The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1890-10-14
THE MosTIMPoRTANT EVENTS
THROUGHOUT THE WORLD
FOR A WEEK.
Sparks from the Wires.

~FSAAS ASAA AJAX ~ Z
\ movement is on foot in Boston to
erect in some public place q statue of the
dead poet, John Boyle O'Reilly.
While examining a pistol at his home
ne r Des Moines, Iowa, on Monday, John
Devins shot and killed his young wife.
Forest fires arr dong great damage in
the Southern Hills, s D., and the miners
are 6ghtiug the fires with little success.
LONDON, Oct. "a tremendous gale
swept over til North sea yesterday. Dur
ing its prevail nee five vessels foundered.
The Rohan Brothers Boiler Comypan,
of St. Louis, has assigned with assets ag
gregating $175, OCO and liabiliti ties $12O, 900.
LONDON, Oct. 3.-Letters from Russia
state that the epidemic of cruelty to the
Jews continues to rage with undated
fury.
At Deedsville, Ind, on Monday, Chas.
Deed was killed and two other men badly
injured by the explosion of the boiler in
the tile works.
A young girl married against the wishes
of her father a few days ago at St, Lacon,
Ill. She went home to ask forgiveness
and he shot her dead.
NASHVILLE, Ky, Oct. 3.-Captain James
Davis, a large tobacco dealer Of Mason
county, made assignments yesterday.
Liabilities, $4,000; assets valued at
$lOO. 900.
The we'll known firm of Fleming Brrs.,
of Pittsburg, Pa, WI olesale manufactur-
ers and dealers in proprietary meuicines,
assigned yesterday. Liabilities $500, 900;
assets, twice that amount.
The commercial CLUB of Roanoke, Va,
last eight took steps looking to the mag
nifcent entertainment Of the members Of
| the British iron and steel institute while
there on their trip through the South.
VIRGINIA, Ill, Oct. 3.-The examination
of the books of Miller Sogeman, express
and station agent postmaster, grain dealer
and general grocer at Jules, Cash county,
discloses a shoratage aggregating $4,000.
LOUISVILLE, KY, Oct. "a sensational
suicide was committed here this morning
by Harrison Newman, who jumped from
the bridge that spans the Ohio into falls.
His brains were dashed out on the rocks
below.
MADRID, Oct 4 Cholera is reported in
Toledo. Four cases AVE thus far ap-
peared, one of which has already proven
fatal. The inhabitants are fleeing to the
neighbo~ing towns and some have taken
passage to England.
More than two hundred people ca e
over to this country from England and
went to Utah to join the Mormons. Mis-
sionaries visited them at New York and
tried to persuade them to stop, but they
were completely infatuated.
WASHINGTON, Oct. 1.-The postofice
department has received information that
the postmaster at Baton Rouge, La, has
~absconded and that his bondsmen have
taken possession of the Office. No par
~ticulars have been received.
PARIS, Oct. 4.-Intelligence has beer
received here from Noumea, New Gale
donia, that sixty leper convictS confined
in the penal establishment there made
their escape last June. The authorities
are unable to discover their whereabouts
ST. LOUIS, Oct. 5.-The officers anC
leading stockholders of the Granite Noun.
tain mine held a meeting in this city las
night and gave a 9O-day option Of the
property to the American Investmenr
Company, of London, at a figure close t.
$5O,OOO,OOO
BALTIMORE, Md, Oct. 2.-The jury, il
the case of John Siebrecht against VIM
H. Evans, for $4,000 damages for the
alleged alienation of the affections Of Mrs
Wilhelmina Siebrecht, now Mrs. Evans
presented a sealed verdict last night
which was this morning read in court. /
gives the plaintiff $4,000.
HELENA, Mont, Oct. A frightfu
railroad accident took place at midnigh
last night on the Northern Pacific. 4
passenger train jumped a trestle near
huge embankment, and the train wa
precipitated, killing the engineer ant
seriously i%niuring many passengers anC
train hands.
New York, Oct. 6.-The Herald says i
was learned from a member of the Broth
erhood Of Locomotive Engineers en- th'
road last night that the men had becom'
impatient at the company's delay in an
swering their demands, and that if thes,
demands were not granted by "Wednesday