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The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1890-03-04
rae vILtA1N sr1LL PURsUrp.

SEATTLE, Wash, Feb Is, 1904
young man named 7. g. Wilson, employed
as an operator in the Western Onion
Telegraph Office here, failed to appear for
duty this morning. Investigation IS to
the cause led to sensational developments.
A deputy sheriff had arrived from Virginia
with a requisition on Governor Ferry by
the Governor of Virginia for the young
mans arrest on q charge of betrsying a
girl in Richmond.
Wilson, since his arrival here, has be-
come engaged to a prominent young lady
of this city. He was warned Of the
The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1890-03-04
COLLISION NEAR BOSTON.

-BosToN, Mass, Feb. %, 1890s-On the
Lowell division of the Boston and Maine
Railroad an accommodation train ran into
the rear of the Montreal express at Winter
Hill this morning during the fog. The
last car of the express train was partially
:derailed and trains were delayed two
hours. No one was seriously injured,
although number of passengers were.
bruised.
Trains between Boston and Providence
were badly delayed by a smash-up onthe
Providence division of the Old Colony
Railroad at ThuE rs crossing. The pas
senger train that left Boston at 7:45 a. m.
into a freight train. An engine. and
several freight cars were damaged. No
one was injured.
The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1890-03-04

We take pleasure In ca ling the atteH-
ton of our readers to the ADVERT ement
of the well known seed grower, Philip 8
Jones, Of Herndon, GA. If any Of our
friends need anything in that line, TO
doubt they win get fair treatment ct the
hands Of Mr.. Jones.
The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1890-03-04
TWENTY BUILDINGS WRECKED.

DENNIsoN, Feb. %, 1904 terrible
hurricane swept over a part of Northern
Texas easly this morning The Masonic
Hall in Gainesville was torn topieces, the
court house uprooted, the Santa Fe Rail-
road depot wrecked and twenty buildings
blown down.
Nobody was killed, but several persons
were more or less injured. The damage
will aggregate over 100000. "
The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1890-03-04

We invite the attention of our readers
to the new advertisement of Hume, Minor
& Co., Richmond, Va, dealers in musical
instruments. This is one of the best
known music firms in the United States,
and if you wish anything in their line
give them q trial.
The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1890-03-04
CRUEL EMOTIONS.

P1rrsBURG, Feb. Is, 189o.-The. eyie-
ton of tenants on the land of the bank
rupt Graf-Bennet Iron Works was pushed
to- day and rivalled scenes so often cabIsd
from Ireland.
Four c~onstables, under orders Of IN
Alderman and backed by members Of.ths
firm of Friend, Hofstat & Bailey, the
purchasers of the property, marched to the
scene in a driving rain, followed kby,R
mob of black and white residents. 81:
Every door of the twenty-five in "Lit-
tie Limerick" was barred, but that Of
Mrs. Lynch was first pushed open and
she withAeEen smaHchildren Were dumped
on the wet ground with her ruined house
hold effects. Most{of the families were
elected. though Ominous growls were fro
quently heard from the gathering crowd
The firm members say the people aEs
squstters and the ground is needed fer
manufacturing purposes.
The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1890-03-04
GENERAL A NEWS,

Cream of the State Press.
Drops of Turpentine a9dtGFai1s Of Rice from the
Rsst CluEters Of Grapes and Tobacco Stems
from the North stalks of Corn and Grains
of Wheat from the West, and Peanuts s
e=e's az d Cotton Seed from the South.
The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1890-03-04
10 sTRIKE ~ooNTEMPLATED.

PITTsBVRG, Pa, Feb. $780, A des-
patch was received from New York this
morning stating that it was reported there
that all the section hands in Western
Pennsylvania on the Baltimore and Ohio,
the Pennsylvania Railroad and the Pitts
burg and Lake Erie woul1 strike on March
6rst unless granted an increase in wages.
In the Pittsburg and Lake Erie yards
all the section hands professed ignorance
of any strike being intended or even
talked of among them. They are getting
81 20 per day now, which is twelve cents
more than their wages last month. They
do not consider that in the light of an
increase, however, since they work ten
hours per day in February and nine in
The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1890-03-04
h DAM

