The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1891-09-15

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Griffin, who gave birth to triplets ten
months ago, broke the record last night
with a quarteLte. Al seven children
are doing well.
Two young men in Bryan county,
Ga engaged in a fight last Monday.
\ third attempted to part them and
pistols were drawn and all three were
mortally wounded. They all belonged
to good families.
PARIS, Sept 8.-A family Of this city.
consisting of six members, committed
suicide yesterday. The father and
mother first hanged themselves, and
the others, who were adult chiIGI en-,
initiated their parents.
ROLLING Rock, Miss, Sept. 9.-kirby
Bird, who shot conductor Howard, of
the Louisville, \ Q. & Texas Railway,
two weeks ago, was indicted yesterday,
convicted and sentenced to seven years
in the penitentiary today.
Mary Muschette, aged twenty years,
Of Minneapolis, Mimi, committed sui
eide Monday at Washington, D. c.. by
cutting her throat with a razor. The
deed was prompted by the thoughts of
a civil service examination.
Deputy Constable George Van
Hoosier shot and fatally wounded a
tramp named Jesse Quinn at Nashville,
Mo. Monday. Before dying Quinn
said that ms father was q wealthy
merchant at Nashville, Tenn
OMAHA, Neb., Sept. 8.-The commit
tee having the matter in charge has
issued a call for the next meeting of
the Trans Mississippi Commercial Con
gress to meet in Omaha, Neb., October
10Th for a five days session.
LAKE GEORGE, N. Y, Sept. 7.-WaI-
ter Simpson, twenty-three years old, a
young lawyer of Newark, II. j., was
drowned in Lake George near Saga
more yesterday afternoon. He was
taken with cramp while bathing.
CAIRO, Egypt, Sept. S.-A period of
intense heat has developed the cotton
bOlls and the worms, which threatened
to injure them. have vanished. The
result is that the prospects are that
there will be an excellent cotton crop.
NASHVILLE, Tenn, Sept. 9.-Freight
conductors on the Nashville & De
catur Division of the l.. & n. Road,
struck last night because Of the refusal
Of superintendent GeddenS to reinState
II. B. Ridley, who was discharged for
refusing to take the train out.
JAMAICA, L. l., Sept. 9.-L0cOmotive
113 of the Long Island Railroad, ex-
plOded at Oyster Bay station at 7:20
o'clock. just us it was about to haul
out. Engineer Donaldson. fireman
Ditkerson and Brakeman Nahoney
| were killed, and conductor \ L. Jones
scaldcd.
WASHINGTON. -. -, Sept S.-The
Treasury Department has modified all
fo,mtr regulations issued conserving
the drawback to De- a!lOwpd on exported
jute naggiug ana has dir cred that col
l6ctOr5 of customs allow a drawback of
two cents per bale on cotton u last
years crop covered With jute bagg.Hg.
CLEVELAND, O., Sept. The 10Th
annual council OF the Improved Order
Of Red Men began IN Tins city to @ay.
Great chiefs and other representatives.
to Tie number OF 1875 are present.
Mayor Rose welcomed the Red Men to
Cleveland in Il formal address. and
presented to tnt]u The freedom uf the
day.
HALIFAX, n. s., Sept. S.-Further
damage by last nights hurricane is
reported. The Halifax half Of the
bridge across Halifax harbOr, connect
ing Halifax with Dartmouth, vas
blown down and is now Heating IN the
harbOr. 1t was q quarter Of a mile in
length and was built ten years ago at
a cost of 800, 900.
WASHINGTON, Sept. S.-The Treasury
Department has removed all r~estric-
tiOns heretofore placed on the deposit
Of funds at the S~ub-TreaSury in New
York to cover shipments of currency
to the South and West. This has been
done in order to facilitate, as far as the
government can do so, the moving Of
the immense crops Of the sections
named.
PARIS, Sept. an. Propst announced
at the Academy of Medicine last even
ing that the cholera epidemic which
arose in the East is nearing Aleppe.
He thinks the great danger to Europe
lies in the Persian Gulf. He believes
the immigration Of destitute Russian
Jews, seven thousand Of whom have
gone to AIeppe, will increase the VIC
lence of the epidemic.
VAUGHAN, Miss, Sept. S.-Mary
Coleman, a coIOred woman residing on
the Lamb plantation, early this morn
ing picked up a d0uble-barrellei shot
gun, went to the bedside where her
husband was asleep and blew out his,
brains. She then picked up her two
year-Old son, took him to a creek and
drowned both the boy and herself. The
woman is supposed to have been insane.
CHEYENNE, Wyoming, Sept. Mel
bourne failed to make rain here today.
He attributes his defeat to vigorous
adverse winds. This is the second eX-
pertinent and is unsatisfactory to the
committee, and some Of the enthusiasts
are weakening. Melbourne has had
two days grace, and still does not de
liver the goods, but complained that,
from the first, the breezes were oh
structive.