The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1892-07-26
H LATEST NEWS.
Sparks from the Wires--Most Important
Events Throughout the World
for a Week.


Events Throughout the World
for a Week.
MONTREAL, July 19.-Yesterday's
fires caused a loss of over $500, 900.
Three women were badly injured.
JOLIET. Ill, July 19.-The Illinois
steel works resume work to day after
a close of a month for repairs. The
scale was signed by the management.
LONG BRANCH, July 19.-There was
a destructive fire at Long Branch this
morning. The Atlantic Hotel was
totally destroyed. There were many
very narrow escapes.
WASHINGTON, July 1.-the Chilian
government has paid United States
Minister Eagan SIS, 900 in full idemnity
for the assault upon the crew Of the
Baltimore last October.
PARIS, July 19.-The outbreak of
cholera in the suburbs of this city IS
apparently diminishing. To-day only
three fresh cases were reported in
Aubervilliers and two in St. Denis.
CANAJOHARIE, N. Y, July 19.-Henry
Whyland, of St. townsville, a wealthy
retired merchant, committed suicide
this morning by drowning himself in
the canal. He had been sick and de-
spOndent. The body has not been re-
covered. The canal is icing dragged.
WILMINGTON, Del, July 18.-James
McClosky, a carriage painter, aged %,
shot and perhaps fatally wounded his
sweetheart, Mabel Clearinghouse, "a
years old, yesterday, because the girl
treated him coOlly. McClosky then
put four bullets in his own brain, from
which wounds he will PROBABLY die.
The e~astbound Ohio and Mississippi
express train at the crossing of the
Clarksville Road two miles east Of New
Albany, Ind, Monday, struck a buggy
in which Mrs. Emma Phipps, aged
thirty-six years; Miss Blanche Phipps,
aged twenty-eix years, and Fl ank Nc
Camp, aged thirteen years, weres seated,
fatally injuring all of them.
FALL RIVER, Mass, July 18.-Dr. @.
G. Terry died tonight under excep-
tionally sad circumstances. Prof. Cas-
taldi, of Newport, was giving him his
usual weekly lesson in fencing at his
rooms in the Young Mems Christian
Association building, when CastaldIs
foil broke the mask on Terry's face and
cut a flesh wound near the nose.
NEWARK, N. j., July 1e.-Flames
were discovered at IL o'clock last night
in the lower hallway of the building SO
Court street, in which ten people re-
side. The floor had been saturated
with kerosene oil and the torch applied,
but the flames were eXtingulshed be
fore much damage had been done. The
police are looking for the incendiary.
Hip Lung, a wealthy Chinese mer
chant, has filed an appeal in the United
States Circuit Court from the assess
ment placed upon card markers by the
customs officers. The markers, which
are used in the Chinese game Of bung
loo, were assessed at so cents per pack
age and are purchased for two cents
per pack. Thus the assessment levied
is 2, 800 per cent. of their value.
NASHVILLE, Tenn, July 1S.-Definite
| information reached this city at a late
hour last night that Lester Gale and
w. K. Turner, cashier and book keeper
of the City Savings Bank of this city,
who decamped three weeks ago with
$12, 900 of the banks funds, have been
arrested in Mexico. Particulars and
| details are withheld by the authorities,
and only the story of the capture is
given out.
Three bOys-John McLay, Joe Wran-
Zell, and Joe Sandberg, aged fourteen
were playing cards yesterday under
a car on the side track at Atlantic City,
Iowa. During a flying switch their
car was struck. McLay's bodyiwas cut
in two, Wranzell's right leg was cut
completely off, and Sandberg, who
Rugged the ground between the rails,
was so badly cut and bruised that he
will probably die.
PATERSON, N. J., July 19.-When
fourteen-year old Lizzie Murphy this
morning at police Headquarters picked
out Edward Post among a number of
policemen in citizens dress as the man
who assaulted her on July 28th, her
brother James sprarg at POSTS throat
and tried to strapgle him. Two police
men forced him to release his hold, and
Post was hurried to a cell. Murphy
says he will kill him at the first chance.