The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1891-12-22
THE LATEST NEWS.
Sparks from the Wires--Most Important
Events Throughout the World
for a Week.

tor a Week.
DENVER, Col, Dec ia great biz
zaTd is raging to day III this TT"
Trans = hlOCkaded.
Josie Roach. q Kentucky girl. who
elOped on a stolen horse, was pardOned
at the p~enitentiary door.
PITTsBURG. Pa, Dec. Is The Irwin
Pennsylvania Bank owned by Pool &
Son was closed this morning,
GAINESVILLE. Dec. Is There was a
terrible railroad wreck near Pauls
Valley tins morning. The Santa Fe
passenger train was thrown down an
embankment. Many killed and injured.
ST. PETERSBURG, Russia. Dec IA
The police have unearthed a new con
spiracy against the life of the Gar.
They are making q number of arrests,
many of which are among the best
people.
New YORK, Dec. 15.-Edward NJ.
Field was arraIgned IN the criminal
court this morning for trial. There is
no sign of insanity. The grand jury
is Investigating his case. No plea until
this afternoon
BRUSSELS, Dec. 15.-The cOngrega-
ton of Monaghan missions at Client
has received news confirming the re
port that 500 native Christians have
been masSacred at PatOu district, and
all the : urOpeans there escaped.
NEwBrRG, N. Y, Dec. 16.-Engineer
| James Kelly, of the Chicago limited
| express of the New York Central and
Hudson River Railroad. who was SO
badly injured in the collision at Fish
kill landing last night, died to day.
C~INCISNATI. Dec. 15.-Col VIM. E..
Merrill, United States engineer in
charge Of the Ohio river and all its
navigable tributaries. dropped dead
last night on the train near Edgetield,
III while going to Sh~awneetOWn on
business.
BIRMIHGHAM, Ala Dec. I4.-At
Hancevilie. Bl0unt county, Julius
Griffith. n merchant. and John Nc
NeliS. 4 farmer, quarreled over politics
to day. Griffith shot and killed Nc
Neiis. This makes four murders in
Blount county within ten days.
Chicago Dec. IS Last night as the
mail wagon was conveying the Z. :.
maj from the city y .~stotfice 10 the
train for shipment, n hand OF robbers
seized the driver and took from The
wagon Sc O0O. III currency and $2UG, 900
in negotiated commercial paper.
WASHINGTON. Dec II J. W. SteDh
ems, the yOung man from Atlanta,
Georgia. recently employed under the
district government sni -ided last might
by taking morphine. Stephens bad
almost n mania for committing suicide,
having on three other occasions ii
tempted self destruction.
NEW YORK, Dec I5.-Mr and Mrs
NorcrOsS, Of Boston. filed al affidavit
this morning identifying the thrower
as their son. Henry l.. Nor ross \ q
Il young man and a resident Of Boston,
ana had been missing from bis Office
since a day or so before the bomb Wa
dropped in Mr.. Sage's Office.
ALEXANDRA, Va, Dec. 1.-The
Mayor to day sent on to the grand jury
Henry Allen and Eliza Smith. cOlored,
on a charge Of having killed a four
wear old negro boy who lived with
them. The inquest held by the Coroner
| developed circumstances that point
str0ngl, to the guilt of the prisoners.
LONDON. Dec. 15-The TeIegrdph'S
correspondent at st. Petersburg says:
Influenza has assumed alarming forms
here. Some patients become mao and
rush wildly through the streets in
violent parOXysms, then have fever
and utter prostration, oft' n followed
by death. In other cases there are
typhoid developments
LIMA, Ohio. Dec. 16.-Train No. 25,
west DOun1 fast line on the Pittsburg.
Fort Wayne and Chicago Railroad
jumped the track about two miles east
Of this city at 10: 80 this morning and
ran into east bound train No. 66 which
was standing on a siding, killing three
persons and injuring about 35 others.
six or seven of whom Will die.
NATCHEZ. Miss, Dec. 16 Hester
Lewis and LeevIs Shields. two cOlOred
women, were killed and two cOlOred
men seriously injured by the collapse
Of the Twin Bayou bridge near this
city Monday night. A bow had his
bridge with a four mule team when
the bridge fell, carrying thlm with it.
COLUMBIA, S. c., Dec. ia heart.
less case of desertiOn occurred in this
city, T. H Means. a white man, ran
away from his wife and five little ones,
at the union depot, leavir & them in a
destitute condition. The family came
from Alabama and was going to North
CarOllna. Ihey arrived Via the even
ing train from Augusta. The husband
took the train for Florence with all the
baggage and left his wife aud children
helpless.
Columbia, s. c., Dec. 11.-As a re
suit Of the confession Of negro named
Henry Suber of the effect that he muir
dered Thornton Nance some months
ago, the ten men who had been sen
fenced to hang Oct goth, last, but
whose execution was stayed by an ap
peal to the supreme Court will now be
released. Suber confessed that he
alone committed the deed. and that he
| m nLnc nInor hrnoCt Of Il honn,nrn u.