The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1891-11-17
THE LATEST NEWS.
Sparks from the Wires--Most Important
Events Throughout the World
for a Week

for a Week.
New YORK, Nov. 9.-Ex-Senator
Ihss. F Grady Was today appointed
Police Justice.
PRINCETON, N. Y, Nov. 9.-The
Princeton, Yak Freshman football
game viii be played here to-day.
New YORK, Nov. 12.-Advices from
China state that Ponkowa is on flames
and the whole city will be destroyed.
@. B Paul, wholesale lumber, Louis
vile, KY, assigned yesterday TO w. R.
Wray. Liabilities, $500, 600; assets,
800, 900,
The publication of the second chap
ter of the Roosevelt Baltimore post
office Investigation will be made at an
early day.
Advices have been received that in
fuenza has re appeared in Montevideo
and that 2, 900 persons are affected with
the disease.
The soldiers attached to the third
artillery, stationed at Washington,
complain of the quantity and quality
of their food.
NASHVILLE, Tenn, Nov. 12.-FOur
passengers were killed this morning in
a wreck on the Illinois Central near
MedruO, Tenn.
New YORK, Nov. 9.-The fast Cruiser
lost, has come in with all her crew and
passengers safe.
Steps for securing funds for the
monument to Jefferson Davis, to be
erected in Richmond, will be inaugu-
rated at an early day.
ATLANTA, Ga, Nov. 9.-Train on the
Western & Atlantic was this morning
wrecked by robbers, Fifty passengers
we're aboard; all escaped.
Fassett will now want to get the col
lectorship Of New York again. 1t was
a big plum to throw away for the pur-
pose of on a fools Grand"
Thare were no new developments in
the Chilian situation, but naval prepa
ratiOns on thepart of the United States
are being actively prosecuted.
New YORK, Nov. 9.-The New York
Women's Press Club will give a recep-
ton this evening to William Wilde
and his wife, Mrs. Frank Leslie Wilde.
New YORK, Nov. Memorial meet
ing services will be held to night in
honor of the Anarchists who hanged
for the Chicago Haymarket murder, at
Cooper Union.
CHICAGO, Nov. 9.-Henry E Abbey's
Operati company will open at the
Auditorium this evening for a season
of five weeks. They will then go to
New York City.
NEW YORK, Nov. 9.-Literary circles
have been looking forward for some
time to the lecture b. Edmund Clar-
ence Stedman, the poet in Berkeley
Lyceum tonight.
An official report has been received
in Washington of the recent earth
quake in Japan; $500 persons were
Killed. 5000 injured and 5000 houses
were totally destroyed.
WARSAW, Va, Nov. 1.-THE store
house and granary of s. M. Thomas at
Lancaster Court House, was destroyed
by fire at an early hour this morning,
with the entire contents.
A dispatch from Buenos Ayres says
that DIR. Irrigoyen, the leader of the
Argentine Radicals, has assured Presi
dent Pelligrini that no attempt will be
made to inCite a revolution.
Leading Virginia Democrats admit
that the newly-elected legislature will
pass a railroad commission bill, but it
will probably confer only moderate
powers on the commissioners.
LONDON, Nov. luxurious gales on
the coast are raging now. Eight wrecks
have already been noted and other
ships are in peril. The loss of life is
very heavy. The Majestic is unable to
land at Fastinet.
WASHINGTON, Nov. 9~.-Secretary
Tracy this morning received a dispatch
from Admiral Jorge Montt, the new
President of Chile, asking for further
time in which to amicably arrange the
difficulties between the two nations.
The Canadian Government has de
cided to adopt a vigorous immigration
policy. Agents will visit Kansas, Da-
kota, Nebraska, Minnesota, Wisconsin,
and Michigan to induce the farmers to
locate in Manitoba and the Northwest.
LONDON, Nov. 9.-Her Majesty's son
and heir, Albert Edward, the crown
prince of Wales, is fifty years old to-
day. There is great enthusiasm in all
the British domains. \ grand ball, at
which all the Royal family will be
present, will come off tonight.
PHILADELPHIA, Pa, Nov, 1O'-About
1 o'clock this morning fire was discov-
cred in the large building at 629 Mar
ket street, occupied by Lippincott,
Johnson & Co., dealers in woOlens al 4
clothing. The damage to buildingand
contents is estimated at $3.50, 900.
MILWAUKEE, November 12.-Several
masked men held up the express train
between here and Chicago this morn
ing. The trainmen were forced to
obey at the point of r~evolvers and the
express a was dynamited and safes
robbed of over 500, 900. The messengers
were forced to obey.
ATLANTA, Ca. Nov. 1.-THE South
ern cotton harvester company whose
cotton picker had a satisfactory trial
on the Piedmont Exposition grounds a