The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1891-07-21
THE LATEST NEWS.
Sparks from the Wires--Most Important
Events Throughout the World
for q Week..

: : ASAL TIE w CEIG
for a Week.
Secretary Foster says he will not
reply to Powderly.
The Lake City Bank, jacksonville,
Fla, is a complete wreck.
Alliance o., a prohibition town of
5000 population, has ninety open
saloons.
President Harrison will attend the
Vermont State Centennial celebration
August 10.
The rumor Of revolutionary plot in
Mexico against Diaz was denied almost
before it started.
Broker Austin, of New York, is be-
lieved to have been drowned in the
surf at Manhattan Beach.
State Treasurer holland, of Missouri.
was Saturday found guilty and SEN
tanced to two years in the peniten-
tiary.
The grounds, stock and fixtures of
the Cambria Iron Company, of Johns
town, Pa, have been sold for $12O, 600
to Philadelphia capitalists.
MEMPHIS, Tenn, July 11.-Fire at an
tfarly hour this morning damaged the
the% Furnishing stock of Samfee Hill
bran9 amount Of $40, 900, insurance
, lepS,Qoo,
@NEw YORK, July 13.- Steamer
Olympia arrived this morning with
news of an accident to passenger
steamship Schildam bound for this
city and disabled in a storm.
BIRMINGHAM, Ala, July 14-Thos.
Hyde, a railroad man, was shot and
fatally wounded by Sol. Bonheimer, a
drummer, during a quarrel in a. saloon
last night. Bonheimer is under arrest.
GREENsBURG, Pa, July 4.-Herbert
McGinniss, the four year old son of
j. F. McGinniss, accidentally shot his
| father i'll the head with a Winchester
rifle, Mr.. McGinniss dying two hours
later.
Engineer O'Connor, who ran the
Kanawa and Michigan passenger train
upon a burned trestle and killed or
wounded everybody on board, says
he saw the smoke, but mistoOk it
| for fog.
1t has been finally decided that little
| Julia jackson Christian, the infant
grand daughter of StOnewall Jackson,
shall unvail the bronze statue to her
distinguished ancestor on the 21st
instant.
LONDON, July 1.-THE Kaiser and
attendants boarded the Imperial yacht
at Leith today and proceeded to Nor
way. The war ships in Leith harbor
fired a royal salute as the Imperial
yacht passed out to sea.
NASHVILLE, Tenn, July 80 The
sensation of the hour in T~ennessee's
capital is charges against State Comp
troller Allen for retaining commissions
to which he is not entitled and placing
State money in bank to his individual
account.
BANGOR, Me-, July 1.-THE will of
the late Hon. Hannibal Hamlin has
been filed for probate. The document
is short, is lacking in ~ponderous legal
phrases, and is characteristic Of Mr..
Hamlin. The will makes no public
requests.
FLAGSTAFF, Arazona, July ia
courier arrived this morning announc-
ing an uprising among the Indians
the same burning ranches, stealing
cattle and spelling the country in
general. Thirty cowboys have started
out to seek revenge.
Sioux CITY, Iowa, July 11.-An i'm
mense downpour of rain for three
hours yesterday flooded the city, caus-
ing an aggregate loss of 100, 900. The
Mayor says the injury to pavements
alone will cost the city SO, 900. Several
buildings were undermined.
LONDON, July 14.-Duncan, the
American, who recently attempted to
murder his wife in North Wales, has
been acquitted on the ground of in
sanity, but has been detained pending
a decision of the court as to what dis
position shall be made of him.
New YORK, July 11.-Mrs. Jefferson
Davis, who has been spending several
weeks at the New York hotel, left this
morning without making a decision as
to the disposition of the remains of her
late husband. 1t is reported that she
has asked for a year in which to give