Insurance S25O,OOO.
A LYNCHING.
HUNTERS W. Va, March H. A
courier has just arrived from Princeton,
bringing the news that Bell Amen and
Witherford Tryon, two negroes, charged
with the murder of Constable Belcher,
were taken from the Mercer county Jail
by a mob Saturday night and shot to
death.
Both negroes were notorious despera-
does and had killed three men before the
Belcher murder.
THE TERRIBLE DISASTER.
LONDON, March l2.-Telegrams of sym
patty have been sent by Queen Victoria