The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1892-11-01
H LATEST NEWS.
Sparks from the Wires--Most Important
Events Throughout the World
for q Week.

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Boston, Oct. 27-Sixty officers were
ordered to South Boston this morning
to quell an outbreak in a house of cor
rection.
The Dean typewriter, invented by a
Minneapolis man. has passed to the
control of a New York trust company
for 81 CO.,, OCO.
HAMBURG, Oct. 25 -Twenty five new
cases of cholera were officially reported
here yesterday. No deaths from the
disease occurred.
LONDON. Oct. ga Hong Kong dis
patch reports the loss of the Norwegian
steamer Normandig. 1t is believed all
on board were drowned but two.
Bolton, Texas. Oct. 25.-Five thou
sand bales of cotton together with a
cotton compress, were burned and
damaged last night. The loss is
$165, 600.
Charged with vagrancy and clothed
In filthy rags. Patrick Kelly produced
bank boOks-showing II, O00to his credit
in New York BANKS when arrested as
a vagrant.
Them KEEL minesin Lancaster county,
Pa, have suspended. Here is another
of the Infant industries" that the Nc
Kinley bottle didn't nourish sufficiently
to keep life in it.
DENVER, Oct. 25.-The Democratic
State Committee has received instruc-
tions from national headquarters to
use all efforts to secure a solid vote for
Weaver by Colorado Democrats.
CHICAGO, Oc5 26.-The Danville ex
press on the Chicago and Eastern Hi
oOJo PnI1rnoH "oc uTo0lZn6 mann mid
night at 10Th and Wallace streets. One
person was killed and eleven injured
Nathan R. Curtis was badly injured
by his team running away from fright
at a locomotive whistle on the Della
ware and Hudson Canal COmpany's
road, and a jury at BallstOn, N. Y,
gave him $15 900.
RICHMOND, Va, Oct. 24.-John Wood,
alias Henry Mahr, who was in Jail asa
suspect in the Borden murder case, was
released from custody to day, Judge
Minor deciding that there was not
sufficient evidence to hold him.
CLEVELAND, O., Oct. 26.-About 1 80
o'clock this morning in a fire in the
twO-story building, corner Central
avenue and Harriet street. James Shan
non, his wife and two children, aged
six and four years, were burned to
death.
Troy, N. Y. Oct. 24-George Rose
and George German, United States
Deputy Marshals, were arrested this
morning on the charge of intimIdating
voters by arresting James Berrigan, a
legal voter, on the charge of illegal
registration. The defendants gave bail
in 81, 600 each for examination Thurs
day.
LONDON. Oct. 25.-The Standards
correspondent at Paris says: Bands
of strikers have been parading the
streets of Carmaux to day, singing the
Carmagnolo and other songs. Anar-
chists are fomenting disorder and seek
ing to induce strikers to reject Premier
Loubet's decision unless he grants all
of their demands.
CHEsTERTOwN, Md, Oct. 27.-Eight
negroes have been on trial here for
murder. One of them named Hall
was convicted this morning and the
verdict was received with wild ap,
plause from the crowd which thronged
the court house. Anegro named Potts
was the only one not convicted and the
Judge appealed to the crowd not to
lynch him.
SEATTLE, Washington, Oct. 25-A
terrible accident occurred here yester-
day by the collapse of a bridge over
which the construction gang on the
Great Northern Railroad was laying
track. The entire construction train
and all working on it we're thrown so
feet t the rocks below. Seven were
killed, five fatally wounded and six
more seriously injured.
BIRMINGHAM, Ala Oct. ga loco
motive boiler exploded this morning at
Palos, on the Kansas City, Memphis
and Birmingham Railroad. The engine
was being used to switch some cars
when the boiler exploded. Harry
Monroe, the engineer, and William
Church, the foreman, were blown to
pieces. Conductor Frank Black was
wounded, but not fatally.
NEW York. Oct. 25.-The Herald
to morrow will have the following:
The Richmond Terminal investigating
committee, it is said, has made some
interesting discoveries about certain
transfers of property that may lead to
criminal proceedings against we'll
known parties hitherto identified with
the management. A directors meet
ing was called for yesterday to hear
the report, but nothing was given out.
1t was said hat the report will be de-
ferred for the present.
HOMESTEAD, Pa, Oct. 26.-The reign
of terror, which has been inaugurated
1y the strikers at this place, still con
tinues and il is hard to tell what the
final result will be. There is a strong
feeling among the l~aw-abiding citizens
in favor of petitioniDg the government
to have the troops returned and the
town put under martial law. They
consider this the quickest and most
effective way of establishing peace
where violence is supreme. Muir
derous assaults by strikers upon non
union men are of daily and nightly oc-
currence.