The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1891-10-06
THE LATEST NEWS.
Sparks from the Wires--Most Important
Events Throughout the World
for a Week.

TOT a Week.
DALLAS, Texas, Sept. 3O.-A fire at
Oak Cliff, a beautiful suburb of Dallas,
destroyed thirteen houses. Loss, 49,
600; insurance, $16, 600.
BRUSSELS, Sept. 3O.-Gen. Boulanger
suicided this morning at the Tomb of
Madame BOunamain. Great excite
ment over the occurrence.
LAFAYETTE, Ind, Sept. 28.-The
public schools have been ordered closed
for two weeks by the Board of Health
on account of extreme heat.
UTICA, Sept. 3O,-The American Elk
press was held up this morning near
was lntlmidated and gave up S., 900.
A serious accident occurred in Mari
eta, Georgia, yesterday, by a horse
runaway in which two young ladies
were instantly killed and another
seriously and probably fatally injured.
New YORK, Sept. 3O.-Freight trains
telescoped just outside the tunnel on
the Hudson road this morning. One
was killed. The WI eek is mountain
high.
Near Waycross, Ca, Friday night,
Henry jackson was shot and killed in
a gambling den by Neil Talbert, who
escaped to the swamps. Both are col
Ored men.
PITTsBURG, Pa, Sept. 3O.-The strik-
ing glassmakers Of the county will re
sumo work on tomorrow, the first of
October. The resumption will give
employment to 10, 600 men and boys.
Two prisoners in the District of
Columbia @jail quarreled, and one
named Henry JandOrf, a white man
was killed by a blow on the head with
a shovel by Sam Moore, a negro DIES
peradO.
Henrietta Murrell, a cOlOred woman,
was executed at Charlotte court house,
Va, yesterday for the murder of two
colOred children by burning them to
death in a cabin in absence of their
mother.
A Spartanburg, S. c.. dispatch says:
The jail here is so we'll guarded that
the mob could not get the negro Viii
liams, who murdered Mayor Harmon
man. Threats of lynching are still be-
ing made.
4 masked man entered the Jail at
Laramie, Wyoming, yesterday, pre-
| scented a pistol at the jailOr, bound and
| gagged him, and released Miller, the
boy murderer.
Hon. John D. Howard, a pioneer
Minnesota State Senator and million
aire, died at Duluth Saturday. His
estate is estimated at between 81, $780,
600 and So 900, 900, a large share of
which is in cash,
LITTLE Rock, Arkansas, Sept. 30
Late reports received from Marianne
say the trouble between cotton pickers
near there eliminated in a riot, result
ing in several negroes being killed and
q number wounded.
S~wainsborO, Ga, reports the lynch
ing there Friday night of Charles Mack,
cOlOred, who criminally assaulted a
white woman a day or two ago. The
sheriff refused to surrender the keys,
but the mob forced an entrance.
At Visala, Cal, Grafton Dalton made
his escape from the county Jail. He
was to be sentenced on Monday on con-
viction Of train robbery. John Beck
on trial for horse stealing and w. B.
Smith for burglary, also escaped.
SAVANNAH, Ga, Sept. 28.-George
Horn, cOlOred, was shot and possibly
fatally wounded by Mrs. A. G. John
son at Boston while attempting to enter
her house on Friday night. He had
made repeated attempts to break in.
AKRON, Ohio, Sept. 3O.-A serious
disaster occurred this morning on
Erie, near Kent. A freight train ran
into an excursion train causing a com
plete wreck and the loss of four lives
besides over thirty that are wounded,
many of them fatally, it is thought.
ATLANTA, Ca, Sept. 28.-Emmet B.
Stanley, superintendent of the money
order department of the Atlanta post
Office, was arrested to-day on the charge
of embezzlement. 1t is not known
what the extent of his shortage is, but
it is believed to be more than 81, 500.
ROANOKE, Va, Sept. 28.-T. B. Payne,
a young man of this city, had a hear
ing this afternoon before Justice vii
liams on the charge of killing Charles
Clay Preston, a colOred boy about
seventeen years old, and was acquitted
on the ground of %justifable homicide.
Judge Hightower, of Kountze, Texas,
ordered a jury to acquit J. D. McMil-
Ian, ~eX-cOunty treasurer, chargd with
misapplying funds to the amount of
$14, 600, holding that no official can be
indicted for embezZlement under the
present State laws unless he steals
actual cash.
RICHMOND, Va, Sept. 28.-Henrietta
MurrelI, colored, was hanged to-day at
%Smithville, Charlotte county, this
State, for the murder, by drowning, of
her eight-year-old child. She confessed
the crime, her defence being that she
could not obtain work to support her
self and offspring.
GLENDALE, N. D., Sept. 3O.-Editor
Van Meter, as one Of the Anneke Jams
heirs to an estate of $500, 900 has called
a meeting of the North Dakota heirs
at Glendale, Friday, October LIST, 1891,
to organize a State committee to be
present at Kansas City, October 9Th, at