The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1891-08-11

654, l0I respectively last year; receipts
Of cotton this week atau interior towns
(, G54; plantations 1852; crop in sight
S,075.
NEW YORK, Aug. 3.-A Catlottsburg
special says: \ i cur
rent upon the streets this morning that
the sheriff's possee, in attempting to
capture the Italians who murdered
the Brumfeld family Friday night,
were forced to fire on the Italians,
Of them being instantly killed.
LOUISVILLE, Ky, Aug. 3.-Voting is
proceeding quietly all over Kentucky
with indications that the proposed con-
stitutiOn, against which a strong fight
has been made, will be ratified by a
very large majority, and that the plu-
for Brown and other Democratic
nominees will be between 80. 900 and
so, 600.
BALTIMORE, Aug. 3.-The steamship
Zaaudam, now in port, brought twelve
Russian-Jewish refugees who tell a
pitiful story. They were working at
their trades at St. Petersburg and
Moscow, and received orders to leave
the country within tw~enty-four hours.
All their property and valuable effects
were seized by the police.
DANvILLE, Va, Aug. 3.-Professional
burglars have been operating in this
city. They cracked two safes last
night, one belonging to the American
Tobacco Company, and the other to
the Center Machine Company. The
losses were small. Citizens generally
feel anxious and watchmen Will be
placed in the banks tonight.
Walter H. Ellis, a young clerk of
the Alabama Great Southern Railroad,
was arrested yesterday, on the charge
of burning the freight depot which
blew up Thursday night with fifty
kegs of powder in it. He was short in
his accounts and is supposed to have
blown UP the building to hide the
shortage.
EAST ST.. LOUIS, Ill, Aug. 3.-Two
Italians fought q duel this morning and
one was killed. The men were lemon
peddlers. They Quarrelled over bust
ness, and decided to fight it out. They
retired to a secluded spot and fought
first with fists, then with knives.
Relatives who live in St. Louis VOW
vengeance, and a vendetta is looked
for.
MONTGOMERY, Ala, Aug. THE
worm is reported in many parts
of Alabama and Mississippi. 4 tele-
gram to the Advertiser from Mobile
says: \ Macon, Miss, man SAYS he
has seen the worm eating the cotton
plant. The crop is two or three weeks
and as the new cotton is coming
on, the worms if they develop will do
great damage.
CHARLESTON, S. c., Aug. In a
collision on the South Carolina Rail
road last p, m, Henry Brissadem, en-
and w. G.. Brown, who was
working his passage to Charleston as a
fireman, were killed by jumping before
the collision occurred. Before Jump
ing, Brissadem reversed his engine and
put on the air-brakes. The engine did
not leave the track and none Of the
passengers were injured.
STAUNUoN, Va, Aug. Last night
when the east-bOund O.. and O. train
was between Waynesboro and Basic
City, a man entered the sleeper and
going to a berth occupied by Mr.. Con
nell, of Portsmouth, Ohio, demanded
his money. Mr.. Council refused to
give it to him and started to make a
defence when the robber shot him, in
dieting a dangerous wound. The as
sailant escaped. Mr.. Connell is now
at Charlottesville in a critical CON
dition.
SAVANNAH, Ca, August Isaac
Simons killed Robert Hogans lastnight
by stabbing him through the heart
with a stilletto and threw the body in
a ditch, near where the crime was
committed. After killing Hogans,
Simons stabbed his own wife and
young daughter. The wife will prob
ably die. Simons escaped. All the
parties are colored. Hogans was board
ing at Simons' house and was regarded
as a member of the family. Jealousy
was the cause of the murder.
CHICAGO, Aug. "A fire, involving
a loss estimated to be at least 81, OOO,-
600, broke out at 7:3O o'clock this
morning in the large retail dry goods
and notions store of SigeI, Cooper &