The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1891-09-01
THE LATEST NEWS.
Sparks from the Wires--Most Important
Events Throughout the World
for 4 Week.

entire town is nearly burned-hre still
raging.
HANOVER, n. H, Aug. 24-AImy's
identify as Abbott was established to-
day by certain scars.
VIENNA, Aug. 24-Sixty bodieshave
been recovered from the food which
overwhelmed HOLMAN.
LONDON, Aug. 25.-Watts, wife muir
derer, was hanged this morning at
time stated in sentence.
LONDON, Aug. 2G.-The only surviv-
ing officer of the battle Of Waterloo.
Gen, WhichcOte died to day.
BURLINGTON, Ind, Aug. Ex-senator
Harlow, the father in law of Minister
Lincoln IS dying this morning.
HANOVER, n. H., Aug. 25.-Almv.
the murderer of Christie Warden, was
removed to Manchester jail this morn
ing on a cot.
BABYLON, L. l., Aug. 2G.-The body
Of Herbert Mapes, the athletic, drowned
at Fire Island Sunday, was found to-
day in the surf.
and Congress party are engaged in the
The result is as yet unknown.
CAMDEN, Me, Aug. 26.-The Nolun-
teer and the GOssOOn were the winners
in the race of the Eastern Yacht Club
from Booth Bay to this port to-day.
CARROLLTON, August 26.-RobeTt D.
Ray, late Chief Justice Of the Supreme
Court of Missouri, died here at II a. IN.
today. Death vas due to lagrippe.
LONDON, Aug. 24,-POstmaster- Gen
eral II. @. Raikes is dead. Yesterday
he received a severe electric shock
while walking during q thunder storm.
MINNEAPOLIS, Mimi, Aug. 24.-The
10th annual enCampment of the Sons
Of Veterans began in this city with
about 5000 members Of the order in
attendance,
MADRID, Aug. 25.-Gales and hurri-
canes are reported ali along the Spanish
coast. Many vessels have been wrecked
on the north coast, and heavy damage
has been done.
DENNISoN,, Texas, Aug. PA great
change in the weather has occurred in
the last twenty four hours, A slight
frost is reported in the river bottom
territory this a. M.
OMAHA, Neb., Aug. 26.-A special to
the Bee from Lexington, Neb., says
fire destroyed eight stores in the prin-
Cipal business block, causing q loss Of
$40, 600; small insurance.
PERTLE SPRINGS, No, Aug. 26.-In
the vote in the Alliance convention the
~Sub-Treasury people carried the day
by a vote Of 50 to 20. Leverett Leon
ard was elected President.
RICHMOND, Va, August CIV. Z.
DeChild, a prominent dealer in real
estate, was arrested to day on a charge
Of forging notes for LOO on j. l..
Ludwig, Of Pittsburg, Pa.
AUGUSTA, Ga, Aug. 24.-The Augusta
| Exposition will open on November %,
and will remain in progress the entire
month. Thousands of persons are x
pected to visit the exposition.
New YORK, Aug. 26.-Mrs. Elizabeth
| Beatty, who was a maid of honor at
the court of King George ", of Eng
land, died at her home in Elizabeth,
n. j., yesterday, aged 81 years.
MI. CLEMENTS, Mich, Aug. 26.-Hall,
the prize fighter slashed by ParsOn
Davies is rapidly improving, and eX-
poets to be out by Saturday. Blood
poisoning alone a give q relapse.
LIVERPOOL, Aug. 26.-Mrs. Mckee
and Mrs. Russell Harrison, the daugh-
ter and daughter-in-law of President
Harrison, sailed for New York today
on the White Star steamer Majestic.
HANOVER, n. H., Aug. 24.-Warden
Cakes and other officials Of the Yer
mont State prison have identified Amy
a. George II. Abbott, a highwayman,
who escaped from that institution six
years ago.
Canada lacks 237, 900 square miles to
be as large as the whole continent of
Europe. 1t is nearly 80 times as large
| as Great Britain and Ireland, and is
| 500, 600 square miles larger than the
| United States.
Ward McAllister is already quarrel
ing with his publishers. Heis angry
because he can make more money in
performing the scullion act for the
Vanderbilts and AstOrS than he can
by writing books.
NEW YORK, Aug. 25,-By the expIo-
sion Of a dynamite blast in a quarry
az Kingstown, N. j., at the wrong time
yesterday, Daniel Hagerly was killed
and five of his fellow wOrkmen badly
injured, some fatally,
LONDON, August 25.-The British
steamer DehOmyer, which had on
board a consignment Of powder, was
completely shattered by an explosion.
She was beached at VigO, where she
was burned. Her were saved.
Mayor Shakespeare, Of New Orleans,
who is at the Warm Springs in North
| Carolina, is in very bad health. He
has lost almost entirely the use of his
left arm and leg, and it is feared that
this disability may become permanent,
PHILADELPHIA, Pa, Aug. 26.-After
one of the most sanguinary battles in
the history of the Patriotic Order Sons
of America, the National Camp at it's
second meeting this morning defeated