The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1890-12-02
THE MOST IMPORTANT EVENTS
THROUGHOUT THE WORLD
FOR A WEEK.
Sparks from the Wires.

German Socialists are admitting women
to their cubs.
1t is said that six thousand coal miners
IN Alabama will go on strike next month.
The New York banks now gold in re-
serve $87, $50 more than the legal require
ment.
The steamship Tributary, loaded with
cotton, was burned at Terrebonne, La,
on Saturday.
LONDON, Nov. 26.-Eight men were
killed in an explosion at Bolton, near
here, to-day.
New YORK, Nov. 24-Mr. August Bel
mont, the banker, died at an early hour
this morning,
Gen. John II. Rice has been brought
out as a candidate for United States Sena-
tor from Ingalls,.
A line of steamers between Galveston
and South American ports is to be estab-
lished. Capital S., 100000
Rumford Bros. silk mill, at Patters n,
N. j., was burned on Saturday. Loss
$500, 900; insurance 5000, 900.
The wall of a building in course Of con-
stsuction in Jersey City fell on Saturday,
killing one nan and wounding a number.
Dick HUMPHREYS, an Augusta white
man, has been arrested on suspicion Of
being connected with the recent express
robberieS.
The United States Rolling Stock Com
pany, Chicago, is in the ands of a re-
ceiver. Liabilities $3,8l6,OOO; assets
Sc, 600, 900.
A Gre, K conspiracy for the overthrow
of the Turkish Government has been
nipped in the bud by the action of the
Triple Alliance.
In O>borne county, Kansas, on Friday
last, a possee pursued a gang of horse
thieves and killed two of them. The
others escaped.
BRAZIL, Ind, NV. % The strike of
drivers and day men employed in the
Block coal mines continues. Over 1000
miners are idle.
In a desperate fight between John
Pitchatt and T. c.. Allen, at Chattanooga,
Tenn, last week, Allen was killed and
Pitchatt nay die.
BosToN, Nov. % B. P. Shlllaber, the
humorist and poet, better known to the
world as "Mrs. Partington,'' is dying at
his home in Chelsea.
Louisiana is much exercised over the
doings of a gag of bulldozers near New
Orleans. One negro has been killed and
several have been whipped.
BIRMINGHAM, Ala, Nov. a. Robert
Webb, a butcher, butchered J. n. Harri-
son, a brakeman, at Fort Payne last night,
cutting him to pieces with a dirk knife.
Webb fed. making good his escape.
NEW YORK, Nov. 25.-The suspension
of Richard N. Allen &Co. was announced
on the cotton exchange this afternoon.
The assignee is F. K. Willer. The liabili-
ties are understood to be about 81, 900, 900.
WILKEsBARRE, Pa, Nov. 24.-Joh1 G.
Farrell, ex-superintendent of the Wilkes
barre water company, is afflicted with a
peculiar mania. He has not eaten a morsel
of food for two weeks, insisting chat he
is dead.
NASHVILLE, Tenn, Nov. 24.-G. w.
King, the guard in charge of a squad of
c~onvicts who were at work on a short
railroad track near this city, shot and
killed J. Mccall, a convict who attempted
to escape, this morning.
BERLIN, Nov. 26 -Thirty-seven per-
sons were lost in the food at Breux and
seventeen at Kable last night. Railroad
aud business traffic in general has been
suspended south of the place.
BIRMINGHAM, Nov. PA fearful trag-
edy took place at Falkville, Ala last
night. DR.. A. M. Turner, a prominent
citizen, while in a fit of violent insanity,
choked his wife to death before she could
be rescued by the neighbors.
LONDON, Nov. PAT is expected that
tie Queens speech, at the opening of
Parliament tomorrow, will refer to the
Beh1ing Sea dispute as in a condition
which gives every reason to hope for a
speedy and amicable settlement.
CHARLESTON, W. Va, Nov. 22.-U. s.
Marshal White and his deputies have az
rested forty-three "moonshiners in the
mountain counties of this district. Mar
shall White is doing much towards break
ing up illicit distilling in this State.
Mr.. Smalley, London correspondent of
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