The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1891-12-01
THE LATEST NEWS.
Sparks from the Wires--Most important
Events Throughout the World
Tor a Week.

for a Week.
\ Georgia man fell dead while TRYING
70 shoulder a bag # apples one day
last week.
MEMPIS, Tenn, Nov. 23.-The Desoto
al mills were burned here to day.
Loss $50, 600.
WASHINGTON, D. c., Nov. ga
terrific storm has just passed over the
city, damaging property to an enOr-
nous an cunt.
The Executive Committee of the An
dover Phillips Academy Re-endOwment
fund reports that it has raised $40, GOO
since last spring.
Amos @. Burnett, a l~unatic, killed
his watcher, P. Frank Shields, at Viii
mlngton, Del, yesterday, by crushing
III hlS skull with an axe.
PARIS. Nov. 24-The Right Hon.
Edward Robert Bulwer LyttOn, Earl of
LyttOn, British Ambassador to France,
died suddenly to day Of heart disease.
The shipments Of cattle from Mon
treal during the past year We're 109,-
$50 head. against 1922. The total
value OF cattle and sheep exported was
81, 600, 600.
A court of inquiry has recommended
that Capt. B. NJ. Wilson of the First
Infantry Of Manchester, N. H, charged
with classifying the muster roll, be
court marClaled.
WASHINGTON, Nov. PA commit
tee of the American Federation Of
Labor, headed by Samuel GompeTs, Of
New York, had an interview with the
President today on the labor question.
One hundred and five cigarmakers
employed by Oblinger 81 Co. Lancas
ter, Penn struck yesterday OnaccOunt
Of a change in the system of work
which they claim, makes n reduction
III their wages.
Receiver Butler of the American
Wheel Company announces that the
? work. at Fort Wayne Ind, WILL again
be put III operation. This will give
employment to 500 men who have been
idle six months.
The report in Germany that a syndi-
cate Of bankers has been fOrmGt with
the object of purchasing Swiss railroad
shares has created Il sensation III Berne,
the belief being thai me project cOveFa
! political designs.
i A dispatch from Toxic says: The
Japanese government has ordered
men-Of war to China to protect Jap
i an"se subjects atthe open ports There
is no question Of further co Operation
either with the Powers or with China"
Manager Howe Of the Mount Uniake
: N. s. gold mines was attacked by
, miners armed with knives OF aturday
might, but successfully defended HIM
self with u revolver, shooting one Of
them, hut not fatally The m*li were
arrested.
Diphtheria has been raging since
; September in Believille, III and a
/ large number Of deaths are reported.
! 1t IS estimated that there are over 200
cases III B~elleville, and a number of
children have been withdrawn from
the schools.
ST.. PETERSBURG, Nov. % Many
! peasants and inhabitants Of villages in
he government OF KaSan are suffering
from severe illness caused by eating
! the flesh of horses and cattle. They
WI re not used to a meat diet, but the
prevailing famine compelled them to
resort to it.
Lewis Ryder and Walter Smith, both
of BrOwnvUle, were struck by the
! Maine Central train at Summer street
crossing in FOxcroft, Me, at 6 o'clock
last night and both seriously injured
it is feared fatally. They attempted
to cross the track after being warned
not to do so.
PITTSBURG, Pa, Nov. PA special
Heckla, ten miles from this place, was
blown down on q number Of children
who had sought refuge from the storm.
John Barner and Elias Dink were
fatally injured and several others
severely hurt"
AUGUSTA, Ga, Nov. 23.-J. Prayer,
agent retail clothing merchant failed
this morning under foreclosure mort
gage held by Flemming, Thomas &C.,,
bankers OF Augusta, for 50, GA. The
siating Of stock, $4,000 Most of the
creditors are Baltimore firms.
James S. Beckwith, a resident of
Oneida, was killed on the Ontario and
Western Railroad at Eaton, n. Y, yes
terday. He was a brakeman, and was
hit by a bridge while the train was
passing under 1t. His head was severed
from his body. Beckwith leaves a
wife and three small children.
KNOXVILLE, Tenn, Nov. ga
rumOr has just reached this city that
during the prevalence last night and
this morning of a sno storm in the
mountains south of here a wagon train
of emIgrants, westward bound, were
caught and frozen to death. Much ex-
element exists here over the report.
NASHVILLE, Tenn, Nov. 24-The
Central Labor Union, comp )sed of
delegates from every branch of organ
lied labor, met last night for the pur-
pose of naming delegates to attend the
meeting of miners at NewcOmb to con
slider the troubles growing out of the
competition with convict labor i'll East
Tennessee.