The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1891-09-22
THE LATEST NEWS.
sparks from the Wires--Most Important
Events Throughout the Word
for a Week.

The Pope is writing an encvclicaI
~Iondemning the agitation for divorce
law.
The boat parade which was to have
AXE place at StOckbridge Bowl, Mass. |
to-day. has been abandoned.
Andrew Thompson, an old and lead
ing merchant Of Newburg, n. Y, died
Monday, aged sixty-seven years.
Dlphtheria is epidemic at Shelby
vile, Ind. There have been thirty
deaths IN the past forty-eight hours.
The peach crop in Chestertown, Md
exceeded 5000, 900 baskets. Prices
were poor and trees are being dug up. |
The cigar manufacturers of Boston
have accepted the new price list for
packers, which raises wages 10 per
cent.
Brigands recently captured the rail
way station at PavlokiOl, in Turkey.
killing two gendarmes who opposed
them.
The village of RefeI, in the Tyrol,
was destroyed by fire Sunday while
the inhabitants were away at areligious
festival.
Sir Charles Russell and Sir Horace
Davey have been retained to test the
legality Of Mrs. Maybrick's detention
in prison.
The Chilean authorities, says a dis
patch from Rome, have purchased the
AQuila and transformed the vessel into
a cruiser.
Patrick Gilleran, twenty-one years
old, was killed yesterday while Un-
coupling cars in the West Shore Yard
at Newburg, N. Y.
The fifth annual convention of the
National Harness Manufacturers Pro
tective Association began yesterday at
Philadelphia, Penn.
Joseph England, a rich farmer near
Topeka, Kansas, vas yesterday found
dead in a well. He is supposed to have
fallen in accidentally.
William Hecht, owner Of the Hecht
Packing House of Kearney, Neb., is
suffering from mental alteration, due
to financial reverses.
Mrs. Harrison has issued a call for a
conference Of the Daughters of the
American Revolution to be held III
Washington October 9th.
Michael funny was shot in the leg
while in a peach orchard, near New
burg, n. Y. George Shaw, who did
the shooting, was arrested.
John Mcnamara, living near Cam
bridge, n. Y, was killed Sunday by
the near Eagle Bridge. His brother
was killed just two weeks ago.
Dalton, an American, and Fisher
and Albert, two English swimmers,
will start Monday next to swim from
Cape Grisnez, France, to Dover.
There have been fifteen deaths from
cholera on the British war ship Mara
thon, at Bombay, and 0 on the
Blanche, as previously reported.
The schooner Mary E. Hobson yes
terday cOllided with the British steamer
Greenwich, n. J. The schooner sank. |
James Woodrum, of Laurel Creek,
West Virginia, was returning from
church Sunday night when he was
stabbed to death by his cousin, Harry
Murdoch.
William Haesler was stabbed ten
times and fatally injured Sunday at
Chicago while interfering in a fight be-
tween Daniel David, Mrs. David and a
brother in-law.
The editors Of eleven newspapers in
New York and Pennsylvania met yes
terday at Binghamton, n, Y, and
formed a press association to facilitate
news gathering.
The steamer Sorata, at Plymouth,
Eng, from South America, reports
that yellow fever is raging at Rio
Janeiro, and that two Portuguese died
of fever on the voyage.
BOMBAY, Sept. 14.-There have been
fifteen deaths from cholera recently on
on board H. NJ. S Marathon and H. M.
S. Redbreast, and not on board H. M.
S. Blanche, as first reported.
The $4,000 appropriated to investi-
gate the Keystone bank is about ex-
hausted, but Secretary Of the Treasury
telegraphs he will advance money
needed to make the investigation.
LANSING, Mich, Sept. IA special
September crop report says that late
returns from thrashings make the total
yield s 5000, 900 bushels, or 1000, 900
more than was expected, and that the
amount may exceed that.
TROY, N. Y, Sept. 14th.-The Rev.
Brother Bartholomew, Of St. Joseph's
Provincial Seminary, is a prisoner at
Police Headquarters. He shot Edward
Doyle this evening, inficting wounds
which the physicians say will termi
nate fatally before morning.
HAMPTON, Va, Sept. lin the
Haines trial the entire day was taken
up in argument. When the court ad-
iourned John Goode was making the
closing argument for the defence. He
will finish tomorrow, and then Sena-
tor Voorhees, will close for the prose-
CutiOn.
SAULT ST.. MARIE, Mich, Sept. IA
Hellister & JEWELS saw mill at Garden
liver, ten miles below this place, caught
fuo~ +Io onyAl uvoC+ Tho mill onI |