The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1890-03-25
THE MOST IMPORTANT EVENTS
THROUGHOUT THE WORLD
FOR A WEEK.

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strike.
1t is reported that a fraudulent transac-
ton Involving $4,000, 600, has been I'M
earthed at fredericksburg, Va.
LONDON, March 18.-The outlook for a
victory for striking miners grows more
favorable hourly. 1t look, now as if the
men would surely win.
PEORIA, ILL.,, March 18-The large dry
goods house of Petedu, Mills & Co., was
destroyed by fire this morning. The loss
will be about 100000.
GRENADA, Miss, March l9.-Mael J.
Cheatham was hanged at half past one
o'clock this afternoon for the murder of
a negro named Tillman.
Fifty thousand women are reported as
having voted at the school election recent
ly held in Kansas. Many Of them were
elected on the school boards.
Two men attempted to rob J. B. Yves
ton, Of dorado, in Salt Lake City last
week. Weston killed both of them and
then surrendered to the police.
At Orriville, Ohio, on the 18th, while
at a birthday party, a young man, Finley
Casky, killed himself because other young
men were paying attention to his sweet
heart, .a
A dispatch from Chattanooga states
that City Auditor Whitesides is short in
his accounts to the amount of $6,882, and
has fed. It is thought that he has gone
to Canada.
NEW YORK, March 18.-The proprietors
of the big steam laundries in the Unitedl
States representing, it is said, $25, 00O, 900,
in their plants, haveE decided that the
Chinese laundrymen must be driven out
of the business.
RICHMOND, Va, March 18.-General
Jubal A. Early has just sent his check
for a thousand dollars to the Lee onu
ment board to defray the expenses Incl
dent to the unwilling of the statue of Gen
eral R. E. Lee on May 29th.
State Treasurer holland, of Missouri,
has been found short in his accounts in
the sum of $4,000, and he has been sus-
pended from Office. The money is sup
posed to have been lost at draw poker.
His bondsmen will foot the bill.
A dispatch from Manchester, England,
brings the information that fourteen thou
sand loooms are standing idle and three
thousand people are out of employment.
The factories cannot get coal 10 run on
account of strike among the coal workers.
INDIANAPOLIS, Ind, March 17.-Duringa
fire this afternoon, in the Bowen. Morrill,
& Co., Book and Paper Company store,
the rear wall fell and killed a dozen people,
and seriously injured a great many more.
So far seven bodies have been taken from
the debris, and seventeen OF the injured
recovered,
BERLIN, March 18.-There is a crisis on
in government circles. It's exact nature
cannot be positively stated this morning.
The entire ministry has resigned. Prince
Bismarck has resigned. So has Count
Herbert Bismarck. The resignation of
Prince Bismarck, it is understood, has
been accepted.
LIVERPOOL, March 18.-The striking
dock Iaborers have become riotous. Thirty
thousand of them marched through the
streets in procession to-day, and assumed
attitude so threatening that the magis-
tracy were compelled to invoke the aid of
the military, which were called out to
keep them quiet.
CHARLESTON, S. c., March 19.-The
trial of Robert James, who hired two
negroes to murder his father, in order
that he might inherit his estate, has just
been concluded. It was proved that
James gave the negroes $500 each for
their bloody work. The jury found him
guilty of murder in the first degree. He
was remanded for sentence.
The Louisiana Lottery Company for
warded to the Governor $1OO, 900 to be
used to protect the people of Louisiana
against inundation in consequence of the
Mississippi river. This money was de-
clined by the Governor because it is on
the eve of the session of the Legislature,
during which the renewal OF extension of
their character will be acted upon.
P1rTsBURG, March 17.-Mr. Leishman,
of Carnegie & Co., says that the 1000
tons of Bessemer pig iron ordered by the
firm from Alabama, proves to be unfit for
the making of steel 1t contains too
much prosperous and sulphur. The firm
will order no more Southern iron, and
Mr.. Leishman says the Southern ores will