Phoenix, Ariz., Feb. 26.-News from
the. dam disaster reaches here slowly. ThS
company's camp, three miles below ts
lower dam contained about 125 peop4G
two weeks ago, and there were probably
that many in it at the time of the disa4-
ter, and fears are entertained for their
lives.
A courier who arrived from near there,
says he was awakened at about 2 O'Clock
on that morning by the shrieks of The
people. The wave was so feet high when
he first saw it, and was sparkling in the
darkness with millions of phosphorescens
eyes, and, with a terrible roar, almost In
stantly swept away the tents and build
inge. A canyon that was filed with CT
tonwood trees. was swept clean. TIA
lower dam structure, $40 feet long and
80 feet above surface, was swept away,
A prospector, who was camping on =
bluff four miles below Wickenburg, says
the sight from where he stood was sub
lime in the extreme. A narrow Just be-
low them, where the canyon contracts to
about one fourth of its width, between
perpendicular rocks several hundred feet
high, the waters leaped up 100 feet high
with a fearful crash and roar, and rushed
through the narrow gorge like lightning,
clearing cut the last vestige of everything
movable, but hard rock.
The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1890-03-04

January. Nor could the section hands of
the other two roads give any information.
The rate of wages on the Pennsylvania is
is the same as on the, Lake Erie. The
Baltimore and Ohio, it is said, pays
only 81 10.
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u
THE TOWN IN RUINS.

, MEnpH1s, Tenn. Feb. 25, l89o.-BroWa-
vile, a small town. ten miles east of this
city was visited by a evere cyclone this
morning at half past ithree o'clock, and
five minutes later the town was almost m
ruins.
The loss at this hour cannot be est
mated, as nearly every structure in the
town suffered.
As far as known no lives were lost
Business is at a standstill and the peO-
pie are all at work repairing their homes
removing stocks of goods and trying to
prevent further loss by the continuing
rainfall.
The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1890-03-04

officers approach apd has skipped ID
British Columbia. Tn, crime for whicR
the young man is wanted is of old stand
ing. He was arrested in Colorado, ,buE
was released on habeas corpus. Thu
ruined girls father is bound to bring him
to justice.
The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1890-03-04
BURIED BENEATH THEIR ENGINE.


V1NOENNEs, Ind, Feb. Is, 189O.-AtA
little after four o'clock this morning the
Chicago and Nashville express crashed
through a bridge across Snaps Creek
just north of this city, throwing all the
coaches off the track except the sleeper
The DEAD.-Only two of those on the
Inflated train were killed. Their names
are below: Bowden, Louis, fireman.
Lyons, Albert, engineer.
The body of the fireman was recovered
after it had lain in the muddy water for
over ten hours, but at the present time the
body of the engineer, is still buried with
his engine in the stream.
The NJURED.-Five. persons were serF-
ously hurt. Their names are as follows:
Clark, Peter, Of Washington, body
badly cut and skinned.
Cole, w. r., bagesgemaster, of Evans
vile, injured in leg. and bruised aboutE the
face.
Cooley, H., conductor, seriously injured
on legs and body.
AoNO4AOI y" SsJ AAOlgOI VI OhVNGSB
county, Ind, sprained back.
Putnam, II. n, Minneapolis, cut over
eye and in face.
The engine plunged into the water and
struck the abutment on the opposite side
with such force as to drive it into the en-
bankment and demolish it. The engine
formed a bridge across the narrow stream
for the baggage, smoker and postal carr,
which passed over and rolled down the
embankment. A coach stopped in the
stream, which was . roaring m&ss Of
mad waters.
The passengers in the sleeping car were
greatly shocked, but none of them Wefe
hurt. The rain was pouring in torrents
and the roar Of the turbulent water was
fearful.
The coach that stopped in the chasm
began to fill with water, but by superhu-
man effort the passengers assembled
through the a sic and broke open the door
and entered the sleeping car. The pas
sengers IN the smoking car were all more
less injured.
The train was evidently running at 4
great rate Of speed. It was an hour be-
hind time and the binding rain evidently
prevented the engineer from seeing the
Barton County democrat. [volume] (Great Bend, Kan.) 1885-1915, 1890-05-15
Clippings.


Thomas Congley, of Dover, Eng, is
said to be the heaviest of her majesty s
many subjects. He is an intelligent
and respectable citizen, forty-two years
old, having been born (of parents not
above the normal size) in 1S4S. AS a
baby he was considered small and not
over healthy. His present weight is $50
pounds; height, 6 feet inch; measure
ment of waist, 80 inches, and of legs, 25.
Parties at Rocky Bar, Idaho. estimate
that from 100 to $50 feet of snow has
fallen at that place since January 1. 1t
has settled into a compact mass eight
feet deep.
The Detroit Street Railway Company
has invited its employees to join bene-
fetal association which the company Is
forming.
Senator Wolcott, of Colorado, is to be
married at an early date to Mrs. Bass,
who was formerly a resident OF Buffalo.
The friends of James Russell Lowell
are alarmed because he recuperates so
slowly from his recent attack of illness
Sir Julian Pauncefote, the British
Minister at Washington, is an expert
with the foi1s and with the short sword.
He is considered one of the finest look
ing diplomats ever stationed at WASH
ington.
Barton County democrat. [volume] (Great Bend, Kan.) 1885-1915, 1890-05-15
CURRENT COMIcALITIES.

