The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1891-08-11
THE LATEST NEWS.
Sparks from the Wires--Most Important
Events Throughout the World
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Tor a Week.
l~nternecine strife is reported from
various portions of China.
Two French urderers were executed
at Paris one day last week.
\ quarrel over - cents caused a
murder at Augusta, Ga, last week.
Frederick G. Havemeyer, founder
Of the Havemeyer sugar firm, is dead.
More than 200 people were killed in
the railroad accident at st. Maude near
Paris, a few days ago.
A New York man rescued a drown
ing man II day last week and died
that afternoon from heart disease.
A Gordon of American and English
gunboats are guarding Behring's Sea
and etfectually stopping all seal fish
ing.
LabOring men throughout Tennessee
will join with the miners in an effort
to secure the repeal of the convictIease
law.
All the records of the city ~treasurer's
office at Philadelphia are missing, and
another official sensation is on the
tapis.
Commissioner Raum during the
nineteen months (57O days. he has held
office has been absent from his post
$40 days,
S. Gerber, a citizen of Omaha, Neb.,
was arrested while on a visit to his
old home in Russia and killed to Siberia
for five years.
The Amalgamated Association of
Iron Workers will oppose the impOrta-
ton of tin-plate workers by Mr..
N~iedringhaus.
BRUSSELS, Aug. 3.-The Queen of
Belgium has been taken suddenly i'll
and is supposed to be dying. Extreme
junction has been administered.
NEW YORK, Aug. In a quarrel
here to-night William Halsey drew a
pistol and shot William Mclaughlin,
killing him instantly. Halsey was
| arrested.
CHEcETAH, I, IA cyclone struck
this town Saturday night sOon after II
o'clock, doing many thousands of dol
lars damage to growing crops and de
stroying several buildings.
CoRUNNA, Ang. An explosion
took place here to-day in the fireworks
factory. Six people We're killed and
many injured by the explosion, the
cause of which is unknown.
The common council Of Richmond,
Va, passed a resolution to erect a
monument to General w, G. Wick
ham in Monroe Polk. The unwilling
viii probably take place this fall.
C~YNTHIANA, Ky, Aug. John Bell
and VIM. Umphrey, brothers-inlaw
had hot words on the public square,
and drew pistols. The latter's bullet
took effect in Bells abdomen, inficting
a fatal wound.
Two women committed a burglary
at Milwaukee, Wis, last week. They
! got 800 in cash. They were arrested
and the lady from whom the money
was stolen paid their fines. That is a
woman for you.
a special from Arkansas City, Kan
sas says: jackson Donnelly, a wealthy
farmer, living five miles east Of this
city, and his wife, were found muir
dered at noon today. The supposed
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Two negroes on Long Island, New
York, fought a duel with razOrs one
night last week. One was cut so badly
that he died; the other is expected to
die. The trouble was, one refused to
take a drink with the other.
PALMER, Mass, Aug. 3.-The Weeks
House, an old landmark, we'll known
to travellers, was discovered on fire at
about 2 o'clock this morning. There
were about IS guests and boarders in
the house and they had barely time to
escape in their night clothing.
BARCELONA, Aug. "a remarkable
affair occurred here last night, which
was at first taken to be a revolutionary
outbreak of the Republican party, but
is now known to have been simply a
desperate attempt of certain specula
tors to depress prices on the exchange.
BRUSSELS, Aug. 3.-The chimney of
the Providence Iron Works at Haut-
mont, Belgium, fell yesterday crushing
in a portion of the building and bury
ing eighteen workmen in the ruins. 1t
is believed very few, if any Of the IN