The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1892-06-28
H LATEST NEWS.
Sparks from the Wires--Most Important
Events Throughout the World
for a Week.

Sparks from the Wires--Most Important
Events Throughout the World
for a Week.
Gold is quoted at 2O8 per cent. pre-
MUM in BuenOs Ayres
The New York schoolship st. Mary's
arrived at Southampton, England,
Monday.
BREsT, France, June 21.-Fifteen
persons were scalded to death by the
explosion of a war ship here to-day.
LONDON, June 22.-G. Baker & Co.,
bankers, of this city, have suspended.
The liabilities are placed at $3.50, 600.
Officer Clarence ixler, of the Rogers
Park police force, Chicago, who was
shot by Frank Doyle Tuesday night,
died yesterday.
The new and much-talked-Of novel,
"Debacle," written by lola, was issued
in Paris yesterday. The first edition
consists of 100, OOO copies.
Prof. E. N. Horsford, of Cambridge,
Mass, has discovered the site of an
other Lief Ericsson colony at Gerry's
Landing, on the Charles river.
Bob Leslie, a desperate Seminole
negro, was shot and killed by a United
States Marshal near Sacred Heart Mis-
sion, Indian Territory, yesterday.
The cholera is extending in the man
ufacturing suburbs of Paris. Eight
persons died from the disease Monday
at Aubervilliers, five miles north Of
Paris.
BREMERHAvEN, June 22.-It is au
thoritatively stated that it is intended
to build tank steamers here for the
American petroleum trade to compete
with the Standard Oil Company.
ATLANTIC CITY, N. J., June 90
Councilman Kaun, ofEgg Harbor City,
n. J., was arraigned in court to-day on
a charge of assaulting William Keitz,
President of the Common CoUnil.
MONTREAL, June 21.-There was a
disastrous wreck on the Grand Trunk
Line near Coaticook, Canada, today,
in which five persons we're killed. 1t
was caused by the train rushing into a
washOut
NEW YORK, June 21.-Edward w.
Gould, q member of the New York
Stock Exchange, Of conspicuous in
Wall street, was killed Saturday while
West" show got up by the Staten
Island Athletic Club.
LONDON, June 21.-While the cage
was descending the shaft IN the Fern
dale Colliery, in the RhOndda Valley,
to-day it was upset, and its ten Occu
pants were thrown out. Two of the
men were instantly killed, and the
other eight were badly injured.
NEW YORK, June 21-The city bank
has demanded payment from the Dan
vile and Terminal Company Of a time
loan of 800, 600, now over due and has
notified the receiver that if it i, not
paid the securities as collateral will be
sold at auction at IL 80 o'clock to NOR
row..
Ernest Richards, a mulatto, aged 10
years, Of Belfast, Me, was paying at
| tentiOn to a white woman named Liz
Kelly" aged thirty. Saturday night
several young men visited the Kelly
house, found Richards there, took him
out, and gave him a coat of tar and
feathers.
Nathaniel NJ. Burr, aged ffty-fve,
President of the Seekonk Mass.) Ice
Company, whose extensive forgeries
were discovered in Providence, r. l.,
two months ago, was arraigned yester-
day at Providence. He pleaded guilty
| tLlO was SCl1CC1ICCN v AOU4 yCCI6 gu
hard labor.
ATHENS, June 21.-A sensation was
created here this morning by Judge
Hutchins rendering a verdict against
the city Of Athens in an injunction suit
recently filed. The suit enioins the
city from proceeding to construct a
system of waterworks with bonds which
were illegally voted.
CHICAGO, June Git was learned
at an early hour this morning that DR..
| Henry NJ. Scudder. who has for some
time been confined in the county jail
awaiting trial on the charge of murder
ing his mother-in-law, Mrs. Dunton,
took a heavy dose of morphine and
died at half past twelve a. m.
ALBANY, Ca, June 2O.-News has
just reached here of a destructive fire
that is raging between Triton and Ala
paha on the Brunswick and Western
Railway at Bakers turpentine distil-
lery. Four hundred barrels of rosin
and spirits are in flames and the heat
is so intense that the passage of trains
on the Brunswick and Western is in
terrupted.
MET VIM ETTc a FTTDnEpED