A RECENT sufferer says he does not
believe any great deed was ever 40
complished by man with a cold in his
head.
A CYNICAL old judge said women
never make successful lawyers, because
they are too fond of giving an opinion
without pay.
A YOUNG lady at box party one
night defined a chaperon as lone who
got out of the way whenever there was
chap around"
The man who invented the clothes
pin as a remedy for snoring was a bril-
liant genius in comparison to the aver
age weather prophet.
TINE may be money, but most men
will stand at a street corner for an
hour waiting for . bus or tram-car
rather than pay for a cab.
A wELL-KNOwN lawyer declared one
day at dinner that the biggest thing
he had ever done was to cross-examine
man until he did not know whether he
was married or not.
A CLERGYMAN who recently held serv-
ices in a prison preached from the text:
$50 home to thy friends;" and for once
in their Sustained, crime-haunted
lives the audience expressed a desire to
follow good mans advice.
Barton County democrat. [volume] (Great Bend, Kan.) 1885-1915, 1890-05-15
THE LATE SENATOR BECK.


Funeral Services In the Senate Chamber and
Departure For Lexington, Ky.
WASHINGTON, May Under a drip
ping sky, the mortal remains of James
Burnie Beck, late a United States Sena-
tor from Kentucky, were borne at ten
o'clock yesterday morning from the
residence of Representative Breckin-
ridge, Of Kentucky, to the Capitol They
were accompanied by the Senate COM
mittee of arrangements and the hon
orary pail bearers named by the Ken
lucky delegation.
Arriving at the east front of the Sem
ate the Senators and pall-bearers left
their carriages, and forming in two
lines, with Senators Blackburn and
Evarts at the head, the caslzet was borne
from the hearse by detail of eight of
the Capitol police up the steps and into
the marble room, where it was visited
by several hundred persons before its
removal to the Senate chamber.
At 1880 President Pro TEN Ingalls,
called the Senate to order. At 1915 the
honorary pail bearers on the part of the
Senate were announced by the Presi-
dent Pro Tenn. as follows: Messrs. Nor
rill, Sherman, Hale, Allison, McPher-
SON. Vest, Pugh and Gibson.
Five minutes later the members of the
House of Representatives were an
nounced and took seats to the right and
left of the chamber in the rear of the
Senators who stood to receive them.
Speaker Reed was escorted to place at
the right of President Pro TEN. Ingalls,.
The members of the House were fol-
lowed by the Chief Justice and Associate
Justices of the Supreme Court The
diplomatic corps was represented by Sir
Julian Pauncefote, the British Minister,
and members of the Chinese. japanese
and Brazilian legations. Five minutes
later President Harrison and the mem
bers of his Cabinet were received, the
assem- biage rising. Secretary Noble,
who is not in the city, and Attorney
General Miller, who is i'll, were the alb
SenteeS.
At Los the casket was borne into the
chamber through the main door on the
opposite side from the marble room.
where it had been lying. Following the
casket came Mrs. Goodloe, Senator
Beck's daughter, and Major 9oodloe,
her husband, and friends of the family
who were seated at the left of the casket,
opposite the President and his Cabinet.
AS the procession moved down the aisle
the chaplain read from the burial ser
vice, beginning, Il am the resurrection
and the life.''
The services lasted until 1:S5, when
the remains of the deceased Senator
were escorted to the Baltimore & Poto-
mac railway station and were dis
patched on their way to Lexington, KY,
at three o'clock.
Barton County democrat. [volume] (Great Bend, Kan.) 1885-1915, 1890-05-15
MORE LuNArlcs cREMATED.
The County Poor House Burned .t Nor
| witch. n. Z. and Eleven Inmates Fer

