The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1891-09-15
THE LATEST NEWS.
Sparks from the Wires--Most Important
Events Throughout the World
for a Week.


New York had a $3.50. 600 fire last
Wednesday.
A Mlchland, Me, girl has hiccoughed
fourteen hours a day for nearly a
month.
London enjoyed eleven hours of sun
shine on a recent Sunday-a most rare
record.
Caroline Gilman Gied Monday at
Atlanta, Ga, aged n hundred and
seven years.
Mr.: Gladstone averages about 81, 900
pay Tor every newspaper OF magazine
article he writes.
In Baltimore yesterday, f, H. Fries
was elected President Of the Roanoke
and Southern Railroad.
French bankers have loaned Russia
many millions of dollars to relieve the
distress in that country.
Denis Conley, of Granville, N. Y,
tell from the railroad bridge there
AOnday and was drowned.
Arthur Hunt and his sister, of
Schenectady, n. Y, were drowned in
the Mohawk river on Monday.
FOurteen-year-old William @. DRAINS
field, Of Newburg, n, Y, was yester-
day drowned at New-W Windsor.
John Henry Webster, a tough char
acter, was shot and killed at Columbus
) yesterday while resisting arrest.
Postmaster John w. Bridges, Of
Grand junction, Col, is missing and
his accounts are said to be shOrt.
The annual convention of the National
Railway Postal Clerks Association
opened yesterday at Alexandria Bay,
n. Y,
The schooner Peasia, from Kingston
for Toronto, foundered Monday off
Point Peter Light, Ontario. The crew
were saved.
St. James Church, III care of the
RedemptOrist Fathers, was c~Onsecrated
at Baltimore, Nd, yesterday by Car
dinal Gibbons.
Secretary Of the Navy Foster arrived
at EdgarUown, Mass, yesterday, on
board the steam yacht Peerless, IN a
b~iuetiShing trip.
The pastor of the Methodist Church
at Monrovia, Kansas, breaches " ser
mon and then makes The congregation
guess ut the text.
The Governing Committee Of the
Boston Stock Exchange yesterday
struck the stock Of the QuL:@y Mining
Company from the list.
An unknown middle aged German
hanged himself yesterday TO the limb
of a dogwoOd tree at HIbuTn, Rock
land county, New York.
Ninety thousand pilgrims joined in
professions in tie streets Of Treves on
sunday. The holy coat WAS tie ocCa
sion of the demonstration,
Charles Shedding, Il German farmer
Andrew Altlng, another farmer, in a
quarrel over a dog Monday night.
The only foreign cadet at West
Point, it is stated, is a 20 year Old son
d General IsidOrc UrtechO, Com
mander in-chief OF the Nicaraguan
Army.
\ woman named Lombard has been
arrested in Paris for an attempt to
murder her husband by pouring mol
ten lead into his ear while he was
asleep.
In the 5000, 900 letters that reached
the dead letter office last year, there
was money amounting to $2S, 642 and
checks and notes of the value of ST.
Al, 81.
George Gregg and Ira Johnson, of
B~ellevIlle, Kansas, and eve members
of their families are dying from poison
placed in the food eaten by them last
Sunday.
Robert Reed, who has returned to
San Francisco from Chiquik Bay,
Al isEa, says that the reports of trouble
with the natives at that point are I'M
founded.
WASHINGTON, D. c., Sept. 8.-The
lighthouse board has ordered a new
boiler costing $1,000 to be put in the
light house tedder, Wistaria, at Char
lesion, S. G..
COPENHA ZEN, Sept. S.-Denmark has
removed the prohibition on American
pork which was put in force in March,
1868, and hereafter American pork
will be admitted,
Thomas Donlin, aged five years, was
killed yesterday at Newburg, N. Y, by
being crushed under a cake of ice
weighing 300 pounds, The cake slipped
from an ice wagon.
WASHINGTON, D. G., Sept. Sat the
close of business today the Treasury
Department has extended $24, $50, $50
four-and-one half per cent. bonds and
redeemed 50, S94, 741.
In a Minneapolis police courtrecently
man who was arraigned on q charge
OF vagrancy was represented by a
criminal lawyer whom he had retained
and paid to defend him.
DR.. Thomas O'Reilley, of St. Louis,
has received a telegram from John p.
Sutton, stating that President John
Fitzgerald, Of the Irish National
League, is sick beyond recovery.
Robert Omesby, in charge of a gang
of men putting up lines for the Postal
Telegraph Company at Chattanooga,
Tenn, is missing and foul play is sus-