The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1890-02-18

Joseph Pryor, a laborer at. the Asp9o
phosphate works, near Charleston, was
crushed to death one morning last week
bya lump of phosphate falling on him.
The French doctors suggested warm
alcoholic drinks as a good remedy for the
grip and within the next three days ar
rests for drunkenness inParE rose to 1900.
At the Central Ontario Farmers Insti-
tute it was decided to recommend to the
dominion government that wheat and
wheat products be placed on the free list.
Ten men were killed and sixteen in
jured by an accident near Dalles,
Oregon. The caboose in which the men
were riding went througha bridge. No
particulars.
State Senator John E. Reyburn was
nominated by the Republicans of the
Fourth congressional district to FIJI the
vacancy caused by the dekth of Congress-
man William E. Kelley.
Doc. Mcclure, of Knoxville, Tennessee,
last week found and rescued the. body of
his mother on a dissecting table of the
East Tennessee Medical College. It had
been stolen from the cemetery.
Ellis F. Bard, Cashier Of the Lincoln,
Pa, Bank, is short in. his accounts to the
amount of nearly $4,000 He says that
he drew the money out to help a friend
who stood in need Of the money.
AT the christening of a Polish baby at
M&l'shwood, Pa, Monday tight adrunken
c%arousal took place, resulting in the de-
~struqtion by fire Of ten buildings in which
q maq and woman were Eenated.
The Chinese government has just or
defed a new edition of the famous ency-
clopedia which was originally compiled
during the reign Of KEN, Lung. The in
dex alone fills twelve folio volumes.
There is prospect Of oloodshed at Gen.
Ayers Volunteer mines at Palmer, Mich,
where $50 Finlanders on a S rike are
armed and confronted by a large posse of
sherifs deputies with Winchester rifles.
A man who died in the city hospital at
Knoxville, Tenn, last week, confessed to
be G. M. Ellerton, who, while smuggling
goods from Canada, threw a revenue Off
Ger overheard from a boat and drowned
him.
Joseph P. Murphy, manufacturer OF
cotton and wooden goods, at Fourth and
Cumberland streets, Philadelphia, made
an assignment Tuesday. Liabilities;
100000. Assets will probably pay liza
bilities.
The Beaver Valley Manufacturers AS
ISOLATION yesterday elected the following
officers: President, W. W. Hartman
Vice President, Abram Bentley; Treas
urer, G. M. Merrick; Secretary, w. G.
Mcmahon.
Judge Colt, of the United States Circuit
Court at Boston, has granted the United
States Government an extension of three
months in which to introduce evidence in
its suits against the American Bell Tele-
phone Company.
The annual encampment of the Massa-
chusetts Grand Army of the Republic has
begun at Boston. Gen. Alger, com
mander-in-chief, addressed the comrades
in advocacy of the immediate passage OF
the dependent pension bill.
A masked man entered a farm house
near Whiteville, N. Y, on the 9Th and
killed Mrs. Ransom Floyd and fatally
wounded her husband and then escaped.
Robbery was the object of the scoundrel,
but he overlooked the money.
The New Jersey State inspector OF
food is continuing his raid on adulters-
tons in Trenton. He reports that there
is hardly a grocery store. in that city
without spurious coffee, and this stuff is
retailed at % cent per pound
President Van Home, of the Canadian
Pacific railroad, thinks that a journey
around the world will be made in thirty
eight days in a few years. This will be
when the great transatlantic railroad
across Russia shall have been completed.
The Michigan Labor Federation met at
East Saginaw Tuesday. Tom Barry, the
noted K. of L. "kicker," who organized
a new union, applied for admission as
representative Of his organization, but
was refused. He was not even given a
hearing. ~1 80