The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1890-07-22
THE MOST IMPORTANT EVENTS
THROUGHOUT THE WORLD
FOR A WEEK.
Sparks from the Wires.

The warehouse of the Standard OIL
Company, at Columbus, Miss, has been
totally destroy I'd by fire.
Alexandria. La, has given McLeeve$ &
Co, of New York, a franchise for thirty
years to operate a sewerage.
Affairs among the London letter car
riers are becoming quiet, and they are
performing their duty as usual.
The refinery of the Southern Cotton
| Seed Oil Mills, near Atlanta, Ga, was
destroyed by fire; loss 100000
LONDON, July l5.-An increase of pay
and other concessions have been granted
by the government to the telegraphists.
Galveston, Texas, received its first bale
of new cotton Thursday. 1t was classed
as good ~mlddling, weighed $50 pounds,
and was sold for 500.
DENTON, Texas, July l6.-One of the
principal business blocks of Denton was
burned yesterday. Loss about 100000.
Albert w. Webb, chief Of police of
Rockford, ILL.,, committed suicide Thus
day evening because he had caught in a
forgery.
Ann Peterson, colored, become crazed
with religi n, and burned her Infant to
death in a cooking stove and then drowned
herself in a we'll.
Joseph Griffin, a farmer living near
Dyersourg, Tenn shot and killed one OF
his hired men last Wednesday because he
insulted his daughter.
A fire at Brunswick, Ca, on the 18th
inst, burned property to the amount Of
nearly 100000, with insurance to the
amount of about $4,000.
1t is reported by a friend of ex-May,r
Cottrell, of Cedar Keys, Fla, that ne is
coming to Montgomery, Ala, next week
to surrender and give bond.
ST.. PAUL, July IA terrible cyclone
passed over the country north of the city
yesterday afternoon. Many houses were
wrecked and hundreds of people were in
jured.
WASHINGTON, July IA -Presideut pro
tempore ingalls, and Speaker Reed have
signed the silver bill. The MT asure has
been sent to the President for his ap-
proval,
WASHINGTON, July l6.-The House bill
establishing a national mill airy park on
the battle field of Chieamauga, was passed
by the Senate with sill ght notifications
to-day. Z
MADRID, July 12.-The Valencia cholera
bulletins indicate that the plague is stead
lily decreasing. On Thursday six new
cases and FIVE deaths were reported at
Gambia.
WASHINGTON, July 15,-The concluding
arguments in the Clayton-Breckenridg
(Ark) contested election case were be-
gun to-day before the House committee
on electors.
William Barnes, Of Charleston, Ind,
has invented a little machine which is
operated by clock work, and marks, au-
tomasically, on glass, so. 900 lines on the
spa e of an inch.
LONDON, July 15.-Dr. Parks reports
that Stanley is still i'll and very weak A
message has been received from the
Queen by telegraph, asking as to the ex-
plorer's condition.
DALLAS, Texas, July IA fire which
started at midnight in the GOULD building
spread to the merchants exchange and is
likely to consume the entire block. The
loss will be heavy.
A negro letter carrier, Ben Wright,
has been arrested at Memphis, Tenn, for
robbing letters addressed to the Louisiana
Lottery Company. He has been in the
business for years.
John Hart, of B~allynacle, Ireland, has
proven himself to be a fend of the worst
type. He murdere1 his mother, chopped
her body to pieces, and when found was
eating the remains.
WASHINGTON, July ia bill was in
troduced in the House to-day by Mr..
Vandever, of California, granting a pen
sion of 49, 900 a year to the widow of
General John G. Fremont.
Emperor William has written a 'etter
to Mr.. Hermann Weber thanking the
American rifemen for the resolutions
adopted by them congratulating him at
their banquet on July 4th.
MADRID, July 15,-The Gazette reports
that during the last two months there
have been 435 cases Of cholera in Spain.
Two hundred and fifty seven of these