The County PooS House Burned -
witch. n. Z, and Eleven Inmates fef-
ished.
NORWICH, N. Y. May 9.-The Chem
ango poor house and insane asylum. SIX
teen miles northwest of here, were en-
tirely consumed by fire "Wednesday
night and thirteen inmates pen1sheo.
The fire was discovered about eleven
o'clock in the north wing of the poor
house building. where the idiots were
kept There were NO provisions for ex-
tinguishing the flames The keepers
and neighbors gave their attention To.
getting out the l25 paupers and insane
and let the building burn They were
all rescued. but eleven idiots and two
women are missing. Six bodies could be-
seen slowly burning. The other five
are supposed to be covered up.
The poor house building was three
stories high and built of wood The i'm
sane asylum was also a wooden build
ing. two stories high and only separated
from the poor house by a drive way
The property was estimated to be worth
SIS, 900 and was insured for $4,000
Wednesday afternoon Deborah Dibble.
a woman in the idiot department., put
her lighted pipe into her pocket and
was soon enveloped in flames and later.
died from the effects of the burns.
1t is supposed that some of the idiots
got hold of some matches and in playing
with them set fire to the building and
caused the disaster.
The names OF the idiots who persisted
were: Sarah Mills, Alton; Sarah CAL
lagher, Norwich; Almeda Austin. this.
county; Sarah Bailey, Columbus; Laura
Gray, of Greene; Adelia Benedict, of
Oneida; Lucy Warren, of Oneida;
Arvilla Atwood, Norwich; Deborah.
Dibble, cambridge; Mary O'Daniels,
Austin.
All the departments in the institution
were crowded, and it can we'll be-
| imagined that the rescue of the poor
creatures, many of them old and very
| feeble and others wild with fear and
terror, which added to their insane de-
lusions. was by no means an easy task.
The keepers and citizens worked as
best they could to carry, drive, drag
and push the inmates out. but the
flames spread so rapidly there was
little time and the great wonder is
that so many were rescued. There was
little system in the conduct of the eff
fort to save. People went at it haphaz-
ard, appalled, by the cries and means
| of the inmates. Not one of those who
worked expected that so many would be
| saved.
Barton County democrat. [volume] (Great Bend, Kan.) 1885-1915, 1890-05-15
ABOUT SILVER.

The Republicans Finally Agree Upon a Sill
yer Bin-It May Lead to the Free Coinage
of Silver.
WASHINGTON, May IAN effort was
made by the Senate Republican Silver
Committee to agree upon Silver bill to
be reported to the caucus. Three of the
thirteen members were absent, but the
| ten present, together with Senator
Stewart, who was invited to take part in
the proceedings, after a discussion last
ing nearly three hours, decided to re-
port to a caucus to be held some day
this week the bill reported by Senator
Jones from the Finance Committee some
weeks ago with amendments
One of the amendments proposed
strikes out the provision in the reported
bill that the notes issued for the pur-
chase of bullion, when redeemed, shall
be cancelled. and instructs the Secre-
tary of the Treasury to reissue them,
with the provision that the amount out
standing shall not at any time be in ex-
cess of the amount paid out for the
bullion deposited.
Another amendment is the addition
of the sixth section of the bill adopted
by the House caucus, which provides
for the covering into the treasury of
about seventy millions of lawful money
now held for the redemption of National
bank notes.
The Jones bill directs the Secretary Of
the Treasury to purchase monthly silver
bullion to the value of "a, 500, 900, the
notes in payment thereof to be
redeemab1e in lawful money. Two
of the members of the commit
tee felt yesterday that they could
not unqualifiedly give their sup
port to the measure, although they
were willing to have the mat
ter go to the caucus for its decision.
One of them, it is said, will support it
in case it is approved by the other Re-
publican Senators, but the other was
not ready to go even SO far. He desires
time to consider the situation.
Senator Mitchell, of Oregon, stated,
in referring to the proposed compro-
mise, that while personally he was in
favor of the free coinage of silver, he
believed the measure (the bullion re-
demption clause having been omitted)
to be free from any vicious principle,
and one that, if adopted, would ulti-
mately lead to free coinage. In this
Senator Teller agreed.
Barton County democrat. [volume] (Great Bend, Kan.) 1885-1915, 1890-05-15
ADDITIONAL DISPATCHES.

| THERE was wreck on the 20" near
Aurora, ILL, the other night. an engine
and several cars going down an embank-
ment. Three>men were killed.
THE Montana Union railroad freight
depot, at Butte, Mont, was burned the
other morning, causing $50, 900 loss.
SARAH BERNHARDT has been severely
hurt by splinter which entered her
knee while acting in the prison scene OF
Joan of Arc"
THE prices of Japan tea are quoted
lower.
THE pontoon house of the Government
at Willis Point, L. l., has been de-
stroyed by fire. Loss, $50, 1000.
PORTER, Superintendent of the Cen
sus, has warned supervisors against &C
lcepting 'taid'' from cities, ETC., in OBJ
tanning returns, as tending to fraud.
SEVERAL persons were killed by the
collapse of the works of a fort at Ne
mours. France, recently.
| HONUS & LAND, bankers OF Vienna,
have suspended. Liabilities, 100000
forms.
THE village of Ellicottville, N. Y,
has been fire swept. Loss, $4,000.
A SYNDICATE of Belgian bankers which
undertook to issue 81, OOO, 600 of Congo
State obligations has been dissolved. 1t
was a failure.
THE Powers having interests in the
Congo Free State will henceforth be
permitted to levy duties on imports in
their respective sections.
CLEARING house returns for the week
Tended May 10 showed an average in
|crease of 1871 compared with the cores
lponding week of last year. In New
York the increase was AS.
The silver question in the United
States again had it's effect on the Lon
don Stock Exchange during the week
ended May 10, stimulating the trans
actions in American securities The
Germany financial affairs were reported
firm and quiet. Sugar was quiet at Ha'
lvana.
THE bark Emetic, owned in San Fran
lcisco, was wrecked on the New Zealand
lcoast March %. The captain and sever
linen were drowned. The first mate
Brown Rigg, and three men were res
lcued.
Foul play was feared concerning the
disappearance of Revenue Agent C. 81
Hawkins and twenty men who were
after moonshiners in the Cumberland
mountains of Kentucky.
The Samoans have signed the treaty
lagreed upon by England, Germany, Sa
Imoa and the United States
THE Senate on the 10th passed the
Army Appropriation bill Debate OF
the tariff continued in the House.
Barton County democrat. [volume] (Great Bend, Kan.) 1885-1915, 1890-05-15
Oklahoma Omcerx

WAsHINGToN, May 9.-The President
has sent to the Senate the following
nominations of officers of the new Ter
ritory of Oklahoma:
George w. Steele, of Indiana. Govern
or; Robert Martin. of Oklahoma, Secre-
tary. Supreme Court officials: Edward
II. Green, of Illinois. Chief Justice;
Abraham ]. Seay, OF Missouri, and John
G. Clark, of Wisconsin, Associate JUS
tees; Warren S. Lurty, of Virginia,
United States Marshal; Horace Speed,
of Oklahoma United States ATTORNEY
Barton County democrat. [volume] (Great Bend, Kan.) 1885-1915, 1890-05-15
MISCELLANEOUS.

THE carpenters strike at Chicago
ended on the 9th on the basis of the
eight-hour day at 3771 cents per hour
after August 1.
IT is reported from London that the
French Government is preparing to ex-
pei German workmen from France so as
to give Frenchmen a monopoly of work.
There are sc, 900 Germans in and about
Paris now.
A TORNADO ravaged the borders OF
Hood and Parker Counties, Tex, on the
afternoon of the 4th. Fifteen lives
were known to be lost. Many persons
were also seriously hurt.
CHARLES L. LANCASTER, the default
ing treasurer of the Press Club. of Buffa-
10, N. Y, who ran away with s., 100, has
been arrested in Toronto, Ont.
THE misplacing of a switch at Fount-
ain, Col, threw part of an express train
down an embankment. Fireman Sipes
was killed, but no one else was hurt.
A SEVERE frost was reported on the
night of the 9Th in various places in
Illinois, Iowa and Missouri.
POPULATIONS amounting to $40, 600, 00(
annually have been discovered in the
customs department. of the Argentine
| Republic.
THE cantilever bridge at The Needles
CAL, with the longest unsupported span
in the world-S6O feet-has been com
pleted.
| By the burning of c. E. C1ay's livery
| stable in Middlesborough, N. Y, the
| other morning twenty-six saddle horses
| were lost
In an encounter between police and
strikers at Lille, France, two strikers
| were wounded and arrested.
FIRE broke out in the Abram colliery
at Leigh, England, recently, but the
$50 miners entombed were all rescued
uninjured.
By collision at a crossing in Allen
town, Pa, two passenger coaches and an
engine were wrecked, a young lady killed
and five other passengers slightly in
! jured.
JUDGE CREIGHTON, of the circuit court
of Sangamon County, ILL.,, has decided
that tobacco bill can not be collected
from a minor by law, as tobacco was moi
q necessity of law.
THE arrival of the first car load Of
pigs allowed to enter Saxony through
the special permission of Chancellor
Caprivi was made quite a fete by the
pork hungry citizens at Dresden.
] COLUMBIA. Tex, was flooded recently
Barton County democrat. [volume] (Great Bend, Kan.) 1885-1915, 1890-05-15

MARY GARDNER, a bright and pretty
but hayward girl. was brought to SYRIA
cuse, N. ", from Clyde at the instance
of her mother. In the police court she
was sentenced to the house of refuge
for women at Hudson. On her way to
the court house from the police station
she jumped into the canal in an attempt
to commit suicide, but was seized as she
was about to sink by big Newfound-
land dog, whose master plunged into the
water and rescued her