The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1891-09-29
THE LATEST NEWS.
Sparks from the Wires--Most Important
Events Throughout the Word
for a Week.

Gen Schofeld has approved thenew
army tactics.
Everything is reported quiet in In
dion Territory.
The Irish National Federation is in
session at Dublin.
The German Catholic Congress is in
session at Buffalo.
The Columbia Chemical works in
Brooklyn were burned; loss 800, 600.
B G. Bruce, one of the best known
turf authorities in America, is dead.
1t is said that Africa and South
America will shortly be connected by
cable.
Three boys were killed in the Chicago
stock yards, while stealing a ride on
the train.
The mills of the Lyons Paper Mill
Co., of Lyons, Ia, were destroyed by
fire yesterday. Loss, $4,000; insur-
ance, $50, 600.
NEW YORK, Sept. pa special to-
day to the New York World says the
town of Bradley has been completely
demolished by fire.
A dispatch from Constantinople says
that AgOp Pasha, former minister of
of finance, was thrown from his horse
yesterday and killed.
LONDON, Sept. 21.-The steamer Ems
from Bremen, which sailed from South
ampton for New York yesterday, has
on board 81, $50, 900 in gold.
LONDON, Sept. 21.-Sir James Fer
guson Hart, political secretary of the
foreign office, has been appointed to
the office of the postmaster general,
vacant through the death Of Henry
Cecil Raikes.
New YORK, Sept. 81, "A dispatch to
the Associated Press, under date Of
September 21st, from United States
Minister Patrick Egan, confirms the
published report Of the suicide of PreSi-
dent Balmaceda.
CHICAGO, Sept. 21.-The cut in the
price OF beer to IS per barrel, made by
the Cooke Brothers Brewery on Satur-
day, was met by the other city brew
cries to day. Further reductions in
prices are looked for.
CARSON, New, Sept, 21.-Ralph B.
Stanley was killed at a baseball game
Yesterday by being struck on the neck
by a ball. He fell on his knees, arose,
tried to run, but pitched forward on
his face and died in three minutes,
ST. PAUL, Sept. Estate reports
say that timber fires are close to Pine
CITY, this State, and the people of that
city are frightened over the prospects
Of the fire reaching there i'll short.
Great losses are reported ON the route.
NORFOLK, Va, Sept. 21.-Tnomas J
| Nottingham, a prominent and wealthy
business MAJ of this city, died Satur-
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returned fro Il q visit to Egypt and
Palestine, and it is supposed that he
contracted his fatal malady on that
trip.
FORT WORTH, Texas, Sept. 22.-Fire
| yesterday destroyed the Ellis Hotel, a
| fiVe-stOry stone structure. three story
| annex. together with contents, valued
| at $3.50, 0UG. The store of Darlington
& Montgomery was also destroyed;
loss $12, 600. Total loss, $50, 600; in
~surance, $22, 900.
BERLIN, Sept. GA dispatch from
| Gleiwitz, Prussian SiIesia, states that
| q collision has occurred on the railroad
connecting GoIaczowy with Wobrom,
near the Ru- sian frontier, betweentwO
passenger trains. Ten people were
killed and many were injured. All
the cars of the two trains were shat
tered.
MILWAUKEE, Wis, Sept. 21,-A
special to the EUeHing Wisconsin from
Darling, Wis, says at noon to-day an
infuriated mob took from the county
jail Anton Sieboldt, who brutality muir
dered James Mighan, a neighbOr, last
Wednesday and hanged him to a tree
III the court house yard. ShiebOldt
was a desperate character and his
parents manifested little concern when
informed of the lynching.
TUSKEGEE, Ala, Sept. 21-Mrs. Halle
T. Dillon, NJ. D., cOlOred, daughter of
| Bishop B. T. Tanner, is not only the
| first cOlOred female physician, but the
first Oma Of any race to pass the
| Alabama State medical examination.
1t was a written examination and an
unusually severe one, occupying ten
days. DR.. Dillon, after passing with a
high average, To- occupies the position
of resident physician at the Tuskegee
(Ala.) Institute.
CHICA %, Sept. 21.-Henry Marks, a
young Hebrew, who came to this city
a week ago and stated that he was
from Brooklyn, committed suicide last
night, shooting himself with a revolver
on the lake shore at E~dgewater, a subur-
ban town. He left a note, in which
he expressed his desire to be buried ac-
cording to Jewish rites. and that his
brother, Isaac Marks, Of Brooklyn, be
informed of his death. From a letter
found on bis person it is learned that
Marks was for a long time a member Of
Troop E. Fifth Cavalry, United States
Army.
NEwBURG, N. Y, Sept. PA row
boat with five persons was upset near
Low Point, on the Hudson, this after
noon and all five were drowned. The
party consisted of three men, one wo-
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