The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1891-10-13

New YORK, Oct 1.-THE stock
ket to-day showed further contraction
III the amount Of business done while
the dropping tendency of prices con
tinued under the persistent ~hanNmering
of professionals and some of the lead
ing shares were materially depressed
as a result of the days operations.
ASHLAND, Ky, Oct. I'm a collision
last night on the Norfolk and Western
Railroad at KenOva, West Virginia,
fireman Fl. Howell was almost cut in
two by the engine falling on him. and
died instantly, He lived at Ashland,
where his body was brought. He
leaves a widow and n small child.
MINNEAPOLIS, Mimi, Oct. 5.-The
daily market record estimates that
twenty-five million bushels of wheat
in North Dakota and Minnesota have
been damaged by the rains and frOsts
of the last few weeks, Reports from
North Dakota are that the rain will
delay threshing for possibly a month,
NORFOLK, Va, Oct. DIR. w. M.
Lockwood, formerly of Stamford,
Conn, was found yesterday morning
chOked to death on a road near Berk-
ley. Robbery issupposed to have been
the motive for the murder, a. the de-
ceased was thought to have some
money. No trace of the murderers
could be found.
GORDONSvILLE, Va, Oct. "A train
on the Chesapeake and Ohio Railway
IN Tuesday night about a mile east of
this place killed two horses, the prop
erty of Mr.. J. Frank Gibson, and from
the distance they were hurled from the
track on either side the speed must
have been rapid. The loss falls heavy
IN Mr.. Gibson, as he is a man of mod
crate means.
CINCINNATI, O., Oct. 5.-Eighteen
steamboats,, loaded with freight and
carrying passengers, are aground be-
tween this city and Point Pleasant,
West Virginia, where there is but
twenty inches of water. Teams are
crossing the Ohio at dozens of places.
1t is estimated that the low water is
causing a daily loss of $40, 900, and
farmers with grain to sell are put to
serious loss by their inability to ship.
CINCINNATI, Oct. About 6 o'clock
yesterday afternoon the Rev. Samuel
Benedict lost his life in an elevator &C
cident in a buildingOn West Twentieth
street, near the Grand Hotel. While
stepping from the car, by an unac-
cOUntable accident. it started up, caus-
ing him to fall and catching his right
leg lear the hip between the car and
the next floor, literally crushing the
bones in his leg into atoms.
LONDON, Oct. I'm this city par
ticularly, the news Of Mr., Parnell's
death came down like a t~hunderbOlt
upon the clubs and in political circles.
Nobody, so far as at first known, was
even aware that he was indispOsed,
and consequently when it became
known that he was dead, the first idea
formed was that he had committed
suicide. AS the day wore on, however,
it leaked out from q statement of his
intimate friends that chad complained
to them recently of not feeling as well
as usual, but it was not thought by
anybody hat there was anything dan
gerOus in his condition.
BALTIMORE, Oct. "A tragic acct
dent occurred in the Union tunnel be-
tween Pennsylvania avenue and Full
ton station on the Pennsylvania Rail
road, in which two men were killed
Outrightand three injured, all probably
fatally. The victims were all track
walkers who were at work at the time
Argyle avenue The men heard a
Western Maryland railroad train ap-
preaching and stepped from the track
which they thought it would take, to
the other track on the opposite side of
the tunnel. At this point in the tun-
mel there is a sharp curve, and the men
could neither see the train nor be seen
by the train hands until the locomotive
was within a few yards of them. When
the train rounded the curve the men
saw that it was on the same track they
were standing on. There was a rush
to escape, but it was too late. The
train sped by leaving five menmangled
and bleeding on the ground; two of
them, Thomas Hughes and Julius
Miller, were picked up dead.