The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1891-07-28
THE LATEST NEWS.
Sparks from the Wires--Most Important
Events Throughout the World
for a Week.

The eruption of Mount vesuvius is
increasing.
1t is reported that Harry NJ. Stanley
and his wife will separate.
Danville, Va, sold nearly one million
pounds Of loose tobacco last week.
Berry Wall is credited with making
an income of $25, 900 a year as life in
surance agent.
A Denver, Colorado, man has sued
another for 800, 900 for alternating his
wife's affections.
Mrs. Pattie Lockridge shot herself
and three children neal Nashville,
Tenn, a few days ago.
Will Davis, an Irishman, was buried
alive by the caving in of a phosphate
bed in Florida last week.
A newly made grave was found by
a pleasure party near Gainesville,
| Ca, last week in a de5olate cave.
A syndicate has purchased all the
leading tin mines of Colorado. The
price paid is half a million dollars.
The growth of New York is marvel
Gus. The natural increase of it's popu-
lation now exceeds % 1000 each year.
Rev. Father Celistin Joseph Felix,
S.. j., the distinguished Frenchpreacher
and writer on ecclesiastical subjects, is
dead.
The product of gold in the United
States the last sixteen years has aggre-
| gated the enormous amount of $572,-
900, 600.
It is announced that the President
will spend a week at Mount McGregOr,
in the Adirondack Mountains, in
August.
If all parts of the United States were
as densely populated as Rhode Island,
the population of the country would be
945, 76O, 900.
It is calculated that all expenditure
for liquors and narcotics absorbs the
net proceeds Of one days work Of the
world per week.
The Pennsylvania League of Repub-
lican Clubs is in a demoralized state
from quarrels between the Quay and
anti-Quay elements.
misrepresentation Butterworth, Mr..
NJ. P. Handy and other members Of the
Worlds Fair Commission are going to
Europe as promoters.
Nearly one-ifth of the entire popula-
ton of the United States live in the
fifty chief cities, which have a pOpula-
ton of over II, 900, 900.
There are new reports from England
that Andrew Carnegie is feeling the
way to run for Parliament at the next
Parliamentary election.
Lord Salisbury's declaration that
female suffrage ought to form a part
of the coming electoral forms in Great
Britain has excited tory leaders.
Both the great statesman, Mr.. Glad
stone, and the great preacher, Mr..
~Spurgeon, are thought to be passing
through UlI61I IdSU LII16SS W UL16 grave
Among the applicants for maple
sugar bounty in Vermont are ex-Gov.
Gregory, who has an orchard of 1900
trees, Congressman circuit and Gov.
Page.
The Pope became suddenly i'll Thurs
day, but afterward recovered. He is
apt to fall into a profound sleep even
when taking an airing in the Vatican
gardens.
The solicitors employed by Captain
O'Shea in his divorce suit, in which
Mr.. Parnell names as correspondent,
deny that the latter had paid the costs
in the a S
Twenty eight immigrants, mostly
Russian Hebrews, were not allowed to
land at Boston from a steamship, on
the ground that they might become
public charges.
Hundreds Of native cattle are dying
in the Cherokee Nation of Texas fever,
having become infected by the thou
sands of Southern cattle recently taken
into that country.
Hon. Harvey Rice, father of the
Ohio common school system, is now
81 years Of age, and is living quietly in
Cleveland, where he still spends an
hour daily with his pen.
Saturday morning fifty unknown
men entered the Jail at Spencer, Ind,
and lynched Frank Dice, who was
awaiting trial for murder. They
hanged him to the cell door.