The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1891-10-27
THE LATEST NEWS.
Sparks from the Wires--Most Important
Events Throughout the Word
for a Week

1t Is 4 i that England aud China
have entered into an alliance against
Russia.
The wife of the late William Henry
Smith, the leader in the British House
Of Commons, will be elevated to the
peerage.
Five persons were killed and many
injured III a railway wreck at Kohla-
taut, Germany,
The Boyd Thayer contest for the
Nebraska governOrship was brought
up IN the Supreme Court.
The Pope is preparing an ALLEGATION
concerning the recent French pilgrim
disOr ders at the Pantheon.
The plebiscite in Switzerland has re
suited III the adoption of the new tariff
and the State bank note monopoly.
Mrs. Della Parnell, mother of the
late Charles Stewart ParneIl. has re
covered from her nervous prostratiOn.
A heavy hurricane prevails in West
Ireland; rivers Shannon and Black
water have OverdOwed and much dam
age is reported.
The Long Branch On. j. Commits
SiOners b~arricaded Oceanue yesterday,
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driveway unsafe for vehicles.
A locomotive and three coal cars of
the Erie Railroad ran off the track at
HobOken yesterday, and Thomas Jack
son, the fireman, was severely hurt.
Sam Small was arrested on the charge
of having sold Rev. Mr.. MunrOe, for
the Utah university. a lot for 81, 0
and having paid the university only
$500.
ST.. JOHN, N. B. Oct. 22.-Ex United
States Consul Murray committed
suicide here to day by shooting himself
in the head. Mr.. Murray was a native
of New York.
Dominica Marine, OF No. % Mulberry
street, this city, was run over by d
train on the New Jersey Central Rail
road neal Newark yesterday and re-
ceived fatal hurts.
New HAVEN, Conn, Oct. 18.-A
serious shooting affray occurred at an
early hour this morning at the DIS
reputable house of frankie Raymond,
In Hamden, just outside the city limits.
ALEXANDRIA. Va, Oct. 22.-The
Hurst Ordnance Company, organized
to manufacture rapid firing guns, rein
forced .artridges, etc, was chartered
here to day with a capital stock of
81, 600, 900.
The earthquake shocks at the island
Of PantelIarIa, Italy, and its vicinity
continue. A volcano has arisen IN the
bed of the sea off the coast Of Pantel-
Iuria which elects masses Of stones to
| a great height.
TOCCOA, GA. Oct. ia three room
house belonging to DR.. .. II. Doyle.
burned down last night about SO'clOck.
The house was u~nOCcupied and the fire
is supposed to incendi4ry. Loss five
hundred dollars.
LONDON, Oct. 19.-Mrs, Parnell is
very weak and in a very ~precariOus
condition Drugs have to be admins
tered in order hat she may secure q
little sleep. She is unable to partake
of any solid food.
MADRID, Oct. 22.-News comes from
Granada of most disastrous floods in
that province. Many houses have been
wrecked, and a great number of cattle
lost. Railway travel in the province
is at a stand still.
HAVANA, Oct. %. -PaIenzuela, the
notorious bandit, was Overtaken in the
woods near Cotton to-day by soldiers
and shot to death. He made a desper
ate fight and killed several of his pur
suers before being shot.
New YORK, Oct. 19.-Mrs. Johanna
Furrell was found murdered at he1
home, near White Plains, last night.
The discovery was made by the hus
band of the murdered woman, who
Immediately notified the police.
JACKSON, Miss, Oct 19.-The Chica,
saw Messenger, owned and edited by
Frank Burkett, State Alliance Lecturer,
burned this morning. Total loss. He
says it was the work of an incendiary.
and publishes a letter to that effect.
LOUISVILLE, Ky, Oct. 18.-The grand
Jury of Pulaski county adjourned last
night after returningfOrty indictments,
most of which were against members
of the notorious GilIiland gang of cOun-
terfeiters. They will be lied at the
next term of court.
New YORK, Oct. 19.-Dispatches
from Bermuda to the Signal Office in
this city announce that a terrible
cyclOnic storm, dangerous to shipping,
is raging at Bermuda. 1t began yes
terday morning. The barometer fell
to 20, al almost unprecedented fall.
FERGUS FALLS, Mimi, Oct. 22.-The
pOstOffice at CrOokstOne was robbed at
three o'clock this morning of So, 500 in
stamps, etc, and 800 IN cash. The
stamps taken were afterwards found
in an alley. The safe was blown open
skillfully and no was awakened.
PHILADELPHIA, Pa, Oct. 18.-An
epidemic of scarlet fever has ragged for
several weeksin Girard College, though
without fatal result. The disease has
been almost entirely confined to one of
the buildings containing the younger
of age.