The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1890-07-22

>tarted from the pipe o. a drunken laborer
who was burned to death i'll the coL Aag-
ration.
At San Antonio, Texa,, the team of a
German nobleman, Baron Wilhelm Won
Blucker, while going at full speed ran
into a crowded street. car, fatally i~njuring
one man and badly i%njuring a number of
others.
PORTLAND, Me-, July I4-Mark J. Sui
Ivan, for refusing and neglectipg to per-
form the duties of censu enumeration,
after he was appointed, was TO- day found
probably guilty, and held in $1,000 for
trial in the United States District Court.
An explosion of g~unpowder occurred
at Cincinnati Wednesday last. One car
contained 500 kegs and the other 500.
Twelve men were killed and fourteen
wounded. The explosion was caused by
empty cars humping against the cars con-
tanning the powder.
ST. PAUL, Nina, July l4.-The entire
village of Vadnais, six miles north of
here, was wrecked by last evenings
cyclone. Not a building was left stand
ing in a sound condition, most of them
being blown to pieces Eleven people
were instantly killed.
More than two hundred people were
killed by a cyclone at 7 axe City, MINI
on last Monday. The storm was fearful
and many people were injured besides the
killed. Most "f the people killed were
on an excursion steamer which was cap
sized on the lake near the town.
QUEBEC, July l4.-It is reported on re-
liable authority that a genuine case of
leprosy has been discovered at English
Bay, o the South coast of A~ntico.ti
island. The father Of the family died re-
Gently of the disease. A report has been
made to the government on the subject.
LELAND, Iowa, July IA public
meeting was held Monday evening at
which resolutions were adopted that the
sale of Intoxicating liquors S all not be
allowed in this place, and that any person
attempting suc1 sale shall be tarred and
feat cred and cOwhided out Of the village.
CHARLOTTE, N. c., July IA special
to the Chronicle, from Msxton, says that
on Sunday afternoon, three miles out of
town, S mon Ward, aged %, colored, cut
Mary Sellers throat, almost severing the
head from the body. Jealousy was the
cause. Ward has not yet been appre-
hended.
AUGUSTA, Ga, July IA. Lucinda SIMS,
an 18-y, ar old mulatto girl, who was
missed from home since Friday afternoon,
was found floating in the Savannah river
two miles below Augusta last night by
three fishermen. Her throat was cut
from ear to ear and her body was all
chopped up.
New YORK, July l5-Ex-Alderman
Charles Dempsey, of the doodle board of
1884, who was connected with the pas
sage of the Broadway railroad franchise,
and who has been a sojourner in Canada,
appeared at the district attorneys Office
to day and was admitted to bail in the
sum of $4,000.
DULUTH, Mimi, July l4-Hanlan,
Teemer, Hosmer and Wise will az cept the
challenge of the Fries of Buffalo, to row
them a fair cared race for S., 900 and the
championship of the world, as soon as
the details can be arranged. About 1000
visitors are already here to attend the
Bay St. Louis regetta.
CITY OF MEXICO, July Al. Neil
Adams, IN American, shot and killed
Carlos Largue, a waiter at the National
theatre restaurant yesterday afternoon.
The murder was a most heartIess one.
Adams was drunk and became exasperated
because Largue would not wait upon
him. Adams is under arrest.
LOUISVILLE, KY, July IA collision
occurred on the Monon railroad this
morning between the Gosport accommo-
dalton going north and a south bound
freight. They came together near Smith
land, Ind, and a bad wreck resulted. 1t
was first reported that twelve persons
had been killed, but this lacked confrma-
ton. Six persons, however, are known
to have been injured, some Of them
fatally.
RICHMOND, Va, July I4.-An cast bound
passenger train on the James river divis-
ion Of the Chesapeake and Ohio Railroad
yesterday ran into a freight train at Glad
stone, one hundred and twenty miles
west of this city, killing two men and in
juring four others The cause of the ac-
oidarf wac an upplacad Suv;t,L I'll