The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1890-04-15
The MOST IMPORTANT EVENTS
THROUGHOUT THE WORLD
FOR A WEEK.

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Several Illinois towns suffered severely
by a cyclone on the 9th. No lives were
lost.
Lewis A. Grant, of Nj .nesota, has
been nominated to be Assistant Secretary
of War.
BERLIN, April 8.-An of the striking
miners in Gelsenkirchen have returned
to work.
Harriet Beecher Stowe is not wholly
superanuAted. She can still make an eat
able pie.
1t is reported that an Indian has recent
ly died in California at the ripe old age
of Isl years.
Ga Thursday last three lives were lost
and one hundred buildings wrecked by a
tornado at Roanoke, Va.
Victor Hugo's only daughter is an old
woman nov and is an inmate of an asy-
lum for lunatics in France.
Valorous Taft, of Upton, Mass, is n
of the largest men in the Bay State. His
weight is over four hundred pounds.
The powder works at Baychester, N. Y,
exploded last Monday and two men were
killed and a number Of buildings wrecked.
Rev. w. +. Philyaw, a well-known
Baptist minister of Rabun county, Ga,
last W elk drank a quart of whiskey and
died.
BosToN, April Fully $500 carpen-
tiers in Massachusetts, will demand that 8
or s hours constitute a days work, IN and
after ray lst.
The village of Theresa was destroyed
by fire one day last week. Forty two
buildings were burned and the loss is
more than 100000.
Arthur Rothschild has sold his collec-
ton of postage stamps for 100000.
There is considerable financial ability in
the Rothschild family.
David H~unnicutt, a railroad and mining
contractor, was shot by an unknown as
sassin at his home fifteen miles from Biz
mingham, Ala, Wednesday.
Fred Medhurst, Cashier Of the National
Bank at Mimic, S. D., has disappeared
and $4,000 of the bank funds went with
him, also a very pretty woman.
BUFFALO, N. Y, April 9.-Charles L.
Lancaster, ex-treasurer Of the Buffalo
Press Club is short in his accounts about
ST. 100 and has gone to Canada.
BLOOMINGTON, ILL.,, April 9.-The town
hall at Anchor, near this city, was I'M
rooted by the storm last evening. Hail
stones six inches in circumference fell.
Five hundred carpenters struck in
Chicago last Monday. The carpenters
only want to work eight hours per day
and get 40 cents per hour. Building is
at a standstill.
FRANKFORT, April Cat this place to-
day a railroad train was thrown down an
embankment. Twenty-seven workmen
were more or less seriously injured as a
result Of the accident.
WASHINGTON, April 1O.-The verdict of
the court martial which tried Lieutenant
Steel for assaulting private Wild, is a
reprimand and confinement for three
months to the limit Of his post.
WASHINGTON, April 10 hief Engi-
neer White is detached from duty at the
Norfolk, Va, navy yard and ordered to
duty in connection with the machinery of
the iron clads at Richmond, Virginia.
Last Wednesday was a good day for
hangings in Pennsylvania. VIM. Bar
tholomew was hanged at Easton, Alfred
Andrews at Bellefonte, Zach Taylor at
Waynesboro and Charles Carter st Ebens-
burg.
New YORK, April 8-A St. Joseph
Mo, Sp0Cldl says LudC iCiCLd1u AIOCCOI,
aged 20, only son of the late famous
astronomer, R. A. Proctor, has become
insane and it has been decided to confne
him in an asylum.
A dispatch from Galveston, Texas, on
the Sth, says that the Standard cotton
seed oil mill located near that city was
burned that morning. The mill worked
12O tons Of seed daily and employed
1000 men. Loss 100000.
Burel Ragsdale, his mother and a
younger brother, while riding on a rail
road bicycle near Newman, GA, last
Tuesday was run over by a construction
train. Ragsdale and his mother were
killed, but the younger brother escaped
PITTsBURG, Pa, April "a very heavy
rainstorm passed over western Pennsyl-