The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1890-05-13
THE MOST IMPORTANT EVENTS
THROUGHOUT THE WORLD
FOR A WEEK.

II AiASA AoLI"oy SLLhC at OuOllu mas
eLded.
1t is reported that the jute men have
formed another combine to advance
prices.
The senate of North Dakota has
adopted, by a vote of 81 to 8, the bill
providing for the Australian ballot.
New YORK, May DR.. Douglass,
Gen. Grants physician, has been para
lyzed. lie is in destitute circumstances.
Governor Toole, of Montana, was mar
ried last Wednesday to Miss Lilly Rose
Grams, daughter of General Rosecrans, of
Washington City.
The private bank of Charles A. Mather
& Co., of Berlin, Wis, closed its doors
yesterday morning. Assets $40, 900;
liabilities $780, 900.
New YORK, May 6.-From Paris it is
learned that the Panama Canal commission
report nine hundred million francs wanted
to complete the project.
The prospect for an excellent wheat
crop could not be better than it is in Kan
sas at this time, and the outlook for all
other crops is also excellent.
Additional warrants have been sworn
out at Philadelphia against ex-president
Pleiffer of the lnsolvent bank of Amer "a
on charges of embezzlement.
AUGUSTA, Ca, May Thursdays cy-
clone badly damaged the village of McR=a,
Camilla and Tyty. Several persons were
injured, but no deaths are reported.
LILLE, May In a collision between
genoarmes and a crowd of turbulent
strikers here last evening, two of the lat
ter were wounded and seven arrested.
New YORK, May THE Herald O.ta-
wa special says the duty on pork was
increased to two cents a pound yesterday,
making it about sixty percent. od v0JOrem
A row occurred between negroes
near Macon, Ca, on last Tuesday night.
All sorts Of weapons were used. Sam
Fraley was killed and a number wounded.
Joseph E. Ross, a freight conductor on
the R. & D. between Charlotte and At
lanta, was cut in three pieces at Spartan
burg, S. c., last Wednesday while coupling
cars.
TAYLoRsvILLE, KY, May 4, 1890
Warrick Duncan, colored, was shot and
killed by James Murphy, white, lastnight.
The shooting was the result of a drunken
quarrel.
VIENNA, May THE press Of Austria
and Hungary is very much gratifed with
the pacific tenor of the speech with which
the Emperor William yesterday opened
the Reichstag.
Dies MONIES, Iowa, May THE Hon.
G. F. Clarkson, father Of Assistant Post
master General Clarkson and R. P. Clark
son, of the State Register, died this morn
ing, aged 80 years.
Sundays labor demonstration in Hyde
Park, London, was witnessed by half a
million Of people. Over 10000 work
ingmen participated in the parade. There
was no disturbance.
South Georgia was swept by a cyclone
last Mo day morning. The roof of a
hotel at Camilla was blown of. A num-
Der Of stores were unroofed and several
completely demolished.
DANv1LLE, Va, May 6.-Rev. Sam
Jones, is holding a great meeting here.
Thousands Of people hear him every day
and night, and the great evangelist is
making things very lively.
Mr.. Fred Hale, of Pittsfeld, Mass,
killed his brother VIM. H. Hale, a few
days ago. William attempted to strike
his father, a man 70 years old, and Fred
interfered with the above result.
New York, May THE f,ilure of
Col. Joachim Naidhof, one of the Oldest
and best known men III the dress trim
ming trade, was reported to-day. The
total liabilities are placed at 100000.
An Injunction has been served on the
cashier of the Merchants bank, at At
lantic City, N. j., to restrain him from
resuming business, and to show cause
why it's affairs should not be wound up.
On the 29th ult. two negroes entered
the ticket Office at the depot in Jasper,
Georgia, and shot the agent, and after
robbing the Office, fed. One of them has
been captured and the other is closely
pursued.
A severe cyclone swept owe a portion
of Mississippi on last Tuesday. The storm
was accompanied by a heavy fall of hail.
Cavara1 0eOnle were killed and many in