The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1891-10-20
THE LATEST NEWS.
Sparks from the Wires--Most Important
Events Throughout the World
for a Week.

There was a $50, 900 fire in Ch4tta.
nooga yesterday.
More outrages on Christiansare re-
ported from Turkey.
The Albatr0ss is sending for the pro
posed cable line to Honolulu.
It is said that Russia is pushing a
vigorous increase of her navy.
The colored people of Norfolk, Va,
have organized a Savings Bank.
Dispatches from Admiral Brown re-
ports affairs quieting down in Chill.
Rev. H. H. Banks, a venerable Bap-
fist minister of Norfolk, ", is dead.
An Indiana postmaster says the lot
terry business is dying out in Indiana.
Six laborers were killed in an explo-
sion at Ensly City. Ala. Monday night.
Canovas del Castillo is so far i'm
proved in health as to be able to leave
his bed.
1t is reported that under the French
law the Paris fund will go to Mrs.
Parnell.
The Queen will raise to the peerage
the widow of the Right Hon. William
Henry Smith.
The case of the Anarchists came be-
fore the Supreme Court at Washing
ton yesterday.
Baker, accused of poisoning Judge
Kelly in Abingdon, Va, has been
granted a new trial.
Boston, Oct. 14.-Bishop Brooks was
consecrated this morning under ser
mon by Bishop Potter.
The Austrian police say they have
captured in the man SteinOrt, Of Pc
land, a dynamite fend.
An accident near Auburn, O., on the
B. & 0. Railroad killed three persons
and injured twenty-three.
The Freemun'S Journal, of Dublin,
says the Parnelite manifesto bespeaks
unending strife for Ireland.
There is a growing belief in Wash
ington that Secretary Blaine will not
return to the State Department.
The Pennsylvania State Treasury in
vestigation committee continued its
work at Philadelphia yesterday.
Reuben Smith has been arrested,
charged with the murderOf J. P. Lock
wood, in Berkely, a suburb of Norfolk.
Lord Salisbury, who has been on the
Continent for some time, will resume
his duties at the Foreign Office next
Friday.
The bark extract works of j. H.
Heald & Co.. i'll Lynchburg. were de-
stroyed by fire. Loss, So, 900; insur
ance, $25,0 600.
Pearls of great beauty ard value
have been discovered in quantities in
she lis in Cottonwood river, near
Gutherie, 0. T.
D. Weis & Co., dealers in clothing,
boots and shoes, at Nashville, were
burned out. Saturday night. Loss,
800, 600; insured,
ALEXANDER, Va, Oct. lathe con.
dition of Gen. w. H. F. Lee today
took an unfavorable change and he il
now considered critically i'll.
New YORK, Oct. 1.-THE steamer
Bostonia, bound for Liverpool, was
wrecked near Hullenass this morning
in a terrific gale in English channel.
A man named Desmarals has been
arrested in Paris for cashing a fraulu.
lent check for $40, 900 drawn on the
New Orleans Company of New York.
New ORLEANS, La, Oct. 14.-Under,
takers establishment, stables, ETC., OF
Geo. D. Geddes, Nos. 218 and 220 EratC
street, burned. Loss estimated al
$50, 900.
NEW YORK, Oct. 13.-The directors
of the Adams Express Company elected
Director Sanford, President this morn,
ing in place of John Holy, dismissed in
disgrace.
BENNETTsvILLE, S. c., Oct. 14.-To
day at u o'clock, Nelson Childress, a
farmer unloading cotton, fell dead on
the platform. He has been troubled
with asthma.
BIRMINGHAM, Ala, Oct. ia car
was blown up this morning in which
were six passengers. One was killed
and others r seriously and perhaps
fatally wounded.
In Berlin it is reported that General
Count Waldersee, at a recent banquet
of the officers of the Ninth army corps,
said: POSSIBLY we shall meet in the
spring for serious business"
OMAHA, Oct. 1.-THE preliminary
hearing of fifteen lynchers charged
with the murder of Coe, the negro,
which was set for to-day has been
postponed until next Monday.
A petard was exploded yesterday in
the Puerta del Sol, the principalsquare
in Madrid. Several persons were in
iured, but none killed. The author OF
the act has not been discovered.
Upton, Ind, Oct. IA boiler in a
machine establishment at this point
exploded this morning, killing two in,
instantly and injuring fifty others,
many of whom will die. Great excite.
ment at the disaster.
The late w. S. Scott, of Pennsylvania,
S S5Sd oo G0 066I R RstW weg a I gPe 9fO' s 1GS aRd
from dyspepsia and was often heard to
say that he would give all his million:
for a sound digestive apparatus.
AT Frostburg, Md, there is a 16 year.
OLD lad whO is now Six feet four inches