The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1890-09-23
THE MOST IMPORTANT EVENTS
THROUGHOUT THE WORLD
FOR A WEEK.
Sparks from the Wires.


A man in New York is said to have
died Of As attic cholera.
A salute of fifteen guns has been fixed
upon for the assistant secretary Of the
navy.
Five men W. re killed bj an explosion
of gas in a mine near Wilkesbarre, Pa,
last week. r
ST.. PETERSBURG, Sept. 16.-Cou Toll
stoi, the ell-known Russian author, is
seriously i'll.
Two negro rapists were taken from jail
at Armory, Miss, a few days ago and
hanged by a mob.
LONDON, Sept. l5.-There is a great IL
dustrial s~tagnation in Italy, particularly
in the larger cities.
A New York boy, aged IL years. oied
suddenly a few days ago from the effects
of running too fast to a fire.
A Georgia editor has been licensed to
preach. He said, Il had to get some
where where l could take up a co. ection.'
It is said that in building the Erftl
tower in Paris one hundred men were
killed aud five J u dred were wounded.
WASHINGTON, Sept. 17.-Speaker Reed
signed the river and harbor bill this after
noon, and it will now be sent to the Presi-
dent.
The present store of silver in the u tied
States Treasury weighs 5000 tons, 1t
wa too heavy for the raiders to get away
with.
WASHINGTON, D. c., Sept. 1.-THE
Treasury Department to-day purchased
S16, ia 900 four per cent bonds at 1875 to
1863.
If pure milk only were sold in London
it is estimated that from 10000 to so, 900
more cows would be wanted to keep up
the supply.
LONDON, Sept. 1.-THE strike of 1900
| Sunderland miners for seven hours as a
days work has ended in a victory for the
men, after lasting sixteen hours.
LONDON, Sept. I5.-The report that the
alliance between Germany, Italy and
Austria has been renewed. is confirmed
by the Standards correspondent.
A Pike county. Ca, negro was caught
in the machinery of a cotton gin. His
clothes were torn from his body, but,
strange to state, he was not injured.
BERNE, Sept. 1.-the killing of Coun
cillor Rossi, who was shot at ~Bellingzona,
Caution of Ticino, has been traced to a
radical, named Castijlione, who has fed.
Jas. G. Richardson, of Louisiana, the
largest cotton planter in the world, has,
it is said, been offered a profit Of So, 500,-
900 by an English syndicate for his cotton
properties.
The directors of the Worlds Fair at
Chicago have at last decided upon a site,
or rath. r sites. Some of the buildings will
be put on the lake front and the others in
Jackson Park.
BUFFALO. Sept. 16.-The pugilistic bat
tie between Warren and Vanhurst took
place this morning just over the Penn
sylvania line and resulted after eleven
rounds, in a draw.
WASHINGTON, D. c., Sept. IA telt-
gram has been received at the department
of State from the U. S. Consular agent at
Aleppo, Asiatic Turkey, announcing the
presence of the cholera there.
The Brotherhood of Locomotive Fire
men, at their recent session at San Fran
cisco, resolved to erect in some centr, !
city, a building to cost, $780, 900 in which
their grand lodge will be located.
New BEDFORD, Mass, Sept. lids
patches received here from San Francisco
report the loss of the bark Pope, in the
Arctic ocean she was abandoned on
Point Hope, July 28.h. Her crew was
saved.
Walter Hynes, who is wanted for
swindling a man out of $4,000 by the
bunco game at Louisville, KY, has been
arrested in London, Ont, but refuses to
return to Kentucky without extradition
papers.
By the wrecking of a freight train on
the Missouri, Kansas and Texas Road,
near Whitewright, Texas, Tuesday, one
unknown man was killed and two were
seriously injured. Eleven cars were de-
molished.
New ORLEANS, La, Sept. l5.-Rev.
Wm. R. Miles, president of the Jesuit co.
in this city, died of apoplexy yesterday
afterday afternoon, just after returning
from the pulpit at the church of the I'm