The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1890-06-03

rains in the vicinity of Harz;,urg, in the
duchy of Bruins wick, have fooled the
country, d ing much damag, 70 crops.
buildings, fences, &c ami .illi,y !aIce
numbers of live stock.
TOMBSTONE, Arizona, May ? 7-Yester-
day morning the town was ex tied bv
the bringing in of the dead b DIV of Robt
Ha'die, a prominent Los Angeles LAWYER
who was killed Saturday in the Chirica-
hua mountains by hostile Apaches.
BILIvGs. Mont. May 24.-There were
three sharp shocks of earthquake mere
yesterday morning. A building where a
dance was IN progress was SO shaken that
some OF the dancers were thrown to the
floor. A loud noise accompanied the
shock.
LITTLE Rock, Ark, May 27.-News
has been re eived of the assassination Of
J, NJ. Fryan, a wealthy planter living
near Brinkley. He was walking in a
field when fred on by unknown persons
concealed in a thicket near by. No cause
is known.
SAN Francisco, May 27.-Capt Ander-
snn of the ship Oneida, arrived here on
the schooner Mary KimbalI. He reports
that his ship was wrecked on April 10Th
on Hennines rock, Lanck Island, in Ben
ring sea, and seventy-seven Cinnamon
were lost.
BosToN, May 22.-Tne Herald of this
morning says Clarence F. Jewett, Presi-
d Mt of the G. F. Jewett Publishing Com
pany, has disappeared, and that cooked
transactions in the matter of over issue
of stock in the n~eighborhood Of $75,O 900
have come to light.
The Union railroad bridge at Wheel
ing, W. Va, which in course of constru, :
ton, was washed away one day last
week. More than 600 tons of steel was
thrown into the river. The loss i, about
$50, 600, but at least half of the iron and
steel may be recovered.
LONDON, May 24-The German Gov
eminent has asked the Reichstag for a
further vote of nearly $4,000, 900 for mill
tary purposes to meet the increased ex-
penditlr+I W ich will be occasioned by
the passage of the new army bill now
pending in the Reichstag.
Waring Bros. & Co., of Baltimore,
manufacturers of fertilizers and farming
implements, incorporated in April last
W tn a capital of $4,000, made an ::as-
signment yesterday for the benefit Of
creditors. The liabilities are said to be
$500, 900; assets nominal.
George Dupnaway, a notorio us muir
d9rer, was captured at his fathers resi-
dence, in Murfree sboro, Tenn, last week.
He killed a young girl, his cousin, because
she refused to marry him. He killed the
| girls mother also because she i terfered,
and her father barely escaped with his
life.
ELKroN, Nd, May 26.-Waring Broth
ers Company, manufacturers of fertilizers
and farming implements, incorporated in
April last with a capital stock of $780,
900, with the principal Office at Calors,
Cecil county, and the principal manufac-
tory il Baltimore, have made an assign
ment for the benefit of their creditors.
Liabilities are said to be 5000 coo; assets
nominal.
A train on the Coast Line was badly
wrecked fourteen miles from Columbia
last Tuesday. A drummer named Albert
Gray had a knee crushed. Conductor
Gruber's leg was broken and Sam Bunt-
ing, of the Pullman car, was cut about
the head. none of them were fata ly in
jured. The train was completely wrecked.
1t was caused by heavy rains undermin-
ing the track.
LONDON, May 27.-Herr A. Noll, living
at Berlingen, in the Black Forest, after
FIVE years patient and arduous labor, has
constructed a wonderful clock, which he
considers surpasses in ma-velousness all
clocks of ancient or modern times. Tais
tim apiece is warranted to go without
stopping and without winding till mid
night Of the year 1898, practically an
5000 year clock.
CosrANTINoPLE, May 27.-The village
of Repachie, in Armenia, has lust been
destroyed by an earthquake. A number
Of mineral springs spouted from c~revices
made in the earth by the shock, and the
flow of water was so great that adjacent
fields were flooded. The earthquake was
preceded by a rumbling noise which
caused the inhabitants to fee from the
village, and they thus escaped death from
falling houses. No lives were lost.