The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1892-03-15
H LATEST NEWS.

Sparks from the Wires--Most Important
Events Throughout the World
for a Week.
LONDON, March 9.-The Spree. with
Secretary Foster and party ON board,
sailed from Southampton at 3 o'clock
this afternoon.
] LYNDON, March 9.-The German
steamer Messina from London for Mar
| settles, was wrecked off Seilly and only
one of her twenty six men escaped.
The police of Vienna have issued or
ders forbidding further distribution of
, free bread to persons who r out of
employment and are in needy Clrcum-
stances.
ST. LOUIS, March "A freight train
wreck occurred this morning on this
| Missouri Pacific at Ewing avenue, in
the western suburb of the city. Five
men are reported killed and several in
jured,
SIOUX FALLS, S. D., March q
Baroness De Stuers WAS granted her
divorce to day. She was at once mar
ried to Count Elliott De Zeborroswsky,
who has been with her continu Ally
from the start.
WASHINGTON, D. G., March 9.-The
President sent to the Senate TO day the
nomination of Judson @. Clements, of
| Georgia, to be an Inter State Commits
| sioner. Uice Walter L. Bragg, deceased,
and William Lindsay declined.
Boston, Mass, March 9.-The mis-
sion church in fremont, just beyond
| the Roxbury crossing, was totally de-
| stroyed by fire this morning. Loss
$3.50. 900. The church was occupied by
the Redemptionist fathers 35 years ago.
LOWELL, Mass. March s Edwards s.
Drew, who shot his wife dead and then
shot himself last Sunday, died this
evening. Before he died he admitted
that he shot his wife, but did not state
the cause of the trouble between them.
Jealousy, it is supposed, prompted the
deed.
BAINBRIDGE. Ga, March 7.-Weeks
Pipin. ayoung white man. was arrested
and committed to jail Wednesday for
burning the crib of Mr.. Hall Dickinson,
who lives on the ChaJtahOochee river.
The loss was 800 bushels of corn. No
insurance. Pipin had a grudge against
| the owner.
NEW YORK, March 9.-The outgoing
| steamer Seneca from Richmond and
| incoming steamer Roanoke, both of
| the Old Dominion line, cOllided in the
harbor during the fog yesterday. Both
were considerably damaged, but the
S.neca proceeded and the Roanoke
went to her dock.
One hundred thousand dollars was
recently left by an eccentric French
woman named CabOuret to any com
patriot who will penetrate with 500
companions further into the wildS Of
Africa than anyone has ever yet gone.
A condition of the will is that half the
caravan must return safely
NEW YORK, March 9.-Omcials of
the Richmond Terminal system state
that their information is that the tenn
porary ownership of the Georgia Cen
trail will be made permanent and that
anew receiver will then be appointed in
place of Gene al Alexander. 1t Ia alsp
stated that the Georgia Central float
ing debt has increased to SIS, 900. 600
since the arrangement was made with
Speyer & Co. in November.
HELENA, Ark, March 8 The exodus
of colored people from this part of the
State to Oklahoma still continues. Al
ready the negro population of this
county has been visibly decreased by
emigration. Thirty families leave here
to morrow for the land of promise,
while others will follow as soon as they
get the money todejray their expenses.
Poor crops and hard times are the
causes for the move. Oklahoma seems
to be the destination of the emigranGs.
CHARLESTON, S. @ March ITO day
Van Thomas, alias Van Thomson,
colored, was hanged at Abbeville, S.
O., for the murder of John BrOckett,
also colOred. The trap was sprung at
1880 o'clock, and in less than six
minutes the physicians pronounced
Thomson dead. He met death with
great compOsure. His neck was broken
and he died without a struggle.
Thomson left a written confession, in
which he acknowledged his guilt and
also acknowledged having killed a man
named Abraham Coddis in Chester on
December 22d, 1889.
THE LEIPSIC RIOT NOT SERIOUS.
BERLIN, March THE first reports
received here Of the disturbances in
Leipsic yesterday were somewhat ex-
aggerated and more Importance was
attached to the matter than the oc-
casion warranted. The latest reports
state that altogether the crowd of
demOnstrative men did not amount
% more than a few hundred and that
the police found no difficulty whatever
in dispensing them when their actions
began to show a tendency towards
riotlng.