The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1891-11-03
THE LATEST NEWS.
Sparks from the Wires--Most Important
Events Throughout the World
for a Week.

Two churches were dedicated in
Washington, one Baptist and the other
German Reformed.
Fire at Springvllle, Ala, destroyed
a number Of stores and residences.
Loss, $50, 900; insurance, SC, 5000.
SAN FRANCISCO, Oct. 27.-Joe Nc
Aulltfe and Pat~ey Cardiff ar matched
ID fight to the finish here tonight.
LONDON, Oct. 27.-The steamer leu
tonic arrived here this morning, again
breaking the record, 5 days, 2l
hours.
BIRMINGHAM. Ala, Oct. 27.-Two
coaches went through a burning trestle
near here this morning. All passengers
rescued.
CHICAGO, Oct. 27.-Terrinic and de
5tructlVe storms are raging throughout
the West. Telegraph wires are down
IN many places.
At Sewell, w. Va, John Averill shot
an0 killed Frank Dickson, and in the
same section Hewitt Flowers fatally
2hot Henry Fridley,
LONDON, Oct. 27.-The Teutonic ar
rived from New York this morning in
five days and twenty one hours, break
ing the worlds record.
EVANSVILLE, Ind, Oct. 27.-The
street car stables with one hundred
horses were burned here early this
morning. Loss over 800, 600.
The Amsterdam diamOnd-cutters are
deplOring the restrictions upon the
output of diamonds effected by the
South African diamond trust.
Mrs. Della T. S. ParnelI, mother of
| tho HAaH Irish StlfnCn0an roads tho
most Grabbed handwriting without
glasses at the age Of seventy six
The sugar house on Garden CITY
plantations, near Franklin, La, belong
nag to Lyon & Cook, was destroyed by
fire yesterday morning. Loss $50, 600.
An effort will be made to have the
order assigning Col. 2. G. Hams, super
iutcndent Of the Potomac river i'm
provement. to another field of duty
reSciuGed.
ALBANY, Oct. 9 .-Tho highest court
has decided that the samuel J Tiiden
will was void. BY this decision the
heirs get all Of the property. The city
of New York loses an immense library.
LOUISVILLE. Ky, Oct. 2G-By q
boiler explosion here this AFTERNOON
one man was probably XII Il, several
persons injured and nearly halt anil
lion dollars worth of property was de
stroyed.
While fremen were praclicing with
IA new ladder in Cleveland. Ohio. yes
terday, Lieut.. Rettger fell fIO the
fourth storr Of the City Hall and WAS
SO badly injured that he died within
| fifteen minutes.
The SHORTAGE Of School Treasure"
Do, ~riIinger, of Pltteburg, Penn, viii
reach, l. IS thought, $50, 600. He IS
said by his friends To have gone TO the
country. out nobody seems to know
exactly where he is.
BERLIN. Oct. 21.-Chis city has been
treated to a "Jack the Ripper sensa-
ton. he body Of II WRECKED, aban-
| dOned woman was found horribly
stabbed iii her lodgings in a squalid
quarter of the town.
The miners of Pittsburg, Pa dis
trict have resolved to continue their
strike, and there will probably be
serious trouble if the operators carry
out their threat to fill the strike S
! places with imported foreigners.
w. II. FuramPn, who is under in
dictment on tWeuHy-nine charges of
( lI SCiN bSSICS"OAI1S ONVI C-'O, DbO,
| pleaded guilty to one of the counts iii
Pontiac, ILL.,, yesterday, and was sen
fenced to seven years IN the Joliet
penitentiary.
William MattsOn, who stole a gold
brick from the Wells Fargo Express
Company, at Mohawk, Col, last
August, has been arrested at New
| Castle, Penn. He was traced from
| y 1870, I-Lo,C 10 ~o1I +Lo IrI,1- l.,
Special Agent w. NJ. Campbell, Of
Buffalo.
A man named Schulze. a clerk out of
employment. has been arrested in Der
lin on suspicion of being the murderer
of Hedwig Nitsche. the woman who
was found murdered and mutilated in
the London Jack the Ripper" man
ner in HOlzmarket Casse on Sunday
morning.
Sixty young women, employed as
press feeders in the various job print
ing offices in Pittsburg, Pa, joined
the strike of job printers and pressmen
yesterday. The strike caused a sus
pension of work in many of the offices,
but the employers say it will only be
temporary.
Ex-POstmaster E. S. Vinson, of Rus
s~ellville, Ala, was shot twice at that
place yesterday by E. A. Ri harrison,
a former clerk His injuries are fatal.
They had been discussing an old trouble,
Richardson being charged with a short
age in his accounts during Mr.. Vim
sons term of office.
PITTsBURG, Oct. ga Commercial
Gazette C~larksburg West Va special
says: "P. J. Tracey, a correspondent
of newspapers in New York, Baltimore,
Philadelphia, Chicago, and Pittsburg,
blew his brains out to night. He was
a sober, Industrious man, and no cause
for the deed is known